Money for nothing? The private equity fueled market for music rights
By Joerg Friedl
In early January, legacy mega fund KKR announced its purchase of a majority stake in the extensive music rights back catalogue of Rya...
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...
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...
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,...
Equity controls in China
By Jakiob Jones
With a market share of 40%, China has positioned itself among the most influential players in Venture Capital worldwide, second only...
Q4 2020 EMEA PE-backed M&A Roundup
Mateusz Król, Nessa Ng Tse Miang
Despite the uncertainty and macro-economic challenges connected to the pandemic, the appetite for M&A seems to h...
A look inside SPACs and into the future
By Zaiim Fiaz Premji and Lucas Rimmer
Last year was notoriously damaging to people’s way of life with lockdowns throughout the world greatly res...