PE firms may have had to go on the defensive during 2012 as one of
their own launched a campaign to be Commander-in-Chief-Executive, but
the year’s ongoing image problems didn’t seem to affect their ability to
rake in huge piles of cash.
In the U.S., fundraising by private equity firms, which includes
buyout, venture capital, mezzanine, secondary and fund of funds, jumped
by 20%, from $133 billion raised in 2011 to $160.4 billion in 2012,
according to Dow Jones’ LP Source.
source: http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2013/01/07/u-s-fundraising-climbed-in-2012-no-matter-what-bad-things-people-said-about-bain-capital/
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