Private Equity
Our corporate private equity operation operates on a global scale, with experienced investment professionals and offices located worldwide. We have established ourselves as leaders in the private equity investing industry, successfully managing multiple private equity funds. Additionally, we have a specialized fund that focuses specifically on media and communications-related investments.
While our early years were primarily focused on leveraged buyout acquisitions, we have since expanded our operations to include transactions across the globe. Our business now encompasses a wide range of investment opportunities, including leveraged buyouts of established companies, growth-equity or start-up investments in established industries, minority investments, corporate partnerships, distressed debt investments, structured securities, and industry consolidations. Importantly, all of our transactions are conducted in a strictly friendly manner.
Private Equity vs. Venture Capital
As noted above, venture capital is considered a form of private equity. The clearest difference between them is that venture capital supports entrepreneurial ventures and startups, while private equity tends to invest in established companies.
Venture Capital
- Invests in startups
- Typically acquires stakes that are less than 50% of a company's equity
- May participate in the management of portfolio companies
- Extremely popular in the tech sector
- Invests in companies that have yet to generate significant revenue or profits
- Generates a return when a portfolio company is sold or taken public
Private Equity
- Invests in established businesses, and often prefers financially distressed companies
- Takes a majority stake in portfolio companies
- Almost always participates actively in management and operation of portfolio companies
- Generates a return when the portfolio company is sold or taken public
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