73% of PE-backed CEOs are replaced during the hold period. Why leadership succession remains private equity’s most poorly managed challenge.
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European private equity is shifting from CFO to CRO. Discover why revenue leadership has become the most strategically important hire in PE portfolios today.
The average European PE hold period is now 6.1 years. The leadership strategy governing most portfolios was built for three to five. That gap is expensive.
Leadership in a private equity-backed business is one of the most consequential, and most misunderstood, determinants of investment returns. Sponsors spend months modelling entry valuations, negotiating deal terms, and stress-testing…
Budgeting in a fast-growing private equity-backed business is not the same exercise it is in a corporate, an owner-managed business, or a pre-institutional startup. The constraints are different. The expectations…
Buy and build remains Europe’s dominant PE value creation strategy. The difference between programmes that deliver and those that disappoint is almost always the same thing: leadership.
The private equity CFO search brief that worked in 2020 is the wrong brief to run today. Sponsors who are still screening for technical accounting depth, clean audit track records,…
As AI adoption accelerates across European business, fewer than 15% of PE-backed companies have a dedicated AI leader at C-suite level. HMN Capital examines the talent gap, the profiles that work, and what sponsors should be doing now.
The weeks after deal close are the most critical – and the most overlooked – window for getting leadership right. We set out how to approach post-acquisition executive search and avoid the mistakes that cost hold-period time.
Most PE investors scrutinise financials and market position during due diligence. Fewer apply the same rigour to the management team. We set out why talent due diligence matters — and how to do it properly.