Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2023

eliminated these requirements in March 2020, and they’re loose or nonexistent in many other countries , so banks are limited mostly by their regulatory capital. They could have just left the funds in cash, but cash yielded ~0% in 2020 – 2021, so SVB put most of these funds in mortgage-backed securities and other U.S. But the U.S.

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Focus Investment Banking

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Whether due to new technologies supplanting the old, overhyped valuations crashing to earth, errors in judgement, or lack of business acumen, the tech world is rife with the rise and fall of companies and careers. In the forward for Gone to Pot, a 2020 book about the early days of the legal cannabis industry, I mentioned “the caravan.”

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Private Equity M&A Equities Mergers and Acquisitions 52

Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 17, 2023

Loose Monetary and Fiscal Policy – Zero and negative interest rates and massive money printing tend to inflate valuations the most for high-risk, high-growth companies. It also does plenty of non-buyout deals, including minority stakes and occasional “rescue” deals for troubled companies, such as for Airbnb when COVID first struck in 2020. #2:

Private Equity 64

Private Equity Equities Recruitment Funds 64

Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Operating metrics and valuation multiples , especially for the assets and companies that are the most different (see below). So, even if you’re advising entire companies, you must still be familiar with asset-level modeling and valuation and how an entire portfolio works. What Do You Do as an Analyst or Associate?

Investment Banking 59

Investment Banking Bank Banking Investment 59

Growth Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Two-thirds of the UK’s fintech start-ups are in in the city, and in 2020, the capital attracted 94 per cent of the country’s total fintech venture capital. FPE Capital is a growth equity investor in the UK lower middle-market. The fund favours the TMT, financial services, energy and business services sectors.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 15, 2024

The team structure varies widely, but upper-middle-market firms and mega-funds tend to have dedicated operations teams, while smaller firms combine their operations and deal teams. Private equity firms didn’t have to do much to “buy low and sell high” because they could count on valuation multiples increasing over time.

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Private Equity Equities Consulting Recruitment 105

InvestmentBank.com

MAY 26, 2021

Well, 2020 is finally leaving us. Several years of substantial increases in total lending had created an environment with a high potential for defaults and losses in the case of an economic setback; [1] the total value of corporate debt due in 2020 had surpassed $1T [6]. COVID-19 hit the equity markets quite early in 2020.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 10, 2024

This happened for a few reasons: 1) Soaring Valuations – Many sources say that sports team valuations “outperformed” the S&P 500 over the past 20 years, which is a polite way of saying that many teams are now valued at extremely high multiples. only a handful a decade ago).

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Private Equity Equities Entertainment Funds 103

InvestmentBank.com

DECEMBER 1, 2020

M&A Beat – US Health Services Q2 2020 M&A Beat is a quarterly update for CEO’s, CFO’s, Owner, Founders of lower middle-market ($10M-$100M Rev) companies, offering relevant details on mergers and acquisitions deal value, volume, valuation multiples and trends in their respective industry and vertical.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Private equity slowed but not stopped by financing environment Despite record amounts of dry powder accumulating for sponsors, high financing costs, persistent valuation gaps and a closed tech IPO market led to a significant decrease in private equity M&A activity in 2023.

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M&A Mergers and Acquisitions Private Equity Equities 59

Focus Investment Banking

MAY 14, 2025

Geopolitical shifts and a focus on supply chain resilience are driving American investments, as annual manufacturing construction spending reached a record $234 billion in May 2024 , tripling since January 2020. Additionally, lower corporate tax rates imply increased valuation as potential buyers see a greater return on investment.

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Manufacturing M&A Middle Market Trading 52

Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 19, 2025

Industry Consolidation Between 1990 and 2020, market concentration in sectors like food retail in the U.S. Other than that, the articles about middle-market private equity , private equity mega-funds , and growth equity are the most relevant ones because they describe the careers and advancement processes.

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Private Equity Retail Equities Mergers and Acquisitions 59