Product Description: This text offers a geographic and regional study of venture capitalism. Although the importance of this type of capitalism in creating and nurturing small firms has long been recognized, it does not have a uniform global character...read more

A noted small business attorney and author of Parting Company presents a definitive guide to raising investment capital that is designed to help readers avoid common mistakes and maximize their efforts.

<p> Now, you can minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits, with <b><i>Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions, 2008 Edition</i></b>. </p> <p> Here at last is one-step-at-a-time, start-to-finish structural guidance for the following common business transactions: </p> <ul> <li> Venture capital financing </li> <li> New business start-ups </li> <li> Brains-and-money deals </li> <li> Growth-equity investments </li> <li> Leveraged and management buyouts </li> <li> Industry consolidations </li> <li> Troubled company workouts and reorganizations </li> <li> Going public </li> <li> Selling a business </li> <li> Forming a private equity fund </li> </ul> <p> Guided by <a href="http://www.kirkland.com/sitecontent.cfm?contentID=220&itemID=7928" target="_blank"> Jack S. Levin's</a> dynamic, transaction-by-transaction approach, you'll make the tax, legal, and economic structuring consequences of every deal benefit your client every time. In this extraordinary hands-on resource by the most sought-after authority in the field, you'll see exactly how to: </p> <ul> <li> Distribute the tax burden in your client's favor </li> <li> Maximize returns on successful transactions </li> <li> Control future rights to exit a profitable investment </li> <li> And turn every transaction into a winning venture! </li> </ul> <p> Click here to view <a href="http://www.aspenpublishers.com/PDF/9780735574687-highlights2008.pdf"> Highlights</a> of the new 2008 Edition. </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Description: The Small Business Administration issued a policy directive in 2002, the effect of which has been to exclude innovative small firms in which venture capital firms have a controlling interest from the SBIR program. This book seeks to illuminate the consequences of the SBA ruling excluding majority-owned venture capital firms from participation in SBIR projects...read more

Product Description: This book traces the historical rise of private equity finance in the US and UK over the last 40 years. It shows how this new industry has grown as credit markets have grown. It is clearly explained for the non-expert how financial gearing works in a leveraged buyout.

Product Description: The stereotype of the "angel investor" is a retired wealthy entrepreneur who sees potential, asks tough questions, takes a large stake, and in a few years makes a massive return in an IPO. This outsider fills the gap between the venture capitalist and the professional investor, swooping in with cash and expertise to bring dreams to fruition...read more

Product Description: Strategies for Biotechnology Venture Capital 2008/2009 is an authoritative, insider's perspective securing venture capital and achieving growth in the biotech industry for VCs, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. Featuring managing partners at top VC firms and CEOs of funded biotech companies, these experts provide key strategies for all stages of an investment with a focus on raising capital, establishing valuations, determining exit strategies, and structuring deals...read more

Product Description: The process of raising capital can be daunting for even the most seasoned entrepreneurs. Raising Capital: When You Don't Have a Silicon Valley Address is a compilation of a dozen interviews with experts in the business of raising capital...read more

The venture capital industry in the United States has grown dramatically over the last two decades. Annual inflows to venture funds have expanded from virtually zero in the mid-1970s to more than $9 billion in 1997. Many of the most visible new firms—including Apple Computer, Genentech, Intel, Lotus, Microsoft, and Yahoo—have been backed by venture capital funds. Yet despite this tremendous growth and its visible success, venture capital remains a mysterious industry. Numerous misconceptions persist about the nature and role of venture capitalists. Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner's extensive research on venture capital organizations is based largely on original data sets developed through close relationships with institutional investors in venture capital funds and investment advisors. The Venture Capital Cycle synthesizes their path-breaking work. After a historical overview, the book looks at the formation of funds, the investment of the funds in operating companies, and the liquidation of these investments. The concluding chapter provides a road map for future research in this growing area. Three themes run throughout the book. The first is that all venture capitalists confront tremendous incentive and information problems. The second is that because the various stages of the venture capital processes are related, the entire process is best viewed as a cycle. The third is that, unlike most financial markets, the venture capital industry adjusts very slowly to shifts in the supply of capital and the demand for financing.

Product Description: This combination offer includes both the print and CD-ROM versions of Jack S. Levin's "Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Transactions", 2006 Edition. This resource will help you minimize your clients' tax liability and avoid legal pitfalls, as well as maximize returns on successful transactions and be prepared for all of the potential benefits...read more

Product Description: Private Equity Laws is an authoritative, incisive collection of insider perspectives on the dynamic and innovative forefront of the laws that govern investments, negotiations, and funding within the fields of private equity and venture capital...read more

Managing directors and partners from ten of the nation's leading VC firms on spotting the best investments in life sciences.

Product Description: Inside the Minds: Biotechnology Deals is an authoritative, insider's perspective on the issues surrounding biotech deals, including mergers and acquisitions, collaborations, and the future of doing successful deals. Featuring lawyers, CEOs of funded biotech companies, and venture capitalists who invest in them, this book provides a broad, yet comprehensive overview of the art of doing successful deals from the experts themselves...read more

An insider's business guide explains how entrepreneurs can find and make deals with angel investors who can provide financial backing for promising start-up companies. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Policy makers--Republican and Democrat, liberal and conservative--call for federal intervention to fund emerging high-growth industries, believing they are starved for capital. Congressional hearings, newspapers, industry newsletters, and government reports all assert that capital gaps exist for these firms...read more

The woman who took Microsoft public introduces readers to the high-risk, high-stakes game of venture capitalism, showing how enterprising individuals can transform an idea into a profitable business. 60,000 first printing.

Offers advice on how to find alternative equity financing for businesses, such as venture capital, overseas financing, and public offerings

Product Description: Resource-strapped entrepreneurs and small business owners scramble for funding and assistance from family and friends, venture capitalists, wealthy individuals, or government-guaranteed loans. But now there's another brand-new source of launch capital on the scene today: strategic alliances with large corporations...read more