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Buyout firms get to grips with pension risks

Pension liabilities are of increasing concern to buyout practitioners, who need to mitigate risks and ensure they can reach agreement with stakeholders.

UK unquote | 29 Sep 2011
Buyout firms get to grips with pension risks
PE law firms look east for expansion

PE law firms look east for expansion

Large numbers of law firms are beefing up their private equity teams both in Europe and Asia, with fund formation specialists and Mandarin speakers in particular demand. Susannah Birkwood...

unquote | 25 Aug 2011 | secure
Financial modelling: Looking into the future

Financial modelling: Looking into the future

Banks have become more selective in providing debt financing following the worst financial crisis in living memory. Being able to predict what the future holds has therefore become more...

unquote | 03 Mar 2011 | secure
Isle of Man pitches for business in the new PE environment

Isle of Man pitches for business in the new PE environment

It may seem counter-intuitive, in a particularly bleak fundraising environment, to be heavily promoting the latest iteration of a specialist tax-efficient fund structure, but that is...

unquote | 18 Nov 2010 | secure
Q&A: The long road to recovery

Q&A: The long road to recovery

Emanuel Eftimiu talks to Dr Frank Thiäner, partner at P+P Pöllath + Partners about the state of the German private equity market.

DACH unquote | 24 Jun 2010
German investment ordinance review - effects on private equity

German investment ordinance review - effects on private equity

German insurance companies constitute a significant class of German institutional investors in alternative investments, including private equity. After a period of stagnancy, the German...

DACH unquote | 12 May 2010
Portfolio management: Unlocking value potential

Portfolio management: Unlocking value potential

In a challenging exit market, private equity firms now need to focus more than ever on the operational value drivers of their portfolio companies. Market due diligence may hold the key...

unquote | 22 Apr 2010
Private equity embraces environmental due diligence

Private equity embraces environmental due diligence

With the launch of Carlyle and EDF’s analysis tool for environmental due diligence, Francinia Protti-Alvarez finds that putting green issues on the agenda makes financial sense.

unquote | 25 Mar 2010
Q&A with Phillip Dubsky, partner at DLA Piper

Q&A with Phillip Dubsky, partner at DLA Piper

Mareen Goebel speaks with Phillip Dubsky of law firm DLA Piper about the current situation in Austria, issues in the legal framework and expectations for 2010.

DACH unquote | 03 Mar 2010 | secure
Q&A: Fundraising in 2010 and beyond

Q&A: Fundraising in 2010 and beyond

Charlie Jolly principal at Matrix talks to Francinia Protti-Alvarez about recent fundraising trends and implications for the future.

Benelux unquote | 23 Feb 2010
Q&A: Germany remains strong at the core

Q&A: Germany remains strong at the core

Mareen Goebel speaks to Richard Burton, PricewaterhouseCooper's private equity leader for Germany, about the challenges facing the country's private equity market in the year ahead.

DACH unquote | 16 Feb 2010 | secure

Corbett Keeling Corporate Finance

Third quarter 2009 - light at the end of the tunnel?

UK unquote | 05 Oct 2009 | secure

Jockeying for position

A private equity landscape in subsidence, a barren fundraising market and stateside-kickback scandals: placement agents are having to change their modus operandi. By Ashley Wassall

UK unquote | 01 Jul 2009 | secure

Due diligence: Levelling the playing field

In a market dominated by distressed sales and complex restructuring operations, the role of intermediaries has taken on renewed significance, writes Ashley Wassall

UK unquote | 24 Jun 2009 | secure

Q and A: Due diligence

Diligence is back on priority lists, with partners - not just targets - the focus. Deborah Sterescu talks to Chris Grove, corporate finance partner at BDO Stoy Hayward, about the new...

UK unquote | 01 Jun 2009 | secure
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France unquote" January 2012

Troubled French mid-cap GP AtriA Capital Partenaires has merged with counterpart Naxicap.

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UK & Ireland unquote” 8 January 2012

The EU is proposing changes to the directive on Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) that would impose Solvency...

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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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Southern Europe unquote” November 2011

Spain was again home to some of Europe’s largest deals in October, with two deals valued at several hundred million euros.

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Nordic unquote" October 2011

After a promising start, buyout activity in Europe might slow down even further in the fourth quarter of 2011 and risks falling...

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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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