The Urge to Merge
Merger and acquisition activity looks set to rise in 2011, according to a new survey by Knowledge@Wharton and KPMG LLP. Nearly two-thirds of respondents to the survey were more optimistic about the...
View ArticleIndia’s Private Equity Market Is Back
Foreign investment flows to India are on the rise as part of the general movement of capital towards emerging markets, the world’s growth engines of the future. And private equity (PE) is one area...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Pushes East
Everybody it seems — from banks to corporations involved in consumer or business-to-business goods and services – is looking toward key emerging markets and Asia as the strongest areas of economic...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Survives to Fight Another Day
The private equity (PE) industry, like most others, took a big hit from the global financial crises. Yet, PE has rebounded and is in much better shape today than many analysts had projected. This...
View ArticleStuck in the Middle with You
Long ago and far away, before the great financial crisis, swashbuckling private equity (PE) groups were on a relentless march toward ever-bigger deals. The industry, of course, took a big tumble with...
View ArticleInnovative Financing
Besides looking for the most commercially viable, innovative enterprises to invest in, Geneva-based Bamboo Finance also looks for another trait – investment targets that bring a direct, positive...
View ArticleRemembering Private Equity Pioneer Ted Forstmann
Ted Forstmann, a major private equity dealmaker in the leveraged buyout wave of the 1980s and the first to describe corporate takeover firms as “barbarians at the gate,” will be remembered as a pioneer...
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