WSJ Private Equity

Midmarket private-equity dealmakers say they see growing investment opportunities despite volatility caused by geopolitical instability, tariff turmoil and AI disruption wsj.com/articles/midma…

Banks increasingly offer financing to cover redemptions by interval funds and BDCs, but more asset sales may be needed if withdrawals continue to surge wsj.com/articles/banks…

MassPRIM last year earmarked as much as $3 billion for private investments, but only deployed $1.8 billion. For this year, the ceiling has been lowered to $2.8 billion. wsj.com/articles/massp…

Cliffwater has turned down about half of the redemption requests submitted this quarter by investors in its $32.5 billion corporate debt interval fund wsj.com/articles/cliff…

Midmarket firm Truelink Capital closed its second fund at its $2 billion hard cap, wrapping up fundraising in about three months wsj.com/articles/truel…

Corvus Energy, a battery maker backed by Morgan Stanley, is benefiting from an effort by North America’s two largest public ferry operators to shift to hybrid-electric vessels wsj.com/articles/shift…

Ara Partners, a private-equity firm that backs businesses helping traditional industries reduce greenhouse gas emissions, has invested about $875 million across its initial energy-focused deals wsj.com/articles/ara-p…

Bregal Sagemount reached the $3.5 billion upper limit for its latest growth private-equity fund before closing the vehicle as its largest investment pool so far wsj.com/articles/brega…

Torch Key Asset Management, a firm looking for complex midmarket buyouts in food and industrial products, got its start last month with backing from GCM Grosvenor wsj.com/articles/midma…

Market researchers and financial-services providers in recent months have rolled out several private-credit indexes aimed at improving transparency in a market known for opacity wsj.com/articles/new-b…

The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Board clipped the amount budgeted for new private equity and venture capital investments this year to $2.8 billion wsj.com/articles/massp…

Carlyle has set an ambitious goal of amassing $200 billion in fresh capital within the next three years, betting it can attract a big chunk of the money that wealthy investors are channeling to private markets wsj.com/articles/carly…

Private equity’s antitrust burden recently eased when a federal court rolled back Biden-era merger guidelines wsj.com/articles/priva…

Peak Rock Capital is acquiring a software business from UL Solutions despite recent concerns in the sector spurred by advances in AI wsj.com/articles/peak-…

Veteran New York firm JLL Partners closed its largest fund yet to back midmarket companies across industrials, healthcare and business services wsj.com/articles/jll-p…

Prosecutors in Los Angeles sued American Industrial Partners and two firetruck manufacturers, alleging they extracted "extraordinary profits" from taxpayers wsj.com/articles/los-a…

Private markets firms are stepping up efforts to bulk up their secondaries staffing rosters, in some cases paying senior talent over $1 million in signing bonuses wsj.com/articles/secon…

Large alternative-asset managers are in no rush to make new acquisitions after spending tens of billions of dollars to buy specialist shops to expand their operations in recent years wsj.com/articles/garci…

Los Angeles County sued American Industrial Partners for allegedly seeking to monopolize the firetruck market through a rollup strategy wsj.com/articles/los-a…

JLL Partners raised $1.4 billion for its ninth buyout fund, above the $900 target wsj.com/articles/jll-p…