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12 Concepts We Can Learn About Buying VS. Building a Business on How2Exit's Interview W/ Walker Deibel

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Walker Diebold, bestselling author of “Buy Then Build: How to Acquisitions Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game,” experienced the stock market firsthand as a stockbroker and learned valuable lessons from his experiences. In 2018, Walker released his book “By Then Build” which was inspired by this idea.

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Salas O’Brien CEO Looks to Continue ‘Merger’ Spree

The Deal

.” All Aboard the Bullet Train Indeed, since 2019 Salas O’Brien has been aggressively adding specialty E&C firms across the country, combining with more than 25 businesses in that span alone. “They know what’s in my head,” he said. Unanimous approval among operational leaders is the goal on every deal.

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Goldman Sachs on equities execution: Tacking with the wind

The TRADE

If liquidity is reduced, everybody is focused on the same amount of volume and trying to keep their businesses profitable and viable,” says Beasley. Some of the European banks which had emerging market equities as a peripheral business retreated between 2017-2019 period and as a result there was market share up for grabs.

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The prime brokerage pie is growing, which means bigger slices for everyone

The TRADE

So you can see how this growth and momentum just starts to really build over time.” Ever since the exits of Credit Suisse and Nomura from the business – along with Deutsche Bank’s sale to BNP Paribas back in 2019 – the prime brokerage landscape has been dramatically shaken up to the benefit of those remaining in the business.

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Trading at the frontier

The TRADE

He moved to the buy-side in 2019 for a change of pace, looking to be more holistic in his approach to execution. “The In nothing short of a baptism of fire, he took his first steps into trading in January 2007 in the build-up to the global financial crisis. The sell-side tends to operate on a 24-hour basis,” he adds.

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Maximizing M&A Success Through Process Optimization

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The Disney-Fox Merger : When Disney acquired Fox in 2019 , there was significant resistance from Fox employees to the changes that would come with the acquisition. Communication also helps to build trust and confidence among stakeholders. This included concerns over job security and the integration of the two company cultures.

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Eyes on a new prize: How outsourced trading has taken off and why the attention is now turning to larger managers

The TRADE

But the acceptance turned out to be just one element in a perfect storm of factors pushing many firms towards outsourced trading, including increasingly complex markets, regulation, rising costs, declining profits, fee pressures, market structure changes like T+1, and the war for talent. But that’s not to say it’s going to be for everyone.

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