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The little book of Private Equity - EVCA

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<strong>The</strong>re are several ways that<br />

companies can be owned and can<br />

raise fresh capital for investment.<br />

Companies can be state-owned.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y can be owned by families or<br />

big businessmen and women.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y can be listed on a stock<br />

market (and so have thousands<br />

or sometimes more than a million<br />

individual and institutional owners).<br />

And they can be backed by<br />

private equity.<br />

This <strong>little</strong> <strong>book</strong> is about private<br />

equity and how it owns and invests<br />

in companies.

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