A fascinating article in the FT describes the fantastic rise of private equity in South Korea and profiles MBK Partners.
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MBK Partners
private equity
South Korea
The WSJ recently interviewed senior leadership at Advent International, a Boston-based private equity firm looking to deploy $30 bil...
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Advent International
credit markets
private equity
recession
Dick Heckmann made his first fortune rolling up small companies "doing almost anything related to water: treating wastewater, making...
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independent sponsor
private equity
private equity roll up
roll up
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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crisis
economy
leverage
private equity
risk
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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debt
leverage
overleveraged
private equity
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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private equity
search fund
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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crocs
IPO
private equity