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In this morning’s media roundup, PE firms are looking for a little bit more liquidity in their energy deals (not THAT kind of liquidity), while Catterton Partners latest deal is all about turning liquid into vapors.
Just as its shares started selling to the public for the first time, BATS Global Markets, one of the nation’s newest and largest electronic exchanges, halted trading on its own stock after a series of technical errors in its system. In a memo prepared for a coming Congressional hearing, investigators described how Jon S.
Mergers, Acquisitions, Venture Capital, Hedge Funds - DealBook B
Crowdfunding to boost economic activity has been a measure not only in the US during difficult economic times. As an example, also the Swiss decided to rapidly invest a three digit million amount into entrepreneurial SMEs.
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Redmile Group and Claremont Creek have joined existing investors in an $11.8m financing round for life sciences company Genalyte. DB Masdar Fund and BASF Venture Capital have led a $26.7m financing round for environmentally-friendly flame-retardent plastic producer FRX Polymers.
Singapore’s economy has grown significantly in the last decade (as evidenced by Figure 1) with financial services playing a vital role in that growth. However, like other international business and financial-focused economies, Singapore’s economy was hurt by the global financial meltdown, but it has managed to rebound impressively by earning more than 14% GDP in 2010. Figure 1; Source: Singapore Dept. of Statistics