Private equity - financing with anticrisis odour

Abstract

Within the context of overcoming consequences of the current financial and economic crisis has been paid attention to other form of financing than debt financing, it is (external) equity financing. The aim of this article is to point out features of so-called informal private equity financing especially, and its development in Europe; to accent some controversial aspects of this form of financing and its further possible development that has been also a subject of the explicit EU support, and that has had a connection with the Policy of the European Union towards small and medium-sized enterprises support.