Acknowledgments

To write a book is like a very long journey where you meet and discover new and old people, important travel mates, unknown places, and come across minor details that inspire you to finish. Everyone you meet contributes, sometimes importantly, sometimes incredibly, to the journey. And now as I’m writing the last pages of this book, I owe a debt of gratitude to the many friends, colleagues from academia, and practitioners I met during my journey through the private equity system in Europe and with whom I shared many days, sometimes years, together.

Particularly, I would like to thank my many colleagues. Pierluigi Fabrizi, Giancarlo Forestieri, Paolo Mottura, and Roberto Ruozi, who supported me in the beginning of my research and ...

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