Harvard Corporate Governance

JULY 17, 2023

In a recent Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance post we drew attention to declining equity markets in the United Kingdom and canvassed various possible explanations for the trend. The UK has, the United States aside, a uniquely well-developed equity market, with origins traceable back to the 16 th century.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Direct lending remained hot, continuing to fill in market gaps. But it was by no means a borrower’s market, whether in terms of pricing, terms, or leverage multiples. Private equity sponsors, in particular, held back on debt-financed leveraged buyouts while watching to see whether interest rates (or business valuations) would fall.

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Butcher Joseph & Co.

APRIL 16, 2024

Vice President Tristan Tahmaseb’s article “Winning M&A Strategies During Tough Market Conditions” as featured in the Associa. The post Tristan Tahmaseb Featured in ACG’s Middle Market Growth appeared first on ButcherJoseph & Co. ButcherJoseph & Co.

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Marketability 77

Harvard Corporate Governance

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Investors may have incentives to keep secret these activities to maintain their trading advantage over the market. Site visits are considered costly and significant activities for investors to acquire information. Therefore, it raises the question of why an investor would voluntarily disclose the incidence of their site visits.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 10, 2022

A wide range of research examines the market for CEOs and executive mobility in public companies while largely ignoring the market for CEOs in private equity funded companies. We augment the work on public company CEOs by studying the market for CEOs among larger U.S.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As a result, this problem could represent social cost in that one of corporate law’s key mechanisms for addressing business deficiencies—the market for corporate control—might fail when the deficiency in question is a culture of lawbreaking.

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Mckinsey and Company

DECEMBER 5, 2023

From automating processes and powering hyperpersonalization to permanently altering the idea generation process, generative AI is poised to be a catalyst for a new age of marketing capabilities.

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Marketability 139

Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

However, because of long-run persistence in insider trading enforcement and a lack of variation in the underlying laws, we have surprisingly little well-identified empirical evidence on the market benefits conveyed by strictly regulating insider trading. more…)

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Marketability 209

Law 360 M&A

APRIL 11, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission's top antitrust enforcer emphasized Thursday that the FTC and Justice Department's new merger guidelines could facilitate transaction challenges based solely on "direct" competitive effects, regardless of what market definition numbers indicate.

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Marketability 98

Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 15, 2022

Significant volatility continues to disrupt the equity markets, with the major stock indexes swinging multiple percentage points often on a daily basis. This additional regulatory delay means that transactions, and in particular deals involving stock consideration, are increasingly vulnerable to market risk over a longer time horizon.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 20, 2022

The past few decades have seen public equity markets becoming increasingly dominated by a few large, diversified institutional investors such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and Fidelity. It requires information on both the competitive landscape (which firms compete with each other) and asset markets (which firm’s shares each investor holds).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 29, 2022

To develop financial markets, improve market liquidity and attract international capital, governments around the world are encouraged to improve their countries’ corporate governance systems and adopt internationally accepted best practices in corporate governance (e.g., OECD, 2011). OECD, 2011). Qiu and Slezak, 2019).

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Equidam

APRIL 3, 2024

At the heart of every conversation between AI startup founders and potential investors, lies a question that neither side feels particularly confident answering: “What is the market size?” ” Pinning down the market size for a technology as fluid and expansive as artificial intelligence feels like capturing a cloud in a net.

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Mckinsey and Company

APRIL 10, 2023

Influencer marketing is a collaboration between popular social-media users and brands to promote brands’ products or services.

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Marketability 145

Harvard Corporate Governance

AUGUST 22, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission, by a vote of 3 to 2, approved significant changes to Rule 2a-7 and other rules that govern money market funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (Amendments) on July 12, 2023. [1]

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

financial markets and shareholders assess the dispersion in pay between a firm’s top executives and rank-and-file employees. We find that firms reporting a higher pay ratio experience a significantly lower market reactions than firms reporting a lower pay ratio. However, it is largely unknown how U.S.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

That recovery notwithstanding, uncertainties about inflation and the economy remained unresolved, and those uncertainties became part of the market story in the third quarter of 2023. The Markets in the Third Quarter Coming off a year of rising rates in 2022, interest rates have continued to command center stage in 2023.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We focus on the fact that TDF strategies are macro-contrarian: after high stock market returns, TDFs’ strategies require that they sell stocks to return to their prescribed asset allocations within a short period of time. model portfolios).

