Private Equity
3 min read · 22 December 2010
Deal: Citi’s infrastructure arm strikes Australian ports deal with DP World Deal (the cards): Greenlight’s Einhorn knows when to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em Headhunting: KKR snaps up HSBC vet Gassing up: Strategic buyers keep digging into the Marcellus Shale Got salvation?: Paging Sidney Harman
1 min read · 22 December 2010
We’re going to help a friend out here, everyone go ahead and fill out this survey—we’ll also be reporting the results back to you next month A little late, Harvard: but hopefully the next Gates/Zuckerberg won’t pass you up App developers are going to have to start thinking about getting into Bill Gates’ client base now Eleven Blackstone employees have a little something extra to celebrate this holiday season Texas and Florida get a political boost courtesy of the 2010 Census and NY and Ohio lose points Was Yukon Cornelius was on to something? Had he employed a buy-and-hold strategy with his part-time mining partner Herbie, he'd be sitting pretty today Krush loads up on cash If you’ve got European colleagues, you might want to give them a second option for Christmas dinner—it isn’t very likely they’ll all make it home for the holidays
1 min read · 21 December 2010
Limited partners are again prying open their checkbooks, but they are looking to take capital to middle market funds in greater numbers these days, according to an annual Probitas Partners survey conducted across a group of 183 institutional LPs. More respondents said next year they are likely to back middle market buyout funds ranging in size from $500 million to $2.5 billion and small market funds of up to $500 million (46% and 37%, respectively) than institutional LPs that were looking to invest with $2.5 billion to $5 billion funds and mega-LBO firms pushing funds of $5 billion and up (a paltry nine and five percent, respectively).
3 min read · 21 December 2010
1 min read · 21 December 2010
Roubini’s a black swan with a view now… and, a garden, apparently Net neutrality will likely get the OK Carlyle’s Rubenstein dismisses IPO chatter, talks up China AOL Ventures and True Ventures score big quick with About.me If you think those are expensive, you should’ve tried to get courtside for last Friday’s Knicks-Heat game
1 min read · 21 December 2010
2 min read · 20 December 2010
3 min read · 17 December 2010
Private equity firms and venture capital firms looking to gain liquidity and show off returns to LPs brought more companies to equities markets in 2010 than in either of the past two years, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers IPO report. And they are heading out of 2010 with a bang. PwC sees good times ahead. " expect continued momentum in U.S. IPO market activity as we enter 2011," Scott Gehsmann, a capital markets partner in PwC’s Transaction Services practice, said in a prepared statement. The PwC report jibes with peHUB's post last month that the "VC-backed IPO Market is Kicking Major Butt."
3 min read · 16 December 2010
1 min read · 15 December 2010
