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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

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However, one common point across all the verticals is that IPOs are not common because there aren’t that many publicly traded sports teams, stadiums, or arenas. SPAC IPOs for esports companies were “hot” for a short period in 2021, but they seem to have died off by now. LionTree and Allen & Co.

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Growth Equity: The Child Prodigy of Private Equity and Venture Capital, or an Artifact of Easy Money?

Mergers and Inquisitions

This style is about purchasing minority stakes in cash-flow-negative-but-high-growth companies that want to scale and eventually go public or sell (think: Uber or Airbnb before their IPOs). In the 2010s, startups began to postpone their IPOs, but they still needed funding. There’s usually a long list of previous VC investors as well.

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Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

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There is some overlap because at the large banks, wealth management clients often get early/privileged access to investment banking products, such as upcoming IPOs, equity/debt offerings, or new investment products. Think: benchmarking portfolios rather than modeling companies.

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Renewable Energy Investment Banking: How to Make Greens by Going Green

Mergers and Inquisitions

So, even if you’re advising entire companies, you must still be familiar with asset-level modeling and valuation and how an entire portfolio works. For growth-stage companies, you will see plenty of equity offerings: IPOs , SPACs , PIPEs, and follow-on issuances.