Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Over recent decades, and especially since the 2007-2008 global financial crisis (GFC), the corporate finance markets have changed considerably. First, there is more corporate debt now than ever. billion financing for Finastra and €4.5 billion financing for Adevinta ASA. trillion and is estimated to reach $2.3

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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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Mckinsey and Company

JANUARY 24, 2023

But if you think the real cost of equity rises in lockstep with government bond yields, think again. Inflation is high and interest rates are climbing.

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Accountancy Today

APRIL 11, 2024

Moore Kingston Smith Corporate Finance has advised Roycian on the £7m Management Buyout (MBO) of McAndrew Martin, an award-winning, independent multi-disciplinary design firm with projects in the UK, and a rapidly growing presence in international markets. McAndrew Martin was founded in 1989 by Bill McAndrew.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 30, 2024

Large-scale private equity buyouts, and the increasingly gargantuan financial firms that spearhead them, are commonly regarded as staples of today’s financialized corporate economy. Largely due to agency theory’s narrative influence, private equity has generally come to be understood not just as a U.S.-originated

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IVSC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Nicholas brings three decades of capital markets, corporate finance and valuation experience and will lead the IVSC’s growth across the region, with a focus on business valuation and intangibles. Having clear and comparable valuation standards will support the functioning of capital markets.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 14, 2023

on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Tags: Disclosure , E&S , E&S Metrics , ESG , S&P 500 , STI Program The Oscillating Domains of Public and Private Markets Posted by Alperen A. Say-On-Golden Parachute Failure Rate & CEO Golden Parachute Values in 2022 Posted by Subodh Mishra, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc.,

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 30, 2023

Berger (University of Chicago), Wei Cai (Columbia University), and Lin Qiu (Purdue University) , on Monday, June 26, 2023 Tags: Board culture , Board of Directors , CEOs , Corporate culture , dei , Diversity Demonstrating Pay and Performance Alignment Posted by Mike Kesner, Linda Pappas and Ed Sim, Pay Governance LLC, on Monday, June 26, 2023 Tags: (..)

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?

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Accountancy Today

AUGUST 22, 2023

FRP’s debt Advisory team has supported private equity firm Inspirit Capital on its investment in Aquest, a leading human capital services business, in a corporate carve-out from Capita Plc. ThirtyThree will continue to trade under its market-leading brand.

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Corporate Finance Private Equity Firm Finance Equity 68

Valutico

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Valutico Leverages EMIS Transaction Data to Enable Better Valuations of Emerging Market Deals Valutico, a leading valuation software provider, is now offering EMIS comprehensive mergers and acquisitions data to help users better assess the deal landscape, drive deal flow and capitalise opportunities in the world’s fastest-growing markets.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 15, 2023

It is therefore important to understand whether and how financial markets can create incentives for ESG integration. In a new paper, we investigate the financial market conditions that facilitate ESG integration. Our model has several components reflecting key features of greenwashing in corporate finance.

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IVSC

APRIL 29, 2022

” Against a backdrop of significant economic and market uncertainty, our panel of international experts from the worlds of valuation, finance, economics, monetary policy and politics will look at the latest data and trends and offer their thoughts on the global outlook. Ranjit Singh United States Chief, Global Markets, IMF.

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Accountancy Today

JULY 11, 2022

Grant Thornton UK’s corporate finance team has revealed the completion of its fourth deal in the built environment sector for this year, as it has reportedly led the strategic sale of Incentive FM Group to leading global facilities management group Atalian Servest. It is a great strategic fit for Atalian Servest. “We

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Starting in late January 2023, I will be back in the classroom, teaching valuation and corporate finance to the MBAs and valuation to the undergraduates, and these classes will continue through May 2023. The class starts with a question of what the end game should be for a business (profitability, value, social good?)

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Appraiser Newsroom

MARCH 20, 2024

Josh Putnam | Ernst & Young LLP Business valuation professional with extensive experience in the valuation of the business enterprise, equity and intangible assets. Industry sectors include Media & Entertainment, Retail and Consumer Products and Private Equity.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 28, 2024

In my last data updates for this year, I looked first at how equity markets rebounded in 2023 , driven by a stronger-than-expected economy and inflation coming down, and then at how interest rates mirrored this rebound.

