Private equity firms love to talk about “incentive alignment.” It’s a playbook that’s practically cookie-cutter: Get the bonus structure right, keep management motivated, grow top-line revenue, cut ...

Private equity (PE) sponsors often provide incentives to founders, equity holders, employees, directors, and officers of portfolio companies in ...

Executives considering open PE leadership roles are coming in with heightened expectations, in a sector that has seen some of ...

As a wave of consolidation sweeps through the industry, it has become even more crucial for accounting firms to exercise caution and discernment.

There is much research on the fact that, structurally, external board members are in a less powerful position to perform this role than PE fund managers. In fact, the latter act as ‘active owners’, ...