Randy Schwimmer, who heads up senior lending origination and capital markets at Nuveen affiliate Churchill Asset Management, outlines how he experienced the lending market throughout the global Covid-19 crisis and how it keeps evolving in 2021.
Business-to-business social media marketing platform Oktopost has secured a USD20 million minority investment from London-based growth equity firm Expedition Growth Capital.
Bridgepoint has seen its share price rise to 440 pence on the London Stock Exchange today (21 July), a 26 per cent increase on the 350 pence per share set for its IPO, during Wednesday morning trading.
By Elizabeth Weymouth (pictured), Founder and Managing Partner, Grafine Partners – There’s a quiet revolution happening among sophisticated institutional investors and large pools of capital that could eventually up-end one corner of the private equity universe. A growing number of LPs are starting to turn away from allocating to the largest managers and towards experienced dealmakers who are starting their own shops – many of whom are spin-outs from the giant firms.
In this podcast, Private Equity Wire speaks to Randy Schwimmer (pictured), head of senior lending origination and capital markets at Churchill Asset Management, about capital markets, deal trends and the current private equity middle-market lending environment.
Although private equity deal activity slowed down a bit in Q2 from the first quarter of 2021, the speed at which PE deals closed continued, leading to a massive uptick in deal value, according to Pitchbook's latest European PE Breakdown report.
DCVC and Temasek have led a USD430 million Series D funding into Pivot Bio, a nitrogen innovator in agriculture, bringing its total equity raised to more than USD600 million.
US Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (pictured) announced on Thursday that a procedural floor vote in the Senate on President Biden's USD1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill will take place next Wednesday. As Democrats are also asked to back a larger USD3.5 trillion budget blueprint, what will the much-debated upcoming US infrastructure bill – of which nearly USD600 billion would be new spending – mean for PE infrastructure mandates in the country?
This Private Equity Wire webinar, produced in association with AssetMetrix, examines emerging trends in the field of data analytics, the various ways that managers are actively using analytical tools, and the best practices GPs need to consider, as they look to introduce more analytical firepower to their firms.
Sweden-based investment firm EQT’s infrastructure division has agreed to acquire Covanta Holding Corporation, whose business focuses on sustainable waste processing and advancing transitions to a circular economy in North America.
In this podcast, Private Equity Wire speaks to New York-based growth equity firm LB Equity, a firm that invests in high-growth beauty and wellness brands, about sustainability themes within the beauty space. Founded in 2012, LB Equity is led by co-founders Jay Lucas (pictured), a former partner at Bain & Company, and Karen Ballou, who used to work for Redken and Elizabeth Arden.
In this panel discussion – part of Intertrust Group's Private Funds Industry Live series of events – Moderator James Williams, Editor-in-Chief of Private Equity Wire, joins Niamh Ryan, Partner at Simmons & Simmons, Giles Dusemon, Partner, Arendt, and David Sarfas, Head of Private Capital, Intertrust Group, to explore how fund managers are navigating the complexity of global capital deployment in Europe.
