Private Equity
Co-investment doesn’t have to be bad for private equity, as long as both GPs and LPs take a thoughtful approach
3 min read · 20 March 2015
Repairing pre-crisis partnerships is a $100bn market, but the technical challenges are considerable and best practice remains a work-in-progress
3 min read · 13 March 2015
Torys LLP's Sophia Tolias, Stefan Stauder and Laurie Duke argue that the structure of Canadian private equity deals has changed due to the influence of 2014's seller's market. In the third of a series of peHUB Canada articles, they note that indemnity terms and the growing use of representations and warranties insurance are just two important examples of this trend.
5 min read · 09 March 2015
Growing technology companies across the continent represent a unique investment opportunities, says Benoist Grossmann, managing partner of Idinvest Partners<br />
2 min read · 04 March 2015
Torys LLP partners Neville Jugnauth, Derek Flaman and Matthew Cockburn believe that the scope of private equity investment in Canada was widened in 2014 to include some areas of new or intensified interest, such as natural resources. In the second of a series of peHUB Canada articles, they argue that this broader market focus, and alternative strategies for doing new deals, will continue in 2015.
4 min read · 27 February 2015
What's in store for Canadian private equity in 2015? Torys LLP recently released its annual Private Equity in Focus, which looks at how M&A activity involving PE in 2014 has set the stage for this year’s transactions. In the first of a series of peHUB Canada articles, Michael Akkawi, Guy Berman and Sophia Tolias discuss how recent shifts in market dynamics have shaped current opportunities.
3 min read · 23 February 2015
Local growth market managers selling assets to the global private equity groups can produce winners on both sides of the trade
3 min read · 20 February 2015
Co-investment opportunities have lately gained in popularity among institutional investors and other limited partners with increased leverage in private equity funds. As it happens, co-investments have also proved appealing to many PE fund sponsors. Torys LLP believes there is every reason to expect this trend to accelerate in 2015.
4 min read · 09 February 2015
Statements about the relative appeal of private equity-backed IPOs are often too sweeping<br />
3 min read · 06 February 2015
Asian GPs rang in the New Year celebrating signs of a dissolving exit backlog. But the pressure is still one, because the trend has spread neither far nor wide enough
3 min read · 30 January 2015
