Private Equity Talks

In today's podcast, we sit down with Mounir Guen [Moose] CEO of MVision and Johanna Barr, MD & Global Co-Head of Limited Partner Services  from Advent International to discuss the state of the fundraising market, how to gain traction with LPs and how long the fundraising bull  run can keep going.

On today's programme we will delve into the world of asset-based lending (ABL). Before the financial crisis, ABL was a debt product on the fringes, the place to go when trouble loomed and mainstream lenders had shut their doors. Although still seen as a niche product by many, especially in the private equity community, a thriving community of independent providers have worked hard to change percep...

Today we will be discussing how the emergence of unitranche has transformed acquisition finance markets over the last five to ten years; and what its popularity means for the future. Over less than a decade, unitranche has grown from a quirky debt offering provided by a few new market entrants into the financing structure of choice for the majority of mid-market deals. Unitranche lenders ripped up...

At first glance taking on debt may seem like an odd thing for start-ups that are cash flow negative to consider, but the creation of a venture debt community has been identified as a crucial cornerstone of any thriving start-up ecosystem. Indeed, in her eponymous and landmark study on that state of the UK start-up scene, serial entrepreneur Sherry Coutu listed the creation of a thriving venture de...