Nathan Williams

The Trump-appointee fills a position vacated by Michael Piwowar in July.

The SEC alleges the firm withheld information on an updated net asset value for stakes in its Fund III before a sale.

The regulatory agency is seeking comment on proposals to ease restrictions that prohibit banks from investing in private equity funds.

Performance fees from the firm's Vintage V fund drove a 20% year-on-year increase in net revenues.

Idinvest Partners held the final close on its Secondary Fund III on €442m in June. We caught up with Guillaume Cavalin, the firm's legal director, to get his take on how private equity fund structuring – and LP demands – are changing.

The world's largest private equity firm, which said the discrepancy was due to three-quarters of its investment team being male, pays men on average 30% more an hour.

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, chief executive of international capital strategies at US think tank the Council on Foreign Relations, is the latest high-profile hire for the advisory firm.

The firm has promoted Lindsay Sharma and Ira Simkhovitch to principals on its secondaries investment team.

The deal makes the firm the largest shareholder in two formerly PE-backed distressed companies.

Caroline Steil as a senior legal advisor from law firm Jones Day and will advise on the firm's secondaries activities.