2. Dissecting Private Equity
What is Private Equity?
Why Should Your Clients Do It?
Why Should Your Clients Not Do It?
Investment Routes
Have new investors missed the boat?
3. What is Private Equity?
Venture Capital
Leveraged Buy-out (LBO) Business
4. Venture Capital
Early Late
Pre-
Seed R&D Start-up Stage Stage
flotation
Expansion Expansion
Description Idea Prototype Pre- Business is Initial sales Funding
operational operational encouraging allows planned
flotation
Application Sells equity Sells equity Product Hire employees, Working Working capital and
to investigate to prove development and buy equipment, capital second-generation
the idea the idea market testing fund working product
capital Debt-led
Debt-led
finance for
finance for
fixed assets
Risk fixed assets
6. The LBO Business
Replacement Institutional Management Management
Turnaround
capital buy-out buy-in buy-out
Seller Receiver Family __________ Orphan Assets ___________
Shareholder
Desperate __ Business with no Owner Succession __
Regulatory Sale
Management Definitely Not Incumbent No No Yes but
supplement
Risk
7. Dechra - An LBO From Gehe AG
2000
The UK’s leading distributary vetenary drugs
99
PBIT
98
97
96
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0
8. Sources of Capital & Risk Profile
Seed Start-Up Expansion Pre-flotation LBOs
Capital
Private Investors Specialist VCs Generalist VCs Generalist VCs Buy-out Firms
“Angels”
Public Markets* Public Markets* Investment Banks Investment Banks
Fund Managers
* Temporary phenomenon
9. The Case For Private Equity
Private equity out performs over the long term
Source: WM Company/BVCA Performance Measurement Survey
It is a loosely-correlated asset
May be able to increase performance without materially
increasing risk
10. 1999 Private Equity Returns
per annum % 3 years 5 years 10 years
Private Equity* 31.1 27.2 20.0
FTSE All-Share 20.4 20.3 14.9
FTSE 100 22.2 21.8 15.6
FTSE SmallCap 15.5 15.6 10.8
* median return
Source: BVCA WM Company
11. 1999 Private Equity Returns
per annum % 3 years 5 years 10 years
Total 31.1 27.2 20.0
Early Stage 15.8 16.6 8.7
Expansion Capital 30.3 26.9 12.6
Mid MBOs 19.9 22.1 17.3
Large MBOs 31.0 26.4 22.9
Source: BVCA WM Company
21. Europe Is Restructuring
Germany
Italy
France
Scandinavia
NL
USA
UK
0.00% 0.05% 0.10% 0.15% 0.20% 0.25% 0.30% 0.35%
Unquoted investment as % of GDP
Source:
EVCA
23. E-Commerce
Dot.com New Channel Fulfilment Infrastructure
Profile Classic internet ‘Clicks and mortar’. ‘Bricks and mortar’.
‘Bricks and mortar’.
company -usually New secondary on-line Outsourced back equipment, software, services etc to D
Suppliers of
retail or portals.
revenue streams. office (e.g. logistics)
of Dot.com
businesses.
Example Amazon.com Tesco, Dell, Clinphone* Bertrams* IBM
QXL.com MapQuest.com*, Irish Express Cargo CISCO
Freeserve 1-800 Batteries*, Trados* Braitrim* BT, Vitria*
Global People Network* Wincanton Agora*
* Portfolio company of Mercury Private Equity
25. Private Equity
Long-term out-performance
Risk & liquidity concerns are overplayed
Use to increase returns without materially affecting risk
Expert funders of change at a time of restructuring
26. Appendices
Definition of Terms
Investment Return
Detailed Schematic of MPE Investment Process
MPE Organisation Structure
Extract from MPE Business Planning Process
27. Appendices - Definition of Terms
Venture Capital:
– Early Stage (“Seed to Start-up”): Capital for businesses in the conceptual stage or where products are not developed and revenues and/or profits may not have
been achieved
– Expansion Late Stage (“First stage to Mezzanine”): Growth or expansion capital for mature “businesses in need of product extension and/or market expansion.
