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Covid-19 Impact on US Private Capital Raising Activity in 2020

InvestmentBank.com

As the world headed into the uncharted territory of a worldwide pandemic, investors in both debt and equity markets reacted to shifts and changing conditions in several interesting ways, and the lessons they learned and the actions they take this year will set the stage for everyone’s access to capital in the years to come.

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Riverbed Follows New Course in Vector Deal Flow

The Deal

The recent purchase of Riverbed Technology LLC reflects a burgeoning niche for middle-market technology turnaround investor Vector Capital Management LP: buying companies from lenders who converted debt to equity through reorganizations. ” Apollo is providing some of Riverbed’s debt. billion in 2015.

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Investment Banking in Singapore: The Best Gateway to Asia for the Non-Chinese?

Mergers and Inquisitions

The basic difference is that the international bulge bracket banks tend to be stronger in M&A advisory and weaker in equity and debt capital markets. Among the elite boutiques , Evercore has the strongest presence in Singapore, and Rothschild also works on many deals, mostly in the middle-market space.

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Sports Private Equity: Bright Spot in a Troubled PE Landscape or an Emerging Bubble?

Mergers and Inquisitions

The Top Sports Private Equity Firms The list of sports PE firms was short in 2015, but it has exploded over time. Many of these newer, sports-focused firms are also quite small, which means that compensation is more in-line with lower-middle-market PE firms, and promotion opportunities are less clearly defined.

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Cooley’s 2023 Tech M&A Year in Review: An AI-Generated Glass Half Full

Cooley M&A

Continuing the trend we noted for 2022 , sponsors increasingly used private credit sources in lieu of the syndicated debt markets to finance buyouts in 2023. in 2023 , showing that competitive pressures in the financing markets could not provide relief from the rising interest rate environment. in 2022 to 5.9x

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Consumer Retail Private Equity: Barbarians at the Gate, or Tech Bros on a Shopping Spree?

Mergers and Inquisitions

It reached a market cap of $100 billion in 2015 before declining to ~$8 billion in 2024. Excluding operating leases (which Capital IQ incorrectly adds to Net Debt for U.S. To give a deal example, well look at Sycamores ~$24 billion acquisition of Walgreens , which had been a public company for almost 100 years.