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private limited partnership
Financial services; Venture capital
Limited partnership having no more than 35 limited partners and thus able to avoid SEC registration.
private placement
Financial services; Venture capital
Term used specifically to denote a private investment in a company that is publicly held. Private equity firms that invest in publicly traded companies sometimes use the acronym PIPEs to describe the ...
raising capital
Financial services; Venture capital
Obtaining capital from investors or venture capital sources.
recapitalization
Financial services; Venture capital
Financing technique used by companies to defend against hostile takeovers. By recapitalization, a company restructures it's debt and equity mixture without affecting the total amount of balance sheet ...
resyndication limited partnership
Financial services; Venture capital
A limited partnership in which existing properties are sold to new limited partners, so that they can receive the tax advantages that are no longer available to the old partners.
return on investment (ROI)
Financial services; Venture capital
The profit or loss resulting from an investment transaction, usually expressed as an annual percentage return. ROI is a return ratio that compares the net benefits of a project verses its total ...
risk
Financial services; Venture capital
Quantifiable likelihood of loss or less-than-expected returns. Risk includes the possibility of losing some or all of the original investment. Risk is usually measured using the historical returns or ...
