How to enter

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What is the entry and judging process?
There are 10 awards for which private equity houses, professional advisers and bankers can enter themselves.

An independent research team from the London Business School Private Equity Institute will scrutinise each entry nomination. This team will also review other potential candidates in its assessment. The awards are therefore not confined to those who nominate themselves.

The London Business School Private Equity Institute will compile a shortlist for each category and interviews will be conducted with all shortlisted candidates. The research team will then provide a detailed and comprehensive dossier to a panel of distinguished expert judges. The judges then submit their individual scores for each category and then meet to finalise their verdicts at a judging session chaired by Real Deals and the London Business School.

This careful and detailed process ensures that the Private Equity Awards set the benchmark for excellence in UK private equity. They represent the highest accolade for the UK industry's dealmakers, advisers and bankers. And maybe this will be your turn to win one.

What qualifies for the awards?
1. Deals: All private equity transactions where the target business is headquartered in the UK, or deals which were led by a BVCA member firm on business with a significant UK presence.
2. Advisers and debt providers: This will be judged on services to the UK private equity industry in 2007.
3. Funds: All fundraisings by BVCA member firms, completed in 2007.