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Addressing Market Volatility and Risk in M&A Agreements

Harvard Corporate Governance

Significant volatility continues to disrupt the equity markets, with the major stock indexes swinging multiple percentage points often on a daily basis. This additional regulatory delay means that transactions, and in particular deals involving stock consideration, are increasingly vulnerable to market risk over a longer time horizon.

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

Brian DeChesare

Over the past few decades, growth equity (GE) has gone from an afterthought to a major asset class for huge investment firms. Some argue that GE offers the best of both worlds: the opportunity to fund innovation and growth – as in venture capital – plus the ability to limit downside risk and invest in proven companies – as in private equity.

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Data Update 4 for 2021: The Hurdle Rate Question!

Musings on Markets

Cost of raising funds (capital) : Since the funds that are invested by a business come from equity investors and lenders, one way in which the hurdle rate is computed is by looking at how much it costs the investing company to raise those funds. US , Europe , Emerging Markets , Japan , Australia/NZ & Canada , Global ) 2.

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Decentralized Finance, Crypto Funds, and Value Creation in Tokenized Firms

Reynolds Holding

In fact, the number of newly established active CFs has substantially grown over the last four years to more than 850 at the end of 2021, with a surge in total assets under management from $8.3 billion in 2021. billion in mid-2018 to $57.5 This post comes to us from Paul P.

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Convertible Arbitrage Hedge Funds: The Perfect Combination of Investment Banking and Sales & Trading?

Brian DeChesare

Convertible bonds are hybrid instruments with elements of debt and equity, and some groups that trade convertible bonds also combine elements of S&T and IB. If you’re using a strategy like long/short equity , you could long or short a company’s stock, and your results would depend heavily on the stock market’s overall direction.

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Wachtell Lipton Discusses Addressing Market Volatility and Risk in M&A Agreements

Reynolds Holding

Significant volatility continues to disrupt the equity markets, with the major stock indexes swinging multiple percentage points often on a daily basis. We outline below certain transaction structures that can be deployed to shift or address certain of these risks to account for the greater volatility in the current market environment.

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SEC Chair Speaks on Mandatory Disclosure at Conference Honoring John C. Coffee, Jr.

Reynolds Holding

We did it in the 1960s when we first offered guidance on disclosure related to risk factors. [12] 12] We did so in the 1970s regarding disclosure related to environmental risks. [13] 14] We did it again in the 1990s when we required disclosure about executive stock compensation [15] and in 1997 regarding market risk. [16]