Private Equity

Pryor Cashman has added leading structured finance and derivatives attorney Anthony Schouten to its investment management practice.

European private equity manager Idinvest Partners has named former Jones Day executive Caroline Steil as a senior legal advisor. 

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus is reportedly hoping to raise $1.6 billion for a new fund that will be dedicated to investments in the financial services sector. 

Global alternative industry placement agent Campbell Lutyens has named former Ontario Teachers Pension Plan executive Wayne Kozun to its advisory board.

Alternative asset management firms hired a record number of fundraising and marketing professionals in the first quarter, according to new data from industry executive search company and corporate advisor Context Jensen.

Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Petershill division has taken a passive and non-voting minority equity stake in technology-focused private equity company Accel-KKR.

Fresh off their $4 billion sale of mixed martial arts promotion company UFC last year, the Fertitta brothers have launched a $500 million private investment firm that will focus on consumer-facing companies in the technology, media and entertainment sectors.

Energy sector specialist Quantum Energy Partners has named former EOG Resources executive Robert Garrison as a senior advisor and member of the company’s technical committee.

Private equity secondaries firms attracted a record level of investor capital in Q1 2017, according to new data from Preqin, as six funds raised $14 billion - surpassing the sector’s previous all-time high of $13 billion reached in Q4 2014 and outpacing the $10 billion raised in the previous two quarters combined. 

Cerberus Capital Management has realigned its real estate platform by combining its domestic and international capabilities to help facilitate cross-border and cross-asset class cooperation.