Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 19, 2022

FSG Investment Banking: What the Financial Sponsors Group Does The Financial Sponsors Group vs. the Financial Institutions Group The Financial Sponsors Group vs. Leveraged Finance vs. Debt Capital Markets Recruiting: Who Gets Into the Financial Sponsors Group? Table Of Contents.

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One of the more controversial industry groups is public finance investment banking. The controversy starts with the name: Is public finance “really” investment banking? You could argue this either way, but the short answer is yes , public finance still counts as investment banking.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 4, 2023

It is a common refrain, mostly on the political right, that considering environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) factors when investing is probably illegal. [1] Investing to advance a societal goal constitutes a mixed motive, a fiduciary violation. [2] Yale Professor Jed Rubenfeld and former U.S.

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 5, 2023

The pitch is that you do a mix of high-level “macro” work and occasional “micro” work, such as direct investments, you may get to live in exotic locations and pay less in taxes, and you work much more normal hours than in other finance jobs. Some SWFs operate like long-only asset managers (i.e.,

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Brian DeChesare

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

They do not invest in risky biotech startups attempting to cure cancer (at least not within their traditional PE portfolios). These firms lie in the territory of life science venture capital firms that invest in high-risk, early-stage companies. Some PE firms also invest in this vertical, typically via separate groups (see below).

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 28, 2023

TCFD is widely supported by investor groups and civil society and referenced by Australian regulators (although it is not yet mandatory). Our study illustrated that companies in the energy sector have received the most intense stakeholder pressure on climate change, followed closely by banking, mining, and insurance companies.

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Equidam

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

What is known is that the expansionary measures undertaken by central banks in response to the COVID -19 financial crisis will have major inflationary effects. Diversified Investment Services. Integrated Oil & Gas. Investment Banking & Brokerage Services *. Investment Holding Companies.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 27, 2021

In this post, I will take a look at these other markets, starting with a way of dividing investments into assets, commodities, currencies and collectibles that I find useful in thinking about what I can (and cannot) do in those markets, and then reviewing how these markets performed during 2020.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 1, 2022

The power & utilities investment banking team has a reputation for being “boring.”. We’ll get into these fun developments, but I want to start with the basic definitions: Power & Utilities Investment Banking Defined. ” Different banks classify their power & utilities groups differently.

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Appraiser Newsroom

JULY 9, 2023

Nunes is the Global Leader of Kroll’s Valuation Digital Solutions group, which produces cost of capital thought leadership content and data housed in the Cost of Capital Navigator. Marina Kagan is a partner in the Financial Analytics and Derivatives group at PwC, with 17+ years of industry experience. In addition, Ms.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 10, 2023

For example, as mandatory and voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting frameworks continue to develop, business-to-business engagement on emissions reporting is increasing. 5] Certain asset managers are also increasingly criticizing others in the investment community for their ESG positions.

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 22, 2022

I published an article on this topic of investment banking in New York vs. Chicago vs. San Francisco vs. Los Angeles vs. Houston vs. other cities a long time ago – but a fair amount has changed since then: Remote / hybrid work means that some of the advantages and disadvantages of different cities are more nebulous.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

For those of you who agreed with my thesis, the end game looks depressing, as new interest groups push for even more disclosures on their preferred fronts, with the strongest pressure coming from the environmental, social and governance (ESG) contingent.

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Reynolds Holding

APRIL 21, 2022

In particular, the disclosure of Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions (which capture financed emissions) and climate scenario analysis will likely be mandatory for many financial institutions. Rather, an institution is required to disclose information about potential or actual impacts of climate change to the extent material to investors.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Whether the defendants held positions as executives of public companies, traders at Wall Street banks, founders of cryptocurrency companies, medical professionals, or high-ranking foreign officials, our prosecution teams pursued difficult cases through trial and conviction. Andrew Gentin – who is with us today – spearheads this effort.

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 19, 2023

Metals & mining investment banking used to be a “sleepy” group. Many people viewed the sector as a short, poorly dressed cousin of oil & gas, but concentrated in places like Canada and Australia. The metals & mining team’s classification varies based on the bank.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The India Rising story hit some turbulence last week, as one of its biggest corporate success stories, the Adani Group, was hit with a report from Hindenburg Research, an investing group that specializes in targeting and shorting companies that it believes have dubious accounting and business practices.

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Reynolds Holding

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

On October 19, 2022, 19 Republican state attorneys general (the AGs) launched a coordinated investigation by issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to six major US banks. The CIDs seek information related to the banks’ membership in the United Nations’ Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) and other climate-related initiatives.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 28, 2022

I am not an unbiased observer, but the reactions from ESG defenders to this crisis can be broadly categorized into three groups. billion invested in Russian equities on February 23, 2022 , almost all of which was wiped out during the next few weeks. A Bloomberg Quint study of ESG funds uncovered that they had $8.3

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Value Scope

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

First, on December 17, 2019, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce went on live television to call for greater oversight of how ESG is used by companies and the investment community. “. At the time, more than $17 billion had been invested into sustainable-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and open-end funds during 2019.

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Reynolds Holding

MAY 25, 2022

Lucid Group, Inc. There is a similar shareholder case against Lucid Group, Inc. Lucid Group, et. froze assets controlled by VTB Bank, and imposed blocking sanctions on three other major Russian financial institutions. Several weeks later, the Biden Administration banned imports of Russian oil. 3:22-cv-02094 (N.D.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 25, 2023

I want to describe this growing divide, to describe some of the underlying political economy that accounts for this difference, and to suggest its danger for the critical task ahead: the aggressive effort to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change. In the U.S.,

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Reynolds Holding

MARCH 27, 2023

Goldman Sachs Continuing our coverage of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. For actions that fall into the latter group, a plaintiff must prove that the challenged action actually inflicted harm. Gibson Dunn will continue to monitor developments on this issue. Update On Arkansas Teachers Retirement System v. CFSA , 51 F.4th 4th at 642.

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Reynolds Holding

JULY 5, 2023

On March 21, 2022, the SEC issued a press release announcing proposed rule changes that would require registrants to include disclosures in their registration statements and periodic reports regarding climate-related risks and the company’s greenhouse gas emissions. The action ultimately resulted in a $55.9 million penalty. In re Tesla Inc.

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 11, 2022

For example, on November 8, 2022, a group of Republican senators sent a letter to fifty law firms advising those firms to “fully inform” clients of “the risks they incur by participating in climate cartels and other ill-advised ESG schemes.”

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