Europe's mezzanine market is flush with capital, and more investors are looking to gain access. Philip Borel finds out what market practitioners make of it all
6 min read · 12 January 2013
What is my portfolio worth? Valuation guidelines remain a big topic for every LP and GP active in the asset class. As private equity investments by both venture capital and buyout funds grow increasingly complex and spread across borders, the necessary uniformity in valuation practices is becoming more of a reality, say Colin Blaydon and Fred Wainwright of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
9 min read · 12 January 2013
The return of strategic buyers in the US is giving a long-awaited boost to exit opportunities for private equity firms. Conditions for exiting appear particularly compelling for smaller portfolio companies.William Kan, CFA and Georgiana Fung, strategists with Merrill Lynch Small Cap Research, dissect the changes that newly acquisitive corporations have brought to the US private equity landscape
5 min read · 12 January 2013
The two firms are equally partnering with company management to acquire technology services company BBNT Solutions, the creator of the first network e-mail, from Verizon.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
New Enterprise Associates enjoys success with SMIC IPO
5 min read · 12 January 2013
A recent ILPA meeting focused on the secondary market and the allure of liquidity
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Continental Europe is today's destination of choice for big buyout
6 min read · 12 January 2013
Electra Partners Europe has sold Premium Credit, a UK finance company, to MBNA Europe for £67m, achieving an IRR of 29 percent.
2 min read · 12 January 2013
Techno Venture Management, the German-US venture capital firm, has promoted Stephen Hoffman to general partner and Josef Moosholzer to venture partner.
1 min read · 12 January 2013
Sterling Capital Partners is backing the nationwide expansion of Florida Coastal School of Law, a for-profit law school.
2 min read · 12 January 2013