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By Luís GALVEIAS, COO of LPEA
If we were to speak about the past decade, Private Equity (PE) - and alternatives in general, had probably one of the best decades ever. The asset class is robust, made of giants (Blackstone, Carlyle, KKR, TPG, Warburg Pincus, etc....) but also of 20.000 other smaller teams spread across the globe. It draws the attention of deep-pocket institutional investors as well as of smaller but quite entrepreneurial family offices. Performance-wise it is difficult to find industry consensus but many sources rate PE as the most resilient and best performing asset class in a long term scenario.
In Luxembourg in particular, PE had seen a boom, first with back-office operations from the world’s biggest PE firms and later with a...
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