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The slowdown in fundraising, deal activity and exits, combined with wider market pressures, is creating opportunities for PE investors, especially in less efficient market segments, writes Schroders Capital’s Nils Rode.
Tech companies are well placed to answer PE sponsors’ growing questions about AI readiness, helping to buoy appetite for the sector, say KPMG’s Anuj Bahal, Patrick Carpenter and Greg Sward.
Consumer-focused private equity firms are attempting to revitalise older brands.
The financial services space is ripe for value-additive consolidation, say CD&R’s David Winokur, Dan Glaser and Walt Bettinger.
LPs have started raising concerns about their GPs’ value creation plans for those portfolio companies sitting within older funds, writes Giovanni Legorano. So, are long-held assets receiving enough TLC?
A new survey reveals concerns that finance leaders are weak on the basics and lack urgency on exit readiness.
GPs are revamping their sustainability programmes away from broad mandates and towards tailored initiatives that drive value creation and mitigate risk.
Private equity has moved beyond a purely transactional culture, delivering added value and instilling resilience no matter the economic climate, says Nordic Capital’s Peter Thorninger.
Private equity firms of all sizes are ramping up their digital transformation expertise – and reshaping their operating partner teams to suit.
PE-backed carve-out deals can still deliver, but it takes disciplined operational value creation to make them work, note Bain & Company’s Greg Schooley, Ben Siegal and Colleen von Eckartsberg.