We had a “real” fund-raising pitch of the P/E fund manager to us, the potential limited partners. Frankly, the questions both actually asked and those that should have been asked were very much common sense. Fund size, average deal size, where will they invest, how are they different from other people in this crowded marketplace […]

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This time we had a guest speaker on top of the excellent course, a lady who worked for William Blair (mid-sized investment bank here in Chicago). The theme of the class was the ways to exit a buyout deal. The focus was to contrast selling the company vs. doing an IPO. Unfortunately, the clear and […]

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