Global Finance

APRIL 5, 2025

Resilience, coupled with some slightly sunnier macroeconomic conditions, suggests that M&As and initial public offerings (IPOs) in 2025 could maintain momentumdespite certain aspects of corporate finance currently being on the downtrend. The top five IPOs by valuation in 2024 were Lineage on the Nasdaq ($5.1

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Boston Startup CFO

APRIL 12, 2024

409A / Valuations Leveraging our expertise and industry knowledge, we will conduct thorough assessments to determine the fair market value of your company, ensuring compliance with regulations and helping you make informed decisions related to stock options, equity compensation, and financial reporting.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Those that closed a deal often paid way too much, or at least passed the companies along to public markets at inflated valuations. Higher interest rates have cut the global total of initial public offerings nearly in half since 2021, reducing targets’ leverage on valuation. billion “merger” with Churchill Capital Corp.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 1, 2023

We discuss how his career has traced the rise of private credit: He began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert, then founded the high-yield finance business at Chase Securities (now JP Morgan Chase), served as head of Leveraged Finance for RBC. class nine times.

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Global Finance

AUGUST 16, 2024

Anglo’s valuation upside no longer looks compelling on a standalone basis,” JP Morgan’s equity research team concluded, suggesting it may still be a takeover target. The decision, which was intended to help Anglo focus on its restructuring, swung the company from a net profit of $1.26 The restructuring itself is a complicated affair.

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Restructuring Profit and Loss Valuation Planning 105

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 6, 2023

It is perhaps a reflection of my age that I remember when getting data to do corporate financial analysis or valuation was a chore. Thus, without a sense of what comprises a high or low profit margin for a firm, or what the cost of capital is for the typical company, it is easy to create "fairy tale" valuations and analyses.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 20, 2023

Risk and Hurdle Rates In investing and corporate finance, we have no choice but to come up with measures of risk, flawed though they might be, that can be converted into numbers that drive decisions. In corporate finance, this takes the form of a hurdle rate , a minimum acceptable return on an investment, for it to be funded.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

“Monitoring the size and growth of crypto-asset markets is critical to understanding the potential size of wealth effects, should valuations fall,” the FSB said in a statement, reported Reuters.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Risk and Hurdle Rates In investing and corporate finance, we have no choice but to come up with measures of risk, flawed though they might be, that can be converted into numbers that drive decisions. In corporate finance, this takes the form of a hurdle rate , a minimum acceptable return on an investment, for it to be funded.

Hurdle Rate 95

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Heather Brilliant : I worked at Bank of America and, and they had a wonderful corporate finance training program. But there’s always gotta be some element of the valuation really being compelling. But maybe second to valuation as a primary consideration. Barry Ritholtz: Huh, really, really interesting.

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Investments Valuation Concentration Marketing 59

VCFO

MAY 5, 2022

Panelist – Jim Briggs, Director, Statesman Corporate Finance | jbriggs@statesmanbiz.com. Unless it is a simple, small business, the valuation of the business can be complicated. Engaging valuation expertise is a good way to pave the path to success. Demonstrating sustainable value to an outsider (i.e.,

Sales 76

Sales Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Planning Valuation 76

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I went into what’s called corporate finance, what people would see now as sort of M&A department. CHANCELLOR: Well, I was actually in a sort of subgroup there, which was called corporate strategy. But I didn’t last very long there because I thought I didn’t like corporate finance.

Valuation 59

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Global Finance

APRIL 7, 2025

By leveraging existing expertise and portfolio assets, investors see opportunities to optimize sponsorship deals and naming rights and create synergies that add value. In January, Texas-based Presidio Investors swooped in to acquire Hellas Verona FC at a reported 130 million valuation.

Corporate Finance 99

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Global Finance

DECEMBER 27, 2024

High interest rates were an issue; steep borrowing costs and lower returns created valuation mismatches, ultimately reducing the size, scope, and appeal of private equity deals. The leverage was quite challenging, Dermarkar notes.

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