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Private Equity Investment in ICD-10 Solutions and Vocabulary Services Firm

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

NEWPORT BEACH, CA – October 5, 2010 No World Borders, Inc, a leading healthcare management and IT consulting company closed its second private equity investment round led by Palos Verdes Venture Partners (PVVP) based in Los Angeles, CA.

No World Borders’ solutions will help enable hospitals and health systems, payors and software vendors to meet the October 1, 2013 deadline for conversion to ICD-10, the new medical coding standard, as required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).   In addition, the solutions help health care companies determine the financial impact of ICD-10.

For the complete press release, click here.

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From Today’s WSJ: Timing is Everything for Private Equity Firms

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Having bought up $1.9 trillion of companies from 2005 to 2007, private owners will inevitably confront how to monetize their investments, what is so cynically called “the exit.”

The doors look barred. The mergers-and-acquisition markets have shut, as potential buyers wait for asset prices to decline. One can only hope that a mass of over leveraged and overpriced assets will stay out of public-investor portfolios. But don’t bet on it. There is too much inventory to move. If the IPO markets re-vitalize, will values be bloated for these assets?

Below is a video from the Wall Street Journal’s Dennis K. Berman explaining the challenge for these firms. No World Borders is still finding value in innovative companies as a sell-side representative for an Enterprise-class IT outsourcing firm targeted at SMB, and a leading Internet search marketing firm ranked in the top 15 among agencies and consulting firms in the U.S.

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