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Protecting Your Investment: Insurance for Portfolio Companies' M&A Transactions
08/11/2004. With the recent uptick in merger and acquisition activity, a number of private equity firms have begun to consider a relatively new form of insurance coverage to help facilitate their portfolio companies' transactions. This coverage - M&A insurance - has become increasingly popular, and in this article, Carl E. Metzger of Testa Hurwitz & Thibeault provides an overview of situations in which M&A insurance should be considered and how such insurance works. 
The risk and return of publicly traded private equity
11/06/2004. A major problem in studying the performance of private equity is the lack of reliable market data. It is very difficult to clearly evaluate the performance of individual private equity investments since no benchmark based on market prices has been built so far for this asset class, according to Heinz Zimmermann, Hans Christophers and Michel Degosciu of the University of Basel.
The legal road to replicating Silicon Valley
14/01/2004. The construction of a legal and fiscal environment conducive to venture capital and private equity activity is paramount for policymakers seeking to replicate the Silicon Valley phenomenon outside the US, according to John Armour of the University of Cambridge and Douglas Cumming of the University of Alberta School of Business.
Development of a rating system for private equity funds
07/01/2004. There has long been a cry for greater transparency and increased performance monitoring to help advance private equity to a mature asset class, according to Clemens Troche of the European Investment Fund. Yet investors and fund managers are often reluctant to increase transparency because it is deemed to create a competitive imbalance.
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