DATABASE CONTENTS

Database content/What can I do on this site?

Deal Origination

Private Equity Insight offers you the chance to easily build a complex search structure that interrogates our database of over 35,000 private equity investments. The results of these searches will help drive your deal origination process and enable you to:

• Observe trends in deal flow and size, sector, region and investment stage.
• Identify secondary and recap opportunities.
• Examine GP portfolios and investment behaviour.
• Analyse financing structures and country or sector-specific deal flow.

Performance data – powered by CEPRES
Private Equity Insight allows you to compare your deal/portfolio company performance with those of deals with matching characteristics (market/industry sector, investment date, geographic location, deal type)

• Support your due diligence process with accurate comparative performance information to ensure the most profitable investment decisions.
• Help identify well-timed exit strategies by tracking peer group performance trends
• Compare your firm’s industry-specific investment team's performance with their peer group - identify where you are under- and over-performing against industry averages
• Compare mean and median IRR %
• Reduce the risk of purchase price over-valuation by identifying similar portfolio company performance
• Make informed investment decisions based on all 3 key data sources – your team's industry/market experience and '‘feel' for deal origination; your expert due diligence processes and Private Equity Insight’s deal/portfolio company performance data and statistics

Portfolio Management

Private Equity Insight contains proprietary information on private equity portfolios of practitioners in Europe and can aid you in evaluating your investment performance. The database's fully verified data on the exit landscape will help you to:

• Pinpoint buy-and-build/exit opportunities by cross-examining competitor portfolios with investment behaviour.
• Track key trends in deal structures, gearing and pricing.

Benchmarking and Strategic development

Keeping an eye on your rivals activity is paramount to success in the competitive private equity market. Private Equity Insight provides you with the functionality to support your benchmarking activities and the development of your business strategy. Use the database to:

• Monitor league tables of deal, corporate finance, legal and advisory activity.
• Create and monitor specific portfolios or peer groups.
• Create league tables and rank yourself against your competitors.
• Monitor competitor activity and track reciprocity of deal flow and advisory business.
• Track market share by region, sector and deal type. etc.
• Identify the most prolific deal makers and advisers.

Fundraising & Investor Relations

Private Equity Insight houses a wealth of information on private equity fundraising dating back to 1990 and tracks the changing strategies of over 1,700 LP's. The database will help you understand what current and future investors are looking for and how you measure up to their expectations, allowing you to:

• 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.