In the first in a two part series on debt buybacks, Steven Bortnick, Bradley Boericke and Timothy Leska explores the legal implications a private equity firm must consider when structuring the debt purchase. In our February issue, they will examine the tax implications
Venture capital and private equity managers are employing a number of legal and technical measures to balance LP demand for information with the need to protect trade secrets
A former Ogilvy partner is turning fund manager as OMERS launches a strategic investment unit
News on professional service providers to the private equity market
In economic downturns, the venture capital CFO must be the firm's central command for cost cutting initiatives at fledgling portfolio companies
Participants at the PEI Strategic Financial Management Conference in San Francisco were gearing up for bumpier rides and hotter spotlights in 2009
The head of Castle Harlan is adding to the criticism that fair-value accounting is contributing to the economic crisis
The EU commissioner for internal markets hits out at regulatory restraints but calls for better transparency
Although the venture capital firm as a business predates the buyout firm by at least a decade, only now does it appear that venture capital is succumbing to many of the same economic realities of what is now called the private equity industry.
Investors in Permira’s Fund IV have been given the option to limit their capital contribution to 60% of the amount they originally committed to the €11.1bn fund.