Private Equity
Headed South: With the market underperforming as of late, how are those PE and VC backed IPOs faring? Salmon’s Smackdown: My Reuters colleague gives Dennis Berman, and his lying grandmother, the third degree for the SharesPost piece Do Not Retweet: A flash mob ends tragically
1 min read · 19 April 2011
O’Melveny & Myers LLP partner Mark Easton has been named deputy general counsel with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. He will help staff identify long-term growth strategies and business plans for the company.
2 min read · 18 April 2011
2 min read · 18 April 2011
Got Our Emails? Get our emails. 2-7-ed: The DOJ shuts down online poker Funding: SilverRail Technologies raises $5M as it expands its rail ticket sales platform Will He, Won’t He, Should He? Nobody’s quite sure what to make of the Donald’s so-called presidential campaign
1 min read · 18 April 2011
BlueRun Ventures, the California-based early-stage investor, hired Jay Jamison, a Microsoft veteran, as one of its venture partners. BlueRun has also promoted Andrew Thornborrow and Cheryl Cheng to Operating Partners. Thornborrow was BlueRun’s in house counsel and will now oversee both legal and finance. Cheng was Director of Marketing and will now manage marketing and business development.
2 min read · 15 April 2011
IPO-Yeah! Blackstone, Warburg high-five as energy co. Kosmos preps $621M offering Deals Gone Bad: CVS-Caremark pharmacy-PBM deal comes under pressure to undo itself SF Roundup: Xconomy’s Timmerman serves up the latest in Bay Area life sciences funding I’m Sorry, What?? The forthcoming PlayBook only lets you email if it’s hooked up to a BlackBerry
1 min read · 15 April 2011
Best Doctors Inc., the tech-enabled healthcare services provider, has accepted a minority investment from Osaka, Japan-based Nippon Life Insurance Co. The transaction, from which terms were not disclosed, closed on April 5. Investment bank Harris Williams acted as exclusive financial advisor to the seller.
3 min read · 14 April 2011
Dallas-based private equity firm Brazos Private Equity Partners has made a “significant” investment in Vision Source, a Texas-based provider of supply chain solutions for independent optometrists and dentists. Terms of the transaction were not publicized. Vision Source’s existing management will continue to run the company and retain a significant equity stake in the business.
3 min read · 14 April 2011
DJO Global, a portfolio company of Blackstone Capital Partners, acquired Dr. Comfort from Merit Capital Partners. Specifics of the transaction were not disclosed. Merit Managing Director Tom Campion worked on the transaction.
2 min read · 14 April 2011
Got Our Emails? Get our emails. Going Public: Glencore announces $12B IPO Milner to Hong Kong: The ubiquitous Facebook investor opens another new shop Forbes’ Stephen Schaefer: Where are PE’s big buyouts? More from Boston: Xconomy checks in from the Boston Biotech Business Development Conference
1 min read · 14 April 2011
