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- U.S. Private Equity Funds: Selected Regulatory and Tax Issues
- The object of this article is to provide an overview of the regulatory and tax issues arising from structuring, and investing in, US sponsored private equity funds. Private equity funds typically are structured to invest in equity interests of portfolio companies that are not publicly traded. This is in contrast...
- White papers 2003-06-12
- What's Up in Life Sciences
- The risks and rewards of the private equity life science market are examined by Tom Daniel of Schroder Venture Life Sciences, Mark Carthy of Oxford Bioscience Partners, Martijn Kleijwegt of Life Science Partners and Jeremy Curnock Cook of Bioscience Managers in the latest AltAssets roundtable. This article presents excerpt from...
- White papers 2004-05-24
- Biosciences: High Risk, High Reward, and the Potential for Real Chaos
- The biosciences sector is undergoing constant change. These changes are driven by value-creating innovations, capital availability, and a shakeout in the industry. This article states that in order to be successful, investors in the bioscience arena need to learn lessons from earlier technologies and apply them to this rapidly evolving...
- White papers 2003-10-29
- Biotech Sector Review
- The biotech industry has come a long way from the days when it was viewed by most people as an offshoot of the pharmaceuticals industry. These days, however, with biotech firms involved in anything from contact lens development to genetic research, biotechs are certainly flavor of the month in investor...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Financial Retrospect in the Energy Sector
- While last year was by all measures a turbulent year for the electric power industry, 2002 is shaping up to be even more eventful. With new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC measures, debate on energy legislation, continuing fall-out from Enron, and imminent environmental regulatory decisions, the industry is facing more...
- White papers 2002-09-20
- Getting in Position to be in Position
- Achieving liquidity through the US public equity markets has become more time consuming and more expensive in the wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and other related regulations. The public offering landscape has changed dramatically, however, since the IPO boom of the late 1990s. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002...
- White papers 2004-03-13
- Swiss Biotech Report
- By the end of 2003, the Swiss biotech industry consisted of 227 companies. When viewed in relation to the size of its population, this means that Switzerland has the highest biotech density in the world, according to Ernst & Young. This paper gives a comprehensive report on Swiss biotechnology industry.
- White papers 2004-03-11
- Venture Capital Funding for Biotechnology
- This paper outlines that investors are currently looking more seriously at Canada as a region for investment, particularly its burgeoning biotechnology sector. The country's venture capital firms have increased their investment in the sector and foreign investors have taken note, argues Industry Canada. Biotechnology, with its immense promise and potential...
- White papers 2002-05-29
- Entrepreneurship in UK Biotechnology: The Role of Public Policy
- Biotechnology's contribution to employment, exports and GDP is extremely small, and likely to remain so. However, it is seen as an example of the kind of knowledge-based activity on which Britain, like other advanced industrial countries, will increasingly rely as the old "smoke-stack" industries decline. The full article looks at...
- White papers 2001-08-10
- Risk Capital: Venture Capital Market
- Canada's venture capital industry broke records in 2000 but faced new challenges in 2001. On the surface, it appears to be a good thing that Canadian firms are able to attract foreign-based venture capital investments to support their growth. It would be troubling, if this led to an increase in...
- White papers 2002-10-15
- Deregulation of the US Electric Power Industry and the Opportunities It Creates for Private Equity
- Fundamental upheaval in the electric power industry is creating unprecedented private equity investment opportunities. One major contributing factor is the deregulation of the United States power markets. According to the article, since the advent of deregulation, the private equity industry has assumed a lead role in taking advantage of these...
- White papers 2004-07-22
- Health Care Finance Industry Plagued by Lack of Funding
- In today's health care finance environment, early financing rounds are becoming harder to fund and the market for initial public offerings remains very weak. Total healthcare venture investment declined from $6bn in 2001 to $5.2bn in 2002 - a 13 per cent decrease - although Ernst & Young said that,...
- White papers 2004-06-04
- Private Equity Firms Compensation Survey
- Huge pay gains seen in the private equity industry in 2000 are unlikely to be seen again this 2001 or 2002, according to William M Mercer's 2001 Private Equity Firms Compensation Survey. Big gains in base pay and carried interest boosted pay in the private equity industry last year but...
- White papers 2001-11-20
- Canada's Private Equity Market in 2001
- Canada's private equity market, characterized chiefly by activity in three distinct market segments - buyout and related corporate finance, mezzanine investment and venture capital - experienced major growth and diversification over the course of the 1990s, which has included a steady increase in the number of national and local investor...
- White papers 2002-01-22
- ERISA Plan Assets Regulation: 15 Years on
- This paper describes about private equity. It has been 15 years since the Department of Labor's Plan Assets Regulation became effective. By clarifying when the manager of an investment entity will and will not be treated as a fiduciary, that regulation paved the way for employee benefit plans regulated by...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- Crowding out Private Equity: Canadian Evidence
- In this paper, we examine a Canadian tax-driven venture capital vehicle known as the "Labour Sponsored Venture Capital Corporation" LSVCC. The central question that we analyze, however, is whether the tax advantages conferred on LSVCCs have resulted in LSVCCs "crowding out", or displacing other types of venture capital funds. The...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Sponsored Spin Offs: The Private Equity Fund as Anchor Investor
- Unlike a cash sale of a subsidiary or a division, if the spin-off qualifies as a tax-free investment, the parent will not incur any tax cost in disposing of the target business. This article discusses the structural, legal and tax issues that must be carefully analyzed in structuring a spin-off...
- White papers 2002-12-17
- Venture Capital and the Czech Republic
- The venture capital market in the Czech Republic has expanded in recent years but there are still obstacles thwarting its development. This article discusses venture capital financing issues for entrepreneurs, but it also raises some salient points about attitudes, deal-flow and the stock market, that institutions investing in the Czech...
- White papers
- Biomedicine: The Next Wave for California's Economy
- California's biomedical R&D industry headquarters for the global biomedical R&D industry is thriving and growing. In the history of this young industry (78% of California's biomedical companies were founded in the last two decades and the vast majority are privately owned), the year 2000 may be remembered most for work...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- The Venture Capital/Private Equity Market in Poland
- Poland has been through a lot of change in the last ten years - much of it painful. But as Enterprise Investors explains it has emerged as one of central Europe's most promising countries for private equity investment has been outlined in this article. Poland now has one of the...
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