People Moves

Each private equity firm has its own model of compensating and incentivizing operating partners. Central to all these models is a powerful motivator –equity. By Wanching Leong. With contribution from David Snow and Rob Kotecki

McDermott Will & Emery bypasses Hong Kong as it launches a China presence.

A closer look at Thompson Street Capital Partners finds this Midwest middle-market shop addressing many of the same challenges as their mega-fund brethren. By Rob Kotecki

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Compensating deal professionals leaving the size and stability of mature markets for emerging ones comes down to one word: equalization.

Service providers are launching initiatives to customize their offerings for private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

A looming US tax rule is easy on private equity but hard for hedge funds.

David Goret has become a senior managing director at the reorganized alternative asset manager. By Wanching Leong

Learning from Bono 2008-03-01 Staff Writer Although many won't admit it, a large handful of limited partners possess autographed copies of the PPM for Elevation Partners LP, the debut private equity fund managed by, among other partners, tech investor Roger McNamee and Bono, the lead singer of U2 (many LPs a

When Scale Venture Partners spun out of Bank of America in December of 2006, the firm's partners found that operating as an independent venture firm required a different administrative approach than operating as the venture arm of a major bank. To cope with the new challenges they were facing, Scale Venture Partners headhunted Mary Denton from her post as chief financial officer of Global Catalyst Partners in June the following year.