Sometimes referred to as development” capital
Buy-out Capital: Equity capital for acquisition or refinancing of a larger company
Restructuring Capital: New equity capital for financially/operationally distressed companies
Mezzanine (/subordinated) debt:
– Intermediate debt capital between equity and senior debt for acquisition or refinancing transactions
– The debtholder participates in equity appreciation through conversation features such as rights, warrants or options
Carried Interest (“carry”): This represents the share of a private equity fund’s profit that will accrue to the general partners
Fund of funds: Private equity funds whose principal activity consists of investing in other private equity funds. Investors in fund of funds can thereby increase their level
of diversification
General Partner (“GP”) /Sponsor: Managing partner of a Limited Partnership, who is responsible for the operations of the partnership and, ultimately any debts taken on
by the partnership
Hurdle Rate (or Preferred Return): A hurdle return allows investors to get preferential access to the profits of the partnership. In absence of reaching the hurdle return,
the general partners will not receive a share of the profits
Limited Partnership: Most private equity firms structure their funds as limited partnerships. Investors are the limited partners and private equity managers the general
partners
28. Appendices - Investment Return
Private equity investment return in a partnership typically follows a “J-curve” e.g. in the early years while
investments are being made a Private Equity fund will show negative returns.
Harvesting
Illustrative data only
25% Value creation
20% Portfolio construction
20.0%
14.5%
15%
13.5% 15.5%
10%
5% 6.5%
Year
IRR 0%
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
-2.0%
-1.0%
-5%
-5.0%
-10%
29. Appendices - Detailed schematic of
MPE Investment Process: PII
Growth buy-out £105m
Support Services Sector
Deal introduced by ‘primary contact’
Initial Appraisal: Market and technology leader,
under managed, requiring
first class CEO
Conversion: British Gas wanted
speedy and comprehensive
response - certainty
Diligence: 3 month exercise: key issues were
long term contracts, intellectual property and R & D
Negotiation &
Structure: Transneft contract
Exit: 1) Sale to leading oil-services group: Dresser, Schlumberger
Baker Oil & Tool
2) IPO
Business Plan Core business - improve utilisation
Acquisition - acquire Pipetronix/Rosen
New Products - fitness for purpose services
Organisation - make market facing,
change culture
Financials - double EBIT in 3 years
30. Appendices - MPE Organisation
Structure
I a n A rm it a g e
M a n a g in g P a r t n e r
F ra n c e s J a c o b
H e a d o f In v e s tm e n t
S p e c ia lis t G e n e r a lis t B u s in e s s
S e c to r Team s A n a ly s t
Team s P ool
S u p p o r t S e r v ic e s M e d ia I n f o r m a t io n & H e a lt h c a re LB O F ra n k fu rt London
C o m m u n ic a t io n
T e c h n o lo g y
J e re m y N ic k T re v o r Ia n L in d s a y A n d re w N ic k T re v o r L is a
S h a rm a n M a r t in B a y le y A r m it a g e D ib d e n H ayden T u rn e r B a y le y S to n e
R ic h a r d B en T h ie r r y J o n a th o n Thom as R om an TB A J o a c h im P h ilip p e P o lle t
M a th e w s H e w e ts o n d e p a n a f le u R e g is M it a rd P e lk a P e ip e r
P h ilip p e TB A
S c h w a lb e r
31. Appendices - MPE Business Planning Process
Process: The investment process is different to that employed by public security investors. The best is data driven,
disciplined and designed to minimise judgement calls with the intent to add value. Here is the MPE process:
Deals do not Key skill Combine internal An important Legal completion Complete Identify and Detailed exercise Either float,
flow resources skill. Not all value output is: through strategy effect for exit, c.2 years trade sale
Decision to items measured in review and improvements ahead of time or recapitalisation
Requires allocate resource People £££’S agreement Shareholders business plan in operations
consistent
marketing Win confidence Accounting system Employment
of counterparties & controls contracts
Normal disciplines Banking documents
Market position
Get the first call dynamics Sale & Purchase
agreement
Technology
Warranties &
Facilities Indemnities
Environmental Other contracts
e.g. supply contracts
Insurance
Management incentives
Legal