Private Equity
Why are investors and bankers so interested in construction software? Just look up, advises peHUB guest columnist Garin Arevian of MHT Midspan.
3 min read · 24 April 2014
Acts of bribery, fraud and corruption are as old as human history. And as tactics by people committing such acts adapt and change, so do initiatives by public authorities to curb abuses. As Canadian and U.S. private equity and venture funds have become increasingly active in global deal-making, they need to be more aware of bribery and corruption issues abroad. And investors need to take steps to ensure that they and their investee companies are not in violation of laws concerning the corruption of foreign public officials.
5 min read · 20 April 2014
Philippe Schenk of Grove Street discusses the benefits of using private equity funds to diversify a portfolio, and by "PE" he means more than just large buyout funds.
3 min read · 20 February 2014
Last week, the Conference Board of Canada released a major new study on the private equity experience of Canadian business. During the research phase for this report, one of the chief surprises for Conference Board research director Michael Grant and his colleagues was just how few recipients of PE investments were actually aware of this form of risk financing prior to their experience.
3 min read · 06 December 2013
Guest columnist Coco Kee weighs in on the 3rd Plenum of the 18th CPC meeting on November 12, 2013.
4 min read · 02 December 2013
The precipitous drop in UK sponsor-backed take-private deals suggests the government needs to re-think its revised takeover rules.
3 min read · 29 November 2013
<span class="ITALIC">The precipitous drop in UK sponsor-backed take-private deals suggests the government needs to re-think its revised takeover rules</span>
3 min read · 29 November 2013
Decimalization has clearly damaged the market for small-cap IPOs. The VC industry would be "much healthier if we went back to the days when stocks traded in 1/8 or even 1/4 dollar increments for small companies," writes guest blogger Mark Siegel of Menlo Ventures.
3 min read · 13 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
Accessing the high yield and US bank finance markets is increasingly attractive for European private equity deals, write Latham & Watkins’ Dominic Newcomb and David Walker.
4 min read · 19 September 2013
