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Private Equity Publications

  • Time to Engage—Or Fade Away: What All Owners Should Learn from the Shakeout in Private Equity

  • Heino Meerkatt, Heinrich Liechtenstein
  • February 2010
  • Private equity and other investors have learnt from the crisis. They will increasingly base their investments on the question: “Is the owner engaged as a true owner that creates operational value rather than value driven by financial levers?” This report is based on our private equity database, interviews with private equity investors and over 100 academic articles. Developing a framework for operational value creation, it addresses the question what owners (public, private, family) can learn from private equity firms in order to improve the competitive position of their company.
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  • The Advantage of Persistence
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  • Private Equity: Engaging for Growth
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