Corporations have led the way in addressing environmental, social and governance issues, but the private equity community is catching up, says Lauren Koopman, a director in the sustainable business solutions team at the global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Can Facebook go mobile? Its path–and the budding online business’–may not converge, ever, according to peHUB’s guest columnist.

Jaime Romero, a VP with AxialMarket, will weigh in at peHUB.com with the occasional post, applying some of the company’s web-based tools and analytics to a network of qualified buyers and sellers of private companies for our audience. On a quarterly basis, the company aggregates network activity to provide transparency into overall middle market M&A and transaction activity.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has released its quarterly report on technology M&A within the U.S. The lead:

As the first quarter of 2010 ended, the seeds of optimism that began to spread through the technology industry at the end of 2009 appeared to have firmly taken root. Record profits, renewed order backlogs, and a return to hiring pointed to a recovery that prompted industry analysts to revise their 2010 forecasts upward.

Nixon Peabody’s latest report on private equity tax law explores the effects of the new medicare taxes on private equity funds. According to the report, the new healthcare reform law includes a number of revenue-raising provisions that will adversely affect private equity investors and fund managers.

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Russell Reynolds Associates, an executive search and assessment firm, released a new report on the state of the PE industry and its leadership. The report looks at what PE Investors are saying about their portfolio companies and implications for leadership and talent management. Download it below.

In the latest issue of Capital Dynamics’ quarterly newsletter, Spencer Punter, Director of Investment Management, analyzes the performance of the U.S. venture capital market and discusses recent developments in three key growth areas: cleantech, healthcare, and social media. Noting that returns in the U.S. venture capital sector have consistently outperformed major domestic return indices over several investment horizons since 1981 (according to Cambridge Associates U.S. Venture Capital Index), Spencer describes why this sector continues to offer attractive investment opportunities in a turbulent global economy.

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In its latest private equity report, Debevoise & Plimpton addresses taxes on PIK Toggles, defense investing, and IPO disclosures, among many other topics. Here is the editor’s letter; download the entire report below.

After a very long winter, the private equity industry is poised for a period of renewal. Deal activity is clearly on the uptick, the financing markets are showing signs of activity, the IPO market is no longer in the doldrums and asset allocations to private equity are no longer just a memory. The challenges facing the private equity industry are too numerous to list. In this issue, we suggest ways in which to tackle many of them.

The European Venture Capital Association today released a white paper on the next stage of venture capital’s evolution in Europe. Download it here.

Baird Capital Partners, the buyout unit of Baird, has authored a brief white paper about the growing complexity of China’s production capabilities and how private businesses and PE firms may harness market-entry opportunities with some best practices. These include the cultural significance of relationship-building, IP issues and determining whether a China strategy even makes sense.

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