Katherine Bucaccio

Although private equity professionals expected higher bonuses than bankers in 2015, GPs felt less optimistic about the size and likelihood of bonuses than they did in 2014, fresh research revealed.

Sharing information safely on a global scale is an issue private real estate managers are grappling with every day, according to panelists at a recent pfm roundtable.

Boutique private equity shop AMMA Private Equity appointed its first chief financial officer after an 18-month search. 

Evan Greebel, an M&A attorney who previously represented pharmaceutical exec Martin Shkreli, is accused of conspiring with the brash entrepreneur in an alleged Ponzi scheme. 

Conscious of the tax implications involved, the industry trade body took issue with carry designated as compensation in the ILPA fee reporting template, among other issues. 

After local newspapers criticized the pension’s plan to revise its private equity policy, CalPERS issued multiple rebuttals defending the program.

The Japanese bank purchased the Swiss bank’s alternative fund servicing unit, growing its assets under administration to $266 billion.

The buyout firm will give LPs the choice to opt in to a deal-by-deal style waterfall in a portion of its next flagship fund.

In a sign of shifting fund terms at the large end of the market, KKR Americas Fund XII will employ a lower preferred return and offer a significant management fee discount for early investors, according to LP documents.

The fund administrator’s fourth outpost will specifically cater to real estate clients.