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Acquisition Criteria: What Every Private Equity Firm is Looking For

Value Scout

Private equity firms provide meaningful investment capital to growth-oriented businesses. Unlike venture capital firms, they do not invest primarily in start-ups. Businesses seeking expansion, change of investors, or even exit may benefit from private equity firms.

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How to Start a Private Equity Firm – and Why You Probably Shouldn’t

Brian DeChesare

If you search for “how to start a private equity firm” online, you’ll find results that range from useless to tangentially useful to occasional nuggets of real wisdom. Starting a private equity firm is a bad decision for ~95% of people who work in the finance industry. Degrees such as an MBA or a Ph.D.

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The Financial Sponsors Group: Masters of the Financial Universe, or Exit Opportunity Mirage?

Brian DeChesare

According to some, you do almost no modeling or technical work in this group, and it’s one of the easier jobs in IB, similar equity or debt capital markets. But if you read other accounts, FSG runs models, Analysts get hands-on technical work, and the hours could be longer and more stressful because your clients are private equity firms.

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Merger Arbitrage Mondays - U.S. Defense Contractor ManTech International To Be Acquired By Carlyle

Benzinga

The investment bank has reached out to ManTech’s peers such as Parsons Corp and Leidos Holdings, as well as private equity firms, to gauge potential acquisition interest." Goldman Sachs Group has been retained to explore a sale of ManTech, the sources said. Rattler Midstream (NASDAQ: RTLR ). per diluted share.

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How Prior Relationships Between Private Equity Sponsors and Law Firms Affect LBO Loans

Reynolds Holding

Moreover, we show that close relationships between PE sponsors and law firms result in weaker creditor protections, as evidenced by fewer covenants and a reduced likelihood of dividend restrictions being imposed. However, concerns of PE sponsors or law firms about damage to their reputations can help mitigate these effects.

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Power & Utilities Investment Banking: How to Turn Yourself into an Electrified ESG Warrior

Brian DeChesare

Traditionally, the sector was viewed as a defensive play for investors who wanted stable dividends and no drama. Companies tend to offer high, stable dividend yields, and they finance their massive capital expenditures primarily with debt , with the highest leverage ratios of any industry outside of financial institutions.

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Good Intentions, Perverse Outcomes: The Impact of Impact Investing!

Musings on Markets

Even when you are successful in dissuading these companies from "bad" investments, but may not be able to stop them from returning the cash to shareholders as dividends and buybacks, rather than making "good" investments.