Fundraising

lawEnCap Investments has closed on $6.5 billion for its 10th energy fund, hitting its hard cap less than six months after it began fundraising.

Here are the key statistics in private equity fundraising, deals and exits for the first quarter of 2015. Download the “Buyouts Insider Q12015 Highlights” slide show: Buyouts-Insider-Q1-2015-Highlights  

Doxim founder Chris Rasmussen held no illusions about private equity’s reputation. 

Pritzker Group, which manages venture capital and buyout investments for the Pritzker family, one of America’s wealthiest, is moving to at least double the size of its private equity portfolio of six companies after having bulked up its staff to reach critical mass.

I find it strange TPG Capital’s bridge fund was not drawn. TPG last year raised TPG Strategic Partnership Interim Fund designed only for the most intimate of TPG investors. The firm raised $2 billion from, as I understand it, three LPs – the state pensions of Oregon and Washington State and a sovereign wealth fund. […]

The State Universities Retirement System of Illinois re-upped $125 million to Adams Street Partners’ latest global fund of funds at its Feb. 5 meeting, spokeswoman Beth Spencer said in an email.

Hamilton Lane is putting together one of the largest co-investment funds ever earmarked for buyouts and other late-stage deals, having secured $849.6 million through year-end toward an upwardly revised goal of $1.3 billion. 

The Los Angeles County Employee Retirement Association does not commit to many small or lower middle-market managers. In fact, small buyouts represent only a little more than one-twentieth of its buyout portfolio’s total market value. 

New Jersey state Treasury investigators found no wrongdoing in venture firm General Catalyst’s decision to not report a political contribution from one of its executives-in-residence – now Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker – months before the state pension committed millions to the firm.

Firm aims to raise $542.3 mln Amount raised to date is $281.5 million FirstPoint Equity is placement agent U.S. investors have kicked in about $62 million out of a total of about $282 million raised for BlueGem II, the latest private equity pool from London-based BlueGem Capital Partners, according to a regulatory filing. The firm reported a […]