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UBS and Credit Suisse: The Next Shoe to Drop in the Financial Crisis of 2023?

Mergers and Inquisitions

These are known as “Additional Tier 1 (AT1) Bonds” or “contingent convertible” (CoCo) bonds, and they allow a bank to boost its capital ratios without diluting shareholders via an equity issuance. First, Credit Suisse is obviously no longer a bulge bracket bank , so I’ll have to update that article.

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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

Mergers and Inquisitions

But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. With teams valued at sky-high prices, deal participation is limited to institutional investors such as SWFs and PE firms (and the occasional billionaire).

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The 20 greatest trading innovations

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While adoption is widespread in equities other asset classes such as fixed income have been slower to adopt these systems given the nuances of the workflows and liquidity landscapes in these markets. For this reason, the system is favoured by institutional investors as opposed to individual ones.

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Cooley’s 2023 Tech M&A Year in Review: An AI-Generated Glass Half Full

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Carve out tech acquisitions also continued to be attractive to strategic and private equity buyers, with GTCR’s acquisition of a majority stake in Worldpay from FIS for up to $18.5 Private equity activity accounted for only 27% of tech M&A in 2023, a six-year low (and a substantial decrease from the 2021 record of 36%).

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