Private Equity Fund Commitments

For over two decades, Churchill has built a differentiated primaries platform by being a meaningful LP who supports our GPs through multiple vintages. This drives deep relationships and leads to further collaboration with our GPs on direct deal flow throughout senior lending, junior capital, equity co-investment, and secondaries.

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fund commitments

top quartile GPs¹

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fund with advisory board seats

We really view our LP commitments through a partnership lens. We invest as a significant limited partner and often serve as an advisory board member offering our GPs our full suite of firmwide value added capabilities up and down the balance sheet.”

Anne Philpott, CFA
Head of Private Equity Fund Investments

Investment criteria

PE Fund Investments

Target fund size²

$500 mm - $2.5 bn+

Underlying portfolio company size (EBITDA)

$10 - $100 mm

Commitment size³

$30 - $60 mm

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All numbers are as of June 30, 2025.

The term “committed capital” refers to the capital committed to client accounts in the form of equity capital commitments from investors, as well as committed, actual or expected financing from leverage providers (including asset-based leveraged facilities, notes sold in the capital markets or any capital otherwise committed and available to fund investments that comprise assets under management). For purposes of this calculation, both drawn and undrawn equity and financing commitments are included. In determining committed capital in respect of funds and accounts that utilize internal asset-based leverage (e.g., levered funds and CLO warehouses), committed capital calculations utilize a leverage factor that assumes full utilization of such asset-based leverage in accordance with the account’s target leverage ratio as disclosed to investors. In determining committed capital in respect of Churchill’s management of an institutional separate account for its parent company, TIAA (as defined below), (i) committed capital in respect of private equity fund interests includes commitments made by TIAA to such strategy over the most recent 10 years, and the net asset value of all such investments aged more than 10 years, and (ii) committed capital in respect of equity co-investments, junior capital investments, structured capital investments, and senior loans includes the commitment made by TIAA for the most recent year, and the outstanding principal balance of investments made in all preceding years, and (iii) committed capital in respect of secondaries includes commitments made by TIAA, which includes the aggregate commitment made by TIAA since the inception of the strategy in 2022 and inclusive of the current year's allocation. In determining committed capital in respect of Churchill’s management of institutional separate accounts for third party institutional clients, committed capital includes the aggregate commitments made by such third party clients, so long as such commitments remain subject to recycling. Thereafter, outstanding principal balance is used in respect of any applicable commitment (or portion thereof) that has expired. Due to the foregoing, committed capital figures may be adjusted over the course of a financial period, based on accounts transitioning the calculation methodology from capital commitment to invested capital.

¹Defined as GPs in the 2023 and 2024 vintages with at least one fund that measures top quartile on a MOIC or IRR basis using Burgiss or Cambridge Associates U.S. Buyout indices for the relevant vintage.

²Target fund size of private equity fund in which Churchill intends to invest.

³Churchill commitment to private equity fund.

Churchill’s select private equity fund relationships

Churchill has committed $12+ billion in middle market private equity funds driving improved access to deal flow.

Primary strategy

Diversified

Industry specialist

Operationally focused

Sourcing specialists

Small-cap/LMM focus

News & Press

Churchill Achieves Record Investment Activity in 2024

New York, January 21, 2025 – Churchill Asset Management LLC, the U.S. private capital investment-specialist of Nuveen, announced the firm closed or committed over $13 billion across approximately 400 transactions in 2024, surpassing its previous annual record in 2022 by 18%. Further, Churchill raised over $10 billion, bringing firmwide committed capital to $52 billion1 from more than 4,000 institutional, family office and high-net worth investors globally and representing the firm’s second-largest third-party fundraising year to date.

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