A joint study of private equity exits in Latin Amerca by EMPEA and Ernst & Young

Our second annual study, looking at how PE investors create value in Latin American businesses, extends our research into PE’s transformational role in Latin America’s continued economic development. The results of this year’s study confirm our initial findings — PE firms are focused on growth and hands-on partnerships with entrepreneurs to transform companies into market leaders. Through extensive involvement, PE investors work with the entrepreneurs they back to identify and develop new products, expand geographically and exit profitably.

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This EMPEA Brief explores the impact of European bank deleveraging on the emerging markets, with a view toward identifying the opportunities and challenges the process presents to private equity investors. Authored by EMPEA’s Mike Casey, this article includes an examination of the drivers and scale of European bank deleveraging over the short-, medium- and long-term time horizons, and quantifies the impact of deleveraging across all emerging market regions.

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Drawing on input collected from over 100 Asian private equity funds that were actively fundraising during 2011, the Asia Pacific Private Equity 2011 Fund Terms Survey, conducted by Squadron Capital in association with EMPEA, provides a snapshot of current industry practice around management fees, preferential terms, distribution waterfalls, no-fault divorce provisions and key person clauses, as well as issues particularly pertinent to the Asia Pacific region, including the flexibility to invest in PIPEs and potential conflicts of interest with parallel RMB and U.S. dollar funds.

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A joint study of private equity exits in Latin America by EMPEA and Ernst & Young

To uncover how value creation is achieved in the emerging markets, Ernst & Young and EMPEA teamed to produce this emerging markets edition of Ernst & Young’s annual “How do private equity investors create value?” study, looking specifically at Brazil and Latin America. The study revealed that private equity in the rest of the world is in fact evolving to more closely resemble the model in the emerging markets. 

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In the current economic environment, competition for capital is fierce and GPs must increasingly look for new funding sources to complement their traditional investor base. This report takes another step toward providing a greater understanding of the pools of capital outside of North America and Western Europe that may potentially be available for EM PE investment.

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