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How Merchant Banks Help Businesses Grow and Succeed

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Regular individuals have retail banks. Huge corporations have investment banks. The answer: Merchant banks. Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. What is a Merchant Bank?

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Event-Driven Hedge Funds: The Best Home for Bankers Turned Investors?

Mergers and Inquisitions

Here it is in the investor presentation: We don’t know the planned valuation for CMS in this spin-off, but let’s assume that Jacobs plans to spin it off at an IPO offering price that implies an 11.5x EBITDA multiple , matching its own. EBITDA since it’s only growing at 2-3% per year vs. 5-10% per year for Jacobs.

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Biotech Hedge Funds: A Match Made in Heaven

Mergers and Inquisitions

their Enterprise Values are not worth much for a long time): Hedge funds focusing on public biotech companies step into this process after the IPO part, which means they can bet on extreme value inflections based on binary outcomes. Finally, there are also newer/startup biotech hedge funds, often spun off from existing multi-managers.

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