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Private Equity Targets

Strategies for Growth, Market Barriers and Policy Implications

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Francesco Baldi

    1. , Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy

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  • Focus on firms that are naturally targets of private equity investments (rather than on deal-making techniques)
  • Provision of insights into the process of creating an investment thesis in the private equity industry
  • Managerial recommendations to general partners of PE firms and owners of family businesses
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Business (BRIEFSBUSINESS)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Economics of Private Equity: Designing and Structuring the Management Company

    • Francesco Baldi
    Pages 1-19

  3. Who are Private Equity Targets?

    • Francesco Baldi
    Pages 21-50

  4. Survey on Private Equity Investment Targeting in Italy

    • Francesco Baldi
    Pages 51-66

  5. A Private Equity Deal: The Case of Invisible Ink

    • Francesco Baldi
    Pages 67-80

  6. Conclusions

    • Francesco Baldi
    Pages 81-82
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Economics of private equity (PE). Empirical evidence on Italian manufacturing firms resorting to internal equity only to finance investments with positive NPV. Normative framework providing guidelines on how their entrepreneurial model (governance, gearing, growth) would be favourably influenced by conventional PE actions. Policy recommendations on how to expedite PE ownership expansion in Italy and other European countries.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Department of Business and Management, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy

    Francesco Baldi

About the author

Francesco Baldi holds a M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, a M.Sc. in Applied Econometrics from the School of Economics and Finance of the Italian Ministry of Treasury and a Ph.D. in Business Economics from the University of Rome III. He has been a Chazen Visiting Scholar at the Columbia Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management having received the 2006 “Fondazione IRI” scholarship in management studies. He has an extensive professional experience in the field of finance and is the author of articles published in international and Italian journals. He is an Adjunct Professor of Corporate Finance at the Department of Business and Management of LUISS Guido Carli University.

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