Lighter Capital

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The best way to approach this is by telling a growth story about your business and to make sure you can back up that story with data and analysis drawn from your financial statements. You can derive gross revenues by building up from your most basic elements, such as units sold and pricing by channel. Try to obtain debt financing?

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Brian DeChesare

MARCH 13, 2024

Debt financing is much more common, and the GE firm is often the first institutional investor. Most of these firms started out doing early-stage VC deals and still invest across all company stages. Most companies are already profitable, the potential returns are lower, and there’s usually a large secondary component (i.e.,

Equity 95

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Peak Business Valuation

JUNE 15, 2023

Schedule a free consultation today to get started! Benefits of SBA Financing for a Restaurant Restaurant owners can benefit from an SBA loan. An SBA loan is helpful to restaurant owners who may not be able to obtain financing through traditional lending sources. For more information, read SBA Financing for a Restaurant.

Business Valuation 52

Business Valuation Finance Start-ups Debt Financing 52

Brian DeChesare

MAY 4, 2022

15% to 30%) or it starts growing revenue more quickly (20-30% rather than 10-20%) or, better yet, both. You do need a Debt Schedule , and a Net Operating Loss Schedule is relevant here, but I wouldn’t build in more than that. And forget about the principal repayments (there’s 5% amortization on the Margin Loan and 1% on the Term Loan).

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Reform efforts in the legal profession to open up law firms’ rigid governance structure could reduce partner run risk but could also open the profession to a host of new hazards. offices and (2) every New York City-based lawyer working in M&A, capital markets, debt finance, antitrust, and white-collar defense for Dewey’s peer firms.

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IT Valuations

MARCH 1, 2021

Your seller will need to ensure that its books, records, and contracts can stand up to a robust due diligence process. This is particularly important if the buyer is obtaining debt financing.). Click here to get started. We’ll work with you to ensure the “right fit” meets your criteria of a good buy.

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Equilest

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Convertible debt. Convertible debt is debt financing that can be turned into equity later. Convertible debt has clear rules about what conditions need to be met to turn the debt into equity. Also, until the debt is transformed into equity, the interest can be added to the total convertible debt. . .

Business Valuation 40

Business Valuation Equity Debt Financing Start-ups 40

Reynolds Holding

MAY 16, 2024

debt capital markets facilitate 75 percent of debt financing of non-financial corporations. When I started on Wall Street 45 years ago, household penetration was less than 6 percent. [5] Separately managed accounts now represent more than $49 trillion in assets, [28] up nearly 50 percent in the last five years.

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Lighter Capital

APRIL 17, 2024

Non-dilutive funding is startup capital that does not require founders to give up equity in their company. Without assets, pre-revenue SaaS startups can’t get bank loans; SaaS entrepreneurs may have a shot if their business is generating revenue and they put up their home or personal savings as collateral. What is non-dilutive funding?

Equity 52

Equity Finance Debt Financing Start-ups 52

Cooley M&A

MAY 21, 2021

April 30, 2021) is 125 pages long, but she helpfully digests the holding in a single sentence on page 3: “ Chalking up a victory for deal certainty , this post-trial decision resolves all issues in favor of seller and orders the buyers to close on the purchase agreement.”

Debt Financing 40

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Cooley M&A

MAY 11, 2020

In “La La Land,” Damien Chazelle’s Oscar winning film, the audience thinks it has a formulaic Hollywood love story on its hands: boy and girl meet; boy and girl fall in love; boy and girl break up; and boy and girl get back together. The posture between the two parties to the $3.3

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Finance Start-ups Marketability Debt Financing 40

FE International

DECEMBER 31, 2021

up to >6x (more on that later) and seen more than a few interesting valuations devised by buyers! There have been a few examples of analysis from Centurica and SitePoint , which can provide a helpful starting point for new investors. billion up to $6.8 Debt-financed investors.

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Weighted Average Cost of Capital Business Valuation Precedent Transaction Analysis Start-ups 52

Musings on Markets

MARCH 8, 2023

Viewed in that context, dividends as just as integral to a business, as the investing and financing decisions. Thus, the notion that a company that pays dividends is viewed as a failure strikes me as odd, since just farmers seed fields in order to harvest them, we start businesses because we plan to eventually collect cash flows from them.

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Lighter Capital

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Without a high valuation, owners make costly sacrifices to secure VC funding — excessively diluting equity and giving up control to investors — which can turn a founder’s dream into something else entirely. You can get up to $4 million in upfront capital from Lighter Capital in a single funding round. repayment cap.

Finance 96

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Lighter Capital

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Without a high valuation, owners make costly sacrifices to secure VC funding — excessively diluting equity and giving up control to investors — which can turn a founder’s dream into something else entirely. How does revenue-based financing work? So, whether you pay an RBF loan off early or not, your cost of capital is the same.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 20, 2021

The Biden Administration's $ 2 trillion infrastructure plan, announced with fanfare a few weeks ago, has opened up a debate about not only what comprises infrastructure, but also about how to pay for it. Not surprisingly.

Start-ups 52

Start-ups Debt Financing Finance Equity 52

Brian DeChesare

JULY 5, 2023

These tables come up in online discussions/arguments about ranking the top investment banks , but people often take them too seriously. To set up the data for these claims, IB Analysts often spend hours “cutting the data” to make their bank look better. Leveraged Finance ). We’re #1 in Deal Type X or Region Y.”

Banking 52

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Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2023

The year started off with a bang, with mega-deals such as Microsoft’s pending $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter and Broadcom’s pending $61 billion acquisition of VMware inked in quick succession. Focus on private equity sponsor roll-ups (e.g., Distrust of divestiture offers.

Equity 52

Equity Finance Marketability Start-ups 52

Cooley M&A

JANUARY 25, 2024

The higher interest rates escalated borrowing expenses, making mega-deals (deals valued at $5 billion or more) significantly more expensive, due to their heavy reliance on debt financing, and impacted valuation multiples with higher discount rates. For example, while the $7.3

Start-ups 52

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