The future of Germany’s PE sector
By Noah Halbritter and Moritz Gebhardt
Following Germany’s recent federal election, Merkel’s CDU has failed to secure a federal majority in the Bu...
Venture Debt: A growing share of Venture Capital investments
Introduction
Venture debt is a rapidly increasing form of venture funding for start-ups. Indeed, according to Pitchbook, the venture debt market i...
Private Equity in Africa
by Luca Venturelli, Riccardo Cela
Brief history of PE & VC in Africa
Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC) have been the catalyst to...
Brexit & Covid’s Impact on the UK PE Market
UK PE Market Overview
Brexit and Covid 19
The UK has been home to a well-established private equity market since the early 1980s, accounting fo...
How greenwashing practices can put at risk the effort of ESG related investments
As ESG-related investments strongly increase their importance, so do ESG evaluation metrics that can prevent greenwashing practices. This article pro...
Medline $34 billion LBO: Did the largest post-GFC leveraged buyout signal 2021 as the year of club megadeals?
By Claudia Ngoc Tram Ta
Introduction
While the pandemic has hit some sectors hard, it has given other resilient sectors like healthcare a boost...
Private Equity in China
Private Equity is given by the relation between passive investors and the fund’s investment managers. The fund is the instrument that’s used to recei...
Private Equity, Tapering, and Inflation
by Francesco Pezzuto, Tommaso Antoniazzi
As Jerome Powell announced the intention of the Federal Reserve to start a tapering process to be conclud...
Space Exploration Investments
By Matteo Ravera, Edoardo Valsetti
The Global Space Economy includes a wide range of opportunities that can create value and has multiple benefits to...
GP-Led Secondaries
By Tara Morgan, Lucas Rimmer
The private equity secondary market is becoming more and more popular, which showed strong resilience during the pandemi...