Divergent Approaches to ESG by International and Market Leaders
by Andrea Villa, Maxine Bruhn-Léon, and Victoria Rakitin
Introduction
This article explores the momentum behind ESG (Environment, Social and Go...
The First of Many? The Involvement of Private Equity in the Indian Premier League
by Liam Fitzgerald, Georg Giulini, and Jorvis Marxsen
Introduction
In a bidding round on October 25th, 2021, the RPSG Group and Private Equity...
Fall from grace? SPACs
by Karolina Jaszczuk and Jacopo D’Angelo
In 2021, news were booming with mentions of SPACs, but was their appearance a recent phenomenon? Not at a...
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...