Large buyout firms appear to be staging a muted comeback – doubling down on their own debt and helping ease bankers' pain. The internet has been buzzing with opinion on the merits or otherwise.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
The task of modernising India's notoriously bad infrastructure is finding many willing volunteers.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Lest anyone has forgotten, heavily leveraged buyouts aren't the only tool in the private equity box.
4 min read · 12 January 2013
The firm is taking steps to ensure it has energy and hedge fund strategies in place prior to going public.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
General partners must patiently wait for deal flow to thaw, writes Nicholas Lockley.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
As speculation grows about the likely (under-) performance of leveraged deals struck over the last couple of years, Andy Thomson finds it is a question of what's in the portfolio.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Nicholas Lockley, editor of PrivateEquityOnline.com, looks behind the recent headlines on the web.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Great vintage years grow amid the wreckage of over-exuberance. And there's data to prove this.
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Investors are increasingly concerned. Managers may have curtailed any investment excesses as credit markets have closed, but are they still in denial as capital market pain turns to economic reality?
3 min read · 12 January 2013
Who really wears the crown now the pain is starting to tell, asks Nicholas Lockley.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
