Marrying the right CEO to your investment
Interview with Mark Ligertwood, of Dunedin Capital, on getting to grips with one of the most critical and widely debated issues facing private equity investors…selecting the right CEO for your investment. Read more

Private Equity and Pension De-RiskingKelvin Wilson, Associate Director with Grant Thornton’s Pensions Advisory Practice focuses on critical issues for private equity investors, often forgotten in the first round of due diligence or the euphoria of looking at an exit.
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Bribery and the Risks for Private Equity Investors
In 1995 the UK signed up to the OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention. 16 years later we attempted to comply with our obligations by passing the Bribery Act 2010.
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Delivering value for our clients
Presenting summary case study extracts for PILOTcases has the approval of the interim executives and the clients concerned but to preserve confidentiality, names have been changed or abbreviated.
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Getting management right: bigamy, burning platforms and bottlenecks
In 1910, Ralph Furse joined the Colonial Office’s ‘patronage office’ and set about improving the way that young men were selected for their roles directly governing large swathes of Africa and Asia.
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Point of View
Peter Hammermann, Co-Head of Barclays Private Equity Europe and Managing Director of the firm’s German operations, speaks to Pilot Partners’ Michael Gebauer. Read more

PE and Interims in CEE
Tamas Toth, CEO of Interim Resourcing LTD, PILOTpartners’ affiliated firm in Hungary, talks here about trends in the CEE private equity market and the response of the interim management sector to new opportunities in the region. Read more

The Pilot’s Log Q&A
Michael Gebauer talks to Robert Deri, an interim Executive about internet mail order growth and his latest role as Group Finance Director for Scala Holdings plc and the process resulting in the successful sale of the business. Read more

Change Management and Private Equity
Change Management is surely just the internal actions in a company to execute the structure plan and correct the business processes, right?. No, there’s a lot more to it than this, says Nic Vine. Read more

PILOT on launching SMI
PILOTpartners announces the formation of a global resourcing partnership with a common focus on senior level interim executive resourcing, operating within a framework of common ethical and operational standards. Read more

Bowmark Capital’s Kevin Grassby dissects private equity’s fittest proposition. Now is the time for many private equity investors to play it safe.

Industrial Revolution

Bruno Deschamps, a senior adviser to 3i and founder and managing partner of development capital firm, Entrepreneurs Partners LLP, shares his views on the future role of private equity and why it will mean a cultural evolution for many firms.

Turnaround to remember

La Seda de Barcelona turnaround completed with capital increase and relisting following debt restructuring in an English Court. Alan Tilley of Bryan Mansell & Tilley reports on how it became a name to remember in debt restructurings in August 2010.

PILOT launch CANE

PILOTpartners announces the launch of its Chairman and Non-Executive Practice (CANE). Why CANE and why now? John Gerry outlines the three main structural reasons for this initiative and explains why it should matter to private equity folk.

The Pilot’s Log Q&A
Michael Gebauer talks to interim business integration expert, Paul Siegenthaler

UK Retail – more pain to come?
by Gavin George, European MD of GA Asset Advisors

What’s happening in France?
James Wheeler talks to NIM Europe’s Pierre van den Broek