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Whatever happened to ESG-linked loans?

As tools for ESG transformation they seem to have been abandoned but they still have their place

LISTEN: Top of the ops: The Third Party

A conversation with KBRA's Gopal Narsimhamurthy on the evolving role of credit rating agencies in fund finance

Technology Report 2024

Welcome to the first instalment of the Technology Report, which shines a light on GPs at the cutting edge of tech adoption for front-office functions, and the providers powering that transformation

Investcorp’s Jan Erik Back retires

Abbas Rizvi succeeds Back as CFO

Treble Peak and Logiver team up

Partnership to facilitate access to PE funds for wealth management firm

Carlyle appoints COO

Lindsay LoBue succeeds Chris Finn who will remain at the firm in a senior advisory role

Comment: Parental advisory

Barry Fishley, partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges provides, an update for PE firms on data privacy enforcement in the UK

5 minutes with… Myles Milston, co-founder and CEO of Globacap

The co-founder and CEO discusses how the Globacap mission has evolved and grown since launch and assess the digital sophistication of private markets

FundGuard closes on $100m in Series C

Fresh funds to support product innovation and continued onboarding of new and existing customers

AMG appoints COO and CFO

Dava Ritchea succeeds Thomas Wojcik as CFO while the latter takes the helm as inaugural COO of the GP stakes investor

GPs express concerns over data management and coordination of third-party portfolio monitoring tools

Latest report from Acuity Knowledge Partners reveals issues with data management and extraction

Citco launches document management platform

Offering to combine company’s AI with fund reporting expertise to extract structured data from fund documents

Reporting in good nature

Why are voluntary sustainability reporting regimes such as TNFD being adopted by PE firms?

March 2024 Magazine Cover

Latest Magazine

For this issue, The Drawdown peers into the shadows to examine the credit ratings agencies stalking the borrowers and lenders of fund finance.

We also uncover how GPs are reviewing the structure of aborted deal costs, how fund-of-funds try to ensure ESG compliance at one step removed, and the potential compliance burdens of the OECD's Pillar 2.

Finally, we profile ACE & Company managing partner Sally Beh and imagine the look and feel of a career at ECI Partners.

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JTC Law appoints head of investment funds and corporate

Leanne Wallser has two decades of experience practising Jersey Law

Zurich Insurance Group partners with Pemberton on private debt

Insurer launches Lux-housed ELTIF product to be managed by Pemberton and invest in private debt

Waystone receives FCA approval for LTAF

Company claims to be the first independent ACD to have an LTAF approved by the financial watchdog

Introducing The Drawdown’s tech provider profiles

The Drawdown is mapping out the universe of software, data and service providers to help GPs navigate this rapidly evolving space

Katten appoints three to investment management office

Thomas Laurer, Ryan Hansen and Daniel Lewin join from Curtis

No tiff with the LTAF

The Drawdown catches up with Schroders as it gears up to launch LTAF number three to chat operations, investor base and liquidity management

Stake a chance on… Blackstone

Josh Blaine and Ward Young discuss the alignment of GP stakes and secondaries

Corvus launches administration business

The company has added fund administration services to its existing legal and compliance business

Quilvest taps global HR lead

The Drawdown speaks to ex-Pantheon Richard Berke about the transition

Herbert Smith Freehills appoints ESG leadership across US, UK and EMEA

Partner Heike Schmitz to co-head the firm’s ESG EMEA practice together with partner Iria Calviño, among other appointments

Domos FS partners with Cascade

Partnership will allow Domos FS’s clients to rely on Cascade for AML and KYC matters

GPs ride the data wave

Demanding LPs and AI advancements have moved the dial on data. But what does a data strategy during a holding period look like? Xhulio Ismalaj reports

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