Venture capital and private equity
Subtitle: a casebook
By: Josh Lerner, Felda Hardymon, Ann Leamon
Contributors: Hardymon, G. Felda; Leamon, Ann
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Wiley; John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780470650912
Subjects: Venture capital; Case studies; Capital investments; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Entrepreneurship
Description: "The 5th edition of Lerner's Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook continues to present the important historical cases of private equity while incorporating a number of new relevant and timely cases from previous best-selling issues. It includes more cases relevant to the texts four main goals: understanding the ways in which private equity firms work, applying the key ideas of corporate finance to the industry, understanding the process of valuation, and critiquing valuation approaches of the past and present- an approach which has proved very successful over the past four editions.This casebook contains cases and notes designed to provide an understanding of the history of the private equity industry's development and the workings of the industry today. By explaining the industry on a case-by-case basis, this text promises to address the critical question of whether gains made in recent years have been sustained and how firms will respond to the current opportunities and challenges. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 PE today and tomorrow 2 Iris Running Crane December 2009 Module 1: Fundraising 3 Yale University: July 2006 4 Altoona 5 PE Partnership Agreements 6 Grove Street Advisors II 7 PE Fundraising Process 8 CPPIB Module 2: Investing 9 Firm Strategy Vignettes 10 Hardina Smythe and the Healthcare Conundrum 11 Avid & Lighthouse Partners 12 Metapath 13 Valuation in PE Settings 14 European PE 15 Moneybookers & Investcorp 16 PE in Developing Countries 17 Hony 18 Gobi & DMG 19 PE Securities Module 3: Exiting 20 emgs 21 Motilal 22 IPO Process 23 Rock & a Hard Place: Valuation & Distribution Module 4: New Frontiers 24 Village Ventures 25 Microsoft IPV 26 Abraaj 27 Actis in 2008 28 Blackstone IPO Appendix: A note on PE Information Sources Glossary Index .