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"Customers are scaling back on tech spending for the first time in a long time. The effects are diverse and tech companies will be impacted differently," Bain Capital's Darren Abrahamson said.

The fund's strategy, designed prior to the covid-19 pandemic, could have even more resonance today with a potentially growing pool of distressed assets.

The health crisis has drawn more attention to food production and security issues, renewing a focus on farmland investing, Area One Farms CEO Joelle Faulkner said.

As part of the job, Tall will directly manage the global PE investment platform, replacing Charles Émond, who in January was named CDPQ’s president and CEO.

Jane Rowe, head of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan's private capital group, said the organization is benefiting from a balanced portfolio and focus on private companies that “work well in the long-term and through different cycles.”

Monogram Capital Partners II's launch comes as the fundraising market is being battered by the covid-19 pandemic, creating fresh challenges for first- and second-time vehicles.

Riverwood’s fundraising milestone follows an expansion of the firm's partners to eight with the January promotions of Harish Belur, Joaquim Lima and Scott Ransenberg.

In his first interview since becoming head of OMERS Private Equity, Michael Graham says as the market gets choppier, "we see lots of opportunities for buying great companies at better prices.”

Investors backed American Pacific Group’s first offering, founder and managing partner Fraser Preston said, because of its niche focus on lower mid-market companies “the market has passed over.”

It’s been life in the fast lane for Chassis Brakes as a result of KPS’s complex rebuild.