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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. The difference in Midstream, at least in the U.S.,

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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. The major steps of DCF are: Identify extraordinary, unusual, non-recurring items from the target’s 10-Ks and 10-Qs.

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M&A Blog #15 – valuation (tools and data preparation)

Francine Way

I will discuss general tools and credible sources of information that a valuation professional can use for the analysis. Access to credible sources of information such as SEC EDGAR database , Treasury.gov , OECD GDP Forecast , Mergent Online, S&P Capital IQ, Hoovers, ValueLine, Yahoo Finance , MarketWatch , and Damodaran Online.

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

Francine Way

Building a historical 3-statement model and a debt-interest schedule. Building the go-forward debt-interest schedule. Implied Equity Purchase Price = Transaction Value - Debt + Cash. For this table, recall that LBO transactions are heavily financed with debt (it can go up to 90% of the capital structure for some deals).

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M&A Blog #18 – valuation (Precedent Transaction)

Francine Way

Data sources like Pitchbook would often capture the Transaction Value at the time of the transaction announcement as well, so we list this information in our model and use it to calculate the sample transactions’ Implied TEV/Revenue and TEV/EBITDA as follow: Implied TEV/Revenue Multiple = Transaction Value / target’s LTM Revenue.

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Methods and Examples on How to Value a Company

Lake Country Advisors

Collect Transaction Data: Gather detailed information about each transaction, including the purchase price, financial metrics of the acquired company (e.g., Gather detailed information about these transactions, such as the acquired companies’ purchase price, revenue, and EBITDA. revenue, EBITDA), and the terms of the deal.

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M&A Blog #21 – valuation (scenario / sensitivity analysis)

Francine Way

Thus far, we have discussed five valuation methods: DCF, Comparable Company, Precedent Transaction, LBO, and Dividend Discount Model (DDM). At the minimum, a valuation professional should be informed about population, sampling, mean, standard deviation, standard error, different probability distributions, and binomial scenarios.

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