This paper analyzes a comprehensive data set of 160 non venture-backed, 79 venture-backed and 61 bridge financed companies going public at Germany´s Neuer Markt between March 1997 and March 2002. I examine whether these three types of issues differ with regard to issuer characteristics, balance...

The theoretical engagement with the law of Equity has never been so popular as nowadays. This immensely important body of law is now attracting the attention of private law theoreticians as questions that were first raised by Aristotle take a modern twist, and entrenched traditions are being...

This Review discusses three developments in equity jurisprudence drawn from significant recent decisions of the Privy Council, the House of Lords, the High Court of Australia and Supreme Court of Canada. The developments are of importance and interest in New Zealand

It has been widely perceived that the management of an organization synthetically inflates the true underlying value of the firm at the juncture of private equity exits and that the private equity investors create value for themselves & then exit the firm at this synthetically inflated value....

The aggregate amount of venture capital investments in non-publicly traded firms since 1980 is more than $390 billion. We test two economic hypotheses on the connection between venture capital investment and subsequent firm performance. We find that lagged VC investments scaled by industry...