Accountancy Today

JUNE 9, 2025

Dains has revealed that its corporate finance team has officially entered into the national top 20 of deal advisers for the first time, following a “landmark” first quarter. Roy Farmer, corporate finance partner at Dains, said: “Q1 has been a fantastic start to the year for the corporate finance team and the wider Dains Group.

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Global Finance

JUNE 23, 2025

” The post Global Insurance: New Capital Frontiers appeared first on Global Finance Magazine.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 10, 2025

In corporate finance and investing, which are areas that I work in, I find myself doing double takes as I listen to politicians, market experts and economists making statements about company and market behavior that are fairy tales, and data is often my weapon for discerning the truth. Return on Equity 1. Beta & Risk 1.

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Global Finance

MARCH 2, 2025

Its going to change your equity, your retained earnings, your profits, your earnings per share, your EBIT, your EBITDAall these numbers would change. We actually tried to use AI to create a set of accounts that had a huge level of human intervention but followed Benfords law, and it was practically impossible. And its incredibly difficult.

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Global Finance

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 2019, Vinod Khosl, founding CEO of Sun Microsystems and founder of Khosla Ventures, told Sam Altman: 90% of VCs do not bring any value to startups, and 70% even harm them.

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Global Finance

JUNE 18, 2025

In May and through the first half of June, however, volume across these regions staged a recovery, as demand from lenders increased, providing corporate borrowers with the opportunity to issue debt at more attractive rates.

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Global Finance

MAY 1, 2025

Mounting recession fears, renewed trade tensions, and shifting political winds are weighing heavily on corporate dealmakers and private equity firmsparticularly in the US, where valuations remain flat. Only 6,955 deals were announced in the first quarter; thats down 16% from the fourth quarter of 2024.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 5, 2025

The Utopian Version If, as I asserted in an earlier post , equity investors have a claim the cash flows left over after all needs (from taxes to debt payments to reinvestment needs) are met, dividends should represent the end effect of all of those choices.

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

We make sure were having conversations with the widest possible breadth of capital providers, says Robinson, adding that he is in talks with sovereign funds, family offices, private equity firms, and other sources.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 26, 2024

This means having the right mix of debt and equity and keeping all stakeholders aligned. In larger companies, roles are more siloed. GF: What keeps you up at night? Rouse: Ensuring that we have the right capital structure to complete this transition. Its also about maintaining company morale and supporting our employees through this journey.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

I spend most of my time in the far less rarefied air of corporate finance and valuation, where businesses try to decide what projects to invest in, and investors attempt to estimate business value. In this role, the cost of capital is an opportunity cost, measuring returns you can earn on investments on equivalent risk.

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Global Finance

MARCH 18, 2025

The second, like much of the industry, is how weve utilized private assets in the portfolio, notably private credit and private equity. The first one is how weve utilized U.S. dollar assets for the Japan portfolio. For the U.S. dollar assets, this is driven by our strategic asset allocation and our approach to asset-liability management.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 23, 2025

If the bank has separate groups for all three, here’s how you can think about them: Investment Banking: Advises mostly large companies (worth hundreds of millions or billions) on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity issuances. By contrast, commercial banking offers far more limited opportunities.

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Global Finance

APRIL 24, 2025

So therefore, AE Industrial is the only private equity firm with a portfolio company that has achieved this milestone. We are now past the point of asking, Is this an investable sector for private equity and private investment firms? Kirk Konert: It was a little surreal and unbelievable, watching the Blue Ghost softly land on the moon.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The sale is part of an ongoing initiative to stabilize finances and protect Boeing’s investment-grade credit rating while minimizing shareholder dilution. The financing structure lets the company count bonds as equity, hopefully eschewing concerns about its debt load, a critical factor in maintaining its credit rating.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 18, 2025

In my classes and writing on corporate finance, I look at the motives for businesses retaining cash, as well as how much cash is too much cash. The Motives for holding Cash In my introductory finance classes, there was little discussion of cash holdings in companies, outside of the sessions on working capital.

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Private equitys $2 trillion pile of cash is set to fuel M&A opportunities in 2025. Private equity firms are sitting on an unprecedented war chest: roughly $2 trillion in uncalled capital. According to an Ernst & Young report, private equity activity had somewhat of a comeback in 2024, spiking 36% in value compared to 2023.

