After private equity acquisition, prices increased by $92 per claim, or 28.4%, driven by a 78.1% increase in professional fees. Facility fees did not exhibit a statistically significant change.

An emerging option to extend portfolio company deadlines is gaining momentum, eclipsing go-public strategies or M&A.

Begenau, Juliane, and Emil N. Siriwardane. "Fee Variation in Private Equity." Journal of Finance 79, no. 2 (April 2024): 1199–1247. In this appendix, we investigate other sources of within-fund return ...

Hefty fees are also unpopular. Private equity firms usually charge high management ... especially those owned by families. This structure allows the existing management team to remain in place ...

Consolidation of physician practices, largely driven by health systems, has motivated policy efforts to move care toward lower-price, non–health system settings. At the same time, however, private ...