Comments on: Firm-wide financial controllers http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/firm-wide-financial-controllers/ A vignette into the aberrant thoughts of a private equiteer Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:18:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: The Private Equiteer http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/firm-wide-financial-controllers/comment-page-1/#comment-4227 The Private Equiteer Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:05:37 +0000 http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/?p=2230#comment-4227 I suspect the other issue is how attractive a company would be to a potential acquirer if its head functional people were tied up in a PE firm. I suspect the other issue is how attractive a company would be to a potential acquirer if its head functional people were tied up in a PE firm.

]]> By: Alex http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/firm-wide-financial-controllers/comment-page-1/#comment-4200 Alex Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:08:57 +0000 http://www.theprivateequiteer.com/?p=2230#comment-4200 Interesting & surprising suggestion... but one that goes down a new road for PE - towards the conglomerate head office type approach. Who knows - if hold periods increase as many predict, perhaps PE shops will start offering centralised HR, Legal, back office functions etc... Not sure i'd bet on it... Interesting & surprising suggestion… but one that goes down a new road for PE – towards the conglomerate head office type approach.

Who knows – if hold periods increase as many predict, perhaps PE shops will start offering centralised HR, Legal, back office functions etc…

Not sure i’d bet on it…

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