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Renewable energy

Staying ahead of the energy transition

With renewable energy asset valuations and new oil and gas investment in question, energy investment is being redefined by electrified transport, hydrogen and energy storage…

Raising the bar

How TPG raised the bar for impact funds

  Q&A with Stephen Ellis and Maya Chorengel, co-managing partners of the Rise funds at TPG – TPG Rise is largest impact fund platform in the world, with around USD13 billion AUM. Its latest fund in the climate space is due to close shortly with a hard cap of USD7

Impact investing

Impact funds will be the new norm

By Colin Leopold – The billion-dollar impact fund is now a reality for mainstream private equity houses. Can they stay true to the roots of impact investing and meet the expectations of LPs?

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Ciesco reports M&A resilience despite political and economic headwinds

Ciesco, a specialist M&A advisory firm operating in the technology, digital, media and marketing sectors, has reported positive M&A activity in Q1 2022 despite geopolitical turmoil. Cisco’s latest report reveals 500 transactions announced in Q1 2022 in the sector – a 17 per cent increase in year-to-date activity from Q1

Global M&A appetite remains strong with busy start to 2022

Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has seen a strong start to 2022 with the number of completed deals valued over USD100 million in the first quarter exceeding the same period last year. Supported by historically low interest rates, increased market confidence, abundant capital and the pursuit of transformative deals,

Tech in PE

Majority of LPs attracted by tech-enabled PE managers

Sixty per cent of Limited Partner (LP) respondents surveyed in the Brackendale Private Equity Technology LP Sentiment Survey H1 2022, produced in association with AssetMetrix, said that they would be more likely to consider allocating to a fund, if the fund manager had a tech-enabled partner to outsource their middle

PE deal value hits record USD1.1tn in 2021, says Bain & Company research

New research from Bain Company has revealed that private equity deal value hit a record USD1.1 trillion in 2021, according to a report by Private Equity Insights. The total for the year was twice that seen in 2020 (USD577 billion) edand far exceed the previous record high of USD804bn seen

Fundraising technology

Technology is a weapon in the fundraising war

2022 will be the year the level of in-person and online meetings rebalance to create a new fundraising ‘normal’ for years to come… The private market fundraising process underwent a historic transformation through the various stages of Covid-19, but many of the adjustments made during 2020 and 2021 are now

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