Anne Glover has recently taken up a new role as chairman of the British Venture Capital Association. She talks to Colm Gilmore about her new position, Japanese river metaphors and the key role that the London Stock Exchange should have in the European private equity market
Private equity firms are undergoing some radical mutations as they flee early stage ventures: but have they got the timing right?
JLL Partners sees two huge successes, and one carbohydrated disaster, in the course of a single month
The entertainment company, which provides venues for live music performances, will use the capital to expand to other US cities, Europe and Asia.
Paul Liska joins the New York private investment firm as it expands its activities into the consumer products and financial services sectors.
Palamon Capital Partners, the pan-European investor focused on the services sector, has completed its second major deal in Scandinavia with an investment in Stockholm-based start-up Nordax Finans.
Europe's mezzanine market is flush with capital, and more investors are looking to gain access. Philip Borel finds out what market practitioners make of it all
What is my portfolio worth? Valuation guidelines remain a big topic for every LP and GP active in the asset class. As private equity investments by both venture capital and buyout funds grow increasingly complex and spread across borders, the necessary uniformity in valuation practices is becoming more of a reality, say Colin Blaydon and Fred Wainwright of the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
The return of strategic buyers in the US is giving a long-awaited boost to exit opportunities for private equity firms. Conditions for exiting appear particularly compelling for smaller portfolio companies.William Kan, CFA and Georgiana Fung, strategists with Merrill Lynch Small Cap Research, dissect the changes that newly acquisitive corporations have brought to the US private equity landscape
FICTION IMITATES CARLYLE 2004-05-01 Staff Writer A recent spy thriller from best selling author Robert Ludlum, The Altman Code, describes a shadowy ‘multiproduct, multinational conglomerate’ that may be at the center of an ‘international cabal… thrusting the world to the very brink of war.’<br> <br