Kirk Falconer

‘It's the golden age of flexible capital,’ Angelo Rufino, Bain's head of North America special situations and corporate special situations in Europe, tells Buyouts.

Salon’s hire reflects BCI’s ongoing expansion as a global investor in buyout and growth equity opportunities in six core sectors – including healthcare.

In perhaps the most significant change, OMERS, a pioneer of institutional direct investing, is launching a new global private equity funds strategy.

Set up in 2021 by CEO Marcia Page, co-founder of Värde Partners, MPowered is part of new wave of private market GPs run by seasoned female dealmakers.

Getting to 'the next trillion,' president Connor Teskey said, will be achieved by enhancing fundraising channels, scaling product offerings and building and buying new businesses.

LP overallocation has been a key factor in slow private equity fundraising over the past two and a half years.

Continuim focuses on acquiring lower mid-market manufacturing and industrial companies, mostly located in the US Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions.

Hull Street Energy was founded in 2014 by managing partner Sarah Wright, who previously held senior roles at ECP and Goldman Sachs.

'This is the best time ever for investing – and yet it’s hard to get capital,' Ryan Hinkle, managing director of Insight Partners, told Buyouts.

Big step-ups in Adams Street’s recent fund sizes may be due to greater LP appetite for co-investing as a way to build private equity exposure on a no-fee, no-carried interest basis.