This case follows the story of Jay Davis and Jason Pananos, classmates from the Harvard Business School, who began a search fund, Nashton partners. The case covers their decision to start fundraising, their investment goals and objectives, and then the search for two years. The point, we consider two specific acquisition opportunities fund is considering - United Energy Services and Vector Disease Control, Inc. There are clear advantages and disadvantages of both the opportunities and the partners must decide what to do until the search has been running the fund money. "Hide
by Jocelyn Hornblower, David Dodson Source: Stanford University, 15 pages. Publication Date: November 4, 2011. Prod. #: E422-PDF-ENG
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