A carve-out built as an employee stock-ownership plan by KKR's buyout chief would test the ESOP model he has championed, if Unilever's spin-off that owns the brand agrees.
§ Private Equity
§ Private Credit
A one-day tally of who is lending shows how fast AI infrastructure has become the dominant use of private credit.
§ Real Assets & Infrastructure
A fresh securitized financing for a Blackstone operator shows data-center landlords leaning on private credit to fund AI capacity.
§ Secondaries & CVs
As GP-led deals become routine, the conflict in a manager selling an asset to itself is starting to reach litigation that LPs should track.
§ LPs & Allocators
A large batch of new commitments from a major public plan shows allocators still pacing into private assets despite the stress headlines.
§ Regulation & Tax
Accredited-investor, performance-fee and interval-fund changes form the main regulatory push to bring individual and retirement money into private assets.
§ Law Firm & Expert Insights
With stress headlines mounting, staff expectations on valuing and disclosing illiquid assets go straight to the credibility of fund NAVs.
§ People & Firms
A senior hire to run private equity at a Gulf-backed investor shows sovereign-linked capital still building direct-investing teams.