Here is a list of the best Private Equity books, some I have read myself, some that I did research on, and all have great reviews!
- The Private Equity Playbook: Management’s Guide to Working with Private Equity (2019)
- Private Equity: How the Business of Private Equity Funds Works (2018)
- Private Equity Laid Bare (2017)
- King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone (2012)
- Investing in Real Estate Guide to Real Estate Partnerships, Funds, Joint Ventures & Crowdfunding (2018)
- Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions 2018 (2018)
- The Paper LBO: Proven Methods for Acing the Private Equity Interview (2018)
- Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street (2014)
- Acquired: Now What?: Embrace the flux and uncertainty of M&A and become a savvy and bulletproof business professional. YOUR JOURNEY AWAITS! (Volume 1) (2018)
- Big Debt Crises (2018)
- Getting a Job in Private Equity: Behind the Scenes Insight into How Private Equity Funds Hire (2008)
- From Zero to Sixty on Hedge Funds and Private Equity 3.0 (2015)
The Private Equity Playbook: Management’s Guide to Working with Private Equity (2019)
Private equity firms are on the rise and rapidly changing the game. Today more than 5,500 P.E. firms own tens of thousands of companies, so it is essential for CEOs and senior management executives to understand exactly how private equity firms operate. This invaluable resource can help you devise a winning P.E. game plan for the sale of your own company that offers you greater freedom and financial success.
Private Equity: How the Business of Private Equity Funds Works (2018)
Private equity funds are often called grasshoppers or corporate raiders. Are these accusations true? Are financial investors who generally acquire non-listed companies and sell them after a few years for as much profit as possible really value destroying?
Private Equity Laid Bare (2017)
Designed for an MBA course on private equity, this textbook (now version 1.7) aims to familiarize any reader with the jargon and mechanics of private equity using simplified examples, real-life situations and results from thorough academic studies. The intention is to have a book that can be read more like a novel than like a regular textbook.
King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone (2012)
In King of Capital, David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and ‘barbarians at the gate’ into disciplined, risk-conscious investors while the financial establishment—banks and investment bankers such as Citigroup, Bear Stearns, Lehman, UBS, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley…
Investing in Real Estate Guide to Real Estate Partnerships, Funds, Joint Ventures & Crowdfunding (2018)
Investing in Real Estate Private Equity is your practical guide to investing in real estate through private offerings with established companies. The passive investment strategies for wealth building and income generation described in this book have traditionally been used by some of the world’s most sophisticated institutional investors, but are now available to nearly everyone thanks to recent regulatory changes.
Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions 2018 (2018)
The cornerstone resource from two of the industry’s leading authorities is now available with analysis of extensive changes resulting from the Tax Act and Proposed Regulations including Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2018 Edition, will guide you through the complex changes in the Tax Act and help you and avoid legal pitfalls and minimize your clients’ tax liabilit…
The Paper LBO: Proven Methods for Acing the Private Equity Interview (2018)
The goal of this book is to help you get a job in private equity (PE). The intended audience of this book is undergraduates, MBAs or anyone looking to make an early in-career change. The focus of the book is to show you how to build a relatively simple (“paper”) leveraged buyout (LBO) model, given that it is a primary focus of the PE interview.
Private Equity at Work: When Wall Street Manages Main Street (2014)
Private equity firms have long been at the center of public debates on the impact of the financial sector on Main Street companies. Are these firms financial innovators that save failing businesses or financial predators that bankrupt otherwise healthy companies and destroy jobs?
Acquired: Now What?: Embrace the flux and uncertainty of M&A and become a savvy and bulletproof business professional. YOUR JOURNEY AWAITS! (Volume 1) (2018)
MERGER. BUYOUT. HOSTILE TAKEOVER.You might think these words are terrifying harbingers of career doom. But what if the opposite was true? What if an acquisition was just enough to shake the status-quo and send your career soaring? Author and technologist Keno Vigil has a story to tell, having undergone six—yes! You read it right! SIX!—corporate acquisitions in a two-decade career.
Big Debt Crises (2018)
"Ray Dalio's excellent study provides an innovative way of thinking about debt crises and the policy response." "Ray Dalio's book is must reading for anyone who aspires to prevent or manage through the next financial crisis." "A terrific piece of work from one of the world's top investors who has devoted his life to understanding markets and demonstrated that understandin…
Getting a Job in Private Equity: Behind the Scenes Insight into How Private Equity Funds Hire (2008)
If you’re seriously considering a career in private equity, you have to become familiar with how firms hire. With Getting a Job in Private Equity, you’ll gain invaluable insights that will allow you to stay one step ahead of other individuals looking to secure a position in this field.
From Zero to Sixty on Hedge Funds and Private Equity 3.0 (2015)
This books looks to give you two things regarding hedge funds, private equity, and other asset management firms. Two things that anybody can learn and then use to talk about with their friends and coworkers. The first is the knowledge – a foundation tool set of key words, industry phrases and financial concepts made clear in plain english. This book puts meanings and understanding to terms you may have already heard in finance but did not quite understand.
Best Private Equity Books: The Ultimate Collection
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some private equity books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Financial Modeling and Valuation: A Practical Guide to Investment Banking and Private Equity
Author(s): Paul Pignataro
ID: 3250039, Publisher: Wiley, Year: 2022, Size: 11 Mb, Format: pdf
Financial modeling and valuation : a practical guide to investment banking and private equity
Author(s): Paul Pignataro
ID: 3251806, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 26 Mb, Format: pdf
Private Equity and Venture Capital: Theory, Evolution and Valuation
Author(s): Serena Gallo, Vincenzo Verdoliva
ID: 3355626, Publisher: Springer, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are really chart-busters according to USA Today, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.