This book deals with risk capital provided for established firms outside the stock market,
private equity, which has grown rapidly over the last three decades, yet is largely poorly …

We extend the research on the drivers of holding period firm-level returns in private equity
(PE)-backed buyouts by examining deal-, industry-, and macroeconomic-level drivers and …

This article analyses the exit decision in the European venture capital market, studying when
to exit and how it interacts with the exit form. Using a competing risks model we study the …

Private equity (PE) is a medium-to long-term financial investment provided in return for
equity in a company that is typically not listed on an exchange. However, the PE fund itself is …

This paper analyzes exit strategies of buyout funds in portfolio companies following initial
public offerings (IPOs). We use a data set of 222 buyout‐backed IPOs in the United States …

PE firms and buyouts have emerged as a field of significant interest for academic research
and attracted the increasing attention of policy makers, public opinion and popular press. In …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to identify specific drivers of value creation in
secondary buyouts. While this type of private equity deal has risen in importance in recent …

Do private equity firms have a clear pecking order when deciding on exit channels for their
portfolio companies? Are secondary buyouts—that is, sales to other PE firms—always an …

The main purpose of this paper is to empirically model the influence of macroeconomic and
financial variables on the performance of risk capital in the US. We start our investigation …

The present study attempted to examine the comparative return performance of private and
non-private equity firms in India. For this purpose, we have used deal-level data retrieved …