ABOUT US

Private Equity Insight is the database behind the market-leading private equity newsletter, unquote” and has the enviable reputation as the source for accurate, reliable, verified statistical data.

Unlike other merger and acquisition databases, where private equity is just a small data subset tending to cover only deals above a certain size, Private Equity Insight specialises only on the private equity industry and covers deals of all sizes and types – ensuring you get the most meaningful and relevant data available.

Private Equity Insight is completely web-based and covers the full private equity market cycle – fundraising, deals, Performance – with data going back to 1990, making it the most comprehensive available.

Private Equity Insight can be divided into 3 main areas:

Deals Information

• Track who is doing the deals in your sector(s)
• Identify who’s bringing the deals to the table and who’s providing the financing & the specialist advice
• Observe trends in deal flow and size, sector, region and investment stage
• Create equity/debt provider league tables – who’s been the most active in the markets you operate in? Who don’t you have existing relationships with?
• Create advisor league tables – again to help target new relationships
• Pinpoint upcoming exits and identify secondary opportunities
• Examine GP portfolios and their investment behaviour
• Analyse financing structures
• Create and monitor specific portfolios or peer groups

Deal/Portfolio Company Performance Information, powered by CEPRES

• Using actual historical returns data, demonstrate clearly that your proposed deal structure will generate superior returns
• Support your internal research with data supplied by CEPRES, the recognized world leader in academic private equity research. This performance data is only available through Private Equity Insight
• Compare your projected performance and returns information with historical performance/returns data from similar deals
• Benchmark the performance of your own deals throughout their lifetime in your portfolio against averages for their peer group
• Identify performance excellence in your investment teams or individual personnel and spot areas of performance weakness or concern – where are you performing above or below the industry average?

Fundraising/Investor Relations Information

• Who else are your investors investing with?
• Track LPs actively actively looking to allocate funds to the asset class
• Identify specialist funders
• View asset allocations, previous investments made, fund investment plans and preferred strategies
• See which LPs have recently allocated capital to funds in your space
• Ensure you meet all key local LPs during roadshows
• Verify your market position, activity and performance
• Generate independent data, charts and graphs for PPMs and marketing literature.
• Identify, track and build relationships with key decision makers

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The Alternative Assets Division

Private Equity Insight is part of the Alternative Assets Division (AAD) (the words “Alternative Assets Division (AAD) should link to www.im-alternativeassets.com) of Incisive Media. The AAD has been collecting in-depth, verified data on European private equity backed transactions since it was formed (originally as Initiative Europe Ltd) in mid 1988. Initially, this activity focused on Europe’s burgeoning market for management buyouts, though data on other types of deals began to be fed into Private Equity Insight in the early 1990s (for UK transactions);data surrounding non-buyout deals in Continental Europe has been added to the database since the mid 90s.

Direct contact between our editors/researchers and private equity deal-doers, advisers, fundraisers and institutional investors is at the heart of the division’s research methodology. The strong relationships that this direct contact has enabled us to build has ensured a high-quality flow of qualitative information in the AAD’s databases and published products.

The AAD has acquired an unrivalled reputation for quality and integrity, providing the following publications, data and consultancy services:

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About Incisive Media

Incisive Media is a rapidly growing provider of specialist business information, operating in four principal markets: financial services, risk management, professional services and marketing services. The London-based company delivers key information to defined target audiences across a variety of platforms: in print, through magazines; in person, via conferences, exhibitions and training programs; and online, through various websites. Incisive Media's market leading brands include Investment Week, Post Magazine, Risk, Search Engine Strategies, Accountancy Age, and Legal Week.

Incisive Media was founded in 1995 by the current management team, headed by Tim Weller , with the launch of Investment Week. The company was floated on the main market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2000. In December 2006, Apax Partners backed the public-to-private management buyout of Incisive Media (valued at approximately £275 million).

For more information visit: www.incisivemedia.com