Coronavirus

Private funds' liquidity options have evolved in recent years. Davis Polk & Wardwell lawyers Leor Landa, Michael S. Hong and Brantley A. Hawkins explain some of the alternatives to traditional fund financing solutions.

The niche strategy is coming into its own, as it did back in the global financial crisis.

One in 10 general partners plan to seek secondaries processes due to the covid-19 pandemic, a survey by sister publication PEI has found.

On the firm’s Q1 earnings call, executives said its sustainable initiatives have proven fruitful amid the covid-19 crisis.

CFOs and their teams are generally known as cost-cutters in tough times. Turns out, there are some finance departments out there expanding their teams, even in the midst of the crisis.

Our sister title PEI caught up with two private equity recruiters to find out about the state of hiring during covid-19 and how the crisis is affecting salary expectations.

Bad funds could be a thing, too.

LPs are going to want estimations of portfolio NAVs sooner rather than later, a recent survey found.

Investors should work with GPs 'on a case-by-case basis' to determine expected Q1 fair value-based NAVs, according to a Duff & Phelps survey.

As many as 5m US jobs could be at risk if private equity-backed businesses remain excluded from the Payment Protection Program.