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Audit Board

MARCH 15, 2022

Harding joins AuditBoard after five years at SailPoint, where he led corporate finance and FP&A and investor relations and was instrumental in executing the company’s successful 2017 IPO. The company’s customer-centric approach to building innovative solutions is clearly resonating with current users and the market.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 15, 2023

I am pleased to support this adoption because it will enhance the transparency of this important area of our markets. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress directed the SEC to enhance the transparency of short selling of equity securities. percent or more of the total shares outstanding on average during a month.

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Equity Corporate Finance Marketability Finance 40

Appraiser Newsroom

MAY 1, 2024

Likewise, Intellectual property valuations demand expertise in assessing intangible assets’ fair market value or arm’s length value, considering factors like market demand, technological advancements, and legal protections. Michael is part of the Industrial Products industry group of the firm and Co-Head of U.S.

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Intangible Assets Fair Market Value Compliance Private Equity Firm 52

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 8, 2022

To start the year, I returned to a ritual that I have practiced for thirty years, and that is to take a look at not just market changes over the last year, but also to get measures of the financial standing and practices of companies around the world. Happy New Year, and I hope that 2022 brings you good tidings!

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. How, you may ask, can equity risk premiums be that divergent, and does that imply that anything goes?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

Corporate Finance : Corporate finance is the development of the first financial principles that govern how to run a business. It is that mission that makes corporate finance the ultimate big picture class, one that everyone (entrepreneurs, investors, analysts, business observers) should take.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. The rise in rates transmitted to corporate bond market rates, with a concurrent rise in default spreads exacerbating the damage to investors. in 2022, higher than the 1- 1.5%

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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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IT Valuations

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To get this knowledge, we recommend taking free (or paid) courses from the Corporate Finance Institute (CFI). At the end of the day, the most important reason to invest in improving your understanding of financials is that they illustrate and help drive your value.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 30, 2022

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) employs blockchain technology and smart contracts with the goal of enabling perfectly disintermediated financial markets. In a new article, we address the question of why CFs find it profitable to intermediate DeFi markets and whether CFs contribute to the overall efficiency of those markets.

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you work in Debt Capital Markets or Leveraged Finance or a closely related area such as corporate banking , technically, you are a “credit analyst.”. The same applies if you’re working in sales & trading on a fixed income trading desk, such as corporate bonds.

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 2, 2022

Among those who study corporate financial distress and reorganization, the notion that senior lenders are in control is deeply ingrained. Celebrated papers in the law and corporate finance literatures attribute lender influence during periods of distress to blue-sky contracting practices. [1] 917 (2003); Douglas G. 751 (2002).

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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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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 24, 2024

In my last post, I looked at equities in 2023, and argued that while they did well during 2023, the bounce back were uneven, with a few big winning companies and sectors, and a significant number of companies not partaking in the recovery. In fact, treasury bill rates consistently rise ahead of the Fed's actions over the two years.

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Brian DeChesare

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

in terms of population, economy, and capital markets, and this one difference explains everything else. It means the capital markets and banking systems are less developed and that the average deal size and volume are both lower. based middle-market banks do not have offices in Canada, which leaves the market to other firms.

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IVSC

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” Market demand for professionals accredited in business valuation is currently at an all-time high. The CBV has been the leading valuation credential here in Canada for half a century and is quite well respected in our market and beyond. Market demand for CBVs, and those working toward a CBV, is at an all-time high.

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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. The resulting WACC represents the average cost of all the types of capital a company uses to finance its operations.

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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. The resulting WACC represents the average cost of all the types of capital a company uses to finance its operations.

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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. The resulting WACC represents the average cost of all the types of capital a company uses to finance its operations.

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Weighted Average Cost of Capital Discounted Cash Flow Beta Risk-free Rate 52

Accountancy Today

JANUARY 10, 2022

The combined market value of the 60 UK-listed companies that participated is £493bn, approximately 19% of the UK quoted equity market. Ian Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, said: “Like equity markets, which rallied into the new year, CFOs seem to be looking past Omicron and plan to focus their businesses on growth in 2022.

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