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The debate over the broader impact of the private equity industry has been a contentious topic in the academic literature. While recently, private equity investors have endorsed sustainability in their investment strategies, little is known whether the industry promotes sustainable...
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Our aim is to empirically examine how reasons for using private equity (PE) and prior experience with PE affect the willingness of privately held firms to cede company control. Based on a questionnaire entailing 75 privately held firms backed by PE, we show that family firms cede less control...
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Inmitten der internationalen Finanzkrise hat die Bundesregierung im Herbst 2007 das Risikobegrenzungsgesetz verabschiedet. Nun wird der Bundestag über das Gesetz entscheiden. Die einheimischen Private-Equity-/Buy-Out-Anbieter, die bislang nicht unter die Bankenaufsicht fallen, gehören zu den...
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The structures of entrepreneurial finance and control have changed profoundly worldwide, given by new capital market …. The present paper discusses whether this implies a substitution of relationship finance by transaction finance and which …, with private equity being more hierarchical than private debt. Both kinds of relationship finance are complements to …
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Sources of capital to finance companies in the SME sector is one of the basic conditions for the functioning and … instruments, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Business Angels or Mezzanine. Funding of this kind can finance risky investments in …
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Private equity and venture capital (PE/VC) funding is the provision of equity capital by financial investors to non-quoted companies with high growth potential. It has a particular emphasis on entrepreneurial activities rather than on mature businesses. PE/VC investors differ on several...
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In the midst of the international financial crisis, the German federal government passed the Risk Limitation Act in autumn 2007. In spring 2008 the Bundestag has finally decided on the law. The domestic private equity/buyout providers, which have not previously been subject to banking...
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Erfolgreiche Neugründungen sind ein bedeutsamer Faktor für die gedeihliche Entwicklung einer Volkswirtschaft. Junge innovative Unternehmen spielen für die rasche Markteinführung und Verbreitung neuer Technologien und Produkte eine Schlüsselrolle. Da Gründer nur selten über genügend...
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In late 2017, DuraTable received a number of unsolicited inquiries regarding its interest in selling out in a going private transaction, mostly from private equity firms. Since the chairman of the board and founder, Gary Reynolds, was approaching retirement age and the largest single shareholder...
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