The ICAEW's Corporate Finance Faculty published the third edition of its highly influential book Private Equity Demystified on 9 December 2014. The book is used as an independent, objective explanatory guide to private equity by policy-makers, regulators, investors, advisers and companies across...

Private Equity Demystified is published as part of the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty's thought leadership programme, Financing Change and includes a review of major academic studies on private equity globally. This not only outlines what is known, but highlights what isn't yet known about the...

This report seeks to contribute to the debate about the private equity industry by bringing clarity to how the industry works and by providing a summary of the findings of approximately 100 peer-reviewed academic papers which have examined aspects of the private equity industry over the past 25...

This paper provides a comparative examination of the consequences of leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and corporate takeovers on employment growth and wage growth. Employing both difference‐in‐differences combined with propensity score matching and the control function approach, we find evidence...