We have recently developed two training
programmes related to Private Equity
(PE): one to help PE funds meet HR challenges both before and after
a transaction and when preparing their exit; and the other to help
HR managers deal with a situation in which there is a PE
shareholder.
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Private Equity (PE) funds are amongst the most important
investors in takeovers and carve-outs, particularly given the
relative weakness of the European banking sector and the challenges
of financing of large- and midsize companies in a world of rising
interest rates.
Traditionally, some unions and labour activists have had
concerns about the operations of private equity investors (even
deriding them as 'locusts'), but some recent very
significant company rescues would have been inconceivable without
PE financing and both PE and HR have started to develop ways of
working together in the interests of increasing the human capital
buried deeply within the assets.
