IPEM Cannes 2024 – The Daily Spin – January, 25th
The shifting role of LPs was the overarching theme for the morning session of Day 2, at the 10th edition of IPEM in Cannes. After a full day of yoga,…
Private equity firms are having to channel their inner Bee Gee by injecting more equity into portfolio companies to ensure they are ‘staying alive, staying alive.’ Bank and private credit lenders are looking for more skin in the game from PE sponsors when it comes to refinancing and extend loans in the current high-interest rate environment. The net effect is to lower the gearing in portfolio companies; something that buyout firms have traditionally eschewed as they look to maximize the IRR of their funds. This new verse in the buyout debt musical increases sponsor risk, given the additional equity they are having to commit. Whether they will still be singing from the rooftops in years to come will depend on how effective their deal-making is, and their ability to innovate debt-to-equity commitments.
The shifting role of LPs was the overarching theme for the morning session of Day 2, at the 10th edition of IPEM in Cannes. After a full day of yoga,…
CVC Capital Partners are hoping it will be third time lucky as they prepare to float on the Amsterdam stock exchange. The IPO will see one of Europe’s largest private…
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