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BayBio – Life Science Events in Northern California – June 2009 – Steven R. Gerbsman to speak

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Life Science, Market research, Venture Capital, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on June 7, 2009| Leave a Comment »

As innovators and leaders in a dynamic and competitive industry, Medical Device Companies of all stages of development share one thing in common. Intellectual Property. Protecting IP is a global issue that acutely affects the Medical Device industry. Whether you are an early stage start up, in clinical trials or have reached commercialization, your IP is your biggest asset. Join our panel for a discussion on how to protect, manage and defend you’re your Intellectual Property. Among the topics that will be addressed, strategy to prevent, or prevail in: enforcement; invalidity / title or ownership; infringement liability and defense; loss of value or revenue; contractual obligations.

Panel Moderator:
Thomas Meyers
Partner, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Panel Speakers:
Earl “Eb” Bright
General Counsel and Vice President, Intellectual Property, Exploramed Development, LLC

Steven Gerbsman
Principal, Gerbsman Partners

Trindl Reeves
Principal, Commercial Department, Barney & Barney

To view conference information – please go here.

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Successful termination of “Prohibitive Executory Real Estate Contracts”

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Distressed IP, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Life Science, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 4, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Steven R. Gerbsman, Principal of Gerbsman Partners, announced today that Gerbsman Partners successfully terminated the executory real estate contracts for two US based life science companies. The venture capital backed companies, executed leases for space in Northern, California. Due to market conditions, both companies made a strategic decision to terminate its corporate space allocation. Faced with potential contingent liabilities in excess of $ 6 million, the companies retained Gerbsman Partners to assist them in the termination of their prohibitive executory real estate contract.

About Gerbsman Partners

Gerbsman Partners focuses on maximizing enterprise value for stakeholders and shareholders in under-performing, under-capitalized and under-valued companies and their Intellectual Property. In the past 72 months, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in maximizing value for 52 Technology, Life Science and Medical Device companies and their Intellectual Property and has restructured/terminated over $780 million of real estate executory contracts and equipment lease/sub-debt obligations. Since inception, Gerbsman Partners has been involved in over $2.2 billion of financings, restructurings and M&A transactions.

Gerbsman Partners has offices and strategic alliances in Boston, New York, Washington, DC, Alexandria, VA, San Francisco, Europe and Israel.

For additional information please visit www.gerbsmanpartners.com

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Facebook accept investment, pull back IPO plans

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, FaceBook, Gerbsman Partners, Investments, Market research, Social Networks, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 27, 2009| 1 Comment »

Facebook avoid the IPO and steam ahead with expansion plans. It is not your average valuation we are talking about – $10B is quite a accomplishment. Please find earlier Facebook articles here; Facebook turned down funding at $8B, Few IPO candidates, Rapid growth and several more here.

Here is a story from Read Write Web.

“After we saw some rumors about this over the weekend, Facebook today confirmed that it will receive a $200 million investment from Digital Sky Technologies (DST), one of the leading Internet investment groups in Eastern Europe. This investment puts Facebook’s valuation at $10 billion. DST also plans to offer to purchase at least $100 million in Facebook common stock from existing shareholders.

According to Facebook‘s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, roughly 70% of the company’s users are now outside of the U.S., so cooperating with an international investment firm seemed to make sense in order to bring a global perspective to Facebook’s operations. DST will not get a seat on Facebook’s board, however.”

It continues…

“Digital Sky Technologies is a major player in Eastern Europe, and with Mail.ru, Forticom, and vKontakte among its assets, the company claims to account for over 70 percent of all all page views on the Russian-speaking Internet. Interestingly, DST (mostly through its investment in Forticom) also owns interests in a number of social networks like one.lt and Odnoklassniki.ru.

This deal also fits in well with other rumors about Facebook trying to raise capital to allow its employees to cash out some of their options. Just two weeks ago, our colleagues at VentureBeat reported that Facebook’s current investors “found it a stretch to supply the full amount of capital” that would be needed to provide Facebook with enough money to allow it to buy out roughly 15 million common shares at around $10 each.”

Zuckerberg commented this deal on the pressconference by saying…

“The company does not have any immediate plans for the cash it will receive from DST. Zuckerberg was also asked about a possible IPO, but according to Facebook’s CEO, an IPO is not on the “immediate horizon.”

