Capital Structure Corporate Finance Marketability 
Brian DeChesare
OCTOBER 30, 2024
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.”
Global Finance
JULY 28, 2025
“What they increasingly have in common is the need for integrated, forward-looking financial solutions that support complex, multi-market strategies. This extends across debt financing, risk management, and strategic advisory, often with a strong cross-border dimension.”
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Global Finance
DECEMBER 26, 2024
This involved restructuring the former company, setting up the right platform, and securing the proper capital structure. Now, were at another pivotal point, transitioning fully from a Yellow Pages marketing business to a software company. Rouse: Ensuring that we have the right capital structure to complete this transition.
Global Finance
MARCH 18, 2025
Weve seen the market respond to tariffs with lower yields. The market is telling us its more concerned about a slowing economy than they are about inflation coming from tariffs. That entails understanding their management teams, their capital structures, and their cash-conversion cycles of all these individual credits.
Musings on Markets
JANUARY 11, 2024
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. In 1984, I moved on to the University of California at Berkeley, as a visiting lecturer, teaching anything that needed to be taught.
Reynolds Holding
MAY 29, 2024
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.
Reynolds Holding
APRIL 17, 2022
Then I show how the market has developed a new corporate structure designed to solve these problems, which relies on a subtler form of insulation. The second is a motivation problem : Managers can’t give their employees the right incentives to bring the technology to market. But there’s a catch.
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