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How to Sell a Business in Puerto Rico (Without Losing Your Mind or Millions)

How2Exit

E285: How to Sell a Business in Puerto Rico (Without Losing Your Mind or Millions) - Watch Here About the Guest: Francisco Uriarte is Managing Partner at Connelly Capital, a Puerto Rico-based M&A advisory firm. Pre-sale readiness is underrated – Many businesses, especially sub-$3M in revenue, don’t keep formal books.

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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

Mergers and Inquisitions

At the junior levels , entry-level professionals in both fields spend a lot of time in Excel working on models, valuations, and documents such as equity research reports and investment banking pitch books. This view is mostly wrong: The Excel-based work has a ton of overlap, with a few differences here and there.

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How to Sell an IT Business: Everything You Need to Know in Five Minutes

Sun Acquisitions

By selling your IT orMSPbusiness now, its possible to take advantage of these broader macro trends which in turn can significantly enhance your valuation. Step Two: Find Your Valuation Heres the reality: Valuation isnt an exact science. Lets look at some of the factors that influence valuation.

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Infrastructure Investment Banking: Definitions, Deals, and a Dizzying Diversity of Verticals

Mergers and Inquisitions

Like renewable energy IB , different banks classify their groups differently, so you could find yourself working on everything from a data center REIT M&A deal to an airport financing to an IPO for a solar developer. It even includes elements of healthcare , industrials , and oil & gas investment banking. and sports (???).

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M&A Blog #17 – valuation (Comparable Company)

Francine Way

As I mentioned in my valuation preparation post , Comparable Company is a valuation method that uses metrics of other similar businesses (same industry, size, geography, valuation multiples, etc.) Building the proforma income statement, proforma balance sheet, and Free Cash Flow to Firm (FCFF).

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M&A Blog #19 – valuation (Leveraged Buy Out - LBO)

Francine Way

Thus far, we have discussed three common valuation methods that most strategic and financial acquirers use when valuing a company for acquisitions or investments. This current post about Leveraged Buy Out (LBO) is about a valuation method used by a very specific type of financial acquirer: private equity (PE) firms.

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M&A Blog #16 – valuation (Discounted Cash Flow)

Francine Way

As I mentioned in my last post, Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) is a valuation method that uses free cash flow projections, a discount rate, and a growth rate to find the present value estimate of a potential investment. Build proforma income statement and balance sheet. Derive Free Cash Flow to Firm (FCFF).