The internationalisation of financial markets has grown considerably over the past decades, with increased cross-border capital flows, tighter links between financial markets, and a greater commercial presence of foreign financial entities around the world. As international capital markets became more integrated, companies started enjoying not only a tremendous amount of flexibility in deciding which type […]
In the late 1950s, President JF Kennedy said that ‘When written in Chinese, the word crisis (wÄ“ijÄ«) is composed of two characters: one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.’
Private equity (PE) investors generally seek protection from dilution by other investors in later rounds. Anti-dilution protection is separate from the preferential subscription rights, which give priority to existing shareholders to subscribe for new shares
Typically, venture capital (‘VC’™) investors expect to obtain an exit within a 3-7 year period and aim to receive a minimum return on their investments. Rights and mechanisms designed to allow the VC firms to
Private equity (PE) investments will typically confer on the investor certain special rights to control in a certain way how transfers of shares in the target company may/will occur. The primary purpose of such
The due diligence process can be defined as the means by which an investor undertakes the relevant investigation and evaluates an investment opportunity before committing funds, including, inter alia, the gathering of data, the analysis
