Fueling the buyout machine: fundraising in private equity
- This paper analyzes the impact of performance, iestment-firm-related, and macroeconomic variables on fundraising activities in private equity (PE). We use a novel, backward-looking approach to link current to preceding funds, which allows for including several parallel predecessor funds in our analysis. We employ logit and tobit models to a global sample of 1463 fundraising events observed between 2000 and 2010 in order to estimate the probability of raising and the volume of follow-on funds. Our results show that the average buyout duration of past transactions has a negative impact, whereas exits via an initial public offering (IPO) and deals without industry-style drift positively affect fundraising activities. Larger, industry-diversified, and independent PE firms exhibit a higher likelihood of fundraising and collect larger amounts. Keywords: Fundraising, follow-on fund, private equity, leveraged buyout
| Document Type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Loos, Bernhard SchwetzlerORCiD |
| Chairs and Professorships: | Chair of Financial Management |
| URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11408-017-0298-8 |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Note: | In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 31 (2017) 4, 397–443, DOI: 10.1007/s11408-017-0298-8 |