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Private EquityAn Overview
Clark L. Maxam, Ph.D.Director of Research – Braddock Financial Corporation
andEl Pomar Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance – University of Colorado,
Colorado Springs
Private Equity – Broadly Defined
• Technically refers to any type of equity investment in an asset in which the equity is not freely tradable on a public market.
• Less liquid• Long Term in nature
Private Equity – Categories and Players
• Angel– Early Stage: Seed, Start-up
• Professional Venture Capital– Early Stage, Expansion, Later Stage
• Private Equity– Later Stage, Buyout, Special Situations
• Hedge Funds– All Stages
The Private Equity Market
Venture Capital
Private Equity Hedge Funds
Angel
Key Player Overlap
Traditional Private Equity – Primary Activity
• Professional pools of capital that buy all the publicly traded equity of target companies = “Go Private”
• Usually done with borrowed money– High degree of leverage
• Aka : Leveraged Buyout
The Basic Value Creation FormulaFundamental Ideas
1) Re-focuses acquired businesses resulting in lower costs and improved efficiency.
2) Value is created through basic finance that says debt can increase firm value if you can afford it!
• Exploits corporate aversion to debt (Henry McVey, Morgan Stanley).
3) Regulatory Arbitrage – Sarbanes-Oxley
The Basic Value Creation FormulaDebt can increase Value
Dupont Equation
Equity
AssetsTotalX
AssetsTotal
SalesX
Sales
NI
Equity
NIROE
Leverage – Debt as % of Assets Equity Multiplier ROE
The Basic Value Creation FormulaDebt can increase Value
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AssetsTotalX
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Consider a company that takes on debt at a cost of $3 in Net Income, but changes NOTHING ELSE.
Could drop NI to 4.8 and still match the previous ROE!!
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The Basic Value Creation FormulaAn Example – Carlyle Group
Leveraged Buyout
Case 1 (5 years) – No Profit Increase Case 2 (5 years) – Profit Increase
Source: International Financial Services
Regional Breakdown of Private Equity InvestmentsFunds Raised
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17%38%
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Source: International Financial Services
Private Equity Investments by Country
Source: National Venture Capital Association,Thomson Venture Economics
Source: National Venture Capital Association,Thomson
Source: Cambridge Associates, LLC
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• PE as a new Model of General Management (Jensen) – Overcomes entrenched thinking, management and
disjoint between manager incentives and capital markets.
– Problematic Trends• Publicly held Private Equity – oxymoron• Fee Structures not tied to exit • Hedge funds in the PE business – not a transaction
business.
Private Equity Issues Going Forward
• 2007 estimate of$160B in dry powder $750B $590B in debt appetite.– Banking capacity is finite and already
extended.– Potential regulatory limits
Private Equity Issues Going Forward
• PE Boom has been fueled by– Historically low rates– Regulatory arbitrage
• Both could reverse quickly and change the metrics dramatically
Private Equity Issues Going Forward