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Corporate Partner Jason Glover was quoted in an article in the Financial Times titled “Private Equity Funds Receive Record Amounts of Capital,” which discusses how private equity fund are raising more money in a shorter amount of time as a result of yield-starved investors searching for a place to put their cash in an attempt to hit their expected returns. Jason commented on the current pace of the fundraising. “The current speed of fundraising is in my experience unprecedented. [Private equity groups] are keen to take advantage of the usually benign conditions, particularly in anticipation of a change in market conditions when fundraisings may become significantly more difficult.”

Jason also commented on the desire of investors to move quickly into funds. “Investors are keen to deploy increasing amounts to private equity and with many of the top funds massively oversubscribed, their only way to secure a commitment is to act quickly before those funds are sold out.”