Written by an expert with over 30 years of experience in venture capital, this three-volume set provides the most comprehensive treatment of alternative investment strategies available. Volumes 1 and 2 cover the entire range of high-risk/high-reward investing, including equity placements, IPOs, buyouts, restructurings, joint ventures, pooled investment vehicles, and merchant banking. Volume 3 contains state-of-the-art forms annotated to the discussion in the first two volumes. All of the forms are also included on disk, formatted in WordPerfect "RM" 5.1, and are easily convertible to other popular word-processing programs.