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GPF designs new private equity model to help overcome typical disadvantages encountered by investors

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The Green Power Funding (GPF) Private Equity Model has been structured to benefit GPF’s Strategic Investors by overcoming disadvantages of typical Private Equity Funds. The Model is an adaptive and evolutionary way to address these shortcomings.

Investor disadvantages with typical private equity (PE) funds: 1. “Blind Pool” 2. Management Fees 3. Information Flow 4. Valuation / Conflicts 5. Lock Ups 6. Capital Markets Conditions 7. Domain Expertise 8. Liquidity / Exit Opportunities

The GPF Private Equity Model is designed to create and fully align the interests of a select group of Strategic Investors and GPF, capable first of mitigating risks and, only then, maximizing returns in a series of renewable energy Private Equity “Club Deal” investments.

GPF has been formed to bring together a team of highly specialized engineering talent with long-term technical experience in the renewable energy sector and geographically positioned in the most important growth regions of the new world. By integrating and aligning these technical teams with its enhanced Private Equity Model the GPF provides the financial, geopolitical, managerial acumen and structure to provide superior oversight, from sourcing through monitoring to exit.

Given the rapid changes already witnessed in the renewable energy sector, and with the pendulum swinging even more strongly in ......................

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