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Funds that buy controlling stakes in companies, usually with substantial debt, and aim to sell or list them later at a higher price.
Changli Luo pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to fraud tied to a plot to extort more than $1.2 billion from Fortress co-founder Wes Edens. She faces up to 20 years at a February sentencing, and prosecutors say she used LinkedIn to find wealthy men.
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General Atlantic plans a first-half 2027 IPO at a valuation of up to $10 billion, the Financial Times reported. Cryptopolitan says the date slipped from 2026, but one firm's calendar is thin evidence on how fast the alternative-manager window is reopening.
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Harvard, CMU and MIT researchers link one standard deviation of early GP report sentiment to 3 to 4 points of annualized final return. The link fades by year five, while the weight on interim returns climbs from about 0.16 to 0.78.
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Foreign buyers acquired 326 Japanese companies for 6.2 trillion yen from January to September, more than they spent in all of last year. The yen and a tax change get the credit, but succession sales and corporate carve-outs also feed the supply.
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US private equity deal value fell 13.6% and exit value fell 14.1% year over year in Q3 2026, according to PitchBook data. Analyst Kyle Walters says asset growth is closer to half its old 12% pace, a better test of a structural slowdown than one quarter's decline.
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Monzo has held early talks with CVC and Advent International on selling a minority stake of up to 15% after a full sale to Nubank broke down over price. Whatever a fund pays for that stake will test the £10bn Monzo wanted against the £4.5bn mark it set in 2024.
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Warburg Pincus now requires an AI-disruption scenario in every underwriting case, senior managing director Vishal Mahadevia told a Singapore summit. In BPO and IT services, the sectors he singled out, a view on automation is now a condition of any Warburg investment.
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Alibaba is close to selling Lingxi Games to Trustar Capital above the price it asked for in June, according to cryptobriefing.com. The buyer is a private equity firm, not a rival publisher.
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Russell Reynolds mapped 196 European exits and found that a single chief executive change tracks almost no difference in average hold period, while the delayed and repeated ones are where the risk sits.
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Nearly 12,000 comments supporting alternatives in 401(k) plans are now a Justice Department matter. The participant survey in the same debate found 40% of respondents neutral, confused, intimidated or negative.
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A lawyer who advises on merger filings writes that overlap from repeated bolt-ons builds faster than deal teams price it, and that a remedy can force the sale of an asset sitting in another of the sponsor's funds.
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A Journal of Finance study of 813 French targets and 76,331 matched controls finds the within-firm 90/10 pay ratio falls 3 percent after a buyout, arriving there by swapping expensive managers for cheaper ones.
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Sebastien Canderle says buyout managers still cannot sell, so capital pension funds had budgeted to arrive after four or five years sits at carrying value while CalPERS's estimated 7% a year keeps compounding against it.
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