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Shareholder Representative Services has contributed the next installment of their Q&A series that highlights successful exits. Conrad Clemson is the former founder and CEO of BNI Video, which was acquired by Cisco; the transcript is below. Q :  What factors led you to found BNI Video? Before BNI, I worked at a company called Broadbus Technologies Inc., […]
Are lenders playing fair when they demand sponsors put more cash into a deal simply to do an add-on acquisition that could easily be financed with debt?
Thursday's guest columnist looks back at the VCs who first saw Facebook's potential.
John Bogush talks about how PE owners can address operational challenges in 2012 and beyond.
Paul Buckman, former CEO and president with Pathway Medical Technologies, talks about the hurdles to clear on the way to an exit.
The Wall St. Journal reported recently that Morgan Stanley was king of the tech IPO world and they had topped the underwriter charts with $115 million in revenue. That’s good news? Is this a sign of health in the Tech IPO world? I spent many years leading many IPOs at Robertson Stephens, we were a […]
We all know that interest rates are incredibly low. The three month Libor continues around 30 bps., an extremely low level designed to spur growth in the economy. Yet, other than asset-based loans priced at L+200 to 300, loans to middle-market companies continue to be expensive, and have not declined nearly in proportion to the […]
So you finally find this great acquisition – one of your targeted industries, consistent performance, great prospects and strong management team. Oh yeah, it does have a couple of blemishes – some customer concentration, for one, but you’re comfortable with that. What nags at you are the two owners who started the company and are […]
private equity, Chris Witkowsky
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System didn’t want them. Secondary firms didn’t buy them. And so they’ve been banished to what the nation’s largest public pension fund calls its “Vista Portfolio”—a place where fund interests get managed “toward liquidation,” in the pension fund’s own phrase. You can find the Vista Portfolio on the CalPERS Alternative […]
Guest columnist Coco Kee looks at China’s new rules around PE fund registration, operations and information disclosure in Circular 2864.
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