Private Equity

Private equity firms currently face unprecedented challenges in managing struggling portfolio companies and executing new investments in the current climate of sluggish economic activity and limited credit availability. Despite these challenges, the large amount of "dry powder" and depressed valuations present a unique investing environment. Building a business during a downturn presents a challenging, yet enormously rewarding opportunity. Due to the markedly changed macroeconomic landscape, future success in private equity investing will be driven more by investing acumen than by financial engineering. Most emerging market countries have withstood the destabilizing financial events of the past 18 months better than expected, and attractive private equity investment opportunities exist across these markets.

Our consultants have considerable expertise not only in hiring principal investors for private equity firms but also hiring the leadership teams for their portfolio companies. Our Private Equity team works closely with our other domain specialists to help hiring the best leadership talent for the portfolio companies.

Our Private Equity Practice consists of industry specialists who have conducted more than 100 senior-level executive searches over the past 5 years across:

• Investment Teams in Private Equity / Real Estate Private Equity Organizations
• Asset Management in Real Estate Private Equity Organizations
• Leadership (CEOs/CXOs) at Portfolio Companies