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Why PE Investors Care About Interest Rates

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For private equity investors, interest rate movements can have a very significant impact on the outlook of their investments since PE uses such a large amount of debt to finance transactions. Some investors have tolerance for one type of payment over the other and may use one over the other in different situations.

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Preemptive Diligence: A Founder’s Solution to Preparing for Investor Scrutiny.

Beyond M&A

Notably, many of these issues revolve around cybersecurity, a topic of paramount importance to investors. Unfortunately, these problems often go undetected until the due diligence process is well underway—often too late for founders and investors to correct without significant effort. Enter the case for Preemptive Diligence.

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Three weeks later, investors are still not terribly enthusiastic about the massive Cisco-Splunk deal

TechCrunch: M&A

Three weeks after the Cisco announced a massive $28B acquisition of Splunk, investors still seem less than enthused about the deal.

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10-20-2023 Newsletter: Why PE Investors Care About Inflation

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For private equity investors who have been monitoring the situation around inflation for the last few months to a year, many have been disappointed to see the slow trajectory with which inflation has been coming down from highs. Currently, inflation in the U.S. Explore the role of private equity now.

Investors 130
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Activist investor ValueAct has been building a stake in Disney

CNBC: Investing

ValueAct began buying Disney this summer during the Hollywood strikes and it is now one of the investor's largest positions, the Activist Spotlight has learned.

Investors 145
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Why PE Investors Care About Inflation

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For private equity investors who have been monitoring the situation around inflation for the last few months to a year, many have been disappointed to see the slow trajectory with which inflation has been coming down from highs. Currently, inflation in the U.S. First, diversification is key.

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10-23-2023 Newsletter: Why Take-Private Dealmaking Remains Attractive for PE Investors

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However, for private equity investors, this uncertainty represents a unique opportunity to take advantage of investment opportunities in public markets. According to the Institutional Investor, 81% of value in all transactions in 2023 so far were take-private deals (compared to 20% seen in a typical year).

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