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Growth by transition: an overview of private equity in Germany

A new model of German private equity is emerging out of a period of extraordinary transformation. The combination of domestic and external factors since the middle of the 1990s resulted in a highly compressed evolution and produced one of the continent's largest and most sophisticated markets. Almeida Capital presents an overview of the German private equity market in their speech at the Super Return Summit in Munich, February 2002.

Germany is the third largest private equity market in Europe behind the UK and France. Its evolution has accelerated through three phases of growth in the last ten years: government sponsorship, opportunistic investment and internationalisation. However, to many institutional investors it has not fulfilled their expectations and now faces several stiff challenges before it develops into a distinct active market.

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