Introduction: Apex Investment Partners was founded in 1987 by James A. Johnson and the First Analysis Corporation. In its eight-year life‚ the VC had raised three funds. The two first which are already closed had‚ together‚ a committed capital of around $70M. There were mainly concentrated in four areas: • • • • Telecommunication‚ information technology and software. Environmental and industrial productivity-related technologies. Consumer products and specialty retail. Health-care and related technologies
Premium Stock Discounted cash flow Fundamental analysis
1. Why does Apex find AccessLine to be an attractive investment? What are the risks? Basically‚ Apex was attracted by the new technology and the unique business model of AccessLine. And‚ it was at the early stage and was not invested heavily by other professional investors. The positive cash flow was an important factor that makes Apex felt confident. It means that the market actually existed and customers understand the concept of technology‚ reducing the entry risk. With the domain knowledge
Premium Management Strategic management Marketing
own company name. AccessLine also developed partnerships with equipment manufacturers such as Stratus Computer and Motorola‚ also providing them with a franchise in exchange for funding. However AccessLine’s growth prompted the need for larger investments. Thus‚ in 1994‚ AccessLine diversified their financing to professional equity investors. Providing funding worth $15.5 million‚ AccessLine’s CFO Bill Stuart‚ and Morgan Stanley’s Bill Brady executed the transaction‚ involving the private placement
Premium Finance Venture capital Mergers and acquisitions
MEMORANDUM To Apex Investment Partners: According to my analysis of the Accessline’s proposed term sheet‚ I do not believe that Apex would serve its own interests‚ or those of its investing partners‚ by investing in Accessline according to the terms proposed. By investing at the proposed valuation‚ according to the proposed control and incentive structure‚ Apex would be shouldering a disproportionate share of the risk should Accessline fail to meet its performance targets‚ or require
Premium Net present value Investment Stock market
Given the limited information in this case‚ which product would you recommend that Apex commercialize? Why? Apex‚ a chemical manufacturer‚ has the option of commercializing one of its compounds due to resource scarcity. Apex needs to examine both choices and take into consideration the analysis of market size and trend‚ value proposition‚ market knowledge and share‚ and forecasted revenue for each of the compound before it decides which compound to commercialize. Compound A-115: The first
Premium Marketing Brand Trade
Given the limited information in this case‚ which product would you recommend that Apex commercialize? Why? I would recommend that Apex commercialize Compound B-227. First‚ there is a much larger market size and future growth potential with B-227 at $40 Million and climbing vs. A-115 which is at $10 million and relatively flat and stable. This means that even if Apex tried to innovate with A-115 and theoretically captured 100% of the market‚ which is not likely considering they would be competing
Premium Innovation Marketing Decision theory
Apex is a medium-sized chemical manufacturer with annual sales of $60 million that must make a crucial decision on how to allocate its limited resources. These types of decisions often occur during the S&OP process and are made using product data‚ market analysis‚ risk tolerance‚ culture‚ and a little bit of luck. However‚ making long-term investments based on luck is not a business plan I would be comfortable with. Fortunately for the Executives at the Apex Company they can assess potential business
Premium Marketing
Reinventing the Wheel at Apex Door Company. The central problem is that Jim Delaney‚ president of the Apex Door Company‚ cannot get his employees to do specific tasks without messing up. The causes of the central problem are that when employees don’t understand something they improvise on their own without asking a supervisor. Other causes to the central problem are that none of the jobs have training manuals‚ and their job descriptions are out of date. Also all training for new employees is
Premium Employment Wheel
HKU763 PREETI GOYAL PEOPLE MANAGEMENT‚ THE MANTRA FOR SUCCESS: THE CASE OF SINGHANIA AND PARTNERS It was 9:15am on 25 April 2006. An article published in that day’s Economic Times‚ a leading Indian financial daily‚ had attracted the attention of both Mr Ravi Singhania and Ms Manju Mohotra. Singhania was the founder and managing partner of Singhania and Partners‚1 one of the largest full-service national law firms in India; Mohotra was its chief executive. The Indian legal services industry
Premium Law Lawyer
Rebecca Lamb Jessica Avalos Leah Anderson Stonemor Partners LP Stonemor Partners’ primary sources of liquidity is cash flow from operations and amounts available under their Credit Facility. In the past the company been able to increase their liquidity through long-term bank borrowings and the issuance of additional common units and other partnership securities‚ including debt‚ subject to the restrictions in their Credit Facility and under their senior secured notes. The
Premium Finance Investment Asset