Die Anzahl an börsennotierten Unternehmen in Deutschland und weiteren Industrieländern wie dem Vereinigten Königreich und den USA nimmt seit mehreren Jahren ab. Es gibt deutlich mehr Börsenabgänge als Börsengänge. Zu diesem Trend tragen verschiedene Einflussfaktoren bei. Durch eine gute...

Private-Equity(PE)-Investoren verhalten sich wie normale Anleger und steigen lieber in etablierte Unternehmen ein, achten auf hohe Risiken und schrecken vor kleinen, als intransparent geltenden Firmen eher zurück. Auch scheuen Private-Equity-Investoren tendenziell Unternehmen, deren...

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...

Sources of capital to finance companies in the SME sector is one of the basic conditions for the functioning and development of enterprises, especially in the early phase of their development. Increasingly popular is the use of capital market instruments, Private Equity, Venture Capital,...

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...

The European private equity market has expanded meaningfully over the past few decades, with leveraged buyouts having averaged more than 50 billion euros per year in 2010–2016. This paper examines investment flows within Europe, as well as between Europe and the rest of the world at two...

Numerous studies have discussed that even if fundamental for innovation and economic growth, SMEs are often financially more constrained than large firms. Therefore, venture capitalists are often the only available sources of financing to small and young companies. Through the analysis of a...

Purpose: This study sought to explore the effect of capital management risk on value of the firm among private equity financial firms in Kenya. Design/methodology/approach: Anchored on the agency theory and guided by positivism research philosophy, descriptive research design as well as causal...

Respecting the importance of corporate governance (CG), particularly various corporate governance mechanisms for improving corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities, the paper highlights relevant CG-CSR synergies from the perspective of systems thinking. The paper further aims to...