Private Equity
<p>The EU Directive may inspire GPs to be less loquacious with their LPs. </p> <p> </p>
2 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>Fundamentals remain challenging, but the private equity industry is determined to turn a new leaf.</p>
3 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>A proposed ban on placement agent contact with US public pensions has yet to be adequately decried by the pensions themselves.</p>
3 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>GIP’s purchase of Gatwick should remind the public and politicians that private capital investors often take on enormous responsibilities and complex risk in deals that can benefit everyone.</p>
3 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>Restructurings are on the rise – but debt-for-equity swaps aren’t the only means to give private equity portfolio companies a new lease of life. </p> <p> </p>
2 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>The proposed $5.2bn IMS Health buyout is interesting for more than its size – it looks like the kind of deal that most large LPs wish they could do. </p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>Increased opportunities in emerging markets are being acknowledged as a key ingredient to the further maturation of private equity. But in markets within Latin America and Asia, the industry's advancement also hinges upon domestic investors investing meaningfully in the asset class. </p>
3 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>New Jersey’s young but growing private equity programme has been halted pending review by an incoming governor – let’s hope the asset class is not made a scapegoat for the state’s budgetary and political issues. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>Turkey is increasingly on the minds of private equity participants: PEI’s standing room only conference in Istanbul this week highlighted a market brimming with possibilities. </p> <p> </p>
3 min read · 30 January 2013
<p>As European private equity officials gathered in Paris this week to reflect on the industry’s future, news pertaining to two of its best known fund managers – Apax and Candover – accentuated just how divergent firms’ fortunes can be. </p> <p> </p>
2 min read · 30 January 2013
