Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ask the average student or professional in the finance industry about their long-term career goal, and they’ll usually say, “ private equity mega-funds. ”. Similar to middle market private equity , though, there are some definitional problems here. Definitions: What is a Private Equity Mega-Fund?

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Lighter Capital

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Equity dilution is part of growing a successful startup. How to Prevent Excessive Equity Dilution in Your Startup 1. Bootstrap your way to early milestones If you can, focus on growing the business organically before you pursue equity funding. Take only as much capital as you need More isn’t always better.

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

Determining a company’s “Cost of Capital” is vital in corporate finance and valuation, and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) provides a specific way of doing so. These costs are then combined into a “weighted average” which represents the overall cost of financing a business.

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Valutico

APRIL 17, 2023

Determining a company’s “Cost of Capital” is vital in corporate finance and valuation, and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) provides a specific way of doing so. These costs are then combined into a “weighted average” which represents the overall cost of financing a business.

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Valutico

APRIL 12, 2023

Determining a company’s “Cost of Capital” is vital in corporate finance and valuation, and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) provides a specific way of doing so. These costs are then combined into a “weighted average” which represents the overall cost of financing a business.

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Valutico

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Different types of discount rates such as risk-free rate, cost of equity, or cost of debt, are used contextually in financial analysis. Cost of Equity: The cost of equity represents the return required by equity investors to compensate them for the risk of owning a company’s shares.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 29, 2022

If you’re thinking about exit opportunities and can’t decide between private equity and hedge funds , activist hedge funds might be your solution. Similar to private equity firms, they operate on longer time frames, influence companies’ operations and finances, and might catalyze major changes, such as spin-offs or acquisitions.

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Appraiser Newsroom

APRIL 24, 2024

Additionally, she completes valuations of financial instruments including preferred and common stock in complex structures for publicly and privately held companies and equity derivatives. Samantha Albert | Mercer Capital Samantha Albert is a vice president with Mercer Capital.

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Andrew Stolz

AUGUST 5, 2020

The WACC is the average cost of raising capital from all sources, including equity, common shares, preferred shares, and debt. What Impacts the Weighted Average Cost of Capital? Formula: [Cost of Equity * % of Equity] + [Cost of Debt * % of Debt *(1 – Tax Rate)] + [Cost of Preferred Stock * % of Preferred Stock].

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Lighter Capital

JANUARY 11, 2022

At Lighter Capital, our Investment Team encounters a lot of questions from startup founders about the features of our financing solutions, such as early payoff provisions, minimum return requirements, warrants, debt covenants , and even whether we require a personal guarantee. Do all startup loans come with warrants? Let's dive in.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 10, 2023

As a capital allocation decision, share buybacks intersect all three of the main corporate finance activities of investing, financing, and dividends [1]. The point being that although the logic for each of these rationales is distinct, the very act of doing a share buyback influences the whole of the corporate finance ecosystem.

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Benzinga

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

(NASDAQ: ZFOX ) ("ZeroFox"), a leading provider of external cybersecurity, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Haveli Investments, a technology-focused private equity firm, in an all-cash transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $350 million.

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Andrew Stolz

APRIL 3, 2020

Leveraged Buyout (“LBO”) is a quite common term in Corporate Finance field. It refers to acquiring a company (or its part) and financing it with debt. The buyer (the “sponsor”) raises debt and equity to acquire the target. It borrows the majority of the purchase price and contributes proportionately small equity investment.

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Simply Treasury

AUGUST 2, 2022

DEBRA Proposal (« Debt-Equity Bias Reduction Allowance). In early May, the European Commission unveiled its proposal for a "DEBRA" (Debt-equity bias reduction allowance) Directive, aimed at encouraging companies to finance their investments with equity and capital contributions, instead of resorting to loans (bank or other).

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Value Scope

AUGUST 31, 2020

Commodities, including oil and gas, are far more volatile than other asset classes like fixed-income and equities. This is how we use it in finance, economics, etc. The cash flows we isolate are tested for their ability to support debt, the new capital structure of the restructured firm. Why is Energy Different?

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 10, 2023

Some Chapter 11 proceedings yield a stand-alone restructuring where either (1) existing equity interests are eliminated and creditors emerge as the debtor’s new equity owners in exchange for their pre-bankruptcy claims or (2) a “plan sponsor” injects new capital in to the debtor in exchange for equity in the reorganized entity.

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Andrew Stolz

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

When I started in finance, buybacks were almost unheard of; now, companies prefer to distribute cash through buybacks. This usually happens when a company is making a deliberate and significant change to its capital structure. Consider research done by Kroen (2021) that shows that since about 1998, U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 17, 2022

Investors are willing to finance an innovation project when early results from the project – revenue trends, user growth, clinical trial data – reliably indicate future profits. The most innovative part of the economy, the venture capital (VC) market, has evolved structures to address these agency problems. But there’s a catch.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To fund the business, you can either use borrowed money (debt) or owner's funds (equity), and while both are sources of capital, they represent different claims on the business. Even government-owned businesses fall under its umbrella, with the key difference being that equity is provided by the taxpayers.