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Global Finance

JUNE 13, 2025

” Like many of its peers, Rowan Digital Infrastructure is sponsored by a private equity firm, Tim McGuire says. “Typically, a private equity investor will front some of the pre-development costs, which could include acquiring the land parcel and doing some of the horizontal development,” he notes.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Resilience, coupled with some slightly sunnier macroeconomic conditions, suggests that M&As and initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2025 could maintain momentumdespite certain aspects of corporate finance currently being on the downtrend. At last check, global M&A is down 7% in 2025 compared to 2024; in the US, its down 32%.

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Accountancy Today

MAY 14, 2025

FRP Corporate Finance has revealed it has advised GEV Wind Power, a global specialist services provider to the wind energy industry, on its sale to Certek. The team completed a thorough marketing and sales process which attracted the attention of numerous potential industry buyers as well as private equity acquirers.

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Global Finance

JUNE 13, 2025

“As US-China trade tensions ease, Chinese equities have rebounded strongly, while ongoing US-EU tariff disputes and political uncertainties continue to weigh on US markets,” Chu said. ” The post China: CATL Supercharges Hong Kong’s IPO Market appeared first on Global Finance Magazine.

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Global Finance

APRIL 3, 2025

Together with my team, I focused on telling our equity story to investors and the public, ensuring that our vision and potential are clearly understood and appreciated. At the same time, we managed a tremendous change process.

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Accountancy Today

APRIL 28, 2025

FRP Corporate finance has advised UK-based Trust Property Management Group on its sale to PHM Group for an undisclosed sum. Clive Hatchard, Partner at FRP Corporate Finance, said: The property management sector is experiencing high levels of deal activity as it continues the consolidatory path set out in recent years.

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Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

And its also clear that for private equity firms, as they continue or start to increase the rotation of their assets, IPOs are for sure now on the agenda. Over the previous 24 months, private equity firms sought bankers to handle divestituresto a corporate or maybe another firm like their own.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.

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Accountancy Today

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

FRP Corporate Finance has advised Harwood Private Equity on its sale of the Vegner Group, one of the UK’s leading property services businesses, to international property management group Odevo. The business, which has 20 offices across the UK and employs around 475 people, has been backed by Harwood Private Equity since 2020.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 3, 2022

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Short-Termism and Capital Flows (discussed on the Forum here ) by Jesse Fried and Charles C. Wang; and Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay (discussed on the Forum here ) by Jesse Fried.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 8, 2024

In The Credit Markets Go Dark , we describe how private credit funds are reshaping corporate governance and corporate finance and offer new data capturing its meteoric rise.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. In 2022, I decided that I had hit critical mass, in terms of corporate life cycle content, and that the material could be organized as a book.

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Accountancy Today

OCTOBER 4, 2023

FRP Corporate Finance has announced its team has advised management and private equity investment manager Foresight Group LLP on its sale of e-commerce personalisation platform, Fresh Relevance for £25m. It was a pleasure working with Management and Foresight on this sale.”

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Consequently, fund families managing both equity and bond funds are more likely to hold stocks and bonds from the same company simultaneously (“dual holdings”). This post is based on their working paper. Using detailed holding data of mutual funds, our paper first documents a rising trend in mutual fund dual holdings of U.S.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 27, 2023

It is no exaggeration to say that over its roughly forty-year history, private equity has revolutionized both corporate finance and corporate governance. Today, private equity is one of the major global asset classes, and it has attracted a truly staggering amount of capital over a relatively short period of time.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 29, 2024

Posted by Michael Eisenband, FTI Consulting, on Monday, July 29, 2024 Editor's Note: Michael Eisenband is Global Co-Leader of Corporate Finance & Restructuring at FTI Consulting. Overall, some $210 billion of equity capital was raised by nearly 750 large U.S. This post is based on his FTI Consulting memorandum.

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IVSC

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He has three decades of experience in capital markets, corporate finance, and valuations. Between 2010 and 2017, Nicolas was a corporate finance advisor and Investor Relations officer for corporate clients in several industries, including Renewable Energy. Bernstein, a subsidiary of AllianceBernstein.

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Accountancy Today

JANUARY 11, 2024

Gerald Edelman’s Corporate Finance team has advised the shareholders of Medical Imaging Systems Limited (MIS) on its investment from H2 Equity Partners (H2). As well as being advised by Gerald Edelman’s Corporate Finance team, the shareholders were also advised from a legal perspective by Fladgate LLP.

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Mckinsey and Company

MARCH 1, 2024

A new wave of software investing is on the horizon as private equity looks to create value through software portfolio companies.

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Mckinsey and Company

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

But first, they need a clear equity story. Sophisticated investors are more likely to afford a company more time to let its strategy play out, even during volatility.

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