1.   But few companies can match Akamai Technologies Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. when it comes to quick investment cycles from private equity placements to IPOs.

2.   It offers free articles for entrepreneurs to help them assess their needs on everything from marketing to private equity placements.

3.   Most commercial banks with strong corporate lending units want investment banks that can underwrite stock, negotiate mergers, and arrange private equity placements for clients.

4.   Stronger companies will be raising money through zloty debt issues, private equity placements and possibly listings on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the managers said.

5.   The fund, which is treated as a private equity placement, has stringent regulations as to the assets and income people need to invest.

6.   The funds now being raised by both Lee and Childs are private equity placements, aimed at big institutional investors like pension funds, college endowments and insurance companies.

7.   The funds, which are treated as private equity placements, have stringent requirements for assets and income.

8.   All AsiaCapital, together with a prestigious foreign-based financial institution, undertook the private equity placement for BayanTel.