Here's what you missed from Buyouts last week: ✅ Sagard Jonathan Tétrault on less-traveled paths, Château Rayas and AI-generated music; ✅ Audax Private Equity sets $6.25bn target for latest flagship fund; ✅ San Joaquin County Employees' Retirement Association sets PE pacing, cuts venture commitments; ✅ and more! Sign up for Buyouts Weekly and get the latest private equity news straight to your inbox.
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Buyouts, published by PEI Media, is the premier source of news, data, & analysis in North American private equity.
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Buyouts, published by PEI Media, is your premier source of news, data, analysis of trends in the leveraged buyout and private equity industry.
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Later in October, we're launching PEI Private Equity, a single connected platform that brings together Private Equity International, Buyouts, PE Hub and Venture Capital Journal. With PEI Private Equity, you now have a single, vital source of intelligence on the full range of activity in the asset class making it even easier to track deals, fundraising and movement across private equity and venture markets. As Mary Kathleen (MK) Flynn, the Editor-in-Chief of PEI Private Equity, puts it best; Watch this space. PEI Private Equity - coming soon. Want more information today? Fill out the form and our team will be in touch: https://okt.to/jsTv0i
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San Joaquin County Employees' Retirement Association has set its private equity pacing plan for the next fiscal year, with a reduced commitment to venture capital. The $5.7 billion California pension will commit $125 million per year to private equity from next year through 2031, before increasing in subsequent years. San Joaquin plans to make one venture capital commitment this year and none again until 2032. Read the full story here: https://okt.to/IVnfSi
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Audax Private Equity, the mid-market private equity arm of Boston-based Audax Group, is seeking $6.25 billion for its eighth flagship buyout fund. The target size for Audax Private Equity Fund VIII, which represents a 19 percent increase from capital raised by its 2023-vintage predecessor, was disclosed in Vermont Pension Investment Commission documents. The vehicle’s hard-cap is $7 billion. Audax Private Equity is planning to commit at least $700 million to Fund VIII, VPIC documents say. Read the full story here: https://okt.to/JNdua8
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Here's what you missed from Buyouts last week: ✅ H.I.G. Capital veteran-led Aphias secures final close of $1.05bn for debut fund; ✅ LP-backed Collective Global Management eyes $1bn for sophomore GP stakes fund; ✅ Private equity's newest transaction: the 'DPI trade'; ✅ and more! Sign up for Buyouts Weekly and get the latest private equity news straight to your inbox.
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Aphias Capital, a San Francisco-based lower mid-market healthcare and essential services investor, raised $1.05 billion for its debut fund within a year, bucking the fundraising struggles faced by many emerging managers. The fund drew a diverse global investor base, including public pension plans, health systems, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, family offices, fund of funds and other financial institutions, managing partner Rob W. told Buyouts. Read the full story here: https://okt.to/SXZIr4
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AE Industrial Partners, LP a Boca Raton, Florida-based private equity firm focused on national security, aerospace and industrial services, is seeking $1.75 billion for its fourth buyout fund. The target size for Fund IV is disclosed in the State of New Jersey’s Division of Investment documents. The vehicle’s hard-cap is $2.5 billion. Read the full story: https://okt.to/nDQYEW
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Collective Global Management, co-led by former Wafra executive Daniel Adamson, is seeking $1 billion for a second GP stakes offering focused on venture and growth managers. The target and the $1.2 billion hard-cap for Collective Global Fund II was disclosed in investment committee documents published by Orange County Employees Retirement System, one of several LPs that supported Collective Global’s official launch in 2023. Read the full story here: https://okt.to/edLs5i
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Exciting news! PEI Private Equity is launching soon. PEI Private Equity will merge Private Equity International, Buyouts, PE Hub and Venture Capital Journal onto a single, connected platform, making it even easier to access the vital intelligence necessary to track deals, fundraising and movement across private equity and venture markets. Want more information today? Fill out the form and our team will be in touch: https://okt.to/iOC0xg
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Cook County Employees’ & Officers’ Annuity & Benefit Funds is set to increase its allocation to private equity as the pension fund aims to slowly expand its modest but successful private equity program. The fund, which met for its board meeting on October 1, received a recommendation to increase its private equity allocation to 6 percent from the previous rate of 5 percent, according to board documents reviewed by Buyouts. Read the full story: https://okt.to/QGjiFz
