As world economies have struggled through the downturn, China stands uniquely alone as a vast market with the promise of strong, attractive growth. While the US market was contracting, China saw GDP growth of 8% in 2009. After building a tight knit VC/PE infrastructure for over a decade, a new crop of seasoned China VCs are [...]

STEPHEN PAGLIUCA’S run for the Senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy has stirred up memories of the bitter 1994 challenge for the seat by Mitt Romney. When polls showed Romney edging ahead on the basis of his business experience, Kennedy’s media consultant, Tad Devine, went to film angry workers [...]

Recently, typing the words private equity financing into a commercial search engine yielded 1,990,000 entries, more than a few announcing a funding victory. “There is a significant amount of private equity capital chasing investment opportunities,” says Atlanta-based Fentress Seagroves, managing director in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Transaction Services group. “And the pace is accelerating.” Though private equity funds [...]

People sell shares of a company to raise funds or to eventually sell the company. Shares can be sold to angel investors, venture capitalists, individuals, and other businesses. These different types of buyers will have different motives for buying, expectations of the dividends they may receive, and intentions for selling the shares later. What You [...]