Fundraising

Spinning out from Soros Fund Management and raising a $1.3 billion fund in less than a year is no small feat, but that is precisely what TowerBrook Capital Partners has managed to do.

Publicly traded American Capital continues its rapid expansion.

SV has chosen UBS' Gustavo Eiben to manage the firm's relations with LPs and investees.

Adding senior-level investment partners is crucial for a firm's growth, and a real challenge for GPs.

LP eagerness to avoid fees and GP wariness of club deals have created a surge of interest in co-investment vehicles. The bargaining power is firmly on the side of the GPs.

FRONTLINE 2006-05-01 Staff Writer Compliance firm adds directorIMS Consulting, the UK asset management compliance consultant specializing in alternative investments, has appointed Stephen Burke as director of consulting. Burke has joined after 15 years with PricewaterhouseCoope

Whose alignment is it, anyway? 2006-05-01 Staff Writer As the unwieldy mass that is private equity moves in fits and starts toward the promised land of ?institutionalization,? it is often said that the investment partnerships at the center of the industry are showing greater alignment of interests. This may

Headline vs. reality 2006-04-01 Staff Writer In 2005, limited partners were clearly eager to commit capital to private equity funds but expressed concern over key terms and conditions in limited partnership agreements. Such terms and conditions vary greatly between firms, according to a recent study by Priva

On-site visits to GP groups are growing in popularity among LPs, and some GPs are better prepared for these drop-ins than others. By Andy Thomson

LPs expect much more these days from the annual investor meeting. GPs who aim for par are missing a key opportunity to differentiate themselves. By Judy Kuan