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Myths vs. Facts: What Do Private Equity Firms Do?

Viking Mergers

If you have ever looked into selling a business, you may have learned that there are many types of buyers and deal structures, from employee buyouts, strategic acquisitions, to private equity firms. We have noticed many misconceptions about a particular kind of buyer: the private equity firm.

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The Market for CEOs: Evidence from Private Equity

Harvard Corporate Governance

Kaplan is the Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business; and Vladimir Mukharlyamov is Assistant Professor of Finance at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. We find that 71% of those companies hired new CEOs under private equity ownership.

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Blackstone braves frigid debt financing market with $14bn Emerson unit deal

Financial Times M&A

Private equity firm teams up with sovereign wealth funds in buyout of US conglomerate’s climate tech arm

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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. In the U.S.

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The Buy-Side vs. Sell-Side: Useful Categories in the Finance Industry, or Marketing Hype?

Brian DeChesare

Sell-Side Definition: In the finance industry, “buy-side firms” raise money from institutions and wealthy individuals and invest on their behalf, profiting from management fees, performance fees, or both; “sell-side firms” earn money from commissions charged to facilitate deals and to sell, market, and trade equity, debt, and other securities.

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Carlyle’s investment in healthcare analytics company Cotiviti falls apart

Financial Times M&A

Decision takes Wall Street by surprise after private equity firm lined up billions in financing to buy a 50% stake

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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

Brian DeChesare

But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. We also count gaming and esports firms Facilities: This includes stadiums, arenas, racetracks, and other performance venues.

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