Private Equity Training – Best Buy Case Study

October 11, 2012

We recorded a call with Brian DeChesare, founder of Breaking into Wall Street, about the possible takeover and turnaround of Best Buy. In this call we discuss deal background, the current sticky issues, how the industry has shifted, and the feasibility of the founder being able to raise the capital necessary to make the deal […]

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Current Private Equity Job Climate Has Potential

October 8, 2012

While the investment banking arena struggles to recapture its lost glory, the private equity universe has bounced back in earnest. With more upside expected, those looking to land positions at prestigious private equity shops might just find a more welcoming environment than what is being seen at bulge bracket investment banks these days. No, this […]

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Private Equity Employment Trends

October 1, 2012

Private equity professionals have seen some very good days in their return history (as a whole).  Coinciding with those good returns were above average employment growth.  So far, through the first half of 2012, it has not been a good year for private equity employment, with the most recent estimate of the employment count coming […]

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A Forecast of Private Equity Employment under Romney and Obama

September 25, 2012

This is not a political piece, per se, but rather an objective look at the likely employment effects the presidential election could have on the private equity wealth creation business. Over the prior two decades, the private equity industry has grown much quicker than the overall growth in total employment, with private equity payrolls increasing […]

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Middle Market Private Equity Stalls

September 24, 2012

Data from market researcher GF Data shows that after experiencing brisk activity in the second half of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, middle-market private equity deal volume came to a standstill in the second quarter of 2012. M&A deals in the $10 million to $250 million range completed by mid level investment firms […]

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Bleak Results in the Second Quarter for Life Sciences Investment

September 17, 2012

New investment activity in the life sciences venture capital segment continued to decline through the second quarter of 2012, PEHub’s Jonathan Marino reported in an August article. This continues a widespread trend seen in many other private equity investment sectors. With a plunge of 40 percent year-over-year investment levels based on a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers […]

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Private Equity Job Outlook is Better Than Investment Banking

September 10, 2012

Collectively, investment banks are paring jobs by the thousands. With that in mind, job seekers might want to give the private equity world a long hard look. Private equity firms hired at a brisk pace in 2011. In a study by auditing firm EisnerAmper, 37 percent of private equity firms expanded their payrolls in the […]

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Strategic Buyers Impact the Private Equity Landscape

September 3, 2012

The landscape in all investment classes is certainly changing due to the current global economic reality, so perhaps it is not a surprise that private equity firms are being pressured from unlikely sources. According to a report in the Canadian national newspaper The Globe and Mail, private equity firms are feeling that their investment opportunities […]

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Private Equity Firms Exit Investments

August 27, 2012

Deal activities in the United States among private equities suffered in the second quarter due to economic uncertainties. This resulted in a drop in the number of closed deals by private equities to 303, down from 363 deals in the first quarter. However, the dollar value of the private equity deals done during the quarter […]

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Private Equity Firms in China Stumble

August 20, 2012

China Daily is reporting the Chinese venture capital and private equity industry has hit a major stumbling block as Asian economic growth grinds lower. While stories of an economic slowdown in China have been rather frequent over the last few months, this is among the first indications that investment is actually declining in what remains […]

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