Podcast - Credit Funds: How PE Funds Can Address and Minimize Conflict When Expanding Into Credit
To help businesses, investors, and deal professionals better understand the evolving independent sponsor landscape, Robert Connolly – a partner in LP’s Corporate Practice Group and leader of LP’s Independent Sponsor team –...more
This fall, Latham’s Investment Funds Practice provided guidance on financing options and considerations for funds and portfolio companies in the second installment of the Private Funds Breakfast Series. The quarterly series...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
Holland & Knight's Independent Sponsors Team has seen an increasing number of independent sponsors taking part in transactions of seemingly all shapes and sizes. With increasing variation of transactions comes increasing...more
For a majority of PE, VC, and debt funds, catch-ups are 100%, but they are likely to be less than 100% for real estate and infrastructure funds. In a previous article, we showed that hurdle rates set by private...more
Private equity funds show the least variation, with 80% of PE funds setting hurdle rates at 8%. Real estate funds are almost as likely to set rates at 7% or 9% as 8%....more
PE firms face growing regulatory and litigation risks from greenwashing claims as they navigate a fragmented anti-greenwashing landscape. Amid concerns of exaggerated or misleading sustainability claims, the UK Financial...more