European equities’ cheap valuations have turned the region into a honeypot for private-equity and arbitrage funds looking to reap double-digit returns. With the buyout firms enjoying a massive amount of dry powder, especially with interest rates this low, the trend is...
One of the largest homegrown Asian private equity firms is marketing a new buyout fund to invest in Korea, Japan and China. One of the largest homegrown Asian private equity firms is marketing a new buyout fund to invest in Korea, Japan and China. MBK Partners,...
At the height of the dot-com bubble, Silver Lake Partners arrived in Silicon Valley with a radical thesis. Technology companies, it hypothesized, finally had sufficient physical assets and cash flows to benefit from the type of private-equity financial engineering...
Warren Buffett has frequently touted his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as a home for businesses away from what he said was the debt-fueled, quick-turnover appetite of private equity firms. But the Berkshire name wasn’t enough for Tech Data Corp. Berkshire made a...
At the heart of Central and Eastern Europe, Poland is home to a prosperous and growing private equity and venture capital sector. With 38 million citizens, the country boasts about a third of the region’s population and has posted an enviable economic track record in... 