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Credit Conditions | June 2024

JD Supra: Mergers

Welcome to this edition of Credit Conditions, a quarterly publication from McDermott Will & Emery that analyzes recent debt market trends. Key Debt Market Trends - Interest Rates - “Start your engines” has shifted to “hold your horses” as rates continue to remain “higher for longer.”

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It’s OK to Have Amber Flags on Your Vendor Due Diligence Report

Beyond M&A

For example, spending a day with the CTO, reviewing their stories, challenges, and investment history, might reveal underlying team dynamics or a technical debt problem thats quietly driving attrition. Resilience and scalability risks Especially common in fast-growing startups where technical debt is accumulating.

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Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)

Wall Street Mojo

What is a Collateralized Debt Obligation? Table of contents What is a Collateralized Debt Obligation? How does Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) Work? CDOs provide investors with a diversified portfolio of debt instruments across different risk levels. read more , etc.

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Mastering Technology Due Diligence and Integrations

Midaxo

Operational debt is as serious as tech debt. Additional Q&A with Mart Lumeste: Q: How Do You Uncover and Evaluate the Extent of Technical Debt? Organizations usually incur technical debt when the cost of adding additional features increases (e.g., Reducing the debt requires a plan and management buy-in.

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The Maintenance Ratio in Software Development: How Private Equity Investors Can Drive More Growth.

Beyond M&A

That is the time spent on fixing issues, addressing tech debt and keeping the lights on. Maintenance tasks include bug fixes, addressing technical debt, and other tasks required to keep the software running smoothly. Re-engineering : Moving away from legacy, monolith etc. Intro to the software maintenance ratio.

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Mastering Niche Marketing: Karl Hughes' Strategy to Building from 0 to $2.5M Business

How2Exit

With a background in mechanical and software engineering, Karl has propelled his career forward by venturing into content marketing and company acquisitions. Karl shares his journey from studying mechanical engineering to becoming a pivotal player in technical content marketing.

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M&A Blog #11 – buy-side acquisition

Francine Way

Thus far in the last 10 blog posts, we have discussed what M&A is, its success metrics, types of acquirers and value creations, capital structure, debt, and equity. Since a successful strategic acquisition program is a long-range commitment over five years or more, a consultants-led structure is best used as a starter engine.

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