Fenwick & West LLP today announced the results of its Second Quarter 2012 Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey.
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Forty Percent Rise in Angel Investments For Start-ups Last Year
According to a recently released report by CB Insights, angel investors are filling a geographic niche overlooked by venture capitalists.
WSJ Follows up on Last-Year's Ranking of Top 50 Venture Capital-backed Start-ups
See how last-year's top 50 venture capital-backed start-ups,are faring one year later. Making The Wall Street Journal's list of top 50 venture capital-backed start-ups appears to be a good indicator of future health - at least for another year.
Wall Street Journal Names Top 50 Venture Capital-backed Start-ups
Business-product makers top WSJ's list of most successful venture capital-backed companies. For the third year, the Wall Street Journal has published a ranking of the most successful venture capital-backed companies.
Cheap financing fuels U.S. leveraged buyout boom
U.S. leveraged buyouts almost doubled in the third quarter of 2012 from a year ago. U. S. leveraged buyouts almost doubled in the third quarter of 2012 from a year ago, reaching their highest levels since before the financial crisis as cheap financing fueled private equity's appetite for deals.
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European banks are finding ready buyers in Asia for everything from loans to entire insurance and broking operations.
Venture capital firms find themselves fending off increasingly uneasy investors who are urging them to cash out.
U.S. investors became major buyers of European commercial real estate in the first half of 2012. U. S. investors became major buyers of European commercial real estate in the first half of 2012, after years of being crowded out of that market, Real Capital Analytics reported on Wednesday.
Pension funds and other institutional investors are now attacking the fees charged by the once-booming private equity industry.
An internal feud between rival parts of China's main arbitration body has seen its Shanghai and Shenzhen branches suspended
Funds are increasingly moving away from their traditional exit route of listing mainland assets in stock markets.
Venture-backed companies based in Europe raised €1.3 billion through 273 venture capital deals during the second quarter of 2012.
Chinese insurers should be able to match the duration of their assets and liabilities more accurately, and may benefit from improved earnings stability, following a decision to relax restrictions on the investments they can hold.
Private equity deals in Israel grew 49 percent to $1.75 billion in the first half of 2012. Private equity deals in Israel grew 49 percent to $1. 75 billion in the first half of 2012, mainly due to the $1 billion buyout of software firm Paradigm Geophysical by Apax Partners and JMI Equity from Fox Paine, the IVC Research Center said on Monday.
