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Companies Led By Women Are Greener
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 They didn't find many -- women hold only 10.6% of the board seats and executive jobs at these companies, and only 15 of the companies have women CEOs. At 30% of the companies, both board members and executives were all male. One of the counties that ranked the lowest for women-led companies, by the way, was Santa Clara, which is in the heart of Silicon Valley. Still, companies that do have women in leadership positions also had better environmental records. Read more » |
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How Will Insider Trading Regulations Affect Buyout Firms?
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Recent enforcement activities by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reflect a renewed, more systematic and aggressive approach by federal authorities to investigating and prosecuting alleged insider trading, in particular by persons associated with private investment funds.
Law firm Kirkland & Ellis explores how these will affect buyout firms in its latest report, available for downloading below. Read more » |
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AlwaysOn’s Top 100 Venture Capitalists
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 Winners were selected based on four years worth of data -- from Oct. 1, 2005 through Sept. 30, 2009 -- and were judged on "total number and dollar amounts of successful M&A and IPO deals from their portfolio companies. For IPOs, AlwaysOn examined opening market capitalization as well as subsequent stock performance, relative to the Nasdaq. For each investment, AlwaysOn counted one lead investor per firm, in order to identify the true dealmakers. Much of the data required for a thorough evaluation remains private and inaccessible..." No one from Kleiner Perkins made the list, which is unusual, and it isn't ranked -- the copy I have is in alphabetical order. Get it after the jump: Read more » |
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TL Ventures Dispute Heads To Arbitration (And Then Back to Court)
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 There is some dispute as to whether the clawbacks can even be requested before the funds are officially dissolved, but the larger issue is whether or not remaining TL Ventures partners used management fees to pay off part, or all, of their own clawback liabilities. As the trio’s attorney Cindy Olson Bourland told me: “I believe the evidence will show that certain partners… engaged in self-dealing by stashing away money for clawback instead of running TL Ventures in accordance with its investment strategies.” Read more » |
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Will Private Equity Dodge The Registration Bullet?
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| Posted on: November 13th, 2009 |
I actually think private equity registration would be more an irritant than a bullet for most PE firms, but also recognize that very few inside the industry see it my way. Here is a client alert on ...
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Startup Valuations Seem To Be Going Up
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| Posted on: November 12th, 2009 |
Fenwick & West's Silicon Valley venture capital survey finds that up rounds exceeded down rounds last quarter for the first time this year -- 41% of rounds were up, 36% down and 23% flat.
Of th...
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Lawsuit Against Omeros Drags On
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| Posted on: November 10th, 2009 |
Seattle-based biotech company Omeros went public in October, after raising nearly $110 million in venture capital and delaying its IPO for nearly two years. Since then, it's watched the price of its ...
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Another Time Drain For VCs: Board Seats
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| Posted on: November 10th, 2009 |
Venture capitalists are sitting on more boards than they were three years ago, according to data released this morning by Dow Jones and the National Venture Capital Association, and more boards than C...
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PE and VC Returns Improve, But Exits Still Lacking
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| Posted on: November 9th, 2009 |
Cambridge Associates today released research showing that private equity and venture capital investments improved in Q2, after three straight quarters of shrinkage. On the downside (depending on you...
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Grant Thornton: Long Term Decline In U.S. IPOs
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| Posted on: November 6th, 2009 |
The number of companies listed on U.S. exchanges has dropped by more than 22% since 1991 and nearly 39% since 1997, even though that was around the beginning of the dot-com boom, Grant Thornton report...
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