Energy Future Holdings made an interest payment of about $270 million to subordinated bondholders on Nov 1, setting the stage for a few more months of restructuring talks that are likely to come to a head early next year, sister news service Reuters reported.
3 min read · 11 November 2013
3 min read · 11 November 2013
2 min read · 11 November 2013
2 min read · 11 November 2013
2 min read · 11 November 2013
When it comes to funding innovation, Québec has been long recognized as a wellspring of good ideas. It might for this reason come as no surprize that Québec’s leading commercialization hubs, MSBiV, SOVAR, Univalor and Valeo, have recently advanced some new strategies for leveraging the market potential of home-grown R&D and technological change.
5 min read · 08 November 2013
Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) and Industry Canada last week released a new study showing that, relative to non VC-backed firms, VC-backed firms grow faster in terms of their assets, number of employees, revenue, sales, wages and R&D expenditures. The good news is that it confirms the highly positive results of previous survey-based studies.
3 min read · 08 November 2013
Symbion Inc, a surgical facility operator that was taken private in 2007, is up for sale, in a deal that may fetch more than $800 million, people familiar with the matter told sister news service Reuters.
1 min read · 08 November 2013
Prophecy Coal Corp (TSX:PCY) has paid off the secured loan it received last year from Waterton Global Value LP, which is managed by Canadian mining-focused private equity firm Waterton Global Resource Management. This was achieved by the company's sale of shares in Prophecy Platinum Corp to unidentified private buyers. The Vancouver-based Prophecy Coal is engaged in developing energy projects in Mongolia.
4 min read · 08 November 2013
1 min read · 08 November 2013
