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Carlyle Circles Lukoil’s Foreign Assets as Sanctions Fatigue Sets In Carlyle is sniffing around Lukoil’s non-Russian assets, a sprawl of energy holdings valued around $22 billion, according to Reuters. It’s the kind of geopolitical scavenger hunt only a top-tier PE shop attempts — buying orphaned assets from a
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CapitalSpring Closes Initial $505 Million Toward $1 B Target for Fund VII CapitalSpring, the Nashville shop that bankrolls franchise and multi-unit consumer businesses, just hit $505 million on the first close of its new $1 billion fund. Every dollar came from existing LPs—most upsized. That’s loyalty, or at
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GIC Tests the Secondaries Market with $1 Billion LP-Stakes Sale Singapore’s GIC—one of the most disciplined LPs on the planet—is quietly unloading $1 billion in fund stakes across 30 PE managers. When even a sovereign wealth fund wants liquidity, that’s not noise—it’s a tell.