PE bigwigs garner $3.6B.(private equity funds)(Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer, Berkshire Partners LLC, Riverside Company)

Byline: David Carey and Kelly Holman

In one of the busiest private equity days of the year, Alan Goldberg and Robert Lindsay, former Morgan Stanley executives, have garnered nearly $1.5 billion in commitments for a new private equity fund, while Berkshire Partners llc announced its sixth private equity fund closed oversubscribed with $1.7 billion and The Riverside Company said its latest fund closed at $412.7 million.

Goldberg, who quit in January as chief of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.'s private equity business, and his partner Robert Lindsay will hold a first close of the Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer fund by year's end, Wall Street sources said.

That sum is said to include …