Goldman Sachs Promotes Skoglund to Head European PE Dealmaking

Goldman Sachs Promotes Skoglund to Head European PE Dealmaking

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has promoted Anna Skoglund to head its group advising private equity firms and large financial investors in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She takes over as EMEA head of the team, known as the Financial and Strategic Investors Group, from...
Nobody Makes Money Like Apollo’s Ruthless Founder Leon Black

Nobody Makes Money Like Apollo’s Ruthless Founder Leon Black

The private equity CEO with a fearsome reputation skates on the edges of other people’s catastrophes and manages to walk away richer. Leon Black, the most feared man in the most aggressive realm of finance, wants you to know he’s misunderstood. Not about the feared...
Wynnchurch Capital Closes on Fund V at $2.277 Billion

Wynnchurch Capital Closes on Fund V at $2.277 Billion

Wynnchurch Capital, L.P. (“Wynnchurch”), a leading middle market private equity firm, announced the closing of its fifth private equity fund, Wynnchurch Capital Partners V, L.P (“the Fund”) at $2.277 billion of committed capital. The Fund, which had a...
Private equity finds road to returns paved with good intentions

Private equity finds road to returns paved with good intentions

There’s plenty of money raised for impact investing but firms are struggling to find deals Buyout groups have bought into impact investing in a big way. Globally, the industry more than doubled the amount it raised for impact investing in 2019, reaching £5.4bn,...