Olivier Sarkozy, half-brother of the French president Nicolas Sarkozy, is the managing director of the Carlyle Group’s global financial services division. In an interview with The Australian, in his first visit to that country, he assured that the re-emerging private equity could play a key role in the rebuilding of the European financial system. Traditional issuers can’t provide the transparency that the public market investors need to make informed, risk-adjusted decisions. “That is where private equity can step in and provide that transparency… In that context we become the most efficient source of capital to the industry and that is where the opportunity lies”, he says. Private equity investors could help to recapitalize financial institutions affected by the crisis in the Euro zone.

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