Coronavirus

The permanent positive and negative effects of the coronavirus pandemic on businesses are equally difficult to analyse, according to panellists at PEI’s virtual Operating Partners Forum NY.

The firm's co-president says there are many opportunities, even in the most troubled industries, as long as investors go in with the right expectations.

GPs are having more success in hiring from Asia's top placement agents to bolster their in-house fundraising capabilities during the pandemic.

The number of funds that have closed so far in 2020 is down 50% year-on-year while the dollar value of capital raised remains steady, PEI data show.

Research from proSapient shows most in the industry are willing to get back on the road to due diligence potential acquisitions, even if it means quarantining.

The pandemic is an opportunity to return to a 'better normal', according to Yoshitaka Todoroki, who oversees PE and infra at the $1.5trn Japanese pension giant.

PE firms need to explain to nearly a million UK portfolio company employees that the industry's job is to back the 'winners' of the covid-19 crisis, a conference has heard.

Jeffrey Armbrister says deal flow is beginning to pick up, but it might be a while before rescue capital opportunities start to pick up.

Buyout funds recorded an average multiple of 1.36x on invested capital in the first half of the year, reverting to the 10-year historical average and down from the near-record 1.45x in late 2019.

Virtual work has allowed some LP staff to work more closely together as they conduct virtual due diligence, a panel by sister title Buyouts has heard.