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These S&P 500 stocks are trading at a discount as the second half gets under way

CNBC: Investing

The S&P 500 surged more than 15% to start the year, marking its biggest first-half gain since 2019 — when it jumped more than 17%.

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2019 In Review: #1 in Insurance M&A

Sica Fletcher

Sica | Fletcher is pleased to announce that we’ve topped the S&P Global rankings for the third consecutive year. In 2019, we closed the largest number of transactions ever for our firm, reflecting the increasingly robust M&A market for insurance brokers driven mainly by private equity sponsored brokerages.

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Delaware Court Of Chancery Rejects Demand To Inspect Books And Records Under Section 220 To Aid In Proxy Contest

Shearman & Sterling

On November 14, 2019, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. § 220, for documents and information relating to the corporation's acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum and related transactions. P'ship, Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, and Icahn Partners LP v. P'ship, Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, and Icahn Partners LP v.

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Delaware Court Of Chancery Rejects Demand To Inspect Books And Records Under Section 220 To Aid In Proxy Contest

Shearman & Sterling

On November 14, 2019, Vice Chancellor Joseph R. § 220, for documents and information relating to the corporation's acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum and related transactions. P'ship, Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, and Icahn Partners LP v. P'ship, Icahn Partners Master Fund LP, and Icahn Partners LP v.

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Insurance Brokerage M&A in the First Half of 2020

Sica Fletcher

Aggregate Number of Transactions The best source of data we have found for the number of insurance agent and broker M&A transactions for a given period is data aggregated by S&P Market Intelligence on announced transactions. And, in fact, the number of transactions in 2020 exceeded the amount for the same period in 2018.

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5 senior fintech roles hiring this week

Growth Business

London’s firms attracted $10.2bn of investment funds last year, only a 5 per cent drop from 2021’s figure – and there are still plenty of fintech roles available. Financial services contributed £132bn to the economy in 2019, which equated to 6.9 Apply here.

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FOCUS Telecom Business Services Quarterly: Summer 2024 Report

Focus Investment Banking

This was despite a strong overall market that pushed the S&P 500 up 3.9% However, this performance once again lags the broader indices by a fairly wide margin, as both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ gained more than 20% over the past year. and the NASDAQ up 8.3% over the same three-month time frame.