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Lenders to seal Incisive debt-for-equity deal: report
Reuters- 07 September 2009
Senior lenders to Incisive Media have entered into a lock-up over a deal to take control of the business-to-business publisher,... (source)
Investors could close Alchemy as Moulton plans new start-up
Margareta Pagano - The Independent- 07 September 2009
Superior Capital Partners buys National Archive Publishing Co.
Tom Henderson - Crain's Detroit Business- 07 September 2009
Detroit-based Superior Capital Partners LLC is expected to announce this week that it has bought the assets of Ann Arbor-based... (source)
Quick access to cash boosts Onyx
Chris Tighe - Financial Times- 07 September 2009
Onyx Group's Edinburgh data centre, which opened last Thursday, is tangible evidence of how regionally based venture capital can help... (source)
Banks get an M&A boost
Emma Keens - City AM- 07 September 2009
US merger and acquisition activity totalled $13.9bn last week, further fuelling hopes that an appetite for deals is... (source)
PE funds shop other sectors
China Daily- 07 September 2009
After years of investing in Chinese retailers, global private equity funds are adding other strong consumer sectors such as healthcare... (source)
Business angels
Kristen Le Mesurier - The Age- 07 September 2009
When it comes to raising money, small business owners haven't had it this tough for... (source)
AIG to sell asset management unit to Pacific Century
Zachary R Mider - BusinessDay- 07 September 2009
American International Group, the insurer bailed out by the US government, agreed at the weekend to sell its external fund... (source)
Ex-Google China chief to fund Chinese tech start-ups
George Chen - Reuters- 07 September 2009
Kai-fu Lee, Google Inc's former China chief who quit the search giant this week, said on Sunday he will launch... (source)
Vodafone, Telefonica bid for T-Mobile UK unit, FT says
Kevin Cho - Bloomberg- 07 September 2009
Canadian innovation is at stake
Globe and Mail- 07 September 2009
Canada's venture capital industry is in crisis and the country's innovation-driven economy will suffer the consequences if we don't find... (source)
Private equity waits out the Feds
Peter Carbonara & Theo Francis - BusinessWeek- 04 September 2009
The US is making it tough for private equity firms to buy ailing banks. In late August the Federal Deposit... (source)
Jon Moulton quits Alchemy after losing power struggle
Phillip Inman - guardian.co.uk- 04 September 2009
Jon Moulton, one of the most outspoken businessmen of the modern era, has unexpectedly resigned as head of the private... (source)
KKR turns vulture investor as distressed debt beckons
Richard Bravo & Elizabeth Hester - Bloomberg- 04 September 2009
CalSTRS' real estate, private equity investments take hits
Pia Sarkar - Pensions & Investments- 04 September 2009
CalSTRS' real estate and private equity portfolios both failed to meet their industry benchmarks for the year ended March 31,... (source)
Equity firm acquires majority interest in FlatIron Crossing
Alicia Wallace & Michael Davidson - Daily Camera- 04 September 2009
FlatIron Crossing mall in Broomfield will be 75 percent controlled by a mid-market private equity firm, in a joint venture... (source)
Startups begin to woo new investors
Galen Moore - Mass High Tech- 04 September 2009
New England startups have begun to successfully woo new investors to their board tables this quarter after three quarters in... (source)
HMV takes 50% stake in 7digital
John O'Doherty & Kiran Stacey - Financial Times- 04 September 2009
HMV Group, the UK retailer, is to take a 50 per cent stake in 7digital, the music download website, in... (source)
Toshiba plans $5 bln-plus bid for Areva unit: Sources
Reiji Murai & Taiga Uranaka - Reuters- 04 September 2009
Japan's Toshiba Corp plans to bid for French nuclear group Areva's power distribution and transmission equipment unit, four sources with... (source)
Capmark could be sold to Berkshire venture
Bizjournals- 04 September 2009
DiNapoli publishes data on CRF investments in private equity
Giovanni Legorano - Global Pensions- 04 September 2009
New York State comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has released information regarding 12 direct private equity investments the New York State Common... (source)
After months of tight credit, private equity firms are investing in plastics firms
Rhoda Miel - Plastics News- 04 September 2009
After months of tight credit, private equity groups are once again beginning to take serious looks at potential investments targets,... (source)
Stagecoach books its seat as Spanish group raises bid for National Express
Nic Fildes & Miles Costello - Times Online- 04 September 2009
PE/VC companies offer helping hand to GEB suitors
People's Daily Online- 03 September 2009
Private equity and venture capital firms are backing nearly 38 of the 94 startups that are likely to be listed... (source)
China's 2nd-board may hurt private equity: bank
Simon Rabinovitch & Michelle Chen - Reuters- 03 September 2009
China's long-awaited second board for start-up firms could cause a headache for private equity investors if their target companies look... (source)
Buying big tax break
Josh Kosman - New York Post- 03 September 2009
