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Fund VI, which has a potential hard-cap of $3.5bn, in December secured an initial $480m and was expected to hold additional closings in the first quarter.

Alfaro was previously a New York-based managing director at OMERS Private Equity, where he focused on investing in business services and healthcare sectors.

Weymouth shares with us her rewarding experience launching Grafine Partners, her fantasy job as a CNBC anchor and what it takes to make a PE career very worthwhile.

The issue of LP cash flow constraints is most relevant to private equity and the community of US pension plans, president and COO Jonathan Gray said.

TPG’s growth platform was a focus of capital raising in 2021. It collected $4.9bn in all, much of it accounted for by the close of TPG Growth V at $3.6bn, above a $3.5bn target.

Rees shares with us his training as a mechanical engineer, the book that most influenced his career, and the highs and lows of spinning out Dyal Capital.

The fund comes almost exactly a year after the closing of Brightstar’s second flagship vehicle. Originally targeted to bring in $1bn, Fund II wrapped up at its $1.27 bn hard-cap.

TaylorMade was buried in the bunker until KPS made a brilliant sand save.

“Our philosophy of long-term investing lines up well with our investor base,” Banyan managing director and group head Jeff Wigle told Buyouts.

TPG's Rise Fund platform, overseeing $14bn in assets, was as of December 2021 earning a net IRR of 25%.