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Explosive Growth: Private Equity Investing in South Korea

A fascinating article in the FT describes the fantastic rise of private equity in South Korea and profiles MBK Partners. Founded ...

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Advent International: Lessons Learned from the Last Recession

The WSJ recently interviewed senior leadership at Advent International, a Boston-based private equity firm looking to deploy $30 bil...

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Acquisition Ace: Dick Heckmann

Dick Heckmann made his first fortune rolling up small companies "doing almost anything related to water: treating wastewater, making...

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Booming Private Markets Leading to Future Crisis?

FT journalist Satyajit Das writes that the next crisis may center around booming private markets. Investors have allocated $9.9 tril...

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PE Portfolio Company Balance Sheets & Recession Concerns

At the conclusion of 2021 private equity controlled assets including dry powder valued at $2.6 trillion. Pitchbook reports that for ...

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Excerpts from Stanford's 2022 Search Fund Study

Definition of a search fund from the study: "A search fund is an entrepreneurial path undertaken by one or two individuals (the “sea...

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Crocs Before Private Equity Investment

Crocs was founded in 2002 by Lyndon Hanson, Scott Seamans and George Boedeker after a boating trip to Mexico convinced them that the...

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