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Friday Letter: global reachThe UK’s Walker code should be firmly on the radar of all global buyout firms.
- Friday Letter: It's getting tougher out there
Non-traditional lenders are the only way to get big deals away, while the mid-market, long held up as evidence of the buyout model’s resilience, is looking trickier too. To make matters worse: vendors are battling with uncertainty.
- Friday Letter Quiet rock stars
This year’s World Economic Forum in Davos has been a sombre affair. Gloomy economic outlooks have dominated the discourse, while some titans of industry opted to stay home entirely, circumventing the headline risk associated with attending a fancy conference amid a global downturn.
- Friday Letter Heads up, seven up
Problems are plentiful these days for some private equity firms. But one firm’s misery may be another’s gain.
- Friday Letter Confidence building
Investment and exit activity seen recently in Asia should provide a boost to the region’s flagging morale – and kick-start some private equity industry recovery.
- Friday Letter Going once, going twice
Auctions are back, with large firms lining up eagerly to deploy their capital.
- Friday letter testing boundaries
With its two RMB fund launches, TPG has joined firms like Carlyle and Blackstone in throwing itself wholeheartedly behind an untested and pioneering private equity vehicle.
- Friday Letter Money in, money out
Friendlier debt markets have helped revive private equity deal and exit activity this year, just in time for impending fundraisings.
- Friday Letter Enough already: mega-fund bashing misses the point
As limited partners continue to debate the merits of large buyout funds, evidence grows that they may not turn out to be the poor performers some had assumed.
- Friday Letter: Why Milibands 'empty threat' matters
UK opposition leader Ed Miliband singled out private equity this week as an example of 'bad business'. The argument may have been weak, but the sentiment is significant.