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Deal Notes October 2009

TEOCO Brings Home Huge Investment from TA Associates.  10/6/09 Private Placement. At $60M, it is hard to find a larger first-time minority tech investment than the one made by TA Associates of Boston– at least locally.  Awkwardly named TEOCO of Fairfax really means The Employee Owned Company—not too catchy but clearly successful.  The company provides […]

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United BioSource Opens Sluice Gates for Berkshire Partners. 10/8/09 Private Placement.  In a transaction that has similarities with the TEOCO one, United BioSource Corporation of Bethesda took in a massive $125M “growth equity” investment from Berkshire Partners.  United BioSource plays an interesting and potentially lucrative role in the Pharma industry by helping develop and commercialize […]

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TEOCO, GlycoMimetics and United BioSource—Private Placement or Acquisition? It is an issue that has interested us for years.  When is an investment a buyout and when is it a venture investment?  The line used to be very clear.  Buyout funds absolutely had to have control, and control was defined as over 50% of the voting […]

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