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Tech investments continue to fall

Since its most recent peak in 2008, the volume of pure tech investments has continued to decrease across Europe, leaving the support services sector to take over as the most popular investment...

unquote | 13 Jan 2012
Tech investments continue to fall
Leverage drives up prices, not returns

Leverage drives up prices, not returns

PE pays more for assets than trade, with the debt lining vendors’ coffers rather than enhancing buyers’ returns, according to a recent study. Kimberly Romaine reports.

unquote | 21 Oct 2011 | secure
Buyouts surge in Q2

Buyouts surge in Q2

The private equity market is back in black, with deal values at their highest level since the heady days of 2007, according to the latest unquote” Private Equity Barometer, done in association...

unquote | 14 Jul 2011 | secure
unquote" Private Equity Barometer – Q2 2011

unquote" Private Equity Barometer – Q2 2011

Preliminary figures released today in the Q2 2011 unquote" Private Equity Barometer reveal renewed activity during Q2.

unquote | 14 Jul 2011 | secure
unquote" Nordic Report 2011

unquote" Nordic Report 2011

The unquote" Nordic Report 2011 gives an overview of current trends in the Nordic private equity market. It also includes league tables of the most active GPs and advisers in the region.......

unquote | 15 Jun 2011 | secure
Listed FOF coup: Mantra seeks Alpha

Listed FOF coup: Mantra seeks Alpha

The latest bout of shareholder activism involves the well known Guy Wyser-Pratte and an attempt to dethrone Alpha Associates as manager of listed fund of funds Private Equity Holding.

unquote | 12 May 2011 | secure
Nordic unquote" Private Equity Index

Nordic unquote" Private Equity Index

The inaugural Nordic unquote" Private Equity Index, in association with KPMG, shows;

Nordic unquote | 08 Apr 2011 | secure

European Buyout Review 2011

European Buyout Review is the premier reference resource for private equity investors, advisers and leveraged financiers in Europe. For over two decades, it has tracked the rising and falling......

unquote | 01 Apr 2011

unquote" Nordic Report 2010

The unquote" Nordic Report 2010 gives an overview of current trends in the Nordic private equity market. It also includes league tables of the most active GPs and advisers in the region.......

unquote | 07 Jun 2010
We’re all above average

We’re all above average

One Nordic adviser told me recently, "We have more than doubled our number of billing hours since Easter."

Nordic unquote | 06 May 2010 | secure
Fees: GPs surrender to LPs

Fees: GPs surrender to LPs

After years of GPs and LPs operating under a standard relationship model, asset managers are beginning to balk under the LP pressure for increased transparency and fee reductions as institutional...

unquote | 20 Apr 2010
Making concessions

Making concessions

Early indications of the results from a recent survey conducted by Nordic unquote” and SVCA, looking at the private equity industry 10 and 25 years from now, suggest the community is...

Nordic unquote | 07 Apr 2010 | secure
Swedish PE-backed companies higher growth than peers

Swedish PE-backed companies higher growth than peers

A recent study by the SVCA and Ernst & Young show that private equity-backed companies in Sweden perform better than its peers.

Nordic unquote | 29 Mar 2010 | secure

Listed PE investors expect a buoyant 2010

Private equity professionals are forecasting a more favourable investment environment in 2010, with a significant majority expecting an improvement in the availability of debt financing...

UK unquote | 01 Mar 2010 | secure
LPs throw out the old for the new

LPs throw out the old for the new

It is now common knowledge that fundraising for private equity funds this year will be tough to say the least. Many, however, do not realise just how tough. News reports this week suggest...

unquote | 26 Feb 2010
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Southern Europe unquote" February 2012

Spain calls them mileuristas, temporary workers earning at most €1,000 per month. In Italy they are the precari, so-called due to...

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Nordic unquote" February 2012

In the unquote” Nordic Private Equity Index only 4% of respondents believe that the Eurozone crisis will have a major impact on...

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France unquote” February 2012

French buyout house PAI partners has confirmed it is aiming to raise a £3bn fund this year – potentially staging a comeback following...

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UK & Ireland unquote” February 2012

With changes to the Takeover Code only just starting to bed in within the UK, Labour leader Ed Miliband has already suggested additional...

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Benelux unquote” November/December 2011

Secondary buyouts will dominate the market for the foreseeable future, say 47% of respondents to a Grant Thornton survey. It is...

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Deutsche unquote” November/December 2011

Around two fifths of GPs believe that their next fund will be larger than the current one, according to research from Investec.

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Regional barometer 2011

unquote" Regional mid-market barometer

The latest unquote" Regional mid-market barometer, produced in association with LDC, shows both volume and value recovered in 2010...

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European Buyout Review 2011

European Buyout Review is the premier reference resource for private equity investors, advisers and leveraged financiers in Europe.......

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Nordic unquote” Private Equity Index 60-second survey

Halfway through 2011 the Nordic private equity market has remained on its recovery path with improving macro indicators and healthier...

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unquote" Private Equity Barometer - Q4 2010

Preliminary figures released today in the Q4 2010 unquote" Private Equity Barometer (published by unquote" and sponsored by Candover...

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South Africa Report 2011

unquote” South Africa Report 2011

The latest unquote" South Africa Report is now available to download. This year’s edition looks at the prevailing trends in the...

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UK activity dips in final quarter

The UK private equity market dipped in the final quarter of 2010, despite widespread optimism, according to the latest unquote”...

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