Fund Friday: Top fundraising news in private equity
Brookfield Asset Management has launched the Brookfield Private Equity Fund (Canada), an evergreen vehicle designed to give individual investors easier access to its global private equity platform.
The fund, known as BPE-CAD, enables monthly subscriptions and offers a lower investment minimum, reflecting Brookfield’s ongoing efforts to broaden private wealth access to alternative assets. It builds on the firm’s 25-year track record of investing in and transforming essential industrial and business services companies that underpin the global economy.
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Vista Equity Partners is working with Goldman Sachs to raise about $1bn through a bond issuance backed by stakes in its own private funds, according to sources familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg.
Vista Equity Partners is working with Goldman Sachs to raise about $1bn through a bond issuance backed by stakes in its own private funds, according to sources familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg.
The transaction will be structured as a collateralised fund obligation (CFO), a securitisation vehicle that bundles stakes in private equity funds into bonds marketed to institutional investors. The deal would give Vista new liquidity options without divesting assets, at a time when fundraising and exits remain challenging across the industry.
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Maelstrom, the family office of BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes, is seeking to raise at least $250m for its first private equity fund to acquire established businesses in the crypto ecosystem, Bloomberg reports.
The new vehicle, Maelstrom Equity Fund I, will invest between $40m and $75m per deal across four to six acquisitions, focusing on profitable “off-chain” firms such as trading infrastructure providers and analytics platforms rather than token-based projects.
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