Private equity investors employ various transaction strategies to acquire and grow profitable portfolio companies. The categories that www.PrivateEquityInfo.com tracks - acquisition capital, buyouts, consolidations, corporate divestitures, ESOPs, growth capital, recapitalization, shareholder liquidity and turnarounds - are described below:
Acquisition Capital - capital provided to operating companies intended for growth via acquisitions. This capital is normally provided [...]
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Corporate finance advisory firms may be broadly classified into three main categories:
Bulge Bracket
Middle Market
Business Broker
Although there is no strict metric for these classifications, Private Equity Info segregates the firms by the enterprise value of the firms’ typical clients as follows:
Bulge-bracket investment banks generally represents clients with transaction values in excess of $50 million (unless there [...]
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Investment bankers represent either the seller or the buyer in a given transaction. However, the vast majority of middle market investment bankers and business intermediaries represent the sell-side.
Why are Most Middle Market M&A Firms on the Sell-Side?
The majority of the compensation that an investment banker receives is tied to a success fee, payable upon the [...]
The Private Equity Info real estate data module tracks institutional investors that have a specific investment focus on the real estate sector. These firms include real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate-focused private equity firms, hedge funds and other institutions that are active debt or equity investors in the real estate market.
Within this group of [...]
Private Equity Info’s online Demo is the best way to sample the database and is intended to provide potential customers with a flavor of how the database looks, feels and operates. The Demo searches the live database and provides the same functionality as a full subscriber except that the search output is limited to show only [...]
“Besides a public company’s general quest for continued revenue growth, companies combine for a variety of reasons, the most prevalent include…” Read More
Featuring a regularly updated database of thousands of firms, Private Equity Info is a valuable informational resource of financial buyers, hedge funds, mezzanine investors, small business investment companies, valuation firms, M&A advisory firms [...]
“Mergers and acquisitions serve to combine two previously separate companies. A merger implies some equality in size or stature as wells as mutual consent between the combining firms, while an acquisition implies one dominant company purchasing a company of lesser size or stature and sometimes even against the wishes of the target (in the case [...]
We ran a similar study but this time looking at the geographic distribution of private equity firms and their portfolio companies for European countries.
The majority of private equity firms are concentrated in the United Kingdom, Germany and France. Not surprisingly, these three countries also host the greatest number of portfolio companies (although France and Germany [...]
80% of U.S. private equity firms are located in just 10 states, with the largest concentration of firms in New York, California and Illinois.
While the private equity firms themselves are fairly geographically concentrated, it’s interesting to note that their portfolio companies are a little more dispersed.
The table below shows the top 20 states for private [...]
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can appear dauntingly complex with the various transaction structures and numerous participants involved in the process. Adding to the confusion, industry players are often coined by multiple, synonymous names. It’s no wonder many outside Wall Street view the M&A industry as a Byzantine Empire of financial wizardry…” Read More
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