Archive for March, 2009
VC’s Toes Getting Ready to Dip
By David Feldman at 31 March, 2009, 7:14 pm
I am hearing more and more anecdotal evidence that venture capital and private equity firms are interested in learning more about reverse mergers, self-filings and other IPO alternatives as a path to exit for portfolio companies. Some are even investing in PIPE financings (they call them VIPERs). Can they get comfortable investing in a public [...]
Read More >>Check Out Our New Companion Blog: www.CrisisPost.com
By David Feldman at 29 March, 2009, 1:59 pm
Today I am pleased that we are soft launching the Crisis Post at www.crisispost.com. Why a new blog? Many of you know me from here at the RM blog, or from my contributions on entrepreneurship to Slate.com’s small business site at bizbox.slate.com. Some of you have read my book, Reverse Mergers: Taking a Company Public Without an IPO [...]
Read More >>Upbeat Mood in Shanghai IV
By David Feldman at 27 March, 2009, 8:47 am
A few slightly more fun last observations as I get ready t0o leave this amazing city:
* The big Shanghai Expo is coming up next year. Apparently, in preparation, the government is sponsoring classes to teach residents appropriate etiquette in elevators.
* The new hotels in the Pudong section of Shanghai have really great air conditioning.
* As [...]
Upbeat Mood in Shanghai III
By David Feldman at 25 March, 2009, 11:00 pm
I have yet to really comment as to the headline of this series of posts. Anyone who attended the PIPE Conference in New York in October knows how there was pretty much nothing but doom and gloom in the forecast of things to come. But now, in March in Shanghai, real signs of life in [...]
Read More >>Upbeat Mood in Shanghai II
By David Feldman at 25 March, 2009, 5:48 am
More from the just finished International PIPE Conference in Shanghai. I am very pleased to report that this was the first conference in our space that I have attended where nothing but positive things were said about the value of using Form 10 shells to complete reverse mergers, especially with Chinese companies.
One speaker noted that [...]
Upbeat Mood in Shanghai I
By David Feldman at 24 March, 2009, 6:16 pm
I am still fighting jetlag days after arriving in Shanghai for the International PIPEs conference, which ended yesterday. One attendee told me he read that the most overused phrase is “takeaway,” so I will not use that phrase. Instead here are some things I learned, as always in no particular order.
* Thanks first to those [...]
China- Land of Pandas, the Great Wall and Reverse Mergers
By David Feldman at 22 March, 2009, 5:56 am
The heading above is the title of the new chapter we’ve been working on for the second edition of my book which is expected to be released later this year. Reverse mergers from China have become so ubiquitous at this point they have earned a full chapter!
Thus it is fitting that I am now here in [...]
Those Pesky AIG Bonuses
By David Feldman at 18 March, 2009, 6:27 am
Unlike apparently pretty much the whole country, I have really mixed feelings about the $165 million in bonuses recently paid to AIG executives. I totally understand the outrage given that over $100 billion of your tax dollars have gone to save this “too big to fail” giant. And the fact that 11 people that have [...]
Read More >>Off to China
By David Feldman at 16 March, 2009, 5:30 pm
I’m headed Friday to speak at DealFlow Media’s PIPE conference in Shanghai next week. I will be moderating a panel on how Chinese companies get ready to become US public companies. I am looking forward to the interplay with a fabulous group of panelists. I am also looking forward to the inauguration of a direct [...]
Read More >>RM Deals Since November: Could be Worse
By David Feldman at 15 March, 2009, 8:07 am
According to the newest issue of the Reverse Merger Report, there have been a total of 44 reverse mergers from November to February. This is about a 1/3 reduction from the height when over 200 deals a year were being done. Worse, the RMR reported that February was the first month since September 2005 that [...]
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