Private Equity Wire

APRIL 10, 2025

Vestlane eliminates inefficiencies by automating investor onboarding, integrating deep legal expertise, and embedding cutting-edge KYC/AML solutions reducing fund closing times by up to 40%. Our legal expertise ensures that compliance is never a bottleneck but a competitive advantage.

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APRIL 21, 2014

You have real legal responsibilities around notifications of employees as the money gets low--and there will be some wrap up legal work to be done. Venture Capital & Technology' 5) Talk to a lawyer.

Startups 141

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MAY 27, 2014

Last week, for just the second time ever, I passed on an investment opportunity because of the terms of the deal--both the price and the legal structure of the agreement. Venture Capital & Technology' The whole deal was optimized to avoid distracting the founder too much from the world of building the company.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Athwal advises hedge funds, private equity funds, asset managers, sponsors and family offices on the establishment, regulation, corporate governance and ongoing operation of Cayman Islands domiciled investment funds, as well as the establishment of venture capital and other funding structures based in Cayman.

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Hedge Funds Funds Venture Capital Consulting 97

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

One thing that was clear across all three was that their startups didn''t start the day that they signed some legal docs. Venture Capital & Technology' I brought three founders in for the first time and they rocked it. Their ideas are honed for years--their understanding of a market is deep and insightful.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Schwartz advises companies and private equity and venture capital funds on their capital solution needs, from raising capital to deployment and management.

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Cobalt

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Changing Fortunes: T racking 20 Y ears of R eturns A cross Credit and Venture Capital Last month, the Federal Reserve announced its first cut to interest rates in over four years. For the analysis, we pulled the Credit Time Weighted Rate of Return (TWRR) and included the same metric for venture capital.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

If you get a yes then, there''s absolutely no reason in this day and age that negotiating a seed round''s legals should take more than week. Venture Capital & Technology' If I take three months, then I''m pretty sure I can forget ever seeing another deal from whoever showed me the opportunity in the first place.

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 4, 2023

Despite a challenging fundraising environment, venture funds able to prove their thesis are continuing to see interest from limited partners. Unshackled Ventures is the latest venture capital firm to close on a new fund, its third, with $35 million in capital commitments toward pre-seed investments in immigrant founders.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 29, 2024

In his new role, Olds will be responsible for all operational areas of the business including finance, regulatory & compliance, legal, technology & IT, ESG, IR & fundraising and operations & facilities. Prior to Ultraleap, Christopher was Partner, Capital Markets at venture capital firm IP Group.

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Because of their power and influence, they also know how to protect themselves through legal and regulatory methods quite well. Venture Capital & Technology' It''s going to result in a lot more than just photosharing. Powerful structures are crumbling and it''s bigger than even we can imagine. I''m psyched to be a part of it.

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Private Equity Insights

JANUARY 19, 2024

million jobs and generating £137 billion of GDP in 2023, according to the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. A London City Airport spokesperson said the group was “fully and legally compliant” with its “statutory disclosure requirements.”

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Private Equity Insights

JULY 17, 2023

LionTree Advisors advised Corus on the Toon Boom Animation deal, while Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP served as legal counsel to IMC. IMC’s proposed deal to acquire Toon Boom is expected to close by the end of 2023, pending regulatory approvals.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 21, 2023

A Morale Booster In the past three years, SoftBank has hit major headwinds: its Vision Fund -- a $100 billion venture capital program launched in 2017 with nearly half of it backed by Saudi Arabia -- yielded dismal results and many assets were either unloaded or saw their values dramatically written down.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 21, 2023

In mid-July, crypto investors everywhere were rewarded with a huge legal win in the form of a positive court ruling for XRP (CRYPTO: XRP). This beleaguered cryptocurrency had been embroiled in a massive legal case with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for more than two years. In the end, a U.S.

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 27, 2024

Sykes joined the firm in 2021, having previously led the real estate and development in-house legal team of Dart, the largest real estate and hotel developer in the Cayman Islands. She also has experience in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing and alternative risk financing transactions involving insurers and insurance groups.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Hedge Funds Venture Capital 97

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APRIL 22, 2010

On top of that, when you download the store, you have to scroll through a legal document to approve the terms of service. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. I’m honestly at a loss for words to figure out why they’d set it up this way. That’s going to get fixed, right?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Docracy, born out of Techcrunch Disrupt's 2011 Hackathon, just brought legal negotiations into the cloud with their new Super Signing feature release. They’re cracking open the complexities of the legal system, starting with contracts, and making them work for the community. This is how software used to get developed.

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Companies Legal Best Practices Startups 132

The Big Picture

AUGUST 12, 2023

What we now call the “Yale Model” was invested in stocks and bonds but also venture capital, hedge funds, real estate, timber, commodities, etc. As early as 1992, Yale’s Endowment had a robust portfolio of venture capital and hedge funds, long before it became popular.

