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Buyouts last year reported Bain Capital Tech Opportunities Fund is targeting $1 billion, with Bain kicking in an additional $100 million.

While at Goldman Sachs, Gordon had a role in the $575 million IPO that this year launched RedBall Acquisition Corp, a sports-focused SPAC sponsored by a RedBird affiliate.

Brighton Park is not yet ready to wrap up fundraising, a source told Buyouts, adding the inaugural offering has a hard cap of $1bn.

Shah will oversee Brookfield’s push into new areas, such as insurance and secondaries, which together have a projected long-term value of up to $450 billion.

NexPhase is led by managing partners Kurt Larsen and Ted Yun, and partners Jamie Kaufman, Andy Kieffer, Joel Killion and Lex Leeming, all veterans of Moelis Capital.

PE firms negotiating GP stakes deals are concerned about bump-ups in top individual income and capital gains tax rates, sources told Buyouts.

“While no one in the leadership team is going anywhere soon,” Northleaf managing director Jeff Pentland told Buyouts, “we want to start thinking about succession planning now rather than 10 years from now."

Seaside was founded in 2017 by Andrew Thompson, previously a managing director and partner in Wafra's direct equity group, where he focused on lower mid-market buyouts.

MKH, founded by Annette Rodriguez, a former Warburg Pincus managing director, and Miguel Heras, a former Inversiones Bahía managing director, is backed by the Motta and Kazma families.

Venn Growth is in talks with limited partners about a $300 million inaugural offering, which is expected to reach an initial close in Q1 2021.