FE International

APRIL 20, 2022

2021 was a year where the world adjusted to the new normal of the COVID-19 pandemic. There are still several places on lockdown, and much of the world faces restrictions, forcing both businesses and consumers to adjust accordingly. A big benefactor of these global challenges has been the e-commerce industry. Key Statistics.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 16, 2023

billion under the bailout deal. billion under the bailout deal. In this post, we analyze the motives and mechanics of the write-down and argue that the prospect for a legal challenge is slim. In this post, we analyze the motives and mechanics of the write-down and argue that the prospect for a legal challenge is slim.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 25, 2023

The time is ripe now to talk about how professional sports, in its many variations around the world, has blown a financial gasket, as you see teams sold for prices that seem out of sync with their financial fundamentals and players signed on contracts that equate to the GDP of a small country.

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ThomsonReuters

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Since the Covid pandemic, most companies have more people working from home, and the workforce itself is often spread out across different states, countries, and time zones. If the tax engine’s structure and logic are a good fit for the new ERP, the integration itself should go relatively smoothly.

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Internal Audit 360

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I t’s easy for internal audit to get stuck in a rut. We approach the year with plans to revise last year’s internal audit plan, but in the end, we don’t change that much. We move to the comfort zone and put the audits we know how to do and the ones that seem important on the audit plan. Meanwhile, the business landscape is evolving rapidly.

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Marketability 98

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. Ukraine, a part of the Soviet Union, has had its shares of ups and downs, and its economic footprint is even smaller.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 20, 2023

Posted by Michael P. This post is based on their recent paper. That important question challenges all of us to think more like Adolf Berle himself: to confront the world as it is, to move beyond the trivial, and to address the deeper implications of corporate power for our world. Strine, Jr. is the Michael L.

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Marketability 189

Reynolds Holding

MAY 11, 2023

Today, our $100 trillion capital markets—with the benefit of the securities laws—have become the deepest, most liquid, most trusted in the world. [2] In a statement for the grand opening, Roosevelt inaugurated “a century of even greater progress.” [3] 3] The century of progress that began here in Chicago has lived up to FDR’s vision.

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Deal Law Wire

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Whether an acquisition is notifiable or reviewable depends on the structure of the transaction and the value and nature of the Canadian business being acquired, namely whether the transaction is a direct or an indirect acquisition of control of a Canadian business. Competition Act. Investment Canada Act.

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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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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

All that said, businesses around the world have borrowed money though time to fund their operations, sometimes for good reasons and sometimes for bad, and over time, these businesses have also faced cycles of too much debt leading to painful cleansing. We have an uneasy relationship with debt, both in our personal and business lives.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 22, 2022

Since the creation of the poison pill in the 1980s as a response to hostile takeovers, the corporate world has seen the rise of stakeholder governance, ESG, and stockholder activism and a host of other dramatic developments. market capitalization), differing thresholds based on overall value have already been applied to deal protection.

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 10, 2024

Amidst the miserable deal environment of the past few years, there has been one bright spot: sports private equity. Even as deal activity, fundraising, and exits have slowed everywhere, billionaires and PE firms backed by billionaires continue to acquire and invest in sports teams. only a handful a decade ago).

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Brian DeChesare

MAY 17, 2023

Over the past few decades, technology private equity has gone from “barely existing” to representing the largest single sector in PE by both deal value and deal count. And just as tech and TMT investment banking have become the most desirable groups on the sell-side, tech private equity has reached a similar status on the buy-side.

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Equity Technology Private Equity Firm Start-ups 64

Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

In this post, I will value Zomato, and rather than just make a value judgment (which I will), I will also tie the value per share to macro expectations about the overall market. Setting the Stage As a lead in to valuing Zomato, it makes sense to look not just at the company’s history, but also at its business model.

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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.”

Equity 83

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Value Scope

AUGUST 11, 2020

There is broad consensus that the COVID pandemic has pressed global oil demand downwards, and there is plenty of data that supports this thesis. Often short-cuts are taken, such as using flat price curves or minimal sensitivity analysis. These simplifications can be disastrous. We all know how the story ends, a couple of years later.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this post, I will look at another initial public offering, Birkenstock, that is likely to get more attention in the next few weeks, given that it is targeting to go public at a pricing of about €8 billion, for its equity, in a few weeks.

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 20, 2022

Although the COVID-19 pandemic that defined 2020 continued to shape much of the life sciences industry in 2021, the way that it did was markedly different. With COVID?19 Private equity’s increased interest in life sciences , with PE buyers accounting for 47% of deal volume in the first half of 2021 , compared to a long?term

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 27, 2023

Although the number of securities lawsuits filed this year remained steady compared to 2021, we have seen many notable developments in securities law. We also provide an update on the status of mandatory federal forum provisions in the Ninth and Seventh Circuits and in the State of California. In particular, the Second Circuit in SEC v.

Technology 59

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

trillion worth of global deals through the first half of the year, compared to approximately $2.7 trillion worth of such deals announced over the same time period in the previous year. trillion worth of global deals through the first half of the year, compared to approximately $2.7 The year ended with total deal volume of $3.6

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For the last two decades, China has been the dominant story for both the global economy and capital markets, as the country's immense growth and infrastructure investments have sustained commodity prices, and altered the balance of world economic power.

Market Capitalization 98

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Reynolds Holding

AUGUST 30, 2023

A number of hedge funds have also sought to export American-style activism abroad, with companies throughout the world now facing classic activist attacks. And companies that have faced one activist may be approached, in the same year or in successive years, by other activists or re-visited by a prior activist.

Equity 40

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Reynolds Holding

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A number of hedge funds have also sought to export American-style activism abroad, with companies throughout the world now facing classic activist attacks. The SEC rule requiring a universal proxy card in director election proxy fights becomes effective today [September 1].

Equity 45

Equity Dividends Total Shareholder Return Marketability 45

Cooley M&A

MARCH 17, 2020

With last Wednesday’s categorization by the World Health Organization of COVID-19 as a pandemic, schools, places of business and other venues throughout the United States quickly closed in-person locations and moved to remote connectivity as efficiently as possible. Dealing with Shareholder Activists and Unsolicited Offers.

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