Before you sign on the dotted line: read intelligence that counts
Selecting fund managers has probably never been so complex. The financial crisis, which roiled the private equity markets, has once again shifted the balance of power back to investors. Increasingly sophisticated investors can negotiate for what they want, but first they must sift through a complex history of impacted deals and determine which managers can go the distance to deliver top-quartile performance.
In The Definitive Guide to Private Equity Fund Investment Due Diligence (Second Edition), a respected group of international experts will steer you through the fund due diligence process, which has become more extensive and stringent with increasing emphasis placed on fund governance, track records, references and the legal review.
This guide is highly essential for fund managers that want to equip themselves with intelligence on how the buy-side conducts due diligence and the issues that matter.
How this guide will benefit your business
• Kelly DePonte of Probitas Partners lead edits this essential and informative guide to evaluating and selecting private equity fund managers for top-quartile performance
• Gain insight into how experts from more than 20 pre-eminent institutions analyse track records, assess first-time managers, benchmark and measure performance and monitor portfolios
• Sharpen your skills in identifying risks and returns for different strategies and geographies, including venture capital, mezzanine, industry sector-focused, real estate, infrastructure, secondary and emerging markets funds
• Leading fund-formation lawyers reveal changes and continuities in terms and conditions in limited partnership agreements for funds in the US, UK, Western Europe and Asia
• Learn how to best staff your diligence team for success – should you buy, build or use a combination of the two?
• View results of a vast institutional investor survey on due diligence conducted by PEI Media and Probitas Partners, including appetites for direct co-investments, secondaries and first time funds, processes and views on the ILPA Private Equity Principles
• Contains relevant and incisive news on due diligence from the last two years published in Private Equity International and Private Equity Manager magazines, and PrivateEquityOnline.com
Contents
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List of authors
Kelly DePonte, Probitas Partners (lead editor)
Uwe Bärenz, P+P Pöllath + Partners
Melissa Banila, Alternative Investment Capital Ltd
Kelly Chaplin, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation
Ian Charles, Landmark Partners
Janet Cheston, Paul Capital Investments LLC
Dean Collins, O’Melveny & Myers
Craig Dauchy, Cooley LLP
Lisa Edgar, Paul Capital Investments LLC
Adam Goldman, Red Rocks Capital LLC
Hawkeye Partners LP
Erik Hirsch, Hamilton Lane
Michael Koenig, Hamilton Lane
Ernest Lambers, EM Alternatives LLC
Katharina Lichtner, Capital Dynamics
Austin Long, Alignment Capital Group LLP
Nancy Duff Mangraviti, RBC Global Asset Management
Jeffrey Mansukhani, Cambridge Associates
Tarek Mardini, P+P Pöllath + Partners
Robin Painter, Proskauer Rose LLP
Jesse Reyes, QuartileOne LLC
Seiichi Saito, Alternative Investment Capital Ltd
Grant Saul, Hamilton Lane
Scott Sinha, RBC Global Asset Management
Helen Steers, Pantheon
Lawrence Sussman, O’Melveny & Myers
Charles Tingue, Landmark Partners
Andrew Turner, Northern Lights Capital Group
Matthias Unser
Atsushi Urushitani, Alternative Investment Capital Ltd
Kenneth Van Heel, The Dow Chemical Company
Nicole Warren, Probitas Partners
Duncan Woollard, SJ Berwin
David York, Paul Capital Investments LLC
This guide is ideal for:
• Fund Managers
• Institutional Investors
• Fund of Fund Managers
• Asset Managers
• Investment Advisers
• Consultants
• Gatekeepers
• Placement Agents
• Family Offices