The Centre for Management Buy-out and Private Equity Research (CMBOR) was the first centre to be established that is devoted to the study of private equity and buyouts. It was founded in March 1986 at the Nottingham University Business School to monitor and analyse management buy-outs, with and without private equity investment, in a comprehensive and objective way. This private equity research group is regarded as the pre-eminent provider of private equity statistics for Europe and is supported by Barclays Private Equity Limited.

The Business School is based in the state-of-the-art Jubilee Campus, a 40-acre site approximately one mile from the main University Park campus. The campus also contains the School of Computer Science, the School of Education and the National College for School Leadership.

As an independent body, CMBOR has developed a wide-ranging and detailed database of nearly 30,000 companies which provides the only complete set of statistics on management buy-outs and buy-ins (with and without private equity funding) in the UK and Continental Europe.

In addition to its regular publications, CMBOR also undertakes bespoke research activity on a funded basis. CMBOR has carried out research on private equity and venture capital for UK and international government agencies, venture capitalists, banks and professional advisers. The Centre maintains an important international network of academic and professional collaborators in Western Europe, the CEE countries and North America.

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