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Main Catalogs   Accounting Business Communication Business Law Economics Finance Insurance and Real Estate Management Information Systems Management and Organization Marketing Operations and Decision Sciences      Special Catalogs     Case Studies Text Chapters Mapped to Specific Cases How to Build a Book: Select Content Review & Arrange Personalize Request a Copy Keyword    Title, Author, Case #, Etc. ALEKS Homework Manager Discover Econ   Learning Solutions Group     Harvard Business Review Brief Cases — Finance  • To include an item in your complimentary custom book, click the item’s Add link. If there is a View link next to an item, you can view the pages by clicking on the link.  • To review the list of items you have selected so far, click on Step 2 in the progress bar above. You have successfully added all of the items to your order. Either click here to review your order or continue to add content from another title.    Take the Money — or Run?   Add   View  8 pp.  Case Study Author(s): Mullins, John W. Publication Date: 11/01/2004 Product Type: Harvard Business Review Article Product Description: For teaching purposes, this is the case-only version of the HBR case study. The commentary-only version is reprint R0411Z. The complete case study and commentary is reprint R0411A. On the face of it, Petrolink's business plan looks like a winner. At present, the only available pipeline for operators in the Baltic Sea's newly developed Helmark gas field is owned and operated by the Russian oil and gas company Gazprom. But this gives Gazprom access to information about the productivity of individual leases and, therefore, an advantage in negotiating new ones. Petrolink's founders believe that the company that opens a new pipeline should find ready customers among the field's numerous independent producers. The Petrolink team has been talking with two potential investors. After six weeks of due diligence, London Development Partners -- a large, well-established venture capital firm with no experience in the gas business -- offers a relatively small early round of investment without any tangible commitments to future rounds. The package is far from what the team had hoped for. Polish venture capital firm BRX Capital has been in business fewer than five years, but it has already made investments in the Eastern European oil and gas industry. BRX not only agrees to the capital structure that Petrolink proposes, it also agrees to invest both the first- and second-round equity amounts. One of the start-up's main objectives has been to ensure that no one investor has too much clout, so the arrangement proposed by BRX suits them. But now that a four million eurodollar check is on the table, there's been an apparent breach of trust by the Polish VC. Petrolink's founders discover that an agreed-upon provision covering ownership dilution has been changed. Should they take BRX's money or go elsewhere? Commenting on this fi

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