Kirk Falconer

Patterson, one of OMERS Private Equity's six senior managing directors, led or co-led some of the group's best-known healthcare investments.

SER was last year active as a deal-by-deal investor, acquiring Microgrid Networks and three project companies from HGP Storage.

Buyers told Setter Capital they expect global secondaries investing to reach an all-time high of nearly $90 billion this year.

Energy Capital Partners "might be in a position to launch Fund V in the second half of 2021,” founder and senior partner Doug Kimmelman told Buyouts.

Drivers of 2020 fundraising – remote marketing, an LP preference for incumbents and hot strategies like secondaries and tech – are likely to also feature prominently in this year's market.

NB Strategic Co-Investment Partners IV wrapped up above its $2 billion target, making it the largest fund raised under Neuberger Berman’s 16-year program.

Brightstar recently recruited 10 new employees, including two managing directors and a principal, increasing the team’s size to more than 40.

US local governments are today facing a fiscal crunch due to the health crisis, generating dislocation opportunities for specialist investors like Fundamental.

HGGC Fund IV has already made four platform investments, a source told Buyouts, three of them announced in December.

Orlando Bravo, Thoma Bravo’s co-founder and managing partner, tells Buyouts why 2020 was “absolutely our best year ever.”