Fundraising Trends in Private Equity for GPs and LPs
In recent years, family offices have evolved from indirect, secondary and/or background investors into highly active and influential players in the private equity space. In 2025, this shift is no longer a trend, it is a...more
GPs are increasingly exploring formalised co-investment structures in a bid to secure management fees and carried interest. Co-investment activity has increased fivefold over the past two decades, hitting a record $33.2...more
As private equity (PE) dealmaking heated up in the past decade, limited partners (LPs) sought to gain even more exposure to the asset class. Simultaneously, general partners (GPs) at PE firms began to band together more than...more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued an order intended to facilitate the ability of business development companies (BDCs) to borrow under their existing credit agreements and issue new debt and...more
For most private equity managers, co-investments are an essential part of attracting limited partner investors and funding investments. Originally published in Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the...more
Pepper is pleased to announce the release of the 2018 pfm Fees and Expenses Benchmarking Survey, produced in partnership with PEF Services and WithumSmith+Brown. The survey was launched in 2014 in response to fund managers’...more
Expense provisions in fund documents are getting longer and longer, amid pressure on GPs to be more transparent....more
Private equity (PE) fundraising in Europe hit €91.9 billion in 2017, the highest it has been since 2006.1 Of that amount, €71.7 billion was invested in European companies, an increase of 29 percent year over year. This record...more
Pepper Hamilton commissioned Mergermarket to interview 50 PE executives from across the United States that have co-invested with an institutional investor within the previous three years (fund sizes managed by the...more