Private Equity 2009 has been researched with industry leaders within private equity to provide real-world responses and strategies to these questions. By attending, you will discover:
· Distressed Debt
– where to find the good deals from distressed sellers
– will diversifying into distressed investing prove divisive?
· Secondaries & Exits
– how much value will be found in secondaries and listed private equity?
– fewer cash-out deals & more take-privates?
· Portfolio Management
– how will you need to re-structure your portfolio companies?
– how to forensically generate structural and strategic enhancements
e.g. workforce productivity
· Minority Positions
– PIPE (private investment in public equity) transactions
– minority stakes in listed vehicles
– unconventional equity only transactions
· New Deal Structures
– revisited expectations for financial reward and time horizons
– refocusing on innovative deals and operational expertise
· Deal Flow
– growth opportunities in business ‘rescues’
– mid-market: an attractive option given the crowded marketplace?
– new opportunities arising from the demise of the investment banks`
· Structure & Pricing
– do you need to transform into a broader financial shop?
– single source integrated approach without external bank funding: a powerful proposition?
– prospects for regional teams
· Fundraising & Investor Issues
– investor concern to avoid cash calls
– restructuring portfolio companies to get investors some of their money back
– implications on carry
· Investments
– vintage year for new investment? Better if banks tighten finance to smaller companies
– opportunities from PLCs needing to raise cash selling-off quality, non-core subsidiaries
– lower prices good for making attractive bolt-on acquisitions & for new investments
– reduced asset allocations vs. investor competition looking into the secondary market
– offering a more risk adjusted return with better downside protection
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