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The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity

Harvard Corporate Governance

A wide range of research examines the market for CEOs and executive mobility in public companies while largely ignoring the market for CEOs in private equity funded companies. We augment the work on public company CEOs by studying the market for CEOs among larger U.S.

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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.

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Why Aerospace Company Kaman Shares Are Skyrocketing Today

Benzinga

The company inked a pact to be acquired by private equity firm Arcline Investment Management in an all-cash transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $1.8 Kaman, and headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut, conducts business in the aerospace & defense, industrial and medical markets.

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Industrials Private Equity: The Best Place for Old-School Deals at Reasonable Multiples?

Brian DeChesare

But the real question is this: If you accept an industrials private equity job, will you end up more like Andrew Carnegie or Henry Phipps, or will your career trajectory resemble a distressed tire manufacturing company that later declared bankruptcy? Many markets are still highly fragmented, so this can work quite well.

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Representation and Warranty Insurance for M&A Deals: Cooling Market and Emerging Trends

Cooley M&A

While representation and warranty (R&W) insurance continues to be used across a broad range of M&A transactions, its use has cooled as dealmakers navigate challenging market conditions. In current market conditions, underwriters increasingly are offering initial retention below 1% and as low as 0.5%

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Spanish PE Firm Asterion Buying Steag In $2.8B Deal

Law 360 M&A

Madrid-based private equity firm Asterion Industrial Partners said Friday it has agreed to purchase Germany's Steag from the consortium Kommunale Beteiligungsgesellschaft, or KSBG, at an enterprise value of about €2.6 billion ($2.8

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

Brian DeChesare

FSG Investment Banking: What the Financial Sponsors Group Does The Financial Sponsors Group vs. the Financial Institutions Group The Financial Sponsors Group vs. Leveraged Finance vs. Debt Capital Markets Recruiting: Who Gets Into the Financial Sponsors Group? The Financial Sponsors Group vs. Leveraged Finance vs. Debt Capital Markets.