Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 18, 2024

Posted by Joyce Chen and Courtney Yu, Equilar, Inc., on Thursday, April 18, 2024 Editor's Note: Joyce Chen is Associate Editor and Courtney Yu is Director of Research at Equilar, Inc. This post was prepared for the Forum by Ms. Chen and Mr. Yu. The 2024 proxy season is in full swing, as public companies are in the process of submitting their proxy statements (DEF14A) to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ahead of annual shareholder meetings.

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NYT M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

The company and Apollo Global Management are discussing a joint effort, even as Paramount conducts exclusive merger negotiations with Skydance.

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Mergers & Acquisitions 145

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 18, 2024

Posted by Andrew Verstein (UCLA), on Thursday, April 18, 2024 Editor's Note: Andrew Verstein is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. This post is based on his article forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review. The “disinterested and independent board majority” is one of the most important concepts in corporate law, because it is the fulcrum on which most corporate litigation turns.

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Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 18, 2024

Decarbonization has emerged as a critical tool in the fight against climate change, but it also shows promise as a means of economic acceleration across the globe. Learn how.

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

Marketability

Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 18, 2024

Posted by Amy Jane Longo, Shannon Capone Kirk, and Isaac Sommers, Ropes & Gray LLP, on Thursday, April 18, 2024 Editor's Note: Amy Jane Longo is a Partner, Shannon Capone Kirk is Managing Principal & Global Head of Advanced E-Discovery and A.I. Strategy, and Isaac Sommers is an Associate at Ropes & Gray LLP. This post is based on their Ropes & Gray memorandum.

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Compliance Marketability 118

Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 18, 2024

Momentum for the battery cell component market is building rapidly in Europe and North America. To capitalize on this opportunity, suppliers will need to tackle several challenges head-on.

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Marketability 102

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

Crowell & Moring LLP has added two longtime partners and practice group leaders from Chicago-based firm Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP to help bolster its corporate, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets services and expand its services in the Windy City.

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Marketability 98

Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Some interesting comments. Supply and demand is a wonderful thing. Lot of talk about lower appraisal fees. Those thinking this way are shooting themselves in the foot and the industry. If there was some reasonable degree of cohesiveness and not jump to undercut their fellow appraisers throats and prices will increase. One just needs to be patient and let economics do its job.

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Appraisal 92

Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 18, 2024

The demand for nature and biodiversity investments is growing—Saker Nusseibeh talks about how to meet clients where they are and encourage them to move forward with a long-term view.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Jack Preacher. The FED has all the gold (or at least the promise of its lesser equivalent). They are in turn answerable to the taxpayers. Jack, hybrids and AVMs have never had credible acceptance by honest, informed professionals. They are purely tools to facilitate fraud agaisnt investors, by the same GSEs that can’t be trusted to operate unsupervised by their conservator…The U.S.

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Appraisal 92

Speaker: Wayne Spivak - President and Chief Financial Officer of SBA * Consulting LTD, Industry Writer, and Public Speaker

The old adages that "cash is king" and "you can’t spend profits" still hold true today. But however well-known these sayings might be, it requires a change in mindset to properly implement a cash flow management system that predicts your business's runaway as accurately as possible. Key to this new mindset is understanding the difference between the Statement of Cash Flows, a historical look at the source and uses of cash, and the Cash Flow Statement, which uses transaction history and forward-l

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Equidam

APRIL 18, 2024

Today we release our Quick Startup Valuation Estimate GPT , built on top of OpenAI’s ChatGPT LLM interface and Equidam’s API, which is accessible for ChatGPT users with a Plus or Team account. Try it out yourself This GPT-powered chat interface is based on the same logic as the initial estimate in a valuation calculated on Equidam, through which we provide a quick calculation based on 10 questions.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Cam R. I was a practicing affiliate and did NOT renew because of the lack support from AI. About time they pulled their head out of rectal defilade!

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Appraisal 97

Financial Times M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

A deal would see the private-equity controlled lender eventually return to mutual ownership

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Larry Fuller. Good. Thank you. Per the article: ‘a $29 “Lender QC Fee” would be added to all new appraisal orders.’ The ‘lender QC fee’ falls where in consumer fee disclosure requirements? What section is that fee appropriately placed? Which aspect of quality control? Which department and which function of review of the loan package specifically?

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Speaker: Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union

In this webinar, Joe Apfelbaum, CEO of Ajax Union and business strategist, will take you through the ABCs of intent data. You'll learn how to effectively use it to drive business results, with practical tips on how to leverage both company and contact intent data to maximize your marketing efforts. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just getting started, this webinar is a must-attend for anyone looking to stay ahead in the ever-evolving world of digital marketing.

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Sun Acquisitions

APRIL 18, 2024

Sun Acquisitions announces its latest sell-side engagement, representing a well-established catering business in operation for over 30 years and based in Illinois. Equipped with a proficient management team, this niche catering business has grown significantly by delivering healthy, high-quality, organic meals to daycare centers, senior care facilities, and government establishments.