Being asked about Microsoft’s investment in Facebook at a $15 billion valuation, Zuckerberg mostly sidestepped the issue, but stressed that this investment was part of a larger partnership at the top of the bubble and that he thinks that $10 billion valuation is “fair” and that he “feels good” about it.

Given the nature of the call, there was not a lot of focus on specific features, but Zuckerberg did confirm that Facebook is testing out a video chat feature. Our friends at All Facebook spotted references to this in Facebook’s code two weeks ago.”

Read the full article here.

Other sources for this topic include: TrolleyBlog, The Next Web, PEHub, Northloop,

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More IPO candidates – Fortinet, Qualys, NetQoS and BigFix may be filing.

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Economy, Investments, Market research, Technology, Venture Capital, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »

Reading an analysis over the 4 IPO´s this year – OpenTable, Mead Johnson Nutritional, Bridgepoint Educational and Changyou – I came across some new speculations regarding possible IPO´s this year. We covered this topic yesterday as well.

Here is some excerpts from a Wall Street Journal article.

“In particular, the debut of network software firm SolarWinds Inc. last week showed there’s “appetite for untested, unproven, unknown names out there,” says Brenon Daly, a senior financial analyst at The 451 Group.

However, Mr. Daly cautions that few tech newcomers can match the financial strength of SolarWinds, which generated strong revenue and net-income growth in the first quarter, even as many more-established technology companies reported declines.

But he said there could be strong interest in companies such as closely held computer-security outfit Fortinet Inc.; security risk and compliance service provider Qualys Inc.; network performance software company NetQoS Inc., and systems and security management firm BigFix Inc.

A Fortinet spokesman said the company is considering an IPO, as well as other options, but has no definitive plans at this point. A Qualys spokesman said the firm wants to prepare for an IPO by the fall of 2010. NetQoS said it had no immediate plans to go public, “but all options are on the table.”

It continues…

“Another area to watch in the 12 to 18 months is smart-grid technology, which allows for more efficient power distribution, based on where and when demand and supply exist, says Trip Chowdry, managing director of equity research at Global Equities Research.

On her radar screen is closely held DS2, a company based in Spain that provides power-line communications semiconductors.

In the next three years, some cloud computing and enterprise-level mobility technology firms could also be ready for IPOs, she added.

For now, though, the tech environment “continues to be challenging. Investors should look for companies who have a very sticky customer base,” she says.”

Read the full article here.

Please comment on other candidates and I will seek out some info on the topic.

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How to save the US banking system?

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Distressed Intellectual Property, Economy, Gerbsman Partners, Market research, tagged , , , , , , on May 18, 2009| Leave a Comment »

RGE recently pubsliched a lengthy article on what needs to happen to save tu US banking system. It makes for a good read and I highly recommend it.

“Many important US banks are currently in a dangerous halfway house between public and private, fragile and failed. This is unprecedented in scale, but not in situation. The United States faced a very similar problem with our Savings and Loan crisis of the mid-1980s, Japan and Sweden had systemic banking crises during the 1990s, and a host of less advanced economies have suffered from this type of problem.”

It continues…

“The ongoing accumulation of nonperforming loans and the resulting continued decline in solvency of many American banks has been a significant drag on growth and will only get worse absent government action. Properly capitalized banks will face losses from the recession no matter what, but will not roll over bad loans because they would have enough of their own capital at risk and can bear the costs of writing off bad loans. The costs to the US economy of leaving its financial system undercapitalized are enormous in terms of lost growth, missed investments in new firms and projects (due to the bias towards rolling over old loans to avoid write-offs by undercapitalized banks), and low returns on savings.

The Obama administration has announced that it will do strict examinations of the 20 biggest banks’ balance sheets starting this week. If anything close to current asset values are used to evaluate those books, and they should be, many of these banks will need public capital injections or closure. The reluctance to pull the trigger appears to be based on the fact that such forced write-offs would require the unpopular steps of another injection of public funds and/or round of closures, either way involving government ownership of those banks, a.k.a. nationalization. Failing to be so strict and leaving current shareholders and top management in control will just lead to further losses and repeated suspicions about some banks’ viability, as we saw in the stock market last week.”

Read the full article here.

Others covering this topic: Peterson Institute, Steve Lendman Blog, Institutional Partners and The BaseLine Scenario.

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