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Zynga’s $1bn IPO puts a shine on VCThe social online gaming company’s liquidity event could increase LP appetite for venture capital, considered by some LPs to be the ‘least loved’ of the asset classes.
- CPPIB grows PE investments by C$1.4bn
The Canada Pension Plan’s private equity portfolio increased to C$24.1bn during the first quarter of the fiscal year, helping the pension’s total assets reach a record C$153.2bn.
- Silver Lake revels in $8.5bn Skype exit
Technology-focused Silver Lake Partners and its fellow investors in voice-over-internet protocol business Skype are set for a huge return following the company’s sale to technology group Microsoft.
- Skype: the deal that keeps delivering
A cursory trawl of our archives demonstrates just how intimately tied Skype has been to venture capital and private equity firms during its short lifetime, and how profitable it has been for those firms.
- CPPIB, Sterling buy Livingston for C$273m
The firms will pay C$8 per unit for the company, which provides custom brokerage, transportation and logistics services.
- Silver Lake leads $2bn Skype deal
Silver Lake, Index, CPPIB and Andreessen Horowitz will pay $1.9bn in cash and $125m in debt to purchase a majority stake in the VOIP company from eBay.