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Bluewater Capital and ENI Partners: Private Equity Fund Restructuring Situation Caused by a Key Person Event
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-918-ECorporate Governance, FinanceIn March 2009, Ricard Thomas - managing director at Bluewater Capital, a European-based alternative asset management company focused on private equity investments - was preparing for his next trip to London. The next day, all the investors in the most recent fund of ENI Partners (ENI, the general partner, or GP), a London-based private equity firm, would meet to discuss the fate of one of the leading private equity houses in Continental Europe. I...Starting at €8.20
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Aceites Borges Pont, S.A.
Vergés S.; Ricart, Joan Enric; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1385-EStrategy2000 had been a difficult year for the olive oil industry in Spain, owing to the price cutting policy adopted by some companies, which had forced the rest of the industry to operate with very tight margins. In this context, Aceites Borges Pont, S.A. had to decide how to position its products, not only in Spain but also in the new international markets, in which the product was starting to be recognized, in order to achieve the profitability it ha...Starting at €8.20
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PanEuroSearch
Vergés S.; Ricart, Joan EnricCase DG-1412StrategyEn enero del año 2003, Joan Serra hacía balance de los seis primeros meses de actividad de su recién fundada firma, PanEuroSearch. Las últimas cifras indicaban que el año 2002 había sido uno de los peores para el sector del «executive search» a nivel mundial. En años anteriores, el sector había vivido un espectacular crecimiento a causa de la proliferación de los negocios de telecomunicaciones e Internet, así como por la alta competitividad por e...Starting at €8.20
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Genmedi: How to Value a New Company for an Upcoming Round of Financing - Teaching Note
Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Kolarova, LenkaTeaching Note ET-34-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceEvery venture capital and private equity deal involves determining the value of the company. This is one of the most important-and most difficult-tasks faced by an investor (and an entrepreneur), and skill is required when using the various methods for valuing a company. In March 2019, the investors in LifeCycle Ltd.-a technology company based in Shanghai, China-set up a new company, Genmed, to capitalize on an innovative technology for biologica...Starting at €0.00
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ABPSA. Studying the Acquisition of a Big Competitor
Vergés S.; Ricart, Joan Enric; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1452-EStrategyIn October 2001 the Board of Directors of the Borges Group held an extraordinary meeting. The reason for the meeting was well known to all present: Koipe, the leading Spanish olive and sunflower oil company, had become the target of a takeover bid by another Spanish company, SOS Cuétara (a producer of rice and biscuits). At that meeting, the Board of Directors would have to decide whether to respond with a counterbid. Koipe had been one of Borges...Starting at €8.20
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Soomaa Labs OU (A)
Johnson, Rob; Kolarova, LenkaCase E-218-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceThe fast-growing company in this case is considering pursuing an IPO on NASDAQ. The A case focuses on whether the company should do the IPO and, if so, what the process would involve and what the IPO valuation might be. The B case examines proposals from four investment banks to be the lead advisor on the IPO. The C case describes events leading up to the final stages just prior to the IPO.Starting at €8.20
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Soomaa Labs OU (C)
Johnson, Rob; Kolarova, LenkaCase E-220-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceThe fast-growing company in this case is considering pursuing an IPO on NASDAQ. The A case focuses on whether the company should do the IPO and, if so, what the process would involve and what the IPO valuation might be. The B case examines proposals from four investment banks to be the lead advisor on the IPO. The C case describes events leading up to the final stages just prior to the IPO.Starting at €5.74
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Grupo Prisa
Vergés S.; Rosenberg, Mike; Tàpies, JosepCase DG-1468-EStrategyThe Prisa Executive Committee is deciding on its strategy to compete with its main international rivals. The case describes Grupo Prisa's structure, the growth and diversification processes undertaken up to 2004, and its expansion into the Spanish-speaking world. It also analyzes the group's main rivals in Spain and beyond.Starting at €8.20
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Committee for Democracy in Information Technology (CDI)
Vergés S.; Mair, JohannaCase DG-1453-EStrategyThis is the first of a case series on Social Entrepreneurship written in collaboration with the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. The Comite para Democratizaçao da Informática (CDI) was a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded by Rodrigo Baggio in Brazil in 1995. Its mission was to set up schools to teach computer skills to low-income communities so that slum residents could begin to move into the mainstream of society and...Starting at €8.20
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Accent Equity Partners and the San Sac Deal
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliCase F-983-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was April 2019, and Niklas Sloutski, Chief Executive Officer of Accent Equity Partners, a Stockholm-based private equity firm, had just returned from a meeting with the firm's partners. The meeting in which they reviewed the firm's investment portfolio brought discussions about the implications of pursuing a possible exit from the investment in the San Sac Group, a market-leading provider of waste sorting, containment and compaction products i...Starting at €8.20