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, 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...
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...
Private Equity in Emerging Markets
By Salma Abdellaoui, Victor Meyvis
Private equity is one of the largest and fastest growing alternative asset classes out there, with strong growth f...
The Rise of Growth Equity
By Mateusz Król
Historically, the Private Equity industry was divided into two general silos – Venture Capital and Leveraged Buyouts. Over time, both...
Hello? It’s me! Consolidation and PE activity in the crowded Spanish Telco Market
By Mauro Spadaro and Dario Spinelli
Stucture
The crowded Spanish Telco Market
Starting the domino: MasMovil going private
Consolidation: the a...
Past, Present & Future of Impact Investing: the True North Case
By Giacomo Nicoli, Filippo Zocco
Introduction
In this article, we present the concept of impact investing, starting from its origins and how i...
Private Equity Funds of Funds
By Michele Conte and Leonardo D’Onghia
Funds of Funds are PE vehicles that raise funds intending to invest in other PE funds instead of directly targ...
Blockchain and Private Equity – An unusual match
By Maurits Giese
Introduction
Back in 2017 with the massive jump of Bitcoin price to $20,000, Blockchain became a household name. Now, the new crypt...
How private equity continues to outperform during economic downturns
By Zaiim Premji and Lucas Rimmer
Introduction
The private equity industry’s net asset value (NAV) has grown 600% since 2002 – twice as fast as globa...