Private Equity Perspectives: Episode Three – Interest Rates and PE Deals
NGE On Demand: Profits Interests: Granting & Receiving with Patty Cain and Josh Klein
Bracing For Change: A Look Ahead To 2021
Williams Mullen's COVID-19 Comeback Plan: Identifying IP Opportunities in Today’s Economy
Episode 021: Member Liquidity, Default Rules, and the Corporate-ization of LLCs: A Conversation with Dean Donald J. Weidner
Podcast: Credit Funds: 1940 Act Interval Funds
Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts
In a typical bull market, private equity sponsors exit out of portfolio assets through IPOs, strategic sales and sponsor-to-sponsor buyouts. But the 2025 deal market has proven to be neither typical nor robust....more
Two quarters in, Asia's private capital market appears as uncertain as ever. Last year, we repeatedly heard two mantras. First, Asia's private capital market would grow at substantial rates and, second, that GP...more
Increasingly, founders desire liquidity with respect to a portion of their equity stake before the company goes public or completes a complete exit event (like an M&A sale). Liquidity is desired for many reasons, including...more
FUNDamentals is a periodic digest of news and information specifically for private funds and their managers. In this issue, we highlight some fundraising trends, new marketing rule FAQs, fund liquidity trends (limited...more
At a time when sponsors are holding onto assets longer than expected, margin loans in private markets are providing a valuable channel of liquidity- Drawn out hold periods and low exit volumes have put liquidity at a...more
Global private secondary market transaction volume hit an all-time high of US$160 billion in financial year (FY)-2024, which is up 41 percent from 2023 and has surpassed projections. Private market secondaries have been...more
The market for insured risk transfer solutions for UK defined benefit pension schemes has continued to grow in recent years, as increased competition among insurers and improved funding positions has enabled more and more...more
Right after Patrick Calves wrote about “continued momentum in the secondaries market, supported by both cyclical and structural tailwinds” in last week’s FFF, Yale University’s plans to sell up to $6 billion is dominating...more
Business development companies (“BDCs”) were created by Congress in 1980 to serve as closed-end, venture capital funds for retail investors by financing small to mid-sized U.S. private companies. Since about 2004, BDC...more
We are now more than a full quarter into 2025, and it has been a very busy start to the year for the CWT fund finance practice, thanks in part to a busy quarter for secondaries fund finance deals. This is on the back of an...more
The Gulf Cooperation Council region (the GCC) is becoming an ever-more important destination for the global private credit market. In this client briefing we explore the region’s rising prominence as a key destination for...more
This winter, Latham’s Investment Funds Practice delivered an in-depth exploration of continuation fund transactions, offering strategic insights and practical guidance in the latest installment of the Texas Private Funds...more
Sluggish M&A and IPO markets have put the brakes on private equity exit activity across Europe, but as pressure builds to clear the backlog of unsold portfolio companies, firms are taking innovative approaches to selling...more
Read our latest insights into the U.S. private equity market. We cover monthly deal activity and size, fundraising, exits, leveraged loans, and a look ahead. U.S. PE dealmaking had a slower start in 2025. YTD deal numbers...more
AT A GLANCE - The rise of the direct lending market has led to a dramatic rise in supporting liquidity strategies to optimize the market. These strategies include the use of financings to provide market participants with...more
Finance Transition for Middle Market and First-Time Sponsor-Backed Companies - Our Ankura Office of the CFO® professionals have worked inside finance functions of private equity (PE) and private credit-backed portfolio...more
On 21 January 2025, the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published two supervisory letters outlining 2025 priorities for international banks and UK deposit takers, respectively. In this note, we look at some of the...more
Investors in closed-end funds make a commitment for the duration of a fund’s life cycle — known as the fund’s term — with liquidity available only through sale of assets, secondary transactions, or fund liquidation. Investors...more
Patience is proving to be a virtue for a private equity industry that began 2024 sitting on more than 28,000 portfolio companies valued at more than $3 trillion, according to a report by Bain & Company, as average hold...more
Owning an NFL team is no longer a fantasy. The National Football League (the “NFL” or the “League”) voted to allow minority stakes to be sold to private equity firms (“PE”). However, according to NFL.com, “an executive from...more
This article is the first in a series on common issues of critical importance to sellers in private company M&A- An equity roll is an agreement between a Buyer and a Seller in an M&A deal where the Seller (typically a...more
The Pension Schemes Bill announced in the King’s Speech on 17 July builds on the UK Government’s drive to encourage defined contribution (DC) pension investment in long-term illiquid investments such as private equity,...more
The challenges facing financial sponsors in the past couple of years have been widely discussed. Their funds have amassed over $1 trillion in dry powder that they are competing to deploy in a weak exit market....more
The Spotlight had the pleasure of sitting down with Anne Paape, managing director and senior fiduciary counsel at Cresset and Cresset Trust Company, to talk about the historic transfer of wealth many countries are undergoing,...more
Business owners of private companies invest huge amounts of time and resources in their business, which may include the bulk of their financial capital. For owners who do not want most of their net worth to remain tied up in...more