Anne Glover has recently taken up a new role as chairman of the British Venture Capital Association. She talks to Colm Gilmore about her new position, Japanese river metaphors and the key role that the London Stock Exchange should have in the European private equity market
9 min read · 12 January 2013
Private equity firms are undergoing some radical mutations as they flee early stage ventures: but have they got the timing right?
3 min read · 12 January 2013
When the going gets tough, discussions between senior debt and mezzanine providers in a capital structure can get heated. Does a new approach to inter-creditor agreements in Europe make sense asks Stephen Mostyn-Williams
6 min read · 12 January 2013
JLL Partners sees two huge successes, and one carbohydrated disaster, in the course of a single month
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
FICTION IMITATES CARLYLE 2004-05-01 Staff Writer A recent spy thriller from best selling author Robert Ludlum, The Altman Code, describes a shadowy ‘multiproduct, multinational conglomerate’ that may be at the center of an ‘international cabal… thrusting the world to the very brink of war.’<br> <br
2 min read · 12 January 2013
New Enterprise Associates enjoys success with SMIC IPO
5 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
