This post continues an anecdotal review of the investment and M&A climate as the world does, or does not, emerge from the economic unpleasantness that started in 2008. Kevin Dunn and Ed Pendergast are managing directors of Dunn Rush & … Continue reading
Stephen Honig
Recent investor focus has been on US, Europe and China. India is (in part) an English-speaking country that is also the world’s second most populous. What is the prognosis for investing in India, and for the Indian capital markets in … Continue reading
At today’s MassBio (Biotechnology Council) meeting in Cambridge on new VC models for early stage financing, panelists painted a picture of changes in investor appetites and a more varied landscape for capital sources and exit opportunities. Three fund managers (two … Continue reading
Jeff Leerink is founder and CEO of Leerink Swann & Co., a boutique investment bank with its home office in Boston and an investment banking practice wholly centered on the life sciences. Given the shrinking venture capital commitment to the … Continue reading
It is always dangerous to write something that could function as a putative “history” at a point in time close to the events being discussed. One lacks the perspective of time, and the information that future events provides to illuminate … Continue reading
Karen Kaplan is President of the advertising agency Hill Holliday, chair-elect of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and has had a solid background of board service (presently she serves as Trustee at Fidelity Investments and a Director of DSM … Continue reading
If you want to see how Humphrey Bogart relates to the SEC, you might want to link to my November column, published in New England In-House, entitled “New SEC Rules Result in Whistleblowing in the Wind.” … Continue reading
Recently I was asked for my take-aways from the Occupy Boston movement, about which I have blogged several times; the Occupy site was just below my office window and I spent some lunchtimes talking with the tent people and taking … Continue reading
Reagan made famous the phrase “there you go again” and I am guilty. One day after I promised myself not to post about the now-closed Occupy Boston site, I am compelled to do it again. From my office directly above … Continue reading
On December 7, Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Frances McIntyre issued an opinion that was reported as adverse to the Occupy Boston movement. While the effect of her ruling will be the dismantling of the encampment, the ruling reflects a … Continue reading