Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Posted by Amy Rojik, BDO, on Sunday, October 15, 2023 Editor's Note: Amy Rojik is Director and Founder of the BDO Center for Corporate Governance. This post is based on her BDO memorandum. Amid ongoing volatility, boards are continuing to address an evolving risk landscape and contend with pushback on how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risk factors should be addressed.

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Financial Times M&A

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Apollo’s £506mn deal to buy The Restaurant Group includes ‘irrevocable undertaking’ for HK-based fund to exit its holding

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Peak Business Valuation

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Steel mills manufacture steel, iron, and ferroalloys like ferrochrome and ferroboron. The main markets for the steel mill industry are construction, automotive, and machinery manufacturing. According to IBIS World , there are only about 278 steel mills in the United States. Together, these businesses generate over $88 billion in revenue each year. As such, starting, buying , or growing a steel mill can be very lucrative.

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Lighter Capital

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Even in an uncertain economy, opportunity exists for SaaS startups to keep growing and evolving their businesses — founders just have to be smart about managing cash flow and runway as they make the right investments that support both near and long-term success. For many young SaaS businesses, strategic investments in marketing, sales, and customer support can drive scaled growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR) that propels the business to its next big milestone.

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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.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Four score and twelve years ago, Adolf Berle and Merrick Dodd debated the fundamental role of corporations within society. We have engaged in that debate ever since. In a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all persons are created equal, how should we expect corporations to treat the different stakeholder groups (employees, customers, suppliers, local communities, etc.) whose interests their operations deeply affect?

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Law 360 M&A

OCTOBER 15, 2023

A British subsidiary of ZQ Capital Management Ltd. said Monday that it has made a £47.9 million ($58.2 million) mandatory takeover offer for Allergy Therapeutics PLC, a U.K. pharmaceutical company, as the Hong Kong-based investor bids to secure its investment.

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Today [October 13], the Commission is voting to adopt rules to broaden the scope of short sale-related data available to regulators as well as the investing public. 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.

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