Private equity & secondaries · Podcast

Dipan Patel on Permira’s ‘Artisanal’ Approach to Private Equity

It is a manager's own account of how a private equity firm organizes itself by sector and partnership model rather than by platform size, which is the kind of structural detail allocators weigh when comparing PE managers. The discussion of technology risk in portfolio companies also speaks to how a buyout manager frames a theme that cuts across holdings.

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Summary

By the private equity & secondaries desk

Dipan Patel, co-CEO of Permira, joins Goldman Sachs Exchanges: Great Investors to describe how the firm runs a sector-specialized investment approach and a private partnership structure, and how that differs from firms that have grown through platform scale and breadth. He covers Permira's strategy for transforming portfolio companies, why those assets have drawn strategic buyers, and how the firm assesses technology risk across its holdings.

Permira's co-CEO contrasts its sector-specialized approach and private partnership structure with firms that have grown through platform scale and breadth.
He discusses the firm's strategy for transforming portfolio companies.
He addresses what has made those portfolio assets attractive to strategic buyers.
He shares how Permira assesses technology risk in its portfolio.

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