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Private Equity Syndication: Agency Costs, Reputation and Collaboration
Author(s) -
Meuleman Miguel,
Wright Mike,
Manigart Sophie,
Lockett Andy
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of business finance and accounting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.282
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1468-5957
pISSN - 0306-686X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5957.2009.02124.x
Subject(s) - web syndication , club deal , private equity , reputation , business , agency cost , private equity firm , equity (law) , finance , agency (philosophy) , private equity fund , alliance , leveraged buyout , position (finance) , venture capital , corporate governance , shareholder , social science , sociology , political science , law , philosophy , epistemology
Syndicates are a form of inter‐firm alliance in which two or more private equity firms invest together in an investee firm and share a joint pay‐off, and are an enduring feature of the leveraged buyout (LBO) and private equity industry. This study examines the relationship between syndication and agency costs at the investor‐investee level, and the extent to which the reputation and the network position of the lead investor mediate this relationship. We examine this relationship using a sample of 1,122 buyout investments by 80 private equity companies in the UK between 1993 and 2006. Our findings show that where agency costs are highest, and hence ex‐post monitoring by the lead investor is more important, syndication is less likely to occur. The negative relationship between agency costs and syndication, however, is alleviated by the reputation and network position of the lead investor firm.