Weekly Recap | 5.4.25

Please see below for this week's headlines:

• The brilliant Michael Sidgmore wrote a brief section on GP Stakes in his latest weekly newsletter Alt Goes Mainstream

• Nicholas Platt, Jr. of Kudu Investment Management, LLC will be speaking on May 22nd at this LPGP Connect event

• Damian Petrovic joins Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in their Corporate department. One of the multiple areas of his focus is GP Stakes transactions.

• Kline Hill Partners sells minority stake to TA Associates

• Cara Griffiths (MD at Blue Owl Capital's GP Strategic Capital) will be speaking at the "0100 Emerging Europe 2025" conference in a fireside chat titled "Private Markets Growth - The Opportunity for GP Stakes Investors" on May 15th in Budapest

• On June 19th, Catherine Haumesser (ARMEN), Thomas Liaudet (Campbell Lutyens), and Andrew Stevens (Inflexion) will join Travers Smith partners Victoria Bramall and Jeremy Elmore in a panel titled "Liquidity for the house: Strategic M&A and GP stake transactions"

• Blue Owl Capital's GP Strategic Capital reported $67 billion in AUM and $37.8 billion in FPAUM as of Q1 2025

• Eurazeo acquires remaining minority stake in Kurma Partners

• Weisburd Capital is hiring an Associate, Senior Associate, or Vice President in NYC for their GP Seeding investment team

• Cantilever Group acquires minority equity stake in Shelter Growth Capital Partners

• Blue Owl Capital's sixth GP Stakes flagship fund's final close will drift into early 2026

• EQT Group considers strategic partnership with Arctos

• Mubadala Capital sells minority stake to TWG Global

  • The minority sale was a 5% stake according to PitchBook's Jessica Hamlin who interviewed Amos Hochstein, Managing Partner of TWG Global

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