Private equity is considered a sophisticated industry, but when it comes to reporting fund fees and performance to investors, that refinement is less apparent. A lack of standards on how to break down the various expenses incurred by private-equity funds, as well as...
Approach Fundraising As A B2B Sales Process For many emerging VC managers, fundraising from LPs seems like an obscure procedure that is difficult to comprehend and hard to do right. I think it becomes much clearer if you look at fundraising as a typical B2B sales...
Workplace app Asana Inc on Monday unveiled plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange through a direct listing, adding to a growing number of tech companies debuting this year. Asana, which was last valued at about $1.5 billion and counts Silicon Valley...
U.S. private equity firm Platinum Equity is in advanced talks to buy HNA Group Co.’s Ingram Micro Inc. in a deal that values the technology distributor at about $7 billion, including debt, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Discussions are ongoing and...
Shareholders of Far Point, the blank-check company backed by U.S. hedge fund Third Point LLC, on Monday approved the proposed $2.6 billion acquisition of Swiss payments company Global Blue. The vote caps months of wrangling between Third Point and the private equity...
