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Private equity fundraising and firm specialization
The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2012Using a firm-level perspective, this study examines the effect of specialization on the fundraising activities of private equity (PE) firms. We consider three dimensions of specialization: stage, industry and geographic location. Using a large sample of U.S.
Gejadze, Maia +2 more
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What do private equity firms say they do? [PDF]
Journal of Financial Economics, 2014 We survey 79 private equity investors with combined AUM of over $750B about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on IRR and multiples to evaluate investments. Their LPs focus more on absolute performance.
Paul Gompers +2 more
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Private Equity Firms as Market Makers
The Journal of Private Equity, 2010In a study of 1,322 private-to-private transactions the author finds support for the hypothesis that private equity (PE) firms play an important role as market makers. A number of empirical results support this claim. First, part of what PE firms do is to keep an inventory of firms on which they do little operational improvements.
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Family-Firm Buyouts, Private Equity, and Strategic Change
The Journal of Private Equity, 2009Management buy-outs (MBO) and buy-ins (MBI) represent an important succession option in family firms. They thus also provide an important deal source for private equity firms. Yet, while much attention in the private equity and buy-out market has been upon large public to private transactions, the family buy-out part of the market is not well ...
Scholes, L. +4 more
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Private equity firm to acquire Sundyne
Pump Industry Analyst, 2020Sundyne is being acquired by private equity firm Warburg Pincus from BC Partners Advisors LP and The Carlyle Group.
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Internationalization Strategies of Private Equity Firms
The Journal of Private Equity, 2001Global reach seems to be the name of the game in the race to find high-quality, reasonably priced opportunities for private equity investing. Although the process for internationalization is challenging, some firms have been successful in establishing a worldwide presence.
Amit Dixit, Nithya Jayaraman
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Private Equity Funds and Firm Products
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018We examine changes to the products of public target firms after LBO using a novel dataset of firm products. We find that private equity funds cut target firms’ new products after LBO, especially when there is less room to improve the target firm’s performance through financial engineering.
Wenhao Yang, Feng Zhang
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Private equity firm buys Unibloc Pump
World Pumps, 2021May River Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, has acquired Unibloc Pump, a US manufacturer of positive displacement pumps, strainers, valves, bubble traps and other solutions for sanitary flow control applications.
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Economics of Private Equity Firms
2014The economics of a fund, which is to say how GPs can earn money from the services they provide, is commonly considered of crucial, if not supreme, importance to investor outcomes, because it has a major impact on the behaviour of fund managers. In fact, LP investment strategies should be influenced less by fund economics than by GP-relationship ...
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Private equity firm acquires Newterra Group
Filtration + Separation, 2020Chicago-based private equity firm Frontenac Co has acquired Newterra Group Ltd from shareholders including institutional investors XPV Water Partners and Angeleno Group LLC.
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