Venue virtual deal room for secure sharing of privileged info Deal-sourcing tool Axial connects CEOs, advisers, investors Offers contract analytics through partnership with eBrevia As president of global capital markets at Donnelley Financial Solutions, Craig Clay is charged with “partnering with private equity funds in understanding the market and their needs, and how their portfolio operations group can be assisted,” he […]
Use of capital call subscription lines has steadily grown Help smooth back-office processes Bank rates creditworthiness of LPs in funds 1.) How has the market for capital-market calls for subscription lines evolved? I have been familiar with subscription financings, sometimes referred to as capital-call financings, since the late 1970s. Then, most financings were for real […]
Kalanick’s new fund called 10100 Will invest in China and India Real estate, commerce and innovations investments Travis Kalanick, the Uber founder who was fired from the company last summer, is starting a family office and fund called 10100. The fund will focus on China and India, a note he posted on Twitter March 7 […]
Barber moves to Pilot House Ventures Pilot House invests in early tech companies Harvard Management restructures operations After nearly six years on the private equity team at Harvard Management Co, Melinda Barber is moving back to a family office. She is expected to join Pilot House Ventures, the family office of billionaire Amos Hostetter Jr. Harvard […]
Set up U.S. office in 2016 Food, healthcare, renewables and education Communities crucial for deal flows The Mulliez family business is organized as a set of verticals. Each company is run independently with its own board and financials. The family’s wealth is managed by Mobilis, its family office and Creadev, its investment arm. Creadev has […]
Leads NorthBound Emerging Managers Private Equity Fund Platform also co-invests, makes private debt investments Headed diversity business initiative at Lehman Brothers From 2004 to 2006, Patricia Miller Zollar worked on a project at Lehman Brothers called the Partnership Solutions Group, “focused on creating new business opportunities with women- and minority-owned financial-services firms,” she said. “It was a firmwide […]
Ex-North Carolina Treasurer Janet Cowell named CEO Girls Who Invest backed by several PE firms Vista Equity a founding donor Kristen Williams, global recruiting head at Blackstone Group, first found out about nonprofit Girls Who Invest two years ago after being introduced to Founder and Chair Seema Hingorani through the Blackstone Charitable Foundation. Blackstone was already familiar […]
I’ll never forget the day I found out one of my female relatives was sexually harassed as a young woman just starting out in her career. She was working in an office and one of the senior executives cornered her in an elevator and subjected her to an elevator ride from hell. At the time, she […]
Zara worked at Antares since 1999 Unclear why he left Firm has no plans to replace him Chet Zara, a senior managing director at middle-market lender Antares Capital, left the firm recently, a spokeswoman confirmed. Zara left as of Feb. 16. Why he left is unclear. Sources described his departure as abrupt. Zara did not […]
LPs talk about ways to ask about sexual harassment lawsuits PE hasn’t had a true headline-grabbing harassment revelation Many such cases go to arbitration Where is private equity’s “Me Too” moment? The venture capital world has been rocked with revelations of sexual harassment and bad behavior by venture GPs. That includes Justin Caldbeck, co-founder of VC […]