Opinion

I’ve always thought that entrepreneurs don’t really understand VCs, and I’ve always been SURE that (most) VCs don’t understand investment bankers and the public stock market. So I guess I wasn’t all that surprised when I heard two opposing comments from different life sciences VCs at a recent conference. The first argued that today’s public […]

After sorting through about ten potential launch topics, I decided to write my first post on the growing concentration in mega and large-cap leveraged buyout funds in the U.S market. One could make a convincing argument that the returns from this small group of funds will be less variable than the returns from the broader […]

We have found that a number of our limited partners have created very professional groups to co-invest with us in deals. These groups are so responsive that we can approach them quickly, and have them take significant co-invest pieces of our deals — whereas in the previous years we might have brought in another private […]

I wanted to share with other fellow readers a recent transaction closed by our investor group ($250M+ EV) in the cable & broadband industry in Central America. There has been some intense activity in this sector with other funds managed by Carlyle, Warburg Pincus, Cinven, Fintech that is worth a look. REsults by public cable […]