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    Systems for Growth: Expert Q&A With Deepak Agrawal

    Deepak Agrawal, Co-founder and Managing Director of Gotham Consulting Partners, discusses the challenges that private equity firms face in attempting to professionalize the management systems of companies that need to move to the next level of growth.

    June 15, 2012
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    Turnarounds and Beyond

    When Sun Capital Partners acquires a deeply distressed business, its first goal is to stop the bleeding, according to Marc Leder, Co-CEO of the distressed and turnaround firm. What comes next?

    June 14, 2012
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    Middle-Market Specialist

    Private equity firms “need to have an angle” with each portfolio company investment or they will fail to impress Brian Gallagher, a Partner at Chicago-based Twin Bridge Capital Partners.

    June 10, 2012
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    How WhatCounts and Riverside Partnered For Growth

    Meet Dave Tiley and Allen Nance, two executives joined in an ambitious effort to build a company called WhatCounts into a dominant provider of email marketing services. In a joint interview with Privcap, Tiley and Nance share candid details on how their partnership works.

    June 1, 2012
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    The Future of VC

    David York, the CEO and Managing Partner of San Francisco-based venture fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners, shares insights about the direction of venture capital.

    June 1, 2012
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    Life After a Private Equity Deal

    A playback of the Privcap Webinar “Life After A Private Equity Deal: How Management and GPs Partner to Create Value” featuring David Knoch of Irving Place Capital and Anthony Zecca of CohnReznick

    May 22, 2012
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    Tales of Value Added (And Plans Botched)

    Dealmakers are rarely this candid in discussing not only their proprietary methods for adding operating value, but also the lessons they’ve learned from botched investments.

    May 21, 2012
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    Heat-Map Investing

    David Turner, the outspoken Head of Private Equity for the The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, describes his “heat-map” approach to investing.

    May 14, 2012
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    Adding Value to Brazilian Businesses

    Our expert panelists compare notes on how middle-market GPs are adding value to Brazilian businesses.

    May 1, 2012
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    Navigating Middle Brazil

    In the second of a three-part series about Brazil’s middle market, our panel gives a macro perspective on one of the most important private equity markets in the world.

    May 1, 2012
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    Doing Deals in Brazil

    Our panel discusses what is unique about doing deals in Brazil’s middle market, in one of the largest economies in the world.

    May 1, 2012
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    Real Assets in the Institutional Portfolio

    A playback of the Privcap Webinar featuring Jon Hershey of the Oregon State Treasury and Caledon Capital’s David Rogers

    January 13, 2012
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    ‘Exciting Times’ for Life-Science VC

    Big pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporations are on the hunt for acquisitions, and this spells opportunity for Lumira Capital, a Toronto-based venture capital firm.

    November 1, 2011
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    Canadian Cleantech

    The demand for cleaner and cheaper energy is on the rise, and EnerTech Capital is seeking to back companies and technologies that will be ahead of these trends.

    November 1, 2011
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    Reinventing Financial Services

    William Spiegel, managing director of private equity firm Pine Brook, and Satish Kini, a partner and co-chair of law firm Debevoise & Plimpton’s Banking Group, discuss shifting opportunities, risks, and more.

    October 9, 2011
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    Canadian Spinout

    HSBC Capital (Canada) CEO Dave Mullen on how his firm helps Canadian middle-market businesses go to the next level and develop greater non-Canadian revenue streams.

    October 1, 2011
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    A VC Ecosystem Comes of Age

    Privcap’s conversation with Chris Arsenault of iNovia Capital and Amar Varma of Extreme Venture Partners reveals a venture market confident in its ability to back world-changing innovation.

    September 1, 2011
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