Subjects:

Banking and Finance

Contents:

Introduction

Private equity fund manager due diligence and selection

Towards a standard private equity due diligence questionnaire

Track records: analysing unrealised returns

Emerging managers: how to analyse a first time fund

Due diligence in emerging private equity markets

Mezzanine funds: risk, return and the equity mix

Legal due diligence: a Q&A session

Benchmarking and performance measurement

Co-investment due diligence

Survey: Due Diligence and the Limited Partner

Directory of investment advisors and consultants

Contributors Biographies

Appenices

Manager selection in private equity is absolutely crucial to achieving high returns from the asset class. However, ascertaining whether a manager has the potential to be a top quartile – or decile – performer is an extremely difficult task. The Guide to Private Equity Fund Investment Due Diligence is the most extensive guide to this important topic and can help the busy institutional investor, gatekeeper and investment advisor to choose the right fund manager.

It will also provide a private equity fund manager with a unique guide to the hot button issues they must address when approaching an investor for capital. This important publication combines in-depth editorial with a global directory of consultants providing specialised private equity advice to institutions, along with the results of a proprietary survey of over 300 institutional investors about their attitudes towards fund investment due diligence.

Buyers of this guide will get to:-

• Discover how to benchmark your private equity program and the short term and long term performance measurements to employ
• Discover what the buy-side think about fund due diligence, including LP attitudes to terms and conditions, emerging managers and sponsored funds
• Understand the challenges in analysing unrealised returns in private equity and learn the various methods for effectively doing so
• Appreciate the legal due diligence process and benefit from the experience and expertise of leading private equity fund lawyers from the US and Europe
• Assess the benefits of a co-investment program and learn how to effectively establish, develop and monitor one
• Buyers of the guide will also be able to use: A directory of specialist private equity investment advisors and consultants
• An archive of relevant coverage from Private Equity International and Private Equity Manager magazines