Antoon Schneider and Cristina Henrik
Private-Equity Minority Investments
Can Less Be More?
Boston Consulting Group, 2015
Aperçu
Though they give private equity firms less control, minority interests offer certain advantages to both buyers and sellers.
Recommendation
Taking a minority shareholding is becoming more common for large private equity (PE) funds, according to Boston Consulting Group professionals Antoon Schneider and Cristina Henrik. As PE firms seek to deploy roughly $1.2 trillion of uninvested capital, they’re more open to atypical deals, while sellers like the control they retain and the know-how they gain from minority investors. However, PE funds need to do their homework to ensure the success of their minority stakes. getAbstract recommends this study’s insights on this little-reported phenomenon to private equity investors as well as to companies considering working with them.
Summary
About the Authors
Antoon Schneider is a managing director at the Boston Consulting Group, where Cristina Henrik is a principal.
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