PEI Staff

The ghost of Emily Litella, as played by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live, has emerged to shape the conscience of the SEC. Emily was well-known for delivering aggressive news editorials on subjects where she had clearly “misheard” the topic in her editorial or committed some other malaprop. For example, she ranted “What is all […]

In the last 90 days, M&A professionals researched and marketed 438 opportunities via AxialMarket, comprising $7B in Revenue and over $550M in EBITDA. These members, including super-regional investment banks, boutique M&A advisory firms and M&A consultants, have already delivered 144 opportunities, totaling over $2.8B in Revenue and $305M in EBITDA. In the last 90 days, […]

Jim Hill, an attorney who works on private equity fund formation, was driving home from a board meeting about three months ago when he answered an odd telephone call. It was a member of a state pension’s investment committee calling with a list of demands before agreeing to invest in a $700 million buyout fund […]

Bickering between House and Senate lawmakers has put into limbo whether VC-backed startups will get a greater opportunity to procure contracts from federal agencies. At the center of the battle that could recast VC-backed companies’ ability to innovate in partnership with government bureaus is a fight between House and Senate lawmakers over funding provisions for […]

The currency of the startup and venture capital community is conviction. Startups are born out of the conviction to leave a job and start a company that most people think will never get a customer. They are built on the conviction of talent to join a startup, which has little or no traction, purely based […]

Thanks to everyone who helped the editors of Buyouts Magazine pick the winners of our four individual "Deal of the Year" categories−Alpine Equity Management for European Deal of the Year (for Amann Girrbach), Irving Place Capital for Middle Market Deal of the Year (Vitamin Shoppe), Arbor Investments for Small Market Deal of the Year (Great Kitchens), and North Castle Partners for Turnaround of the Year (Atkins Nutritional Holdings). Now comes the biggest vote of all−for overall Deal of the Year, selected from the the above four winners. Please take a careful read of the descriptions of these truly lucrative transactions, these multiple monsters, these eye-opening IRR thrillers. The editors of Buyouts will use your votes to help decide the overall Deal of the Year. The winner will be announced at Buyouts NY, a conference we're hosting on April 26-27. Cast your vote here.

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.

Guest columnists Allie Corless and Jason Segal of Sustainable Development Capital LLP say energy efficiency investments represent an opportunity to “do more with less” and mitigate contributors to climate change through a commercially viable approach.

You could say that the Austrian buyout firm Alpine Equity Management AG really sank its teeth into dental supply company AmannGirrbach to win Buyouts European Deal of the Year Award for 2011. Over the course of a seven-year holding period, Alpine Equity transformed a family-owned Austrian supplier of bridges and crowns from €7 million ($7.5 […]

Thanks to a convergence of trends–smartphone penetration, growing virtual goods transactions, short-range wireless technology and a heightened demand for electronic payments worldwide–it is becoming easier for consumers to part with their cash. And VCs are noticing. In the last year, venture firms have invested more than $440 million in companies developing technologies and services tied […]