Venture Capital in the Gaming Industry
By Justin Ashauer
The market
Most people have played a video game at some point in their life, in one form or another, but it’s the rise of profession...
The muddy ethics of buyouts
By Angelo Cataldo
A recent legal ruling could pose a threat to the persistence of leveraged buyouts. Who bears the burden of failure in such a risky...
Coffee Break with Laurent Haziza, Global Partner and Global Co-Head of Financial Sponsors at Rothschild & Co
By Tara Morgan
I had the pleasure of interviewing Laurent Haziza. After having studied at Sciences Po, Dauphine and LSE, he began his career as...
Coffee Break with Daniele Colantonio, Partner and Head of Marketing & Product Development at Anthilia Capital Partners SGR
By Matteo Lana
Founded in 2007, Anthilia Capital Partners SGR Spa is an Italian investment management house focused on private and institutional asse...
SPACs Offerings and Pipe Deals Update
By Nessa Ng
We have seen from our previous article “A look inside SPACs and into the future“, the rise of ‘Special Purpose Acquisition Companies’ (SP...
Ongoing trends in Real Estate and Real Estate Private Equity
By Huiying Song, Ioana Gavrilescu, and Janpaul Pescollderungg
Real estate private equity (REPE) firms raise capital from outside investors, called Li...
A match of value: Goldman Sachs and the buyout of Prysmian Group
By Mauro Spadaro and Dario Spinelli
Introduction
On April 27th 2007, the IPO of Prysmian group was completed. The transaction offered 27 million share...
Continuation funds: how PEs are selling themselves
By Matteo Ravera
It goes without saying that the goal of a Private Equity firm is to sell an asset it previously invested in, make a very high IRR an...
Sovereign Wealth Funds Investing in Private Equity
By Erlend Brevik, Fabian Zähringer, and Thor Arne Höfs
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) are state-owned institutional investors that own, invest, and ma...
Search funds’ potential in Italy
By Giacomo Nicoli and Filippo Zocco
Introduction
The objective of this article is to offer a perspective on the evolution of search funds in Italy,...