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Friday Letter: Gamble on growthAs debt markets constrict mega fund deployment, expect to see more growth capital deals of the kind Permira executed this week. It's no mean feat to get a deal done in this climate, the real trick will be to ensure they are profitable.
- Friday Letter: Falling in love again
Once again private equity is flavour of the month among the bulge bracket banks. We have been here before of course and external investors in any bank funds would do well to think about a "pre-nup" contract.
- Friday Letter: Ballot Box Closing
Last year was a high-water mark for the industry before the crunch hit home. Help decide who will be remembered and celebrated for excellence, by voting in our Global Private Equity Awards for 2007 to determine the shortlists for the final round, which opens on Monday.
- Friday Letter: global reach
The UK’s Walker code should be firmly on the radar of all global buyout firms.
- Friday Letter the wheels are coming off
Investor relations executives are increasingly concerned that new funds will be difficult to raise in the year ahead.
- Friday Letter See you in Sao Paulo
A who’s who of private equity GPs have been going to Brazil this year – many for the first time. The reason? To take part in the market’s ‘energia fantástica’, as evidenced this week by the $1.2bn final close on Gavea Investimentos’ third fund.
- Friday Letter Business as usual
The long-awaited European Parliament’s proposal to regulate private equity seems unlikely to affect the buyout industry after all – and bodes well for US GPs, too.
- Friday Letter After all this pain, things will get better
The past 12 months have brought unprecedented turmoil to markets everywhere, and the private equity industry suffered profound ripple effects from many of the year’s most dramatic events.
- Friday Letter Constructive criticism
Mega-buyout chiefs have been conference hopping across the Atlantic the past two weeks, proffering candid, sometimes controversial views of private equity’s pros and cons. It is all part of a healthy discourse on the current state of an evolving asset class.
- Friday Letter Relentless pressure on fees
GPs must accept and manage around a new era of diminished fee income.