James Taylor

Europe’s financial woes are starting to make their presence felt on the fundraising front

If there’s one thing private equity knows about, it’s ancillary services. Buyout firms like nothing better than a high margin business with a defensible niche providing highly repeatable services to a growing market.

Advent International – which appears in our top 10 for the first time – showed it was still possible for good firms to raise big funds last year

TPG’s five-year fundraising total is well down on the equivalent figure from 12 months ago – but it’s still outpacing all its private equity rivals

Our Research & Analytics team’s exclusive like-for-like ranking of private equity direct investment programmes suggests the mega-firms are not quite as dominant as they once were.

At a time when private equity collusion is firmly in the political crosshairs, the consequences of a landmark Australian ruling could be felt much further afield

The UK’s new social investment bank wants established GPs to set up socially-oriented funds – and it’s keen to provide cornerstone funding to make it happen

Private equity investors love a niche strategy these days. And strategies don’t get much more niche than that of Privateer Holdings, a new US investment group founded by Silicon Valley Bank alumnus Brendan Kennedy.

After 19 months in market, the improving performance of its previous fund has allowed the London-headquartered buyout firm to get to a first close that's roughly half-way towards its revised target.

The sale of dbg, which provides support services primarily for dentists, represents an impressive first exit of 5.8x for UK lower mid-market firm Synova Capital.