Private Equity Investment In Cross-border Syndicate As To Enter A New Market Strategy: Case Analysis Method

This dissertation reviews the extant literature on cross-border private equity syndication and synthesizes these theories with a specific standpoint of private equity houses. In this pioneer research, motivations, roles, benefits and risks of private equity investors in cross-border transactions are mapped.With analysis of the two markets, and some in-depth cases, the paper delivers more evidence on why, how and with whom to syndicate in private equity industries between Italy and China, which could represent European developed markets and emerging markets respectively. In the end, the paper proposes cross-border syndication as a good choice when PE firms decide to enter a new market.