Private Equity: Consultant - Doug Baird
Paying the Cost to be the Boss
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
As the banks and bankers continue their enforced course of rehabilitation there still seems to be a frustration that lending to businesses and people has not been increased and the various fiscal stimuli and quantitative easing programmes are not manifesting themselves in real terms to real people and companies.
Clearly this seems paradoxical, given the [...]
Summer Update
Friday, July 17th, 2009
Whilst the interim market within the private equity & restructuring market remains challenging, in recent weeks we have definitely seen much more activity. This is certainly good news and hopefully it will continue once we have got the summer out of the way.
In the last two months we have introduced an Interim CEO to Endless [...]
“Deal or No Deal?”
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
The landscape for private equity led buyouts is clearly barren. Only five deals have been announced this quarter to date, which is less than 10% of completions during the same period in 2008. The 1st quarter of 2009 didn’t look much better either, with only 13 completed compared to 63 last year.
Obviously the financing of [...]
What the world needs now is….
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The G20 summit in many ways now seems like a distant memory. After a market rally pushed the FTSE 100 above 4000 we are now back to the consistent volatility of recent times. Despite the numerous fiscal stimuli we are still left to wonder what impact, if any, this will have on real businesses and [...]
Every dark cloud has a silver lining?
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Whilst on his current world wide PR tour promoting his latest airline venture in Australia Richard Branson took time out to inject a much needed dose of optimism into the current doom and gloom. If he could bottle it under the Virgin brand, which I wouldn’t put past him, he would be significantly richer than [...]
Private Equity Buyouts - consigned to history or catalyst for recovery?
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
It is fair to say that 2008 was not a vintage year, extraordinary, catastrophic maybe; the thesaurus of adjectives used by journalists, politicians, and individuals to describe the ‘credit crunch’ has been worn thin. The only people who may disagree would probably include insolvency lawyers, practitioners, and administrators who have had a glut of retailers [...]
