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Archive for September 17th, 2007

Longview Solutions to be acquired by Exact Software

17 September 2007

Wellington Financial Fund II portfolio company Longview Solutions has agreed to be acquired by Exact Software of the Netherlands for US$51.5 million. That price works out to be about 2x revenue. Closing expected to be on November 15, 2007.
We joined lead investor VenGrowth Capital Partners in 2005. Hats off to Longview CEO [...]

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BCE’s excessive deal fee party

17 September 2007

It took me awhile to get around to breaking the back of the August 7 BCE (BCE:TSX) proxy circular. It is a beautiful piece of work. Nice colour, clearly laid out, bound like a small book. After leafing through it I now know why it is a small book: the opinions of [...]

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