Private Equity
Two US private equity investors recently made encouraging moves towards stemming the ‘pension brain drain’.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
The institutional loan market has grown meaningfully in recent years to include a diverse group of investors whose appetite for risk rises and falls faster than it ever has before, writes John Martin.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Using management fee conversions to turn fee income into carry is not necessarily as illegitimate as it looks – but it may have damaging long-term consequences.
4 min read · 17 January 2013
Rule changes in Germany will make distressed investing in the county more attractive as the country moves away from its long-time practice of favouring liquidations to restructurings, writes Thomas Schürrle (pictured), Natasha Labovitz and Peter Wand.
4 min read · 17 January 2013
It's leverage people should be talking about.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
A focus on new product development helped propel American Industrial Partners' investment in Brooks Instrument to the overall winner in North America.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
While it’s possible to invest in foreign markets remotely, a presence ‘in-country’ helps to build better relationships with the local business community, source deals, and avoid mishaps, writes Rupert Hayward.
2 min read · 17 January 2013
Buying equity is not the easy way of making control investments in Indian companies
3 min read · 17 January 2013
Despite short term risks, the longer-term prospects of Central and Eastern Europe mean private equity owners of businesses in the region should capitalise on strategic buyers’ appetite for exposure in the region to exit their investments, argue Graham Conlon (pictured) and Anela Musat from CMS Cameron McKenna.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
Industry representatives should be wary of supporting any reforms predicated on a diminution of employees' rights.
3 min read · 17 January 2013
