Kirk Falconer

The hurly-burly of the soccer field helped prepare DePlatchett for private equity: 'It taught me how you can be hyper-competitive and love to win, but still be collaborative and work well in a team system.'

Sandbrook appears to have persevered despite fundraising headwinds. After only six months of marketing, the emerging manager secured more than three-quarters of Fund I’s target, sources told Buyouts.

Fund IV provides 'fresh capital to invest' as economic uncertainty and volatility begin to ripple through the deal market, creating an 'opportunity of a lifetime,' CEO Lawson said.

Fund XI's hard-cap is $1.75bn, which if reached would make the pool 59% larger than Fund X, closed two years ago at $1.1bn.

'We should be everywhere first,' Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone’s CEO, said at the Bernstein 38th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference.

Of primary interest will be high-growth tech businesses that prove their mettle 'as the tide goes out,' Leon Pedersen, CPPIB's new head of growth equity, told Buyouts.

Psaros shares with us his favorite song, his extensive philanthropic activities and his fantasy job in the front/business office of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Sixth Street has 'a waiting list' of LPs seeking to commit capital to Tao, a $25bn cross-platform evergreen pool, sources told Buyouts.

The equities group oversaw C$70bn of assets last year, 80% of which were direct interests managed internally. Even among Ontario Teachers’ largest Canadian peers, this is an outsized share.

Launched earlier this year, the fund exceeded its $175m target inside of four months, founder and managing director Edward Benford told Buyouts.