Private Equity Info Blog

For each fund under management, private equity firms cycle through a multi-staged process of:

Fund raising from limited partners
Portfolio acquisition search
Investment
Growth
Divestment
Dispersal of funds back to limited partners

Fund Raising
Most private equity firms raise capital for a fund through investments made by limited partners - typically pensions, endowments, institutional funds, and high [...]

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 [...]