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Mid-Year 2005 DealMaker's Survey
20/12/2005. These are the best of times for merger and acquisitions professionals, according to a recent survey of 1,590 dealmakers by Thomson Financial and the Association for Corporate Growth. This year's survey finds merger professionals bullish about the current M&A environment. 
The relationship between angels and venture capitalists in the venture industry
14/12/2005. Angels are a necessary part of the ecosystem, says one of the respondents in this CET2C survey. Many successful VCs get too busy or have gotten much larger over time, so there is still a need for smaller funds or angel investors to fund entrepreneurs at seed stages.
Global IPO Survey 2005
07/12/2005. Global IPO activity reaches an important turning point; emerging markets dominate, while many more companies dual track says Ernst & Young's Global IPO Survey 2005.
Annual review of private equity terms and conditions 2005
30/11/2005. The trend towards increasing fund sizes continues, leading to longer investment periods and higher effective management fees, SCM's latest research found.
2005 Global venture capital investment report
21/11/2005. Following an active year of rebuilding in 2004, venture capital investing sustained the momentum in 2005 in the major markets of the US, Europe and Israel, according to the annual year-end analysis by Ernst & Young and VentureOne. Most notable was the fact that during the course of 2005, fund raising by venture capital firms increased significantly with venture capitalists stockpiling the most investment capital since 2001.
3i European Enterprise Barometer: Q4 2005
16/11/2005. European companies are becoming slightly more optimistic, as 3i's Index score went up to +11 increasing 7 points from the previous quarter.
SCM Exit Report: 2nd survey of private equity realisations 2003/2004
05/10/2005. Last year saw a strong increase of distributions to investors. In the USA and Europe total distributions amounted to about $57bn of which $49bn were distributions made by US funds - an increase of almost 50 per cent compared to the year 2003.
Tailwind for private equity in the Fenno-Baltic area
20/07/2005. The latest Corpfin Monthly Review looks at trends in private equity in the Fenno-Baltic area and carries an analysis by value of Scandinavian-related acquisitive deals during the last year.
Global trends in venture capital: a close-up view
13/07/2005. US-based venture capitalists expect to expand their global investments, with China and India among their top targets, according to the Deloitte and NVCA 2005 Global Venture Capital Survey conducted jointly by Deloitte & Touche and the National Venture Capital Association. At the same time, the United States remains the most attractive investment target for venture capital firms worldwide.
Global trends in venture capital: a close-up view
29/06/2005. The findings from the Deloitte & Touche and National Venture Capital Association 2005 Global Venture Capital Survey.
The tenth Gresham Monitor
22/06/2005. The tenth Gresham Monitor dispels any lingering myth that mid-market companies are not proactively tackling risks in their businesses. Enterprises are disproportionately affected by bureaucracy and tend not to have the capacity internally to cope with new Corporate activity One in three firms are looking to do a deal in the next year, according to their survey.
Global Private Equity performance review 2004
08/06/2005. In a scheme to help tackle the lack of meaningful performance data in the Private Equity industry and the sometimes large discrepancies in published benchmark data, SCM has initiated its first global Private Equity performance review. More than 300 partnerships of the vintage years 1997-2002 have been analysed.
US Mid-Atlantic Venture Capital Survey: Q1 2005
11/05/2005. Data released by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association illustrates that US VCs have continued the trend for the past eleven quarters and feel positive about market recovery. Their latest survey illustrates that although VCs made fewer investments in the quarter than they had earlier forecasted, they expect their investment pace and the number of regional investments to increase in the following quarter.
Corpfin monthly review: January 2005
04/05/2005. The latest Corpfin Monthly Review looks at trends in European and UK acquisitive deals, as well as the top ranking legal advisers involved in private equity funded deals for the previous year.
MoneyTree Survey: Q1 2005
27/04/2005. US venture capitalists invested US$4.6 billion in 674 companies in the first quarter of 2005, according to the MoneyTree Survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Venture Economics and the National Venture Capital Association. Funding was below Q4 2004 of US$5.4 billion, but matched Q3 2004 of US$4.6 billion. Over the past two years, quarterly investing has floated between US$4.4 billion and US$5.9 billion.
DealMaker's Survey
19/04/2005. Following an active 2004 for mergers and acquisitions, a survey of 1803 dealmakers by Thomson Financial and the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) finds them even more bullish about the current climate and prospects for M&A in 2005.
Sense of indifference pervades the UK
12/04/2005. The UK’s smaller business sector is entering 2005 with no great confidence in what the year may hold for them, according to a survey from business advisors KPMG.
Section 754 survey
29/03/2005. NYPPE has conducted a survey among private equity partnerships, legal and tax advisors as to their best practices for implementing the recently enacted US tax legislation referred to as Section 754.
2004 Annual Review of Private Equity Terms and Conditions
21/03/2005. This report summarizes certain terms & conditions captured in the private equity fund database of SCM Strategic Capital Management AG. SCM screens approximately 250 Partnership offerings each year and has captured data on more than 1000 Private Equity Funds globally and in excess of 700 management groups. The terms & conditions do often represent pre final
closing documents and may thus not represent the final terms agreed between managers and their investors. For the year 2004 all funds screened until December 31 have been included in the data.
IT services M&A review
15/03/2005. Continuing sector consolidation, surging stock market indices and sustained improvements in labour statistics characterised the market for IT Professional Services
Organizations (ITPSO) during the 4th quarter of 2004, according to Lyndhurst Partners.
2004: Solid recovery for UK IPO Market
14/03/2005. Research out from KPMG's Corporate Finance practice, shows the UK's main Initial Public Offering market made a solid recovery in 2004 with 17 trading company IPOs raising total funds of over £2,606 million. This compares to 8 trading company IPOs raising £2,431 million in 2003 (£1,226m of which was raised by Yell).
Corpfin monthly review: December 2004
22/02/2005. The latest Corpfin Monthly Review looks at securities law issues in non-US M&A transactions, trends in European and UK acquisitive deals, US mid-market deals, and carries a review of M&A activity in the US during 2004.
Private company financings update
15/02/2005. Cooley Godward's new quarterly newsletter provides a summary of their most recent experiences in venture capital financing terms and trends. Each quarter, they will highlight their broad observations with respect to current trends, along with data regarding trends in the most important venture terms.
Global private equity 2004
02/02/2005. PriceWaterhouseCoopers summarises the main trends for fund raising, high-technology investment, expansion investment, and buyout investment trends for the past year.
3i European Enterprise Barometer: Q4 2004
26/01/2005. The European Barometer Index has fallen in 3i's latest survey. While the Index has risen in France, Germany and Italy, it has fallen in the UK, Spain and (by a small margin) in the Nordic countries.
Northern businesses in the UK value personality over pay cheques
11/01/2005. Northern companies in the United Kingdom place more value in good business relationships than cash availability when it comes to raising money – according to the findings from Gresham’s Northern Monitor. The
results show that businesses in Greater Manchester, the North West and Yorkshire and Humberside value factors such as personal chemistry and relationships more than the amount of cash that is on offer.
Seventh Quarterly Confidence and Attitudes Survey
01/01/2005. Over 57% of private equity investors finding the climate for fundraising tough, the UK private equity industry has challenged the Government on excessive levels of public borrowing, according to the British Venture Capital Association's latest quarterly Confidence and Attitudes Survey.
The Lyndhurst Partners IT services M&A review
22/11/2004. Significant sector consolidation, declining stock market indices, and moderately improved labor statistics characterized the market for IT Professional Services Organizations (ITPSO) during the 3rd quarter of 2004, said Lyndhurst Partners.
   
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