Plus: A Black Box that Performs Business Valuations for Privately Held Companies? The Scenario Might Not Be as Far-Fetched as You Think Not too long ago I had lunch w/a senior valuation guy, someone who’s made his living in the field for some 30 years, and was there almost from the first days The National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts (NACVA) was formed and Shannon Pratt began publishing his first books. His thesis? On the horizon are electrical cars that drive themselves; computers that calculate things in miliseconds that third graders used to be taught to manually construct…
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If you’re been hoping to find a comprehensive source for private equity transactions and fund information, you may see a version of it as early as this fall. Fund managers have joined limited partners and other industry players in supporting a global private equity database being developed by Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner. Graham Winfrey at Private Equity Manager reports: A group of private equity firms including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, The Carlyle Group and Apollo Global Management have agreed to contribute transaction and fund information to a database being developed by the Private Capital Research Institution (PCRI). The…