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ChatGPT creator, OpenAI, has appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, a private equity veteran and current CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), to its board, according to a report by Reuters.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its crackdown on the use of private messaging apps by the financial industry, targeting a group of alternative investment firms, including several PE managers such as Blackstone, Carlyle, and KKR, for violating recordkeeping rules, according to a report by Investment Executive.
By Nick Lawler, Managing Director and Head of Secondaries, Churchill Asset Management: Last year was estimated to deliver $140bn+ in global secondaries volume, the largest year on record and definitively surpassing the prior high threshold of ~$130bn in 2021, according to an early 2024 report by Evercore. The segment’s growth results from a confluence of factors, including new pools of capital and entrants, proliferation of active portfolio management and a global LP base searching for liquidity.
Former Blackstone Executive Mustafa Siddiqui has launched SQ Capital, a newly established private equity secondaries firm, with the goal of tapping into the growing demand for liquidity in the middle-market sector, according to a report by Wall Street Journal.
Point72 Asset Management, the hedge fund founded by Steve Cohen, is entering the booming private credit market with a new strategy headed by Todd Hirsch, a former Senior Managing Director at Blackstone, according to a report by Reuters citing an internal company statement.
Lim Hyoung-seok, a former Vice President at KKR Korea, has left the global private equity firm after nine years to establish his own private equity fund, Neos Equity Partners, according to a report by the Korea Economic Daily.
Major private equity firms have faced significant obstacles in selling or listing their China-based portfolio companies in 2023, with Beijing’s tightening restrictions on IPOs and a decelerating economy having left foreign investors’ capital effectively trapped, according to a report by the Financial Times.Â
Schroders is shutting down its AUD100m ($63m) Australian private-debt business, citing increased competition in fundraising and sourcing investments, according to a report by Bloomberg citing CEO and Chief Investment Office Simon Doyle.Â
New mid-sized businesses emerging in the Gulf are expected to create fresh lending opportunities for private credit firms in the region, initially in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to Bloomberg UK, citing Golub Capital CEO, Lawrence Golub.
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