Date: 25/07/2007
Title: Senate Inquiry into Private Equity Investment
Type: Media & Communications: Media Release
Abstract: Private equity (PE) has been around for many years but had a sudden surge in 2006/7 with some very large and visible deals, including PBL, Channel Seven, Coles Myer (now being acquired by the listed company Wesfarmers), Alinta and the aborted Qantas takeover.The rapid increase in PE deals in Australia is not unique: PE has accounted for around 25% of world-wide M&A deals by value in the year 2007 to date and around 35% in the USA (The Economist July 5 2007).See below link for full version of presentation summary.
Private equity (PE) has been around for many years but had a sudden surge in 2006/7 with some very large and visible deals, including PBL, Channel Seven, Coles Myer (now being acquired by the listed company Wesfarmers), Alinta and the aborted Qantas takeover.The rapid increase in PE deals in Australia is not unique: PE has accounted for around 25% of world-wide M&A deals by value in the year 2007 to date and around 35% in the USA (The Economist July 5 2007).See below link for full version of presentation summary.
File: AICD presentation summary - Public Hearing: Senate Inquiry into Private Equity Investment.pdf AICD Submission to Senate Standing Committee on Economics: Inquiry into Private Equity Investment, 26 April 2007 (including link to AICD Submission to the Takeovers Panel on Insider Participation in Control Transactions, 13 April 2007)AICD Position Paper - Directors' Obligations During Boom Time Activity, January 2007
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