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MAY 23, 2023

As private corporations have found it easier in recent years to raise capital from the private markets, the number of public firms listed on U.S. Why tap public investors for finance, and become exposed to burdensome regulation and the vicissitudes of the public markets, when growth can be sustained with private capital?

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Peak Business Valuation

MARCH 19, 2024

After gathering data, the valuation expert can calculate the fair market value of the company’s shares. In this article, we discuss the importance of understanding the fair market value of an ESOP and how business appraisers calculate it. Fair Market Value and ESOPs The fair market value of a business has a strong influence on an ESOP.

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Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

APRIL 5, 2024

Share prices for most publicly traded asset and wealth management firms trended upward with the broader market during the first quarter of 2024. Alternative asset managers continued to outperform the market and other RIAs, ending the quarter up about 12.6%. RIAs directly benefit from… Source

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Marketability 52

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.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 19, 2022

Some researchers measure firm-level CG using country-specific indices (CSIs), tailored to each country’s laws and institutions; several studies report that these indices can predict Tobin’s q in emerging markets, in a panel data framework with firm fixed effects. However, their power to predict relevant outcomes is not known. more…).

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

I was planning to finish my last two data updates for 2024, but decided to take a break and look at the seven stocks (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla) which carried the market in 2023. In terms of dollar value added, Microsoft and Apple each added a trillion dollars to their market capitalizations, during the year.

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Mckinsey and Company

JANUARY 18, 2024

US mortgage lenders rethinking their value proposition for a constrained market should weigh five key actions to sustain growth in mortgage financing for home purchases.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 5, 2024

As improved market conditions position traditional financing to regain lost market share, it's also worth considering the pace and structure of private credit and other forms of private capital, especially when seeking to set unique terms or build new corporate relationships, say attorneys at Skadden.

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Mckinsey and Company

MARCH 28, 2024

This episode of Deal Volume highlights insights from McKinsey’s most recent Global Private Markets Review, including the state of the industry in 2023 and trends likely to affect investors in 2024.

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RNC

APRIL 1, 2024

Introduction: In Real Estate, understanding market trends is crucial for accurate valuation. Despite its prime location, shifting market trends favoured suburban areas over downtown spaces. Key Factors: Market Demand Shift: Changing work patterns and post-pandemic preferences decreased demand for downtown commercial spaces.

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Marketability 52

Mckinsey and Company

JANUARY 24, 2024

Decision makers looking to get a head start on the private markets should consider ten things.

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Mckinsey and Company

MAY 11, 2023

AI technology has revolutionized marketing and sales; now, generative AI promises to disrupt the way B2B and B2C players think about customer experience, productivity, and growth.

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Sun Acquisitions

APRIL 18, 2024

About Sun Acquisitions: Sun Acquisitions is a Chicago-based mergers and acquisitions firm specializing in the confidential sale, acquisition, or valuation of privately held middle-market and main-street companies. Contact Information: Sun Acquisitions 8745 W.

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Marketability 59

Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 10, 2024

A Manhattan-based marketing firm has urged a New York bankruptcy judge to override an objection to a request to mediate disputes stemming from its purchase of a competing company, arguing the request is within the court's jurisdiction and needs to be resolved quickly for the firm's Chapter 11 case to succeed.

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Marketability 98

Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The marketing firm Troika Media Group received final approval Tuesday of its $11 million debtor-in-possession loan from secured lender Blue Torch Finance, and for its $51 million credit sale to Blue Torch.

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Marketability Finance 98

Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 10, 2024

London-based private equity shop Charterhouse Capital Partners has taken on a majority stake in sports marketing company Two Circles, the parties announced in a joint statement on Wednesday.

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Marketability Equity 92

The Guardian M&A

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Good: it would mark a change from the droughts of 2022 and 2023 that have caused much agonising over the health of the London stock market. The current extraordinary bid battle for Chippenham-based Wincanton , the last UK-listed logistics firm, shows how the London market – or part of it – sometimes doesn’t know how to value what it’s got.

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Marketability 74

Mckinsey and Company

JUNE 26, 2023

During tough times, marketing is often the first to be trimmed, but that’s a shortsighted approach. Instead, companies can invest in marketing as a key to long-term growth.

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Marketability 105