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Freestate Electric, LLC Acquired By Sojitz Energy Services LLC

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

metropolitan area in its sale of 90% ownership to Sojitz Energy Services LLC (“Sojitz”), a subsidiary of the Japanese general trading company Sojitz Corporation. Associate Kevin Afriyie contributed to deal marketing and outreach and Senior Analyst Aidan Olmstead provided deal execution support and financial modeling.

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Fireline Corporation Acquired by Encore Fire Protection

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

This transaction is emblematic of CCAs holistic approach to assisting business owners, starting years ago with several strategic and pre-sale planning initiatives, and culminating in a highly successful exit. Firelines offering also includes 24/7 fire alarm monitoring as well as industry leading engineering and design capabilities.

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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

Mergers and Inquisitions

People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. The difference is that IB is more of an explicit sales job , as deals must close for the bank to earn fees. For example, if you have an M.D.

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The Path to Success: How to Become an Investment Banker

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If you would like a leg up in the recruiting process, consider pursuing courses that focus on finance, accounting, statistics, mathematics, engineering, and economics. Investment banks highly value prior experience in finance-related roles like consulting, investment management, or sales and trading.

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The Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank: The Start of Great Financial Crisis 2.0?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Look at any financial model for a bank, and you’ll see that loans – not deposits – are the key top-line driver. Immediately after this sale, the bank also announced plans to raise additional equity and convertible preferred stock. In other words, banks’ lending activities are not constrained by their deposits.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Scaling a company’s sales & marketing by hiring more sales reps. Financial Modeling: Like private equity, 3-statement models are common, as are valuations and DCF models , but LBO models are less common since not all deals use debt. Developing new products or services.

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Metals & Mining Investment Banking: The Full Guide to Ground Zero for the Energy Transition

Mergers and Inquisitions

But it’s not necessarily required, and plenty of undergrads join these groups via internships without detailed knowledge of the engineering side. One example is Steel Dynamics, which we feature in our main financial modeling course. I’ve considered it before, but it’s a niche area, and the economics never made sense.