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

Brian DeChesare

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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FRP Corporate Finance secures Tradeteq sale

Accountancy Today

FRP Corporate Finance has helped support technology firm, Tradeteq, on its sale to working capital structuring and advisory firm, Silver Birch Finance. Since its launch in 2016, the business has attracted significant backing, allowing it to invest more than $40m (29.5m) in building its technology platform.

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The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!

Musings on Markets

The six classes that I prepped for in those two years ranged from banking to investments to corporate finance, and while I have never worked harder, much of what I teach today came out of those classes. I describe my corporate finance class as an applied, big-picture class.

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CFO Corner With Thryv Holdings’ Paul Rouse

Global Finance

This involved restructuring the former company, setting up the right platform, and securing the proper capital structure. Rouse: Ensuring that we have the right capital structure to complete this transition. Rouse: There were two particularly tough periods. First, when I initially joined, we had to turn Thryv around.

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How Debt Investors Are Influencing Corporate Governance

Reynolds Holding

Since the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, the corporate finance markets have been dramatically transformed. Most notable has been the rise of non-traditional providers of debt finance such as private credit funds, which now aggressively compete with traditional finance providers like commercial banks.

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Modeling Managers as EPS Maximizers

Reynolds Holding

We propose a theory of corporate finance based on the idea that firm managers maximize EPS: the difference between net operating profits and interest expense divided by total shares outstanding. We can broadly classify firms’ corporate behaviors into two categories: growth and value firms. Corporate finance.

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Moonshots

Reynolds Holding

The most innovative part of the economy, the venture capital (VC) market, has evolved structures to address these agency problems. A startup’s capital structure solves the motivation problem. I call it the “venture carveout.”