How employee ownership drives private equity value creation
It offers an operating partner's account of the value-creation levers a PE manager uses after the deal closes, which allocators may weigh when assessing how a manager works with portfolio companies. It also addresses employee ownership and incentives as a retention and performance tool rather than a purely financial one.
Summary
By the private equity & secondaries deskAn interview with Marc Jourlait, an operating partner at The Riverside Company, on how private equity firms create value in portfolio companies. He discusses collaboration between deal teams and operating partners, trust and early communication with portfolio company leadership, and broad-based employee ownership programs. The conversation also covers financial wellness and shared incentives as ways to build an ownership mindset across portfolio companies.
- Deal teams and operating partners can collaborate more effectively across the investment lifecycle
- Trust, transparency and early communication are described as essential to portfolio company leadership
- Broad-based employee ownership is linked to engagement, retention and operational performance
- Financial wellness and shared incentives are presented as ways to build an ownership mindset
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