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Benzinga

APRIL 12, 2023

("BIP") (NYSE: BIP , TSX: BIP ), through its subsidiary Brookfield Infrastructure Corporation ("BIPC") and its institutional partners (collectively, "Brookfield Infrastructure"), jointly announce a definitive agreement for Triton to be acquired in a cash and stock transaction valuing the Company's common equity at approximately $4.7

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Class VI Partner

JULY 28, 2021

Balance Sheet A Balance Sheet is an accounting record for a company that lists a company’s assets, liabilities, and shareholders’ equity. In particular, a Buy-Sell Agreement will typically provide for what happens in the event that one of the shareholders leaves the business and he or she needs to dispose of an equity stake in the business.

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 10, 2022

Oil & Gas Investment Banking Definition: In oil & gas investment banking, professionals advise companies that search for, produce, store, transport, refine, and market energy on raising debt and equity and completing mergers and acquisitions. Midstream: 85 (mix of asset deals, M&A, debt, and even some private equity activity).

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Benzinga

JULY 10, 2023

Additionally, overall leverage defined as debt as a multiple of adjusted EBITDA is reduced significantly, debt service costs have been reduced significantly, resulting in enhanced equity value, and accelerating our plans to list our common stock on a national securities exchange. million of SMGI preferred stock and received a $3.0

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Simply Treasury

MARCH 25, 2020

After the 2008 Global Finance Crisis, everyone thought they saw the worst. Medicine terminology used by finance too. Contamination and contagion are also terms borrowed by finance from medicine. But isn't it just "monetary financing," which when rates at zero stop, will be a problem? equities) as it does today.

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Appraiser Newsroom

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He has over 21 years of experience in corporate finance, specializing in business and securities valuations, real options and derivative valuations, and risk management. Bob Bartell, CFA , is president of corporate finance for Kroll. Harris Antoniades, Ph.D., Baker is also a representative of Independent Investment Bankers Corp.,

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Valutico

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It represents the total market value of the company’s equity. Ratios i) EV/EBITDA (Enterprise Value to Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization) EV/EBITDA is a valuation ratio used to assess a company’s overall profitability before accounting for financing decisions, taxes, and non-cash expenses.

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Appraiser Newsroom

JULY 5, 2022

Anastis Anastasiou , MBA is a Director in the Forensic & Litigation Consulting segment at FTI Consulting , with an expertise in forensic finance, valuation, dispute advisory and financial investigations. Mr. Anastasiou specializes in digital assets and decentralized finance (“DeFi”).

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 28, 2022

24] When PIPE investors step-in to replace the financing that exits when there are high-redemptions – how does that shape the negotiations, and to what extent are remaining investors harmed by dilution because PIPE investors demand better terms? SPACs – The Equity “Complex Product”. Or are those investors remaining for other reasons?

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Shephard Mullin M&A

APRIL 21, 2020

Just below the surface, however, lie significant issues that potential purchasers must consider when pursuing the acquisition of a distressed company out-of-court, including: Structure.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 25, 2023

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. To see this distinction, consider the choice of capital structure: whether to use equity financing or a combination of equity and debt.

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Ask anyone interested in distressed debt hedge funds for “the pitch,” and they’ll probably mention one of the following: “It’s like long/short equity or credit , but more interesting!” Distressed investing offers equity-like returns with lower risk.” Distressed assets offer non-correlated returns, similar to global macro.”

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Value Scout

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

It involves the partial sale of the company to private equity firms or venture capitalists. Recapitalization helps stabilize the capital structure of a company by restructuring its equity and debt. It usually involves an exchange of one form of financing for another. What is Recapitalization?

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 24, 2023

“Event-driven hedge funds” is one of the more confusing labels in finance. A long/short equity fund could find an undervalued company, like it for reasons A, B, and C, and argue that its price will increase by 50%. But lock-up periods are longer than most long/short equity funds.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

Power and Utilities Investment Banking Definition: In power/utilities IB, bankers advise companies that produce, transmit, and distribute electricity, natural gas, and water on raising debt and equity and completing mergers and acquisitions. ” Different banks classify their power & utilities groups differently.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 27, 2022

Anyone who’s ever traded stocks can understand long/short equity , and even simple global macro trades are easy to explain to the average person. To simplify, we can say that credit hedge funds operate in three main areas: Long/Short Credit – It’s similar to long/short equity , but with bonds rather than stocks. See the example above.

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Valutico

AUGUST 23, 2023

These cash flows typically include operating income, tax payments, and changes in working capital and capital expenditures. b) Determining the Discount Rate: The discount rate, often the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), reflects the risk associated with the company’s cash flows.

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Valutico

AUGUST 10, 2023

These cash flows typically include operating income, tax payments, and changes in working capital and capital expenditures. b) Determining the Discount Rate: The discount rate, often the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), reflects the risk associated with the company’s cash flows.

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