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Investment Impact: Wrench Group CEO Explains How Private Equity Investment Creates Jobs, Strengthens Businesses
There are over 4,700 private equity firms all over America, owning and building approximately over 30,000 private companies. Recently, the Wrench Group CEO Ken Haines dropped by the…
Debt Portability Can Deliver a Better Exit (Latham & Watkins LLP)
By Dennis Lamont, Partner and Howard Sobel, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP Debt financing documents typically contain a change of control feature that triggers an event of default,…Read more about Debt Portability Can Deliver a Better Exit (Latham & Watkins LLP)
2018 AIC Public Pension Study: Private Equity Delivers Highest Returns for Public Pension Funds
WASHINGTON – Today, the American Investment Council (AIC) released its 2018 Public Pension Study, which analyzes investment returns by 163 U.S. public pension funds and highlights how private…
Private Equity Investment Volume Doubles from 2017
WASHINGTON – US private equity investment volume increased to $57 billion in the first quarter of 2018, a staggering 159 percent increase from the first quarter of 2017, according to…Read more about Private Equity Investment Volume Doubles from 2017
International Issues: Positioning U.S. Private Equity Firms and Funds in Global Markets
The AIC is the voice for private equity in the United States, but we also work to ensure U.S. private equity firms and the funds they manage receive…
Tax Regulatory Priorities
The enactment of tax reform legislation in late 2017 began a second phase of tax reform in the regulatory space. The private equity industry, working through the AIC,…