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Hedge Funds Capital Venture Capital Legal 98

FinSMEs

MAY 22, 2024

Superlegal, a NYC-based provider of an AI platform for legal contract review for small and medium-sized businesses, raised $5M in Seed funding. The round was led by Aleph and Disruptive AI fund, with the participation of Alicorn Venture Capital, and Tom Glocer, the former CEO of Thomson Reuters.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They work closely with clients, leveraging in-house legal expertise to develop proprietary insurance contracts that address industry-specific risks. Cyber insurance provides financial protection against losses from data breaches, ransomware or system outages, covering costs like legal fees, notification expenses, and system restoration.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 15, 2024

Metcalfe and Souter were previously Partners at law firm Gateley Legal, having both joined in 2016. She acts for both investors’ venture capital trusts as well as investee companies on the initial investments, as well as follow-on rounds and restructuring.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Venture Capital Legal 75

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 28, 2019

While some of those offerings were scams or worse , many of the ones that are being investigated by the SEC are serious projects, started by some of the top cryptographers and computer scientists in the world, and backed by the leading token funds and venture capital firms in the US and around the world.

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Crowdfunding Legal Venture Capital Education 86

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Simplifying the deal means short legal contracts. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Disqus improves the conversation on any site. These are free deals where success means just getting these widgets out there on as many sites through as many partners as possible. What is your standard offering?

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Startups Venture Capital Legal Capital 126

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JULY 7, 2014

Because it''s not like we''re all using it to watch things we''re not legally allowed to because of broadcast rules. Venture Capital & Technology' And when affordable housing advocates complain about Airbnb, they''re just standing in the way of innovation, right? Screw the law! Tor''s cool, right? IP masking FTW!

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Startups Venture Capital Legal Capital 119

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MAY 23, 2010

Will our lawmakers and city officials be empowered to engage with citizens without having everything run through legal first? Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Anyone can set up a Twitter account and post their press releases to it, but how many people are actually going to have public conversations there?

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 21, 2024

She earned her Bachelor and Master of Arts in Law from St John’s College at the University of Cambridge, and her Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the York College of Law. She earned her LLB in Laws from the National University of Singapore, and is a member of the Singapore Law Society.

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Mergers and Acquisitions Law Firms Venture Capital Legal 74

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MARCH 1, 2010

Benjamin Franzen and Kembrew McLeod’s exceptionally smart and energetic documentary lays out the complexities of sampling, artistic and political, legal and philosophical. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. argument even as it makes it.". RSVP: [link].

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Venture Capital Consulting Consultants Legal 87

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Venture capital isn't a game or club any more than any other industry is. My career has been driven forward by authentic relationships. People I worked with and knew well funded my startup and the people that knew me best have always stuck up for me when my bluster got me in trouble.

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Startups Venture Capital Consulting Consultants 114

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MAY 11, 2012

Jersey Shore Ventures anyone?). I would say something like, "You should see the number of complicated disclosures I had to had to pay a lawyer tens of thousands of dollars to put into my fund's legal docs," that is, if I could say anything about the fundraising status of any fund that I might have at all.

Crowdfunding 115

Crowdfunding Startups Funds Venture Capital 115

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re out there scratching and clawing just trying to cobble together enough angel investor money to feed yourself while you code into the wee hours of the morning, and there’s a debate going on as to what kind of paper stock you should use to print out your legal docs on. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. Not at all.

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Startups Angel Investors Venture Capital Legal 104

Integrity Financial Planning

MARCH 19, 2023

As a result, and due to the fact that, like many large bank accounts, most of SVB’s funds were not covered by the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation), other venture capital firms and tech companies panicked, yanking their funds due to the stock loss. By the next day, Friday, Silicon Valley Bank announced its insolvency.

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Mutual Funds Banks Startups Venture Capital 97

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

I've been extremely fortunate to work at two of the best venture capital firms in the country--Union Square Ventures and First Round Capital. In a environment that is constantly innovating, the best ones realize that they have to out-execute the next firm with a higher quality product if they're going to stay in business.

Startups 112

Startups Venture Capital Legal Leveraging 112

FinSMEs

MARCH 13, 2024

Ada Ventures, a London, and Bristol, UK-based venture capital firm backing breakthrough ideas, closed a second fund, at GBP63M to back a diverse cohort of early-stage founders.

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Funds Venture Capital Legal Banks 57

Cobalt

AUGUST 9, 2024

Key Takeaways Among the seven strategies there are three standouts: buyout, venture capital, and growth equity. Venture capital (VC) would appear second, but it has a higher top-quartile cutoff at 23%. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice.

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Buyout Venture Capital Investing Legal 52

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JANUARY 21, 2010

Similarly, and not to beat the examples to a pulp, but I also saw a great idea in the legal space—big market, still lots of inefficiencies, but getting customers would necessarily mean getting mixed up in the dogfight that is litigation related keyword advertising and search optimization.

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Legal Venture Capital Capital Accounting 68

Private Equity Wire

JUNE 29, 2023

In connection with the close, Accel, a global venture capital firm, as well as merchant bank BDT & MSD Partners, and DFO Management, the family investment office of Michael Dell, have joined Silver Lake in investing in Qualtrics. in cash for each share of Qualtrics common stock they owned. Goldman Sachs & Co.

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