Archive for June 25th, 2007
Globe & Mail fact checker on holidays this week, PE $ go missing
25 June 2007To think that the Globe and Mail’s “fund” reporter thinks that Onex is the only publicly-traded private equity firm on the TSX:
“Onex Corp., run by founder shareholder Gerald Schwartz, is the only pure-play private equity player on the Toronto Stock Exchange. U.S. buyout giant Blackstone Group went public last Friday on the New York Stock [...]
Has the deal of the year become a nightmare?
25 June 2007My only excuse for being slow on this is that we’ve been busy, but the rumours are still swirling that there is more going wrong at Geosign Technologies Inc. than anyone imagined.
The background is this.
Part one: Geosign closed a $160 million venture capital round in March. That’ll undoubtedly be the biggest VC deal in [...]