 |
 |
Dear Carolyn
As we head into the last days of 2009, it would be tempting to commiserate about the difficulties endured by almost everyone in the private equity market (aside from turnaround gurus for whom the year has been busy if not as fantastic as some had predicted). Instead I thought to build upon several positive developments and highlight comments made by several contributors to this year ending Pilot’s Log. > more |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| |
PILOTpartners specialises in providing executives who have high level expertise in:
Private Equity portfolio businesses
Difficult & distressed situations
Turnaround & restructuring
Change management projects
|
|
| |
 |
|
| |
Download the full newsletter in PDF format here
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Q3 Retail & Consumer Review - by Tony Lahert, Step Solutions
 The UK retail sector is critical to everyone across the world of investment, underpinning the economy as it does and accounting for some 40% of all employment in the UK private sector including the supply chain etc. Every quarter Step Solutions produces a review of the most up to date sector data which we believe is absolutely required reading, and it is published in Pilot's Log by kind permission of Step Solutions.
You can download a copy of the review> here
Regular issues of Pilot's Log
If you're not already a
subscriber
Click here to sign up >
|
|
| |
PILOTpartners have moved
Click here for details>
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
 Review 2009
Read our review of some of the private equity and turnaround cases we have worked on in 2009 >here |
|
|
|
Katherine Steiner-Dicks chats with Andrew Meehan, non executive Chairman of PILOTpartners and a number of private equity backed businesses, to find out how you can get the most out of a turnaround specialist in a recession and why he thinks being upfront is often the best medicine.
There are CROs and then there are CROs. The debate is out as to exactly how many top notch CROs are really out there and what will happen in 2010 when all those CROs are tied up. After musing this question, James Wheeler, managing partner at PILOTpartners thought a chat with Ian Gray, one of the busiest and best known CRO’s, could lend us a few pointers as to how he and his peers will have to adapt to meet today’s economic and resource challenges. 
“The CRO is the best job in the world...” says John Darlington, MD of restructuring services with KPMG. Is it? I don’t believe that private equity investors would necessarily agree with this statement. And a cynic might add that it all depends if the job works out better than expected. 