Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 27, 2023

These ambiguities have led to greenwashing , a practice where companies portray themselves as environmentally responsible without substantive actions, and to inconsistencies in companies’ ESG ratings. Company leaders find themselves in a quandary, torn between their fiduciary duty to shareholders and environmental mandates.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the years that I have taught these two classes, I find myself using my corporate finance framework constantly, when valuing companies, and bringing my understanding of valuation into play, when examining how companies should make investing, financing and dividend decisions.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If, as you read this post, it feels like you have read it or a close variant before, it is because you have. If you are curious about the content of these classes, and may want to partake, I will use this post to lay out my teaching philosophy, to describe the classes that I teach and provide options that you may be able to use to take them.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 9, 2023

Investors had alleged – through an initial complaint filed in September 2016 – that the social media company misled shareholders during a six-month period in 2015 about growth prospects and user engagement. The class action settlement is the second largest award ever to be paid by a China-based company. Teva Pharmaceutical.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 18, 2023

1] The Order resolves a longstanding investigation by the SEC into “greenwashing” allegations against Deutsche Bank AG’s asset-management arm, DWS Group (DWS), which we discussed in our September 20, 2021 Advisory. The order provides a roadmap of areas for compliance that the SEC may scrutinize in future ESG investigations.

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Erik A. Lopez

AUGUST 25, 2015

At their most basic level, these agreements provide for the sale of shares in a target company to a buyer in return for cash or some other form of consideration ( i.e. , something of value). In this post, I’ll introduce you to the key provisions of an SPA and explain their purposes.

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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. Many are owned in whole or in part by governments (“national oil companies” or NOCs).

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 19, 2022

Financial Sponsors Group Definition: In investment banking, the Financial Sponsors Group (FSG) advises private equity firms, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds, and pension funds on capital issuances and transactions involving their portfolio companies. But wait,” you say, “FSG sounds quite similar to the Financial Institutions Group (FIG).

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Reynolds Holding

JUNE 22, 2022

And there is even more money to be made when companies tell the public – customers, investors, employees, and others – what they want to hear to get their money but do little, or none, of what they promised to earn it. The company has agreed to pay $1.5 is still politically paralyzed over what our reaction to the issue should be.

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Brian DeChesare

MARCH 22, 2023

Before delving in, though, I want to start with the elephant in the room: I was partially wrong ~5 months ago when I wrote about Credit Suisse, UBS, and Deutsche Bank, and whether they would become Lehman Brothers 2.0. The post UBS and Credit Suisse: The Next Shoe to Drop in the Financial Crisis of 2023?

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Division maintained its focus on individual accountability for company officers and directors, as well as for gatekeepers, such as auditors and lawyers. 17] Another initiative involved actions against ten microcap companies concerning Regulation A compliance. The press release highlighted an action against Blackbaud Inc.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 22, 2022

But the large banks don’t have much of a presence there, partially because many of the tech and healthcare companies in the area are covered by teams based in California. The post Investment Banking in New York vs. Chicago vs. San Francisco vs. Los Angeles: How to Pick Your Poison appeared first on Mergers & Inquisitions.

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Over the past week, there has been a ton of speculation on social media that Credit Suisse – and possibly also Deutsche Bank or UBS – is about to have its “Lehman Brothers” moment. Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and UBS have all underperformed the U.S. In short, a gigantic housing bubble in the U.S.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 1, 2023

7] DPAs were thereby transmogrified from a tool assisting society’s most vulnerable individuals, to one assisting society’s wealthiest and most powerful people and companies. The company was charged with wire fraud and concealing material facts from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). [9] 1863, 1873 & n.66

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