Three private equity chief financial officers and one valuation expert recently gathered in midtown Manhattan to discuss the impact of FAS 157 on their valuation procedures. Rob Kotecki and Jennifer Harris report on the exchange.
Chantal Thibault 2008-07-01 Staff Writer <bold>CAREER PATH:</bold> After eight years as a corporate and securities lawyer with the Toronto law firm Goodmans Chantal Thibault was ready to focus on private equity. Her work at Goodmans included a broad range of activities beyond private equity, incl
Two decades after it laid the foundations for the private equity secondary market, Paul Capital continues to innovate.
GPs collaborating on deals should pay attention to how other consortium members are valuing the company, since LPs and auditors already are.
3i gets its message out in a glossy.
Calls for better performance metrics yield few answers.
The private equity firm nabs a COO form Merril Lynch for the post.
As a senior managing director of the global fund of funds group HarbourVest Partners, Kevin Delbridge frequently plays both GP and LP. And now that HarbourVest has a listed vehicle, its IR function has taken on yet another dimension. Rob Kotecki recently spoke with Kevin on the topic of investor relations given his experience on both sides of the aisle.
Certain revelations about a firm or its portfolio can't wait for the next quarterly report or annual meeting. Here are some guidelines as to when and how to communicate with LPs outside the scheduled reporting cycle.
David Goret 2008-05-01 Staff Writer <bold>CAREER PATH:</bold> David Goret had served as a general counsel at a number of high growth businesses in a variety of industries, one of which was a tech firm that grew from 50 employees to 450 in the span of two years, and saw its revenues swell from $25