Steve Gelsi

If your private equity firm hasn’t been examined by the SEC yet, you should assume it is right around the corner. 

Deal-makers will soon start to see opportunities in the U.S. financial services market after a long drought caused by low interest rates and increased regulation, said John Oros, managing director of J.C. Flowers.

LP demand is soaring for American Industrial Partners’ Fund VI, targeting $1.75 billion, according to a source.

The Carlyle Group has drawn in nearly $108 million for Carlyle Private Equity Access Fund 2014 since last November, as the New York firm reaches out to high net-worth individuals to broaden its investor base beyond big institutions.

Tengram Capital Partners, a specialist in consumer product companies, hit the hard cap on its oversubscribed Tengram Capital Partners Fund II in about three months, in a first and final close on $320 million in commitments. 

Riverside Co more than doubled headcount at Emergency Communications Network (ECN) to about 100 employees in less than four years, ahead of its sale of the company to Veritas Capital for an undisclosed sum.

NMC Health Plc has agreed to buy TVM Capital Healthcare Partners-backed ProVita International Medical for $160.6 million in cash, marking the first exit from the TVM Healthcare MENA I fund, which acquired the long-term care provider about five years ago.

River Capital, a longtime lower middle-market private equity firm based in Atlanta, is raising its sixth fund, about eight years after it closed on its fifth. 

Since joining Ropes & Gray in 2008, Greg Metz has seen the firm’s Chicago office grow from just three attorneys to 65 in an effort to bolster its resources for middle-market deal-makers.

We sat down with David Fann, co-founder of TorreyCove Capital Partners, to get his insights on concerns about deal prices, the elements of a winning LP pitch, the risks of co-investing and much more.