Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment in Private Equity

Simon Witney, Visiting Professor in Practice at London School of Economics, has worked as a private equity lawyer for over 20 years. Simon completed his PhD in 2017, teaches private equity law at LSE and sits on the Council of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. Simon's practice now focuses on regulation, company law and responsible investment in the private equity sector.

Introduction; Part I. How Should Private Equity Governance Systems Look?: 1. Mapping an analytical framework; 2. Private ordering in private equity and its implications; Part II. What Actually Happens?: 3. Agency cost mitigation; 4. Improving decision-making and protecting wider interests; Part III. Corporate Governance Regulation in the UK and Private Equity's Response: 5. The relevance of business judgement regulation; 6. Dealing with the duties to avoid and disclose conflicts of interest; 7. Rules affecting the exercise of power by shareholders and their nominated directors; 8. Recent corporate governance reforms, best practice codes and their impact; Part IV. How Governance Can Affect Corporate Performance: 9. How do academics explain private equity outperformance? 10. Improving governance to improve performance; Conclusion. Corporate governance and responsible investment; Bibliography; Index.