Employment after the LBO

The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and the Centre for Management Buyout Research (CMBOR) at the UK's Nottingham University Business School recently conducted a study examining the impact of private equity ownership on employee relations, looking at 190 companies that were the subject of a buyout between 2002 and 2006. They found that across a number of criteria the impact was either neutral or positive. The impact tends to be positive in more liberal markets, and neutral in more regulated economies