The private equity industry is rapidly changing and transforming. From new regulations, new sectors and new geographies to shifting viewpoints by limited partners, staying on top is becoming more challenging.
Join more than 50 leading limited partners, dozens of notable general partners, specialized advisors and industry insiders for Dow Jones Limited Partners Summit and get the [...]

At this time of transformation, new regulations and stiff competition, Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal bring together the world’s most powerful investors, fund managers, deal originators and thought leaders to debate how pressure from Washington, uncertainty abroad and changing industry dynamics are revolutionizing the asset class.
Recognized as private equity’s premier event, the 18th [...]

The world’s top private equity and venture capital professionals will gather in Hong Kong from 7 – 11 November at the 24th Annual AVCJ HK Forum. Sign up now to secure your place among Private Equity’s elite.
Leading our faculty of the best and brightest in Private Equity are renowned keynote speakers:

John Connaughton, [...]

PRIVATE equity firms offer shareholders better value when it comes to floats, according to research commissioned by the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, to be released today.
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A small spate of mid-sized deals has pushed private equity-backed activity up 42 percent so far this year, but there is skepticism the mega-buyouts that characterized the latest boom will return.
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When private-equity and hedge-fund firms go public, the deals usually bring them loads of cash.  For some longtime clients, public listings often bring something else: heartburn.
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As 2011 sees a turning point in the region’s market place, unquote” is proud to announce the date of their 6th annual unquote” DACH Private Equity Congress. Returning to Munich with a host of the region’s expert speakers, this must-attend event will take place on Tuesday 11th October. Concentrating on those issues of concern for [...]

To celebrate twenty years of delivering private equity information and news to the European markets, and hosting regional-focused events, unquote” is pleased to announce its 20th Anniversary Summit on the 22nd of September 2011 in London. This event will bring together Europe’s leading deal-doers and the investors that have supported the industry’s growth for so [...]

Mark Florman, chief executive of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and non-executive vice-chairman of Africa-focused firm 8 Miles, joked at the Private Equity Analyst conference last September that one could always tell a panel on Africa was starting because half of the room would leave.
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