Private Equity
<p>Now is the time for GPs to brush up on the default provisions in their LPAs.</p> <p> </p>
2 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>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. </p> <p> </p>
4 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>The week's best stories:The Night Before Christmas (At a US Private Equity Firm About to Undergo an Audit)</p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>BC Partners has been vilified in the mainstream press over a high profile deal gone wrong. But its willingness to see UK estate agents Foxtons through turbulent times illustrates an important, laudable quality in private equity investment strategies today.</p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>Why many LPs are far less enthused about large buyout funds, and what that means for the private equity industry.</p> <p> </p>
2 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>Fair value accounting isn’t the only thing keeping private equity CFOs and COOs up at night. How to deal with a shifting LP landscape and anticipate the new US administration’s effect on private capital opportunities also weigh significantly.</p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>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.</p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>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.</p>
2 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>Looming year-end revaluations have put secondary deals on ice – for now. But a $30bn ‘avalanche’ of closable deal flow awaits.</p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 31 January 2013
<p>Problems are plentiful these days for some private equity firms. But one firm’s misery may be another’s gain. </p> <p> </p>
2 min read · 31 January 2013
