Private Equity

TowerBrook plans Milan and Dublin offices as $4bn fundraise beckons

Plans for Fund VII come amid expansion moves across Europe and UAE

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JPMorgan ‘beefing up’ private equity banking team ahead of long-term deal boom

The US bank is hiring bankers before an expected uptick in deal activity from private equity and infrastructure clients over the next five years

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Hg tops $1bn in wealth fund push

UK buyout shop plans more hires for global wealth business

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AlixPartners backs FN sister title’s Twenty Trailblazing Women

Consulting firm sponsors PEN’s list of senior women in the sector for the second year running

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Can Carlyle’s Wand revive its European buyout team?

A London-based tech veteran is tasked with turning around the fortunes of the private equity giant’s European buyout team.

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Shackleton sets deadline for first round bids as wealth manager’s sale talks continue

‘Britain’s wealth manager’ is looking for up to £600m for the business

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Ex-Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman to join General Atlantic as senior adviser

The US private equity firm has made preparations for an IPO

Why this Goldman Sachs banker jumped to private credit

‘The private credit industry has been growing enormously. That’s a fact,’ Luke Gillam tells FN

Blackstone poaches Goldman Sachs leveraged finance head Dominic Ashcroft

Private markets firms continue to hunt top banking talent

Accounting firm spurns private equity as rare IPO tests UK market appetite

MHA said there have been few successful IPOs in its sector. It’s hoping to change that

‘It’s do or die time’: How Ascot Lloyd 2.0 will revamp the £11bn wealth manager

A plan to revitalise Ascot Lloyd shows it is ‘broken from top to bottom’, outsiders say, but senior staff argue the overhaul is setting the firm up for growth

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Private equity bought up UK wealth. Now it needs CEOs

Buyout firms are struggling to come to terms with leadership transition as the executives behind their investments move on

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Meet Aurea: The little-known private equity owner of The Body Shop

After a frenzied 11-week bidding process, Aurea took control of a major global retail chain. Now its co-founders open up about their plans for The Body Shop and their grander ambition of becoming a multi-billion-dollar asset manager

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In pictures: Financial News and Private Equity News networking evening

A&O Shearman managing partner Hervé Ekué spoke to Financial News and Private Equity News editor in chief Shruti Tripathi Chopra at the 18 March event

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