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 [...]
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A real estate investment firm is categorized as having an investment interest in Financial Securities if the firm makes equity and/or debt investments in financial securities backed by real estate assets. Common examples of this would be collateralized debt obligations and mortgage-backed securities.
www.PrivateEquityInfo.com tracks institutional real estate investors, primarily in the United States and categorizes [...]
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Our keyword search engines use an exact text string matching method. That is, when you keyword search the portfolio companies business descriptions or the professional bios, by default, the search engine will find all occurrences that exactly match the text in your search query.
For example, searching for the word print will result in printing, printer, [...]
Posted on January 7, 2009, 9:20 am, by Andy, under
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If you are keyword searching the private equity portfolio companies or the professional bios, it is usually best to leave off the suffixes in your search terms. This way, your search results will contain all occurences of the root form of the word that is important to you.
For example, if you are interested in searching [...]