/ OVERVIEW: We are pleased to share with you our third annual PE CEO Report. As in our previous years, we asked about PE CEOs for their perspective on compensation, governance, the relationship with ...

Vardis Proud To Support RTI Surgical Appointing Pascale Witz As the New Chair of the Board of Directors

/ OVERVIEW: We are pleased to share with you our 2021 Private Equity CFO Survey. It's our sixth annual installment. During April 2021, we contacted CFOs of PE portfolio companies worldwide and com...

Dan Sunderland is a Special Advisor to Vardis, enhancing the firm’s Financial Officers recruitment capabilities.

We are pleased to share the results of our 2020 Private Equity CEO Survey. We appreciate the participation of more than 200 CEOs of private equity backed businesses worldwide who made this report po...

We are pleased to share with you the latest in our series of Private Equity Reports – an in-depth review of Portfolio Company Equity Participation Plans. This report is based on 375 survey responses r...

The survey was administered online from October through December 2019. Respondents consisted of 56 managing directors, operating partners, or founders from PE firms and 52 senior executives—prima...

/ OVERVIEW: We are pleased to share with you this Addendum to our 2020 Private Equity CFO Survey. In the course of conducting our annual CFO Survey, we asked about PE CFOs to gaze into their collect...

Vardis Proud To Support Open GI In Appointing Simon Badley As The New CEO

We are pleased to share with you the results of our 2019 Private Equity CFO Survey. As in our previous surveys, we explore compensation norms, investment and governance trends, the relationship betwe...

Vardis Proud To Support the Senvion in Appointing Hans-Jürgen Wiecha as the new Chief Financial Officer of Senvion

Vardis Proud To Support the Senvion in Appointing Yves Rannou as the new Chief Executive of Senvion

Vardis Proud To Support the Northview Group in Appointing Mark Arnold as Group CEO

/ OVERVIEW: During October 2017 (following up on its 2016 survey), Vardis contacted the CFOs of 925 North American Private Equity portfolio companies to review job content, differences between private...

Vardis is proud to support Forterra Building Products in its appointment of Katherine Innes Ker as an Independent Non-Executive Director

Wednesday 20th September 2017 Vardis/AlixPartners Private Equity Breakfast & Expert Panel Discussion, Fortnum & Mason, 181 Piccadilly, London. PE industry experts will explore the differing expectati...

Vardis is proud to support Forterra Building Products in its appointments of Martin Sutherland as an Independent Non-Executive Director

Market conditions are forcing private equity (PE) firms to hold their investments longer than ever. Seeking new ways to create value, they are eyeing the clear links between a portfolio company’s over...

/ INTRODUCTION: Partnership of Vardis and AlixPartners Surveyed over 100 PE firm partners and portfolio company CEOs in 2017 Topics: Explored the relationship between CEO and PE firms, including: ...

OVERVIEW: In October 2016 Vardis contacted the CFOs of 620 North American and European private equity portfolio companies with questions on compensation and job content. Those surveyed are representa...

Why would you be one of the 38% who don’t know what they are looking for? The Alix Partners Vardis 2015 Succession Planning survey identified that an astonishing 38% of investment firms don’t have a ...

Vardis is proud to support Lone Star Funds & Forterra Building Products in its appointments of Paul Lester as Chairman & Justin Atkinson & Divya Seshamani as NED's

Vardis is Proud To Support Norbain Holdings, the Fire, Security and IT/IP Connectivity Distribution Company, In Appointing Jeremy Hockham as Managing Director.

The AlixPartner-Vardis 2015 Succession Planning Survey found divergent views on ideal CEO tenure: 65% of investment firms say 3-5 years is ideal (28% public companies) and 41% public companies favour...

2015 VARDIS - ALIX PARTNERS CEO SUCCESSION PLANNING SURVEY. CEO tenure is averagely shorter in private equity as investment theses seek to deliver over shorter timescales to maximise returns for in...

The Global Venture Capital Confidence Survey is an annual survey of venture capital, private equity and growth equity investors around the world. The survey covers: investor confidence in global inves...

Dry Powder Private Equity investors have become more conservative fundraisers and disciplined buyers. The correlation between fundraising and deal activity has become much more stable in recent yea...

EY's second annual CFO survey of the global private equity industry. Many believe the overwhelming demand for private equity labels it as the asset class of choice. As the industry positions itself f...

Vardis Proud To Support Hovis & The Gores Group, In Appointing Martyn Wilks As CEO

Exits from buyouts exceeded $450 billion, surpassing the all-time high by a wide margin. The flow of so much capital came as a welcome relief to LPs and GPs alike and has infused the industry with new...

2014 was a good year for the private equity market. 2015 will get even better... Germany – most attractive market. Industrial production and consumer sector on the rise.

THE EUROPEAN PRIVATE EQUITY ("PE") OUTLOOK 2015 IS THE SIXTH IN A SERIES LAUNCHED BY ROLAND BERGER IN 2009. THE OUTLOOK INCLUDES A SURVEY OF OVER 800 EXPERTS FROM PRIVATE EQUITY COMPANIES ACROSS EURO...

M&A BOOM SET TO LIFT EUROPE’S GLOOM THE SIGNS ARE POSITIVE FOR A STRONG YEAR OF DEAL-MAKING AHEAD, BUT EUROPE’S STRUGGLING ECONOMY REMAINS A CONCERN

Preqin provides a round-up of this year’s 10 hottest topics in the private equity industry

Private Equity Demystified For over two decades, from the early 1980s, the developing private equity industry largely flew below the radar of public scrutiny. In 2007 the private equity industry c...

Vardis Proud To Support Vernacare, TPG Capital & Goldman Sachs In Appointing George Kennedy CBE As Chairman

Service Makes A Comeback

These articles showcase recent PE- and VC-related research from leading international academic thinkers. Senior academics and practitioners have been invited to discuss and challenge the findings. I...

Explaining the concept of Private Equity.

Steven Neil Kaplan, Neubauer Family Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, the University of Chicago Booth Business School discussing what Private Equity firms do.

Sales of pharmaceuticals in China are already the third-highest in the world, and China is likely to become the world’s second-largest drug market within the next year. Multinational pharmaceutical co...

Industry performance is better than previously thought, but success is getting harder to repeat. Investors and firms will need to adapt to changing conditions.

Bain & Company’s third annual Global Healthcare Private Equity Report, their review of the significant trends of the past year and a look at some of the most compelling prospects for private equity in...

Most CEOs of private-equity-owned companies agree that private-equity (PE) firms can help their companies and advance their individual careers. But CEOs and PE firms often do not fully appreciate each...

One of the most powerful tools available to CEOs and CFOs to drive growth is their company’s approach to capital allocation across its portfolio of businesses. BCG research and client experience sugge...

We rely on detailed assessments of over 300 CEO candidates in firms funded by private equity (PE) investors – both buyout (LBOs) and venture capital (VCs) investors. Performed from 2000 to 2006 by gh...

Vardis Proud To Support LGC & Bridgepoint In Appointing Tim Robinson As CEO

Vardis Proud To Support CEVA & Apollo in Appointing Inna Kuznetsova as Chief Commercial Officer