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Some Things Change, Some Things Stay the Same: 2023 Investment Canada Act Thresholds Increase, Competition Act Thresholds Remain the Same

Deal Law Wire

The threshold for certain pre-closing net benefit reviews under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) and the threshold for a pre-closing merger notification under the Competition Act have been updated for 2023. The threshold for an indirect acquisition of control is C$50 million in asset value ($5 million in certain instances).

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ISS Discusses Where ESG Performance Matters Most for Company Valuation

Reynolds Holding

The January 2023 report ESG Performance and Enterprise Value: Do Firms with Stronger ESG Performance Have Higher Valuation Ratios? investigated the relationship between the ISS ESG Performance Score (a normalized version of the ISS ESG Corporate Rating ) and two valuation ratios from the ISS Economic Value Added (EVA) framework.

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Exit Through the Virtual Door: Tips for Selling Your E-commerce Business

Viking Mergers

Know the Virtual Landscape E-commerce is a rapidly expanding way to do business, with over one-fifth of worldwide sales estimated to take place online in 2023. Since these values all mean different things to your company, an advisor or broker will use their expertise to determine the most appropriate figures to use in negotiations.

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Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?

Musings on Markets

In this post, I will focus on corporate debt in 2023, keeping in mind that it was a year where the tradeoffs changed, as interest rates rose to pre-2008 levels, and putting at risk those firms that had borrowed to capacity, or even beyond, at low interest rates.

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Valuation Using Multiples—What Is It and How Does It Work? Core Ideas Explained

Valutico

Example: Here’s an example of a particular metric you might use: In order to determine the Enterprise Value of the business, you find the EBITDA from the business you’re valuing, and then multiply this by the EBITDA multiple observed from the other comparable companies. SaaS start-ups are valued at 10x Sales”.

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Your Guide to Valuing a Company Using the Multiples Approach

Valutico

Example: Here’s an example of a particular metric you might use: In order to determine the Enterprise Value of the business, you find the EBITDA from the business you’re valuing, and then multiply this by the EBITDA multiple observed from the other comparable companies. SaaS start-ups are valued at 10x Sales”.

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Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price.

Musings on Markets

Consequently, you can only value the equity in a bank, and by extension, the only pricing multiples you can use to price banks are equity multiples (PE, Price to Book etc.). Price to Book Ratio: Choice and Drivers There is no sector where price to book ratios get used more than in banking and financial services, for two reasons.

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