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To take advantage of the next downturn, companies must position themselves now, say Alvarez & Marsal managing directors Markus Lahrkamp and Jeffrey Klein.
The private equity industry is aware that regulatory risks can affect the approval, success and profitability of an investment. EisnerAmper’s Louis Bruno and data risk expert Matthew Bernstein discuss data privacy and how to manage the risks
Thoroughly assessing the CEO of a newly acquired portfolio company early and making necessary changes immediately is key to optimising value creation, says Shannon Gabriel of TBM Consulting Group
Mid-market companies have powered the US economy, but Thomas Stewart and Doug Farren of the National Center for the Middle Market see concerns rising.
Intelligent portfolio construction can create outperformance and simultaneously mitigate risk over multiple market cycles, say Capital Dynamics’ David Smith and Oliver Schumann
Ropes & Gray’s Raj Marphatia and Jianing Zhang explain how a secondaries transaction on an Indian-focused fund nearly fell apart.
Credit lines are contentious but their ability to improve IRR appears limited to the most strongly performing funds and funds early in their life, writes Christoph Jäckel of Montana Capital Partners.
AlpInvest Partners’ Wouter Moerel and Chris Perriello, managing directors and co-heads of the firm’s secondaries investment team, discuss growth in the secondaries market, why they don’t use leverage and what a worst-case scenario could look like.
As GP-led restructurings continue to increase momentum, Fadi Samman, Daniel Quinn and Aleks Bakic, partners with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, consider how market practice is developing in a fast-moving space.
Single-asset transactions, a growing part of the secondaries market, can offer unique benefits to all parties, write Evercore’s Nigel Dawn, Francesca Paveri and Dave El Helou.