Carlyle Group Structures Unrated Preferred-Heavy Vehicle to Seed Buyout Fund IX and Provide Vintage Liquidity
Carlyle Group is preparing a multibillion-dollar structured financing to seed its next flagship buyout fund and return capital to investors in older vintages, reports Bloomberg. The deal, known...
Private Credit Faces Reckoning Over SaaS Exposure and Surging Redemption Pressures
Private credit has dominated the headlines this week as concerns over investment quality reach a boiling point. Recent product releases from AI research...
Private Equity Posted Record Deal Value in 2025, but Distributions and Fundraising Signal Persistent Stress
Clearlake Capital’s Pretium Packaging Files Chapter 11, Shedding $900M Debt
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Subscribe →Limited Partner Pressure Prompts Kirkland & Ellis Fund Formation Practice Review
According to The Financial Times, Kirkland & Ellis has told its fund formation lawyers they need to rein it in. After complaints from limited partners on...
Private Equity Sponsors Leverage Collateralized Fund Obligations Amid Regulatory Shifts
Last week, Vista Equity Partners tapped Goldman Sachs to arrange a roughly $1 billion collateralized fund obligation (CFO) backed by stakes in its private...
EQT Weighs Acquisitions of Coller Capital, HarbourVest, Pantheon to Bolster Secondaries
As part of efforts to build out the firm’s secondaries business, Bloomberg reports that EQT is now actively considering possible acquisitions of scaled...
Apollo and Arctos Bolster Sports Investment Capabilities with New Platforms
Sports investment continued its maturation last week with a pair of new launches from Apollo Global Management and Arctos Partners: Apollo with a dedicated...
Private Equity-Backed STG Logistics Faces Lender Challenge Over Liability Management
Oaktree Capital Management and Wind Point Partners portfolio company STG Logistics has become the latest test case for how far sponsors and majority lenders...