Many advisers hold Monday morning monitoring meetings, where they discuss the state of financials. “That’s the information they should be using for valuation.”
Winding up legacy funds and side pocket investment vehicles can improve performance and free up investment capital, outweighing the cost of fairness opinions, writes VRC valuations expert Chad Rucker.
Getting a second opinion on certain fairness opinions during energy M&A transactions can go a long way to ensuring that the best interest of the company and its stakeholders are met, writes James Hanson of Opportune Partners.
Investors are in for a long-overdue reunion with more pedestrian performance and other adverse outcomes of the evolving economic situation. The coming PE-induced financial crisis predicted by some is harder to see.
Relying too much on implied value derived from a deal’s price can cause reporting, compensation and other issues for management teams, writes Stout managing director Jeremy Krasner.
Petra Funds arrives as the weight of back-office burdens is set to grow. Regulators are starting to roll out proposals aimed at making private markets more transparent and leveling the playing field.