Description

The course: Fundamentals of Private Equity by Vasco Patrício

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• Course language: English

What you’ll learn

• How a PE fund pipeline works, including sourcing, investing and monitoring past investments
• How PE funds, what type of investors allocate to them, and the usual provisions discussed

Requirements

• Have a basic knowledge of corporate finance
• Have a basic knowledge of investing (asset classes)

Description

This courses covers the fundamentals of the Private Equity practice. It includes considerations such as

• How the Private Equity industry positions itself vis-a-vis other high finance activities like Venture Capital (which is part of it), Hedge Funds, Investment Banking and others;
• The usual types of activities for Private Equity teams throughout the three main sources of a PE fund pipeline: sourcing and vetting opportunities, investing, and post-investment monitoring;
• How Private Funds work, usual provisions and model (blind pool, 5-10y timeframe, restructuring, extensions, the secondaries market) and the J-Curve timing of returns;
• The type of retail and institutional investors allocating to Private Equity, as well as the usual types of provisions discussed;
• How companies change when undertaking an LBO (leveraged buyout), as well as the two ways of creating value for them – financial engineering and operational optimization;

Whether you’re an aspiring Private Equity associate, or an existing professional in a different area of high finance looking to know more about the Private Equity industry and practice, this course may be able to assist you.

Who this course is for:

• Aspiring PE associates
• Aspiring Investment Bankers
• Anybody curious about the inner workings of PE

Course content
6 sections • 32 lectures • 2h 38m total length

• Course Introduction
• Fundamentals
• Valuation and Models
• Investment Categories
• Fund Creation and Management
• In Closing

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