Private Equity as Strategic Buyers

Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2020-041/IV

68 Pages Posted: 5 Aug 2020 Last revised: 14 Oct 2022

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Dyaran Bansraj

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Han Smit

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)

Vadym Volosovych

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR); Tinbergen Institute

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Date Written: September 30, 2022

Abstract

We provide evidence of changes in the private equity (PE) business model from the traditional PE engineering toward focus on growth using the buy-and-build strategies as a setting. In these strategies, a PE firm buys a company and builds on that ``platform” through serial ``add-on" acquisitions. Our novel decomposition methodology compares the combined entities instead of individual firms, and uses artificial replicating strategies as controls. While the traditional engineering practices remain important for growth and efficiency, we demonstrate a new channel of operational improvements, based on synergies between companies.

Keywords: Private Equity, Leveraged Buyouts, Buy-and-Build, Operating Performance, Synergies

JEL Classification: G23, G34, L25

Suggested Citation

Bansraj, Dyaran and Smit, Han and Volosovych, Vadym, Private Equity as Strategic Buyers (September 30, 2022). Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2020-041/IV, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3646984 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3646984

Dyaran Bansraj

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Han Smit

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) ( email )

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