Week in Review: Twitter, the Jobs Report, and Deals Closing Across the Board

Big week in the tech world as Twitter took the first steps of its eagerly awaited initial public offering, setting a price range for its shares that was below what some analysts had expected.

However it was an equally interesting couple of days for non-tech deal professionals with acquisitions across the data, healthcare, consumer, and industrials spaces.  See this great piece on how to optimize the value of a company post-transaction.  So what happened this week in the capital markets?

Opinions:

• Twitter comes to Wall Street
• Why the jobs report has become meaningless
• Harvard endowment’s private equity future
• SEC finally does its job on crowdfunding
• Post crisis small buyout funds generating superior returns

Transactions:

• Golub provides $153M in financing for Aurora ad-tracking acquisition
• Kinderhook- and Mansa-backed E4 Health completes third add-on with acquisition of Wellness Corporation
• Permira to purchase maker of Dr. Martens for $485M
• First Reserve to acquire lifting services- and equipment-provider TNT Crane & Rigging from Odyssey
• Biotech company CytoDyn completes $15M private placement via leading placement agent in small offerings Paulson Investment Company