PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Gianfranco Gianfrate AU - Francesco Gouigoux TI - Private Equity Investments in Banks AID - 10.3905/jpe.2015.18.4.031 DP - 2015 Aug 31 TA - The Journal of Private Equity PG - 31--39 VI - 18 IP - 4 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/18/4/31.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/18/4/31.full AB - The authors investigate the performance change of 109 global banks that received private equity investments between 2000 and 2012. The investee banks experience significant improvements in operating profitability mainly due to increases in customer loans and the implementation of cost-cutting policies. Changes in leverage are not significant and have a very limited impact on banks’ performance post-investment. The increase in profitability is positively associated with the size of the acquired stake, suggesting that the larger the influence of the private equity fund on the target bank, the more effective the operating improvements.TOPICS: Private equity, real assets/alternative investments/private equity, global, statistical methods