Weekly Recap | 5.18.25

Please see below for this week's headlines:

• Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. increases ownership stake in Capula Investment Management LLP from 4.7% to 15%

• Cantilever Group adds Randy Ralph to its Advisory Board

• Goldman Sachs' XIG team is hiring an Associate in its London office to work across GP Stakes, Secondaries, Co-Investments, and Fund-of-Funds transactions

• Wafra reopened two roles on its GP Stakes team in NYC: Associate and Senior Associate

• Ted Gooden (Växa Partners), Elizabeth Shea Fries (Sidley Austin LLP), Linda Gibson (PGIM Quantitative Solutions), and Warren Tonkinson (Perpetual Limited) will be on a panel that touches on GP Stakes deals

• Blackstone GP Stakes is looking to raise $5.6 billion for its latest GP Stakes fund

• Tribe Impact Capital acquires 100% of Snowball Impact Investment

• Madison International Realty acquires 24.5% stake in Puma Property Finance

• Blue Owl Capital's Gary Lin discusses the GP Strategic Capital platform with Julie Cooling, Founder and CEO of RIA Channel

• In Q1 2025, With Intelligence tracked over five People Moves within the GP Stakes space, highlighting Kristin DePlatchett joining Bonaccord Capital Partners and Peter Rosenbloom joining Hunter Point Capital LP

• Berkshire Global Advisors releases its monthly Market Update, which includes info on GP Stakes deals

• Bloomberg's Isabella Farr dives into how private equity firms are looking to stake sales as a way to deliver liquidity to LPs, highlighting Blackstone's GP Stakes strategy

• RidgeLake Partners (a strategic partnership between OA Private Capital and Apogem Capital) redesigns its website / logo and includes some data on its GP Stakes strategy

• PitchBook's Emily Lai publishes article on GP Stakes in Europe

• Cannae Holdings, Inc. acquires additional 30% stake in JANA Partners for $93.5 million

• ARMEN acquires 20% stake of Vendis Capital

• AIMA will be hosting Azimut Alternative Capital Partners's Jeffry Brown and Arendt & Medernach' Dr. Stefan Staedter to discuss GP Stakes

• Mike Arpey and Sanford "Sandy" Ewing of Hunter Point Capital LP will be attending the Nuclear Decommissioning Trust Fund Annual Conference 2025 to moderate a panel on GP Stakes in the credit space

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