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It’s OK to Have Amber Flags on Your Vendor Due Diligence Report

Beyond M&A

For example, spending a day with the CTO, reviewing their stories, challenges, and investment history, might reveal underlying team dynamics or a technical debt problem thats quietly driving attrition. They dont see them as dealbreakers; rather, they view them as areas where their governance and funding can drive improvement.

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Investing Principles: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Wins, Losses, and Strikeouts

Mergers and Inquisitions

They have completely trounced corporate and government bonds since then: This was an obvious and expected result: Central banks set interest rates to 0% once COVID hit, so bond yields fell, and prices could only fall. And money printing and debt levels took off and never looked back.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Sports Investment Banking Definition: In sports IB, bankers advise on equity and debt issuances, mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring deals for sports teams and leagues, sports-adjacent technology and services firms, and facilities such as arenas, stadiums, and racetracks. Can teams carry debt? What is Sports Investment Banking?

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Demystifying the “Second Bite of the Apple” and its Prevalence in Private Equity

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

The original owner’s minority stake is now worth $30 million (the current value of $150 million multiplied by their 20% investment, assuming all third-party debt has been paid off). The new governance might not be in sync with the seller’s historical approach. further borrowings, distributions).

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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Mergers and Inquisitions

Treasury: Focus on cash flow rather than Net Income and the Income Statement ; forecast the company’s cash flow needs and set up the equity or debt required to get the necessary cash in place; invest the company’s short-term cash to earn something on it and handle foreign exchange (FX) rate and other types of hedging.

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SIX launches new data offering for global fixed income markets

The TRADE

million US instruments across municipal, corporate and government debt, and structured finance, and will reduce reliance on inconsistent and error-prone sources to price securities, manage risk, and comply with regulations. The provider has said that the offering will give clients access to data for 3.6

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Single Store Generalist Shops | Why the Era is Coming to an End with Cole Strandberg

Focus Investment Banking

But at this small and medium level, there’s often times other debt or equity instruments involved #2 which I am going to dive a little bit deeper into is take on investors or in the case of bigger groups, partner with private equity #3 and 4. Very rarely are acquisitions funded with cash. I’ll be very upfront about that.