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Welcome to the July issue of Pilot's Log Back to Email If you are interested in unexpected acquisition opportunities; learning how your portfolio companies can improve cash generation; finding out how renewable energy investments can best ride out the funding gap; and ensuring your firm improves its public identity in the current investment climate, then it looks like our contributors have cracked yet another well balanced edition of PILOT’s Log for you. In this month’s case study, turnaround executive Alan Gullan, relays his recent experience turning around a private equity-backed speciality consumer finance business that revealed unexpected acquisition opportunities once it got its banking relationships and future credit lines in order. Elliott Mannis, an independent turnaround executive, analyses in his sector report the funding gap for renewable energy companies and proposes a way that they can best ride out the recession. Turnaround specialist Joe Considine sets out in a mini-guide a number of practical actions your portfolio companies can take to improve their cash intake; while Nigel Guy, a member of the Corporate Finance Faculty Board at the ICAEW and Director of Private Equity at Gulf Finance, speaks to us in an interview on the importance of integrating turnaround specialists into troubled private equity investments, how firms can improve their public image while still making tough decisions, and why private equity managers must not get too hands-on. My best wishes Michael Gebauer, Private Equity Partner T. 07834 235 458 E. m.gebauer@pilotpartners.eu Back to Email

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