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As well, private equity firms continue to focus on transactions that either (1) monetize existing assets via dividends and sponsor-to-sponsor sales, (2) lower financing costs, or (3) extend maturities.
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Past Facebook transactions have occurred through private equity deals or have traded on exchanges like SecondMarket, which specialize in unregistered, hard-to-trade securities.
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It is one of the so-called private investment in public equity, or PIPE, transactions regulators have been examining for illegal trading activity.
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Steve Kaplan, attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, practices in the areas of venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial transactions.
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The most active private equity software acquirer in 2012 was Vista Equity Partners with 12 transactions.
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The majority of these transactions were by strategic acquirers, as opposed to private equity buyers.
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