NEW YORK, Dec 10, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — mergermarket today announced the release of its first M&A Insights: Spotlight on Intellectual Property Rights survey, highlighting the crucial role of IP assets in the M&A process and their importance in driving additional value for transactions. The survey, which was conducted by mergermarket and sponsored by CRA [...]

- Over a quarter of North American LPs will be over-allocated within 12 months
- Liquidity needs, a flight to ‘quality’ GPs and portfolio re-balancing will drive secondaries sales
- The globalisation of private equity will not be slowed by recession or the credit crunch
Two thirds of private equity investors (LPs) will have little or no ‘headroom’ [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Regional private equity buyout funds are expected to outperform their country-specific peers amid market turmoil due to their spread of risk, said David Currie, chief executive of Standard Life Capital Partners.
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While overall private-equity fund-raising is expected to be flat or down this year, emerging markets funds continue to reach new heights.
Vehicles targeting emerging markets have raised a record $61.46 billion to date, up $2 billion from all of last year, according to Emerging Markets Private Equity Association, an industry trade group. The question remains as [...]

Investors may feel that buying into emerging markets or private equity in the current climate is too risky. So the idea of combining the two sectors may not be met with enthusiasm.
But investment advisers say the medium to long-term prospects for emerging market private equity funds are looking fairly bright. Typically, they claim, private equity [...]

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) — A push by the richest U.S. universities to unload their stakes in private-equity funds is flooding the market, driving down prices for the world’s best- known buyout firms.
Investors led by Harvard University, which manages the largest U.S. endowment at $36.9 billion, may increase so-called secondary sales of private-equity funds to more [...]