When private-equity firms engage in leveraged buyouts, Uncle Sam loses out. According to a study to be presented at New... (source)
Area venture capitalists invest 90 percent of money outside New York City
Garett Sloane - am New York- 03 September 2009
The region's venture capitalists are big spenders, but they're not spending so big in the... (source)
London Mayor Boris Johnson goes into battle on behalf of City’s financiers
David Charter - Times Online- 03 September 2009
China to draw foreign investments via partnership rule
George Chen - Reuters- 03 September 2009
China plans to issue new rules to allow foreign companies to set up local units in the form of a... (source)
PetroChina will take oil sands stake for US$1.7 billion
China Post- 03 September 2009
PetroChina Co., Asia's largest oil and gas company, is making a US$1.7 billion investment in the Canadian oil sands.... (source)
Dainippon Sumitomo will buy Sepracor for $2.6 billion
Kanoko Matsuyama & Tom Randall - Bloomberg- 03 September 2009
Robeco's China unit to launch RMB 4 billion PE fund
China Knowledge- 03 September 2009
Robeco, which is a Netherlands-based asset management company and a unit of unlisted cooperative bank Rabobank, plans to raise RMB... (source)
Credit Suisse eyes private bank buys, no word on ING
Lisa Jucca - International Business Times- 03 September 2009
Credit Suisse's Private Banking head Walter Berchtold said the bank is on the look out for acquisitions, but would not... (source)
eBay sells 65% of Skype for $1.9 billion to private equity group
Richard Wray - guardian.co.uk- 02 September 2009
Online auction house eBay sold a 65% stake in Skype to an investment consortium in a deal that valued the... (source)
Final PE proposal fails to impress
Joseph Rosta - American Banker- 02 September 2009
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has pulled back on some of the more troubling restrictions it planned to impose on... (source)
Fire sales, M&A to lift Islamic private equity
Liau Y-Sing - Reuters- 02 September 2009
The Islamic private equity market is expected to profit from distressed sellers dumping assets cheaply and from a rise in... (source)
Stable and emerging: PE's buzz words
Shuchita Kapur - Business 24-7- 02 September 2009
As developed economies have failed to provide decent returns to businesses and have shown high levels of risk during the... (source)
Thinking big, thinking green
Kent Bernhard Jr. - Portfolio.com- 02 September 2009
Raytheon to buy BBN, a firm that helped create Net
Hiawatha Bray - Boston.com- 02 September 2009
Raytheon Co. has struck an agreement to buy BBN Technologies, a privately held Cambridge firm that played a vital role... (source)
China is pulling ahead on the environment
Shaun Rein - Forbes- 02 September 2009
That's good news for both the planet and investors. When I first moved to China, in the mid-1990s, every time... (source)
BC Partners in healthcare groups deal
Martin Arnold - Financial Times- 02 September 2009
BC Partners, the UK private equity group, has agreed a €500m deal to acquire two European medical diagnostics companies, which... (source)
UK government under fire on venture capital investing
Martin Arnold - Financial Times- 02 September 2009
The British government's record as a venture capital investor will come under fire today as new research says it has... (source)
Buyout funds look beyond China retail
George Chen & Donny Kwok - Reuters- 02 September 2009
After years of investing in Chinese retailers, global private equity funds are adding other strong consumer sectors such as healthcare... (source)
China regains its appetite for mergers and acquisitions overseas
Hu Yue - Beijing Review- 01 September 2009
With two outbound deals in less than one week, China's buying spree is coming under the global spotlight once... (source)
Venture firm's "green" funds top $1 Billion
Claire Cain Miller - The New York Times- 01 September 2009
August turns scary for private equity deals
Madhav A. Chanchani - Livemint- 01 September 2009
Disney to acquire Marvel in $4 billion deal
Paul Thomasch & Gina Keating - Reuters- 01 September 2009
Walt Disney Co on Monday agreed to buy Marvel Entertainment Inc for $4 billion in the year's biggest media deal,... (source)
Sorry, venture capital needs to be regulated like everything else
The Business Insider- 01 September 2009
Venture capital has managed to maintain a decent reputation, even as the crisis has turned other areas of finance into... (source)
Baker Hughes to buy BJ Services for $5.5 billion
Edward Klump & Kari Lundgren - Bloomberg- 01 September 2009
VenCap is less freewheeling, more cautious than it once was.
Craig Kuhl - CED Magazine- 01 September 2009
Venture capital's historical enthusiasm for getting rich quick by backing innovative communications start-ups with exciting new technology has given way... (source)
Is it time for the venture capital "two-and-twenty" to end?
Kim-Mai Cutler - VentureBeat- 01 September 2009
Private equity is starting to get the hint. Is it time for venture capital to do the... (source)
Looking up from the down cycle
Rob Ospalik & Fred Niemeier - The Deal- 01 September 2009
It's no secret that the economic turmoil and slowdown in the broader economy has been much worse than most had... (source)
Pow! Bam! Are takeovers back?
Paul R. La Monica - CNNMoney.com- 01 September 2009

 
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