The reason you are unlikely to see a buyout version of Northern Rock is that private equity is structurally balanced, unlike the infamous UK lender – whose short-term assets and long-term liabilities caused the first run on a UK bank in over a century. Read more

Former Cazenove exec Simon Cook is enjoying his new persona as transatlantic adventurer. To celebrate its tie up with US venture firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the Esprit Capital Partners boss (pictured) took some clients to a Star Wars exhibition. Read more

The buyout industry may have got its way with the UK’s 18 per cent flat tax, but one of the Vulture’s spies reported an interesting sighting on the day of the Pre-Budget Report: Read more

No sooner was he back from his trip to China than Apax boss Martin Halusa flew to Scotland to partake in one of his favourite pastimes. Read more

Two Walkers associated with the BVCA is confusing enough, but three is beyond the pale. Read more

After many blinkered years of wilful ignorance, the UK pension fund industry finally has something to say about private equity. In fact, it has gone straight to the top of the NAPF’s agenda. They don’t like the fees and intend to let their feelings be known at the very top. Read more

If European venture is unpopular in other parts of the world, it could be because no one has noticed even its greatest successes. Read more

It was set to be one of the highest profile technology venture panels of the year. But almost as soon as Patrick Sheehan, leader of EVCA’s venture capital platform, had introduced the speakers at the Rome Symposium, an irritating drilling noise began, making the session virtually inaudible. Read more

If all the portfolio companies of UK venture firms were crowded into Mayfair, right next door to their own premises, it might look something like Herzliya Pituah – the high-tech cluster 10km north of Tel Aviv, where numerous venture capitalists, and international technology companies have set up shop. Read more

People do some strange things to enter the prestigious Guinness Book of World Records: eating a light aircraft or encouraging a child to perform caesarean section. Read more