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Private Equity: Family Offices Stay Bullish on PE Funds & Direct Investments

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Family offices have become increasingly important players in the space traditionally occupied by private equity and venture capital funds. These excerpts summarize some of the Survey’s […]

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FTC Challenges Private Equity Roll-Up Acquisition Strategy

JD Supra: Mergers

Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) antitrust lawsuit against a private-equity owner of a large anesthesiology practice in Texas demonstrates that the FTC has begun to implement its more aggressive focus on the perceived competitive harms caused by certain “roll-up” acquisition strategies.

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FTC Sues Private Equity Firm and Anesthesia Group Alleging Unlawful Monopolization in Texas Market

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USAP”), and the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (“Welsh Carson”), which created USAP, executed a multi-year anticompetitive scheme to consolidate anesthesiology practices in Texas, drive up the price of anesthesia services provided to Texas patients and boost their own profits. Anesthesia Partners, Inc.

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Private Equity: 2024 Global Outlook Survey

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Dechert recently released its annual Global Private Equity Outlook, which reports the results of a survey of 100 senior-level executives within PE firms based around the globe with at least $1 billion in assets under management.

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Is Private Equity Right for You?

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To know if the buyside is right for you, let’s start with a textbook understanding of “What is private equity?” Private equity involves investing capital directly into private businesses that are not publicly traded on stock exchanges (that would be a hedge fund). Strategic thinking skills are essential.

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FTC Challenges Decade-Long Acquisition Strategy by a Private Equity Firm and Anesthesia Provider Group Over an Alleged Anticompetitive Scheme

JD Supra: Mergers

USAP”) and its private equity sponsor, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (“Welsh Carson”) alleging an anticompetitive scheme to consolidate anesthesiology practices in Texas through a series of systematic roll-ups; price setting arrangements; and a market allocation agreement to dominate the anesthesia market in Texas.

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