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Private Equity Looks to Healthcare

With increasingly larger transactions announced in healthcare, an article in The Economist recently highlighted the attractive chara...

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Investment Banks Monitor 5,500 Private-Equity Holdings

An article in The Economist provided two data points highlighting changes to the private equity landscape. As the industry continues...

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Private Equity Funds from 1980 to 2015

Private equity continues to evolve, and as the number of PE firms appears to continue to grow, I thought this quote from the Economi...

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Software Buyouts Outperform

I was surprised to see the degree to which software buyouts appeared to outperform. There appeared to be an advantage in both the lo...

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Private Equity: Attractive Terms for Outperformers

The proliferation of funds and fundless sponsors pursuing the lower-middle-market (businesses with revenue ranging from $10M to $200...

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Private equity suffers first billion dollar fund loss.

Private equity funds are supposed to apply leverage to each portfolio company individually to diversify away from the risk that any ...

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New private equity trend: using leverage to buy leveraged portfolios.

The market for secondary offerings of private equity investments is currently undergoing two changes:
  1. Whereas previousl...

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