The year 2020 tested the mettle of entrepreneurs and small business owners like none other in recent history. And private equity firms operating in the small- and medium-sized business space were called upon like never before to help manage through the pandemic. For many business owners, 2020 has been about survival and making it through […]
There’s a record amount of dry powder sitting in the distressed private capital space, according to new data from Preqin. Between distressed debt, special situations and turnaround strategies, total dry powder in the distressed private capital arena sits at an estimated US$131 billion as of June 2020, an all-time record. Of note, the distressed private […]
Fund managers have quite a bit of private capital available to deploy, to the tune of US$2.1 trillion as of the end of June 2018, according to a new report from Prequin. For now, most of that private capital dry powder is still eyeing North American assets, although in recent years that has been on […]