Private Equity
Achieving a profitable exit is challenging, but PE firms have several ways to help their companies cut costs, ease risk and boost operational efficiency.
4 min read · 17 May 2016
6 min read · 16 May 2016
Where should a firm focus its deal sourcing efforts? Nadim Malik and Catherine Daly of Sutton Place Strategies offer their perspective in this guest column.
4 min read · 15 April 2016
As New Yorkers get ready to head to the polls for their state’s primary elections, we ask who you would vote for – and provide a recap of the candidates’ positions on one campaign trail talking point: carried interest taxation.
3 min read · 15 April 2016
Members of the private equity fund industry are under increasing pressure from investors and regulators to enhance transparency in fees and expenses and other key aspects of their operations. In a PE Hub Canada exclusive, Torys LLP's Amy Johnson-Spina, Cameron Koziskie, Shannon Gotfrit and André Nance examine the factors that are driving this trend and how fund managers in North America are responding.
6 min read · 06 April 2016
Corus Entertainment Inc this month closed its $2.65 billion buy of Shaw Media Inc. In a PE Hub Canada feature, Catalyst Capital Group's Newton Glassman, Gabriel de Alba and Jim Riley explain why the Toronto-based private equity firm, a Corus minority shareholder, opposed the deal. They also discuss why it raises concerns about how capital market transactions are regulated in Canada.
4 min read · 05 April 2016
Crosbie & Co this month released a new report on North American private equity deal-making and what recent activity tells us about trends in Canada's M&A market. In a PE Hub Canada exclusive, Crosbie Managing Director Richard Betsalel shares some of the report's findings, which suggest much opportunity, especially if you're in selling mode, but also a few challenges that seem oddly familiar.
6 min read · 24 March 2016
American investors are a major force in Canada's private equity market, Torys LLP's Amanda Balasubramanian and Jonathan Wiener write. But when they undertake deals in Canada, U.S. investors encounter big differences in debt terms relative to south of the border. Balasubramanian and Wiener discuss these differences and what they mean for future deal-making.
6 min read · 18 March 2016
NewQuest Capital Partners took the gong in Asia, while CalPERS and Strategic Partners clinched the top spot for Secondaries Deal of the Year in the Americas.
3 min read · 03 March 2016
Now in their 15th year, PEI’s annual honours feature some new categories – including for secondaries market participants and co-investors – recognising a changing, growing asset class.
2 min read · 26 February 2016
