Private Equity
On pause: Inside private equity’s month of tariff turmoil
War rooms, lobbying efforts and portfolio protection: senior figures in the buyout industry warn of a ‘moment of reckoning’ one month on from President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs
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Senior Cinven figure joins exodus to Milan
Italy has lured in dealmakers from Astorg and Goldman Sachs as London battles tax fallout
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Freshfields hires third Paul Hastings infrastructure partner in London
Magic Circle law firm boosts London finance team
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Sidley hires Weil funds partner trio in London
Weil’s global funds co-head leads team to rival US law firm in London
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TowerBrook plans Milan and Dublin offices as $4bn fundraise beckons
Plans for Fund VII come amid expansion moves across Europe and UAE
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Inside UBS’s cross-selling wealth unit
Catch up on the top news in wealth management this week
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Private equity firms to slow wealth deals after UK boom: ‘It’s been like stacking shelves’
Why a red-hot market might start to cool
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JPMorgan ‘beefing up’ private equity banking team ahead of long-term deal boom
The US bank is hiring bankers before an expected uptick in deal activity from private equity and infrastructure clients over the next five years
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Hg tops $1bn in wealth fund push
UK buyout shop plans more hires for global wealth business
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Shawbrook owners delay £2bn London IPO plans following Trump tariff turmoil
BC Partners and Pollen Street-owned lender is a key London IPO candidate
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BlackRock’s Larry Fink hails democracy for private assets. But what will it mean for fees?
Cutting the charges on opaque funds might not be a good thing for managers
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AlixPartners backs FN sister title’s Twenty Trailblazing Women
Consulting firm sponsors PEN’s list of senior women in the sector for the second year running
Can Carlyle’s Wand revive its European buyout team?
A London-based tech veteran is tasked with turning around the fortunes of the private equity giant’s European buyout team.
Shackleton sets deadline for first round bids as wealth manager’s sale talks continue
‘Britain’s wealth manager’ is looking for up to £600m for the business
Ex-Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman to join General Atlantic as senior adviser
The US private equity firm has made preparations for an IPO
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Why this Goldman Sachs banker jumped to private credit
‘The private credit industry has been growing enormously. That’s a fact,’ Luke Gillam tells FN
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Blackstone poaches Goldman Sachs leveraged finance head Dominic Ashcroft
Private markets firms continue to hunt top banking talent
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Accounting firm spurns private equity as rare IPO tests UK market appetite
MHA said there have been few successful IPOs in its sector. It’s hoping to change that
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‘It’s do or die time’: How Ascot Lloyd 2.0 will revamp the £11bn wealth manager
A plan to revitalise Ascot Lloyd shows it is ‘broken from top to bottom’, outsiders say, but senior staff argue the overhaul is setting the firm up for growth
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