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How I Got Into Private Equity with a Non-Traditional Background

That stuff gets you in the door, but it doesn't keep you there. You need "soft skills" too, with the main one being empathy. Private Equity ...

How to Acquire Your First Small(er) Company - Permanent Equity

It's important to remember that debt doesn't create returns, but merely amplifies the underlying performance. A good outcome will get better ...

What Private Equity Can Learn From Entrepreneurs - Buy Then Build

Private investors typically describe their targets in terms of size and industry. But value is driven largely by earnings and growth, with growth weighed twice ...

How private equity firms are widening the income gap in the U.S.

How does the acquired company get loaded up with debt? They've just been purchased. MORGENSON: These private equity firms don't use all of their ...

Is there a net worth where you "should" think about Private Equity?

With total market/small cap you are relying on averages and statistics that if a small cap company hits it big you get some participation in ...

Private Equity Buyout Strategies - Lessons in PE - 10X EBITDA

In the case of former, management or private equity owners put way too much debt on the company. It's not that the business is poor. Just that the owners / ...

Carlyle | Global Investment Firm

With $447 billion of assets under management, Carlyle's purpose is to invest wisely and create value on behalf of our investors, portfolio companies, ...

Why you shouldn't worry about losing control when private equity ...

A PE firm needs to make a bigger return on their purchase than a trade buyer, so they'll want to drive their buying price down to make it easier to achieve high ...

Deal Structuring in Private Equity: Sell a Business to a PE Firm

With a PE firm's help, the current management team buys the company from the current owners. This structure is less risky, as it doesn't involve as much debt.

Private equity explained - Marketplace.org

Private equity, or PE (as it likes to be known in the trade), doesn't like being in the headlines. It's been there before, back in the '80s, and ...

Venture Capitalists are MUCH LESS ambitious than their private ...

Companies should go public and being a public company is very good for the long-term. But venture capital firms themselves rarely go public.

What is Private Equity? A Guide for Future Lawyers

Once the company is acquired, private equity houses use their operational and managerial expertise to increase the company's profitability in the medium to long ...

Why Does Private Equity Get to Play Make-Believe With Prices?

But I'm a selective gadfly. I'm certainly not negative on the whole idea of private investing. Some companies aren't ready to be public (I'm ...

Private Equity Destroyed My Job - Inequality.org

It was more than a job. My coworkers were my family, and we were all proud to work for our company. Thanks to our hard work, Art Van had grown ...

Private-Equity Investors Look for Cash Back Before Committing to ...

Private-equity firms need to get “creative” and find ways to return investors' capital to overcome what is expected to remain a difficult ...

Why Founders Should Sell to Private Equity - Trivest

Unfortunately, you may have heard horror stories about PE firms terminating employees, changing the brand, and destroying the value of companies ...

Private Equity vs Venture Capital | Startups.com

It's easy to get lost in the Silicon Valley sauce. I know because I've been there. Startups are sexy and we're surrounded by news of big rounds of funding, ...

The DSO Down-Low: How Private Equity Has Infiltrated Dentistry

It doesn't seem like private practices are really hiring many associates, and if they are, I don't know where to find them. But the DSOs do a ...

[Podcast] Private Market Talks: Scoping Out Secondaries ... - JD Supra

You can't get liquidity during those 10 years. Secondaries emerged as a way for investors to sell their stakes in existing private equity funds ...

The evolving role of private equity in diversified portfolios - UBS

Of companies with revenue over USD 100 million, Bain & Company notes that only 15% are publicly held.2 In many ways private equity has taken the ...