about team track record news contact NEWS menu Sep 01, 2021 Gaw Capital Partners Takes Top Spot in APAC Fund Manager Ranking by PERE September 1, 2021, Hong Kong – Gaw Capital Partners ranked first in PERE’s APAC Fund Manager Guide, a ranking based on capital raised over a five-year period, which shows the top 50 fund managers… more Jul 28, 2021 Mercury Capital Advisors Appoints Michael Ricciardi as Chairman Emeritus Mercury Capital Advisors (“Mercury”), among the world’s elite global private fund placement and advisory firms, today announced that it has appointed Michael Ricciardi, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of the… more Jul 21, 2021 Mercury Capital Advisors Announces Four Senior Hires for Distribution Team Mercury Capital Advisors today announced that it has added four senior professionals to amplify distribution efforts for the firm. Matthew Haimes, based in London, Jill Cohen and Jennifer Tunney, both… more Jul 12, 2021 10 Biggest Trends Shaping the Next 3 Decades, According to Big Investors Institutional investors and family offices in a recent survey cite digitization, aging population and climate change as the most important trends that will shape the global economic landscape in the… more Jun 15, 2021 Investcorp partners with 17Capital to structure portfolio of alternative assets 17Capital, the global go-to source of strategic financing for investors in private equity, and Investcorp, a leading global provider and manager of alternative investment products, are collaborating to structure a… more Jun 03, 2020 Opportunity-Zone Funds Gaining Momentum After a slow start, managers of opportunity-zone funds have been raising capital at an accelerated rate, according to Real Estate Alert’s second-annual review of the sector. Twenty-two sponsors working independently… more Apr 22, 2020 Oaktree Leads Rush of New Distressed Funds Seeking $30B A wave of distressed debt and special situations funds has hit the market in recent weeks in response to the Covid-19 pandemic downturn, jumpstarting a segment that had dwindled to… more Apr 08, 2020 Crisis Sidetracks Fund Shops’ Equity Raises The coronavirus chaos is taking its toll on fund managers’ capital campaigns. Operators across the country are postponing initial and final closes, or discuss­ing doing so, as investors focus on… more Mar 20, 2020 PE giants eyeing 2 opportunities amidst COVID We talked to 14 private-equity insiders about how they’re planning to play the coronavirus turmoil. They identified 2 huge opportunities. Market chaos is creating crises and opportunities. Private-equity firms are… more Mar 20, 2020 LPs Slow Pledges to Debt Vehicles Demand for high-yield-debt funds appears to have softened in the past year. The amount of equity raised by active closed-end vehicles is down for the first time since 2013, according… more Mar 18, 2020 Investors Tap the Brakes on Fund Commitments After several years of explosive growth, the market for high-yield real estate funds is slowing. The total amount of equity managed in closed-end funds fell for the first time since… more Jan 15, 2020 Bain, TPG Go Long in Major Push into Public Equities Bain Capital and TPG have rolled out new vehicles focused on long-hold public equities – aiming for billions of dollars in new capital and further blurring the lines between the… more Aug 21, 2019 Brookfield Grabs Quick $1B in New ‘Special Opps’ Push By Tom Stabile Brookfield Asset Management raised a quick $1 billion last quarter in a new wide-angle special opportunities fund – aiming for a less travelled product area in which… more May 31, 2019 Why Investcorp is buying Mercury We don’t often see managers buying placement agents, but in this instance the rationale is clear. In an industry in which growth is currently the norm (spoiler alert: our PEI… more May 23, 2019 Mercury Capital Advisors Group Announces Strategic Investment by Investcorp Mercury Capital Advisors Group, L.P. (“Mercury”), one of the world’s elite institutional capital raising and investment advisory firms specializing in alternative investments, today announced that it has entered into a… more May 01, 2019 Private Briefing: Young PE Firms Double Down On Entrepreneurship When Alex Navab left KKR & Co. LP (KKR) two years ago after running the firm’s Americas private equity unit, his resume would have opened doors at the largest PE… more Apr 10, 2019 PEI: Side Letter Mercury rising. Mercury Capital Advisors has tapped Tom Donovan as a partner and one of three co-heads of global distribution. Donovan, whose CV includes stints at Lazard, Rede Partners and Credit… more Jan 23, 2019 Distressed Debt Funds Slide Back into Spotlight Distressed debt managers are primed for a new round of fundraising this year as investors see global economic hiccups setting the table for investments into troubled companies and deals. And… more Oct 09, 2018 Q3 Secondaries Fundraising Hits Second-Biggest High Five secondaries funds closed in Q3 2018, compared with seven in the same period of 2017, withLandmark XVI the biggest. Secondaries funds raised a shade less in the third quarter… more Aug 31, 2018 Twenty Fundraisers with Pulling Power Who would you want to be working alongside if you had a pool of private debt capital to raise? From that question, we identified some of the industry’s key players… more about team track record news contact MEMBER OF: FINRA SIPC BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLAN BROKER CHECK ©2021 Mercury Capital Advisors. All rights reserved. GDPR Privacy Policy Privacy Policy Terms of Use