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SPACs: A Path to Public Markets That Shouldn’t Be Overlooked

MergersCorp M&A International

In the frenetic world of finance, few instruments have sparked as much debate, and perhaps as much misunderstanding, as the Special Purpose Acquisition Company, or SPAC. This “target” company is one that the sponsors believe has strong growth potential and would benefit from becoming publicly traded.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Main Quests and Side Quests: Always focus on your main story quest, i.e., your portfolio of liquid, publicly traded assets, and ignore or deprioritize the side quests, such as becoming a mini-VC or investing in real estate. If you hate high finance and leave, fine but why rule it out before even trying?

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Stay away from Goldman Sachs after monster rally this year, Citizens says

CNBC: Investing

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Wall Street strategist Tom Lee is aiming to create the MicroStrategy of Ethereum

CNBC: Investing

In this article BMNR BTC.CM= Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT watch now VIDEO 4:37 04:37 Fundstrat's Tom Lee on being named chairman of BitMine Immersion Technologies Squawk Box Fundstrat's Tom Lee is joining a little known bitcoin miner aiming to become the biggest publicly traded holder of ether.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

It mixes public finance , project finance , real estate , and infrastructure. It does help to have industry experience in one of the related sectors (tech/TMT, real estate, infrastructure, public finance, etc.), A few smaller European football clubs also happen to be publicly traded (Ajax, Celtic, etc.).

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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

Public company deals: Smaller bites in more focused therapeutic areas The landscape for public company sales in the life sciences sector in 2024 was notably quieter than expected, with anticipated high-profile deals failing to materialize.

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Mike Khouw on a hedging strategy with the market at record highs and some threats emerging

CNBC: Investing

We are also kicking off the first earnings season, where publicly traded companies will report a full quarter's worth of operating results under the new administration.SPX 1Y mountain S & P 500 , 1 year During this period, the markets experienced historic volatility induced by policy proposals.

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