Our expertise in private equity Set up in 1985, Catalana d'Iniciatives is a good example of the results that can be achieved in terms of economic and business development through collaboration between the public and private sectors. This is clearest when the boost provided by private equity to strategic products for the country's development is combined with the criteria of obtaining profitability and generation of value for the shareholders of each project in which we participate. Over the past few years, Catalana d'Iniciatives has overseen a number of operations in which executives of the companies (through MBOs) or executives of other companies in the same industry (through MBIs) become managers.