Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

But before delving into the exit opportunities and the long-term outlook, let’s start with the fundamentals: Oil & Gas Investment Banking Defined. An understanding of MLPs (Master Limited Partnerships), including why many Midstream companies use this structure and why some have switched away from it.

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Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the 1990s and 2000s, bankers from other regions could transfer to HK or start their first jobs there without a strong connection to the region or Asian language skills. The biggest difference is that they almost always give you a translation exercise , where you must translate a news article from Chinese to English or do the reverse.

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 24, 2023

“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. Part of the issue is that many different strategies fall within the “event-driven” category: merger arbitrage , activist investing , distressed investing, special situations, and more.

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Partially, it’s an issue of accessibility: Everyone understands what happens to the stock price if a company beats earnings… …but few people understand what it means if a company is set to violate a debt covenant on page 214 of its credit agreement. see the fixed income trading article for the full list ).

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The best examples of buy-side firms are private equity firms , hedge funds , and venture capital firms. Public Markets vs. Support Because of these issues, it might be more useful to put finance jobs into three main categories: “Deal” Roles: Investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and… maybe corporate development (?? –

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 12, 2022

If you search for “how to start a private equity firm” online, you’ll find results that range from useless to tangentially useful to occasional nuggets of real wisdom. That said, much of it is better than the junk found on generic websites about how to start a hedge fund. How Does It Work?

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 27, 2022

Credit hedge funds might be the most consistently overlooked buy-side opportunity. But if you have the right knowledge and experience, credit hedge funds can provide a great career path: What is a Credit Hedge Fund? Types of Credit Hedge Funds. See the example above.

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The SEC now has issued proposals for most of that unified agenda we laid out two years ago. A recent news article notes that this number of finalized rules is less than a number of my predecessors in a comparable timeframe. [4] Key aspects of our rules for the national market system haven’t been updated since 2005.

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Brian DeChesare

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

We’ll address these points here, but let’s start with a quick industry overview: Investment Banking in London: Top Banks and Industries. But as you move down the list, a bank’s specific strengths start to matter more. This article on spring weeks needs a revision/update, but it’s a decent introduction.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

We’ll get into these fun developments, but I want to start with the basic definitions: Power & Utilities Investment Banking Defined. While there is overlap between power & utilities, infrastructure, oil & gas, and renewables, the industry structure and drivers are quite different, so we’re treating it as a separate group.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The district court dismissed the action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, holding that the Exchange Act implicitly strips district courts of jurisdiction to hear challenges—including structural constitutional claims like the Respondent’s—to ongoing SEC enforcement proceedings. The Fifth Circuit panel affirmed. & Exch. SEC , 15 F.4th

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 27, 2023

In just three years, crypto conglomerate FTX Group went from start-up to a $40 billion global phenomenon to a company in “free-fall” Chapter 11. The debacle has been most brutal for millions of FTX customers, who are living through the Web 3.0-iteration iteration of Depression-era bank failures. FTX: Are You In ?

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