Guest columnist Coco Kee looks at the IPOs of Chinese ecommerce companies Vipshop, Jumei International and Jingdong .
Private equity professional Devin Mathews shares the secrets to not only surviving, but also thriving as an associate at a private equity firm.
Why are investors and bankers so interested in construction software? Just look up, advises peHUB guest columnist Garin Arevian of MHT Midspan.
Acts of bribery, fraud and corruption are as old as human history. And as tactics by people committing such acts adapt and change, so do initiatives by public authorities to curb abuses. As Canadian and U.S. private equity and venture funds have become increasingly active in global deal-making, they need to be more aware of bribery and corruption issues abroad. And investors need to take steps to ensure that they and their investee companies are not in violation of laws concerning the corruption of foreign public officials.
Are you seeing even a quarter of potential deals in your target market? Maybe not, according to the second annual edition of Sutton Place Strategies’s Deal Origination Benchmark Report released last month.
In April of last year, David Blass, chief counsel for the Division of Trading and Markets at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, gave a speech in which he warned that private equity funds might be required to register as broker-dealers in connection with their fundraising activities as well as charging transaction-related fees from their portfolio companies.
Philippe Schenk of Grove Street discusses the benefits of using private equity funds to diversify a portfolio, and by "PE" he means more than just large buyout funds.
A recent survey of limited partners has mixed news for general partners heading back to the well for fresh commitments in 2014, with many investors saying they have a strong appetite for U.S. buyout funds but little interest in evaluating new relationships with sponsors. Nearly two-thirds of respondents (62 percent) said they “plan to focus […]
Last week, the Conference Board of Canada released a major new study on the private equity experience of Canadian business. During the research phase for this report, one of the chief surprises for Conference Board research director Michael Grant and his colleagues was just how few recipients of PE investments were actually aware of this form of risk financing prior to their experience.
Investors trying to decide which funds to back are putting more emphasis on realized returns, and deploying new tools to understand just how much sponsors beat or fall short of public equity benchmarks, according to interviews with advisers, sponsors, academics and vendors.