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- Title
Bank Affiliation in Private Equity Firms: Distortions in Investment Selection.
- Authors
Yingdi Wang
- Abstract
Private equity firms that are affiliated with banks have become major players in the leveraged buyout (LBO) market, raising billions o f dollars in funds. In this paper, I investigate value creation of these LBOs through operating performance, leverage, and pricing. I find that bank-affiliated LBOs fail to create operating performance gains, on average. Moreover, 1 find that targets of bank-affiliated and independent LBOs are systematically different. While I find no difference in operating performance gains between bankaffiliated and independent LBOs with matched target characteristics, all firms that share the target characteristics of bank-affiliated LBOs show worse post-buyout operating performance. Combined with no difference in leverage and deal pricing, the overall results suggest that bank affiliation negatively affects the economic benefit of LBOs due to differing objectives that result in distortions in investment selection.
- Subjects
PRIVATE equity; LEVERAGED buyouts; BANKING industry; FINANCIAL services industry; INVESTMENTS
- Publication
International Journal of Business, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 3, p175
- ISSN
1083-4346
- Publication type
Article