Quick uptick on Skype?
An IPO? So soon after the initial acquisition? To think we might already be in the green on Skype (see prior post “Skype deal: is it a tech or infrastructure deal?” Sept 2-09). Canadians may want to...
View ArticleFreescale IPO won’t skate us back onside just yet
We are approaching five years since the US$17.6 billion LBO of Freescale Semiconductor in September 2006. Plenty has happened in the intervening period, and the climate for investing has been...
View ArticleCPP Investment Board to take Blackberry private?
Thanks to the efforts of Bloomberg, Canadians have learned that our Canada Pension Plan is open to taking Blackberry (BB:TSX) private — likely with the support of its PE partner Silver Lake, should...
View ArticleThe BlackBerry whipsaw is fully underway
No sooner had I posited that BlackBerry shareholders shouldn’t bet on a “quick” auction (see prior post “BlackBerry: don’t bet on a frothy, ‘quick auction’” Sept. 5-13), The Sunday Times came out and...
View ArticleShifting sands in the venture lending world
For every door that closes, a window opens; or so the cliché goes anyway. In the venture debt sector over the past 24 months, it seems that for every capital window that opens, a door has closed....
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