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Unconventional Cash Flow Optimization Strategies: Real Company Examples

Wizenius

2) Reverse Factoring Reverse factoring is a financial technique that involves a company selling its accounts receivable to a third-party financier at a discount in exchange for immediate cash. The program allows the company to sell its accounts receivable to a third-party financier at a discount in exchange for immediate cash.

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Artificial intelligence: is it good or bad for society?

Growth Business

What AI is doing for us now AI is already able to drive vehicles and negotiate obstacles. With proper regulation, its use can be ringfenced, risks of bias and discrimination are minimised and criminals can be held accountable for wrongdoing. This has applications for military operations and space exploration.

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Ophthalmology – 2024 Update: Entering a Mature Stage

Focus Investment Banking

Introduction Beginning around 2016, innovative PE groups began acquiring large ophthalmology practices and formed Physician Practice Management (“PPM”) companies around them. We believe over 400 total transactions have occurred, though it is difficult to account for all activity.

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What is a Retainer Fee? (Definition, Examples in Finance)

Peak Frameworks

Clients often pay lawyers, accountants, and consultants a retainer fee in order to retain their services. For instance, consider Tesla's acquisition of SolarCity in 2016. For an investment banker, this could range from due diligence, and financial modeling, to deal negotiations.

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Physician Practice Acquisitions: A Primer on Hospital & Private Equity Consolidation

InvestmentBank.com

California has also been a hotbed of consolidation as the number of physicians in practices owned by hospitals has increased from 25% in 2010 to more than 40% in 2016 [24]. toped 5,000 from 2015 to 2016 alone [22] , with the total number of hospital owned physician practices increasing to 80,000 by 2018 [15]. 2016, April 16).

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The Cooley Outlook for 2018 M&A

Cooley M&A

Approval of gross-ups in connection with a transaction typically involves a prior negotiation with the buyer. Nevertheless, as gross-up arrangements are typically negotiated after the deal price is negotiated, we do not believe that these arrangements are impacting overall stockholder consideration.

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When Approval for a Drug “Indication” Gets Murky: Drafting Milestones to Avoid Disputes

Cooley M&A

According to a recent study by SRS of recent private life sciences deals, disputes over earn-outs arose in about one-third (36%) of all milestones that were expected to be hit by September 2016. [1] Throughout the trial, it was evident that the word had various meanings during the negotiations. Gilead Sciences, Inc. ,