The Value Creation Plan That Survives Contact With the Business
By the time the deal closes, the value creation plan already exists. It sits in the data-room appendix as a…
Private Equity Due Diligence: The Workstream Everyone Underprices
For most of the buyout era, due diligence meant two things: financial diligence to confirm the numbers and legal diligence…
Private Equity Value Creation Strategies: The Levers That Still Work
For much of the last two decades, a large share of the value buyout funds handed back came from rising…
Value Creation in Private Equity: Where the Returns Come From Now
Industry decompositions of buyout returns have long carried an uncomfortable message for the people who run the deals. Bain’s Global…
What Operational Due Diligence Misses in an M&A Deal
Operational due diligence expanded into a formal discipline for a defensive reason. After the 2008 crisis and the Madoff fraud…
The Fractional CDO, and the Seat Most Mid-Market Companies Never Filled
Wavestone’s 2024 Data and AI Leadership Executive Survey, the twelfth annual edition of a study formerly run by NewVantage Partners,…
What PE Operating Partners Miss in Portfolio Operations
Bain’s 2026 Global Private Equity Report gave the new math a name: 12 is the new 5. A buyout that…
Why Your AI Mandates Keep Stalling at the Portfolio Company Level
Three months after the portfolio review where AI adoption became a fund priority, an operating partner checks in with the…