Weekly Recap | 7.6.25

Hi there,

Please see below for this week's headlines:

• Robert Sharpe joins Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as a partner in the EMEA Tax practice - his experience includes GP Stakes, preferred equity, secondaries, CVs, and fund manager M&A

• Graham Partners sells minority stake to PACT Capital Partners

• Michael Rees of Blue Owl Capital is featured on Christopher Zook and Tony Robbins' podcast "The Holy Grail of Investing" to discuss GP Stakes

• Robert Hamilton Kelly of Goldman Sachs' Petershill joins Michael Sidgmore on the Alts Goes Mainstream podcast to discuss GP Stakes

• Charlie Ruffel of Kudu Investment Management, LLC joins Alex Shahidi on the Insightful Investor podcast

• Three alternative asset manager control deals announced completion today

• AXA Investment Managers Prime is hiring a Portfolio Financial Manager focused on GP Stakes and PE Secondaries in Paris

• TPG completed its acquisition of Peppertree Capital today

• Blue Owl Capital's GP Strategic Capital team is hiring for multiple roles in NYC

• Middle East LPs are increasingly interested in GP Stakes according to James Varela of Rede Partners LLP

• CAZ Investments breaks down in a short video the appeal of GP Stakes investing

• Blue Owl Capital's GP Stakes Fund VI has raised $7.3 billion so far, with $5.7 billion left to go according to PitchBook

• Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP boosts its Private Funds group with the hire of Philip Baynes, who has GP Stakes experience

• Macfarlanes publishes in-depth article on GP Stakes and fund manager M&A

• Seward & Kissel LLP publishes its 2024 study on Seed investments - last page of report focuses on private equity and private credit GP seeding

• Omnigence Asset Management releases white paper on GP Stakes

• ESR Group is taken private by Starwood Capital Group, SSW Partners, Warburg Pincus LLC, and Qatar Investment Authority

• Capricorn Investment Group is hiring an Investment Analyst in NYC

• Metrics Credit Partners completes its acquisition of BC Invest

As always, feel free to send me news to share with the GP Stakes community (and definitely let me know if I missed anything).

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Have a great weekend!
- Max