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Marketability 59

Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Mike Ford, AGA™. Understood. We’re on the same page. That requires judges, lawyers, and court rooms. I don’t care if they are giving out free pots O gold to appraisers with real life rainbows and leprechauns in little green hats, I’m not going into situations like that on purpose. My days are numbered, time is running out.

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Appraisal 91

Benchmark Report

APRIL 18, 2024

According to Verified Market Research, the global healthcare market will reach $665.37 billion by 2028. The healthcare sector is primarily segmented into pharmaceuticals, services, devices, and others. By application, the industry is categorized by cardiovascular, oncology, anti-infection, central nervous system, respiratory, and others.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Baggins. “This ANOW site… Micro transaction fees. A third party Stripe payment service… Thirty dollars a month subscription cost just to be available to receive orders. ” I saw this fee and did not pay it I called ANOW and told them that the fee was not on me. They gave me a link to receive the funds without the Stripe stuff.

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Appraisal 91

Financial Times M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

The USW has inserted itself into the election, US-China relations and a $14.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to PD. Yes, there are appraiser’s that do crappy work for crappy fees. Eventually they will not have any work because they really don’t know what they are doing and for whatever reasons, they are not trying to learn how to do their jobs better. I lost almost all of my work to someone that uses click forms. This software picks the comparable, writes the comments it deem necessary to use.

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Financial Times M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

Preliminary approach underscores private equity’s interest in professional services

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Robert N. Mossuto Jr. I truly appreciate the time and effort you put into writing this. That said, it just goes in the circular file at their end as there are those within your brother appraisers that find that acceptable and who will accept their terms and maybe even less because they don’t have the wherewithal to actually determine their breakeven point.

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Appraisal 90

Financial Times M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

Media company is already in exclusive talks with Skydance about a potential deal

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Robert N. Mossuto Jr. Robert, Maybe I’m the odd-ball with UWM, but they typically send work to me at $850.00 and up. This would cover my base fee and a few bucks more before this additional $29.00 they are charging. This now would leave me with less than the $800 I would desire, therefore I would be asking fee increases on every order due to the ever increasing business costs.

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Appraisal 90

Fox Corporate Finance

APRIL 18, 2024

FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH is pleased to publish the new “FCF AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER MARKET STUDY – 04/2024”. Based on available data from European automotive suppliers, the FCF AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIER MARKET STUDY is a detailed. Read more The post FCF Automotive Supplier Market Study – 2024 published appeared first on FCF Fox Corporate Finance GmbH.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to PD. I REALLY don’t have a clue. Even someone that I know actively chooses to take a lower fee because the assume that is all they can get with their skill-set and leave money on the table, when it is fully explained – defends the same answer. I guess some people are not business people and can not, or willfully won’t look at themselves as the “one” that does not do a good job, or not deserving of a reasonable and customary fee for said area.

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Appraisal 90

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

New York's highest court ruled Thursday that an entity that acquires another entity's liabilities and assets inherits its status for purposes of personal jurisdiction even if there is no merger, greenlighting litigation targeting a Lebanese bank over its predecessor's alleged assistance to Hezbollah.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Baggins. I think you missed my point baggs (or I failed to make it clear). My concern isn’t about the work volume available to appraisers that engage in hybrids. Of COURSE they and their E&O will be the ones to pay. The opportunities for more honorable appraisers, will be in the litigation cases where we will be hired by the complainants rather than by the respondents.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

The European Commission's top competition enforcer said Thursday the agency has taken a measured approach to using its newly asserted power to review mergers that fall short of local thresholds, as the European trading bloc's high court mulls a challenge of that authority from DNA sequencing company Illumina.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to mark robert freitag. It is the distinct privilege that the appraiser and the appraiser alone get to make, the scope of work, neighborhood boundaries and comparable selection. It’s the appraiser and the appraiser alone that gets to do this. Not the LO, buyers, sellers or UW.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

The interagency committee tasked with ensuring that foreign investments do not jeopardize national security lacks a formal process for launching enforcement actions against companies that run afoul of their commitments, according to a watchdog report made public Thursday.

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Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

My comment to UWM – They can pound sand! Dear UWM, Not that you send me work anyway, but… I believe the newly added fee brings your total “upfront” cost to somewhere in the neighborhood of $68. Seeing as how you typically want to pay near nothing, what I call 2002 fees, of say $350; that leaves me with about $282. I don’t know if you’re aware, but the price of everything appraisers require to complete appraisals in 2024 have significantly increased.

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Appraisal 88

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 18, 2024

Former Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch thought a finance department whistleblower was "trying to destroy the company" and wanted him fired, the software company's former U.S. general counsel testified Thursday in a criminal fraud trial over claims Lynch conned HP into buying the British company at an inflated price of $11.7 billion.

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Finance 52

Appraisers Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

In reply to Baggins. So far I have yet to pay any monthly fee for them. If I did, I think I would draw the line there. The other fees are very much there and is another write-off for work, but up until now, it was not impacting my bottom line on each order. I don’t recall the effective date of the changes, but will have to monitor each and every order that come in and do the math on it to see what I’m making or not making.

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Appraisal 88