2015
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2015.06.007
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What determines the exit decision for leveraged buyouts?

Abstract: a b s t r a c tHow and when to exit portfolio company investments are critical choices facing private equity funds. In this paper we analyze 1022 European private equity exits, using information on fund and portfolio company characteristics, and on conditions in capital markets. For over 43% of the exits, private equity funds sold to each other and we analyze why such secondary buyouts have gained in popularity relative to IPOs and sales to corporate acquirers. We find that the exit route depends on various po… Show more

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“…Those results are in accordance with the market timing hypothesis and the evidences in Giot and Schwienbacher (2007) and Jenkinson and Sousa (2015). PE funds take advantage of favorable market windows to sell their investments.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 88%
“…Those results are in accordance with the market timing hypothesis and the evidences in Giot and Schwienbacher (2007) and Jenkinson and Sousa (2015). PE funds take advantage of favorable market windows to sell their investments.…”
Section: Resultssupporting
confidence: 88%
“…Acharya et al (2013) use interview data related only to the leading PE executives in a sample of large and mid-cap deals, backed by large PE houses. The popularity of SMBOs during the sample period, with a sharp drop in the number of entries in 2008, is consistent with other worldwide (Jenkinson and Sousa, 2015) and UK studies (Zhou, Jelic and Wright, 2014). On average, we track 1.3 strictly PE-related individuals per deal, which compares favourably with Acharya et al (2013).…”
Section: Data and Sample Descriptionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…Figure 1 presents the yearly distributions of sample SMBOs by entry and exit. The popularity of SMBOs during the sample period, with a sharp drop in the number of entries in 2008, is consistent with other worldwide (Jenkinson and Sousa, 2015) and UK studies (Zhou, Jelic and Wright, 2014).…”
Section: Data and Sample Descriptionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…This equates to 44% of the deals initially identified in Capital IQ with a defined private equity investor. Using similar data sources, Jenkinson and Sousa (2015) report a 40% match from an initial sample of 2,567 exited deals involving European targets. 7…”
Section: Sample Characterizationmentioning
confidence: 99%