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The National Basketball Association is scouting for investment talent as deal-makers across the M&A landscape show growing interest in sports.
The New York City-based sports and media league seeks a principal to help evaluate and manage investments. The position pays an expected salary of $200,000 to $220,000.
Payrolls at nine publicly traded private equity firms grew by 7 percent last year and the early part of 2025. That marked a slightly lower rate than in 2023 and a far slower rate than in 2022, according to recent analysis by Private Equity Career News.
The introduction of new investment strategies may be behind some of that hiring, according to Charles Wilson, senior vice president of investment management for Selby Jennings.
With its portfolio of aerospace, defense and government portfolio companies and close ties to government, few PE firms have as much to lose as Washington-based Carlyle Group by antagonizing the anti-DEI administration of President Donald Trump.
Yet late last year Carlyle Group promoted then-DEI Vice President ‘Iolani Bullock to head of diversity and inclusion. Bullock joined in 2020 as an associate vice president of DEI, after working at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business as director of MBA admissions, diversity & inclusion and partnerships.
New York City-based Raga Partners, founded by former KKR & Co executive Atul Joshi, has reached a capital raising milestone for the firm’s debut multi-strategy private fund.
The family office advisory firm, which also invests in both hedge funds and private capital funds on behalf of clients, has raised at least $300 million from 41 investors for its Raga Capital Partners I LP fund, according to a regulatory filing from earlier in January. The firm launched its flagship fund in 2022.
A new government program aimed at bolstering U.S. semiconductor manufacturing is quietly drawing talent from the private equity ranks.
The outlook for start-up private equity shops remains bright, and Cross Rapids Capital LP is attempting to make its mark in middle-market private equity and special situations deals.
The New York City-based firm, with an appetite for industrial and services companies, has brought aboard Benjamin Gaw Jr as partner and head of portfolio operations. Gaw most recently served as senior director of portfolio operations at Boston-based buyout giant Advent International, according to his Linkedin profile; before that he served as senior vice president and head of Asia portfolio operations at Los Angeles-based Platinum Equity.