PEI Staff
As more investors look more closely at investing in private equity, what's happening to the terms to be found in a fund's documentation? David Hawkins and Joe Bartlett take a look.
Up to 80 per cent of the economic capital put into an LBO doesn't come from private equity funds: it is provided by banks as debt. Given the pivotal role leverage has to play, what's the present state of the leveraged finance market? Robin Burnett reports.
Transparency in private equity has always seemed a contradiction in terms. But change is afoot, and the industry looks set to be stripped of its longheld privacy. European practitioners are leading the way, writes Philip Borel.
Few investors begrudge the private equity industry its higher fees, but when performance goes missing, tempers will rise. Nicholas Lockley reports.
US buyout firms are cash rich and pricing looks sweet, but unless the debt markets reopen, dealmaking will remain slow, writes David Snow in New York.
David Rubenstein talks to John Mulqueen about his ambition to turn Carlyle into a household name in international private equity.
The region's cash-rich private equity firms are slowly but surely stepping up the pace, writes Angela Mackay in Hong Kong.
Private Equity International's deal mechanic takes a look under the bonnet of the buyout of Yell, a deal that may yet emerge as European LBO of the year.
This column is for both the practising and prospective private equity investor. Each month we will have limited partners and their advisors examine what the buyside want to get out of the asset class. They will discuss the specific challenges and opportunities they see to private equity investing.
News: Private People Staff 2002-01-01 Writer <b>DrKC to groom Eastern Europe's buyout talent</b><br />Dresdner Kleinwort Capital (DrKC), the private equity firm, has set up a buyout-networking group for entrepreneurs in Poland. The group, which already has around 20 members, a