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Bridging the Gap: Aligning the Responsible Investment Interests of Limited Partners and General Partners
By: Malcolm Preston, PwC, Global Sustainability Leader
You can read the full report here.
The growing need to demonstrate responsible investment practices is an important influence on business…
Carried Interest
First Quarter President’s Report
By: Steve Judge
The first quarter of 2015 saw an increase in partisanship and a focus on international issues, which made substantive legislation more difficult to achieve. We continue to…
Conflicts, Conflicts Everywhere: When “No Harm, No Foul” is Not a Defense
By: Amran Hussein, Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP[1]
Over the last several years, both the SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (“OCIE”) and the…
Private Equity Investment Volume Remains Strong in Q1 2015
WASHINGTON – Private equity investment volume remained strong in Q1 despite a seasonal slowdown in overall private equity activity, according to the Private Equity Growth Capital Council’s (PEGCC)…
Legislative Priorities
CEO CAPITOL HILL DAY
Chris Abraham, CEO of Service King (a Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group portfolio company) and Congressman Pete Sessions…
Debevoise & Plimpton on Cybersecurity: Reducing Threats to Private Equity Firms and Their Portfolio Companies
By: Jeffrey P. Cunard and James Pastore
Like other businesses today, private equity firms and their portfolio companies increasingly face serious data security threats – for example, from…
PEGCC Q3 2014 Performance Update: Private Equity Investments Best S&P 500 Over Long-Term
WASHINGTON, D.C. – According to the most recent quarterly Performance Update Report from the Private Equity Growth Capital Council (PEGCC), over a 10-year horizon, returns from private equity…
2014 Private Equity Exit Volume Highest Level on Record
Investment Volume, Dry Powder, and Other Metrics Show Year-to-Year Growth
WASHINGTON – The Private Equity Growth Capital Council’s (PEGCC) Trends Report for the fourth quarter of 2014 was…
Legislative Priorities
The SEC’s Year of Enforcement
By: John Sikora Jr., Partner, Latham & Watkins, LLP
What Is a Private Equity Fund Manager to Make of the SEC’s Year in Enforcement?
In reviewing the results of SEC Enforcement’s fiscal…
Why Airlines Are Flying High
This piece was originally published in the Wall Street Journal on February 4, 2015.
By Rick Schifter
Over the past two weeks, one U.S. airline after another has reported record earnings for 2014….
Q2 2014 Performance Update: Private Equity Continues to Outperform S&P 500 Over Long-Term
WASHINGTON – Private equity returns continued to outperform the S&P 500 over the long term, according to the most recent quarterly Performance Update Report from the Private Equity Growth…
From Cottage Industry to Financial Leaders
In a recent Preqin Global Report, PEGCC CEO and President Steve Judge and VP of Research Bronwyn Bailey discuss the growth of the private equity industry. Click here to read more.
Private Equity Investment in Gardner Denver Goes Beyond Operations; Protects Community
To learn more about this project and what it means to the community of Quincy, IL, watch the PE at Work video case study.
WASHINGTON – The PEGCC’s latest video case study highlights KKR-backed…
PEGCC Files Two Regulatory Comment Letters
The PEGCC regularly provides the private equity industry viewpoint on issues to regulators and policymakers in the United States and around the world. As our industry faces increased regulatory…
Portfolio Company Initiative
Camelot Education, a portfolio company of the PEGCC member firm The Riverside Company, has partnered with Chicago Public Schools and the City of Chicago for the past three years to identify and…