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January 31, 2008
Puzzler Winner - Big Deals
We asked readers to send in three examples of tech M&A or IPOs over €100M. The winner is Chris Grew, a partner at HellerEhrman Venture Law Group. His answers are listed below.
Last.fm (backed by Index) sold to CBS for $280m
Apertio (backed by Add Partners, Eden Ventures, etc.) sold to Nokia Seimens for $200m+
IPO of Blinkx on AIM, raising $50m (market cap of over $300m) founder led spinout from Autonomy.
Chris Grew is a partner in the Venture Law Group of Heller Ehrman who joined the firm in 2007.
Together with four other partners from WilmerHale, he helped establish the London office of Heller Ehrman, which he described as one of the foremost law firms in the world focused on venture capital and technology companies.
He is a two time winner on the Puzzler. We take it this Puzzler was easy for Grew, as he represented Last.fm in its investment by Index Ventures, Add Partners in their investment in Apertio, and his colleague Richard Eaton represented Blinkx in their spin-out and IPO.
We don't have a second winner this time because less than 12 emails landed in the inbox (despite close to 1,400 views of the Puzzler on the site and in RSS feeds between posting and Monday afternoon).
We're wondering why more of you did not participate. Is it not good form in Europe to admit that visions of vibrant valuations in your field of endeavour serves a benchmark or a target to be surpassed?
Some readers who did write in, like Alessio Beverina at Sofinnova and Simon Cook of DFJEsprit had several to report. That combined with other entries enabled us to create a list for your viewing pleasure. See Top 10 VC-backed Europe
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