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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Brian DeChesare

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!

Musings on Markets

The six classes that I prepped for in those two years ranged from banking to investments to corporate finance, and while I have never worked harder, much of what I teach today came out of those classes. In 1984, I moved on to the University of California at Berkeley, as a visiting lecturer, teaching anything that needed to be taught.

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How Debt Investors Are Influencing Corporate Governance

Reynolds Holding

Since the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, the corporate finance markets have been dramatically transformed. Most notable has been the rise of non-traditional providers of debt finance such as private credit funds, which now aggressively compete with traditional finance providers like commercial banks.

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Moonshots

Reynolds Holding

Then I show how the market has developed a new corporate structure designed to solve these problems, which relies on a subtler form of insulation. The second is a motivation problem : Managers can’t give their employees the right incentives to bring the technology to market. But there’s a catch.

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How to Value My Business to Sell

Sun Acquisitions

Business valuation, according to the Corporate Finance Institute , is the “process of determining the present value of a company or an asset.”. Your business’ capital structure makeup. Knowing the current fair market value of the business also gives you leverage to improve its profitability before listing.

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Distressed Debt Hedge Funds: How to Become a Vulture Capitalist

Brian DeChesare

Distressed debt investing offers advantages over other hedge fund strategies , but the marketing often oversells the benefits. These percentages mean the market is pricing in a high likelihood of creditor losses in a restructuring or bankruptcy. “Distressed assets offer non-correlated returns, similar to global macro.”

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Leveraged Buyouts

Andrew Stolz

Leveraged Buyout (“LBO”) is a quite common term in Corporate Finance field. It refers to acquiring a company (or its part) and financing it with debt. and 3% of the committed capital. The usual market practice is 2% of the committed capital. Shortly after markets experienced a deep crisis. References.