Jonathan Marino

Nobody: Doesn’t like Sara Lee, including KKR, sources say Buying Social: Let’s Bonus sells a majority stake to LivingSocial, and one reporter makes a very good point Going Public?: Clearly, not ranked in order of IPO by potential date, or size Fundraising: iMedX Inc. raises $2.5M with RFE Investment Partners

Private equity firms are nearly unified in their belief that things will get better. It just won’t be this year, that’s all. Nearly 70% of respondents to this year’s BDO Seidman PErspective Private Equity Study, when asked which quarter or year they felt 2007 levels of dealmaking will return, said “2012 or later.” BDO Seidman’s study included perspectives from more than 100 respondents from about 100 funds ranging in size from $30 million to $35 billion. They’re not bullish on getting increased leverage anytime soon either; more respondents said that for their last, as well as for their next, deal, it is expected no more of the transaction than 60% would be paid for with debt. “No one expects the double dip anymore,” said Lee Duran, BDO’s private equity practice leader. “But there’s still uncertainty.”

Tech: More raves and faves from CES Ca-Ching: Drugmaker NextWave Pharmaceuticals gets a $45M Series C Selling: AIG unloads its Taiwan unit Stocks: Foreign markets up, U.S. shares poised for a lift

Hal Rosser took his son and split from his longtime partners at Bruckmann, Rosser & Sherrill, at a key time to start evaluating deals in the consumer and retail space. “We think the economy is turning,” Rosser told peHub. “There will continue to be lots of opportunities.” Rosser Capital Partners, which plans to be located in Greenwich, Conn., is still looking for a placement agent, and Rosser said he expects to select one by the close of the first quarter.

Facebook Showdown: Return of the Winklevosses Back in Business: GM eyes former auto loan business, Ally Financial Fundraising: Adknowledge pulls a whopping $45 million Snitchin’: Now including alleged insider trading from a PE deal!

California-based Confidela, the maker of document protection and tracking system WatchDox, wrapped a $9.25 million round of funding from existing investors Gemini Israel Funds and Shlomo Kramer, as well as new contributor Shasta Ventures. The funding, announced Tuesday morning, is the company’s second round; Gemini and Kramer (one of the founders of Check Point and Imperva) had injected $5.5 million into the startup from which, according to Adi Ruppin, the company’s VP of business development, Confidela has some reserves remaining from the initial investors. But not for long.

2011 is setting up to be the year of the great online privacy debate. Legislation and recommendations aimed at providing Americans an enhanced level of privacy will is colliding head-on with businesses in the consumer data aggregation and behavioral analytics space. At the end of 2010, Allison Mason of Rogin Nassau contributed a column to […]

Going nuclear: Duke Energy & Progress near a deal and could develop on nuclear ambitions Shares: Earnings season could kick off the winter of investors’ discontent and foreign markets take a slight slide Deep Breaths: Ok, now realize that this is nonsense and Facebook isn’t closing Verizon: Yes, Steve Jobs, we can hear you now

Before the draft, there’s typically a champion anointed, no? We will do the same with peHub.com’s Internship Draft and send at least one of you into the off-season with your head held high. The contest is open to all peHUB readers, and the pick’em champ will get a Premium Membership to peHUB, which includes one year of complimentary access to our editorial archive—well worth the cost of admission, which is absolutely nothing. Patriots fans employing Belichick tactics of copying off colleagues’ tests will be punished most harshly. First, you’ll need a Yahoo account (or, just wipe the cobwebs off your existing one). Then, go to http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/pickem/85366. Once there, you’ll have to join our group; the ID is (85366, or peHub.com NFL Playoffs) and the password is ‘enture.’--yes, I left off the 'v,' apparently, for those of you e-mailing with questions.

Pack your bags: China’s welcoming outsiders Dealing: Boston Scientific strikes a deal with Intelec Medical Going public?: Well, this might pan out just the way Goldman hoped Shares: Good news on jobs, mixed news on stocks