The SEC's attempt to update Reg D should include dropping the ‘general solicitation’ ban on fundraisers.
Lawyers have notoriously itchy feet, as the esteemed fund franchise of SJ Berwin has discovered.
For many investors, Irish venture capital is a niche industry within European private equity. However, recent developments anticipate a bright future for the market, writes Jo Nash.
Recent developments in the direct secondary market anticipate a more positive future for European early stage capital, writes Jo Nash.
On the south side of the equator and east of the Atlantic lies a country that some private equity heavyweights increasingly consider to be a hidden gem.
Joshua Gotbaum will join the upstart New York-based firm as an operating partner and will also become its chief restructuring officer.
Private equity houses have bucked the consensus that leverage ratios will rise in 2007 as 40 percent predict a decrease.
Along with members of the company’s management team, the two firms have agreed to buy Nasdaq-traded Educate in a deal worth $545m. It is Citigroup’s and Sterling’s second education-related deal announced today.
Industri Kapital has made 2.5 times its investment on the sale of Gardena, a gardening tools manufacturer, for €730 million.
Jonny Maxwell, one of the industry’s most high-profile executives, has walked away from the fund of funds business he built over almost two decades after failing to agree a buyout with his employer.