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

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Summary: Francisco Uriarte didn’t plan on becoming a mergers and acquisitions advisor—he lived it first. Pre-sale readiness is underrated – Many businesses, especially sub-$3M in revenue, don’t keep formal books. Sloppy books erode it instantly. Even valuation itself is more nuanced than most think.

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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. On the other hand, IB beats it for deal-based hedge fund strategies, such as merger arbitrage and activist investing.

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Cooley’s 2024 Life Sciences M&A Year in Review: M&A Slims Down in 2024, but Will Appetites Grow in 2025?

Cooley M&A

And in the face of valuation disconnects, dealmakers in the public company space were less likely to rely on increased contingent consideration (relative to upfront payments) long viewed as a bridge to a transaction in the life sciences space to get transactions over the finish line.

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5 stocks to buy for the second half from investors

CNBC: Investing

The founder and CEO of InfraCap also brought up financial stocks Goldman Sachs and KKR , which he expects to rally on a stronger mergers and acquisitions market in the latter half of the year. Semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom is a "reasonably priced" stock that could continue riding the AI wave from here, he said.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Infrastructure Investment Banking Definition: In infrastructure investment banking, bankers advise companies in the data center, renewables, transportation, utilities, and energy storage/transportation markets on equity and debt issuances, asset deals, and mergers and acquisitions.

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M&A Blog #24 - Merger Relative Valuation

Francine Way

I learned a few new things in these 2 roles, including how to evaluate a merger opportunity and present it to a corporation’s Board of Directors (BoD). To pick up where we last left off with valuation, I will cover the topic of a Merger Relative Valuation in this blog post and move on to other non-valuation topics from here.

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7 Things We Learned About Entrepreneurship By Interviewing Dana Derricks - Author of Multiple Books, 3 Time 2 Coma Club Winner, and Goat Farmer

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Concept 2: Write Books Quickly And Easily Dana's experience with writing books also speaks to the potential of writing books quickly and easily. He was a freelance copywriter and quickly realized that he could write a book instead of trading time for dollars.