By Tony O. Lawson A private equity investment acquires control of a company that already generates revenue, employs people, and holds assets. It defines who will own it, how it will be operated, and who will capture the value when it is sold. Institutional private equity draws capital from pension funds, endowments, and foundations, deploys it into companies and assets across defined strategies, and returns it with gains to limited partners. The firms documented here are actively deploying capital within that structure. The strategies represented here span growth equity, control buyout, secondaries, fund-of-funds, GP stakes, and Africa-focused growth equity, reflecting

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