Mid-market debt strategies are a good way to access diverse-owned businesses, Brightwood Capital Advisors' Sengal Selassie said last week.
The litigation finance specialist will link loans' margin ratchets to law firms taking pro bono work, working on ESG cases and excluding ESG-adverse cases.
The firm just closed its second 'long-term equity' investment, pumping $600m into Octopus Energy.
The pricing of the US manager’s latest debt facility is tied to performance measures, including its success in making its portfolio company boards more diverse.
In the upper echelons of Spanish private equity and venture capital, just 14% of investment executives are female.
Hear from one GP who has opted to tie carry to an impact target, and another who believes alignment on impact is naturally built-in to the private equity model.
'Green solutions', sustainable agriculture and financial inclusion are the target areas for its first impact fund offering.
Pioneering fund managers are making the ultimate GP prize – carried interest – contingent on impact or ESG metrics. In part one of this deep dive, we ask who is doing it and what their motivations are.
Momentum is gathering behind the movement to link carried interest to impact or ESG targets. In the second part of this deep dive, we discover that it is easier said than done.
‘You have to get creative,’ said private fund chiefs at affiliate title Private Equity International’s CFOs and COOs Fall Forum.