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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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FRP Corporate Finance advises Harwood Private Equity on Vegner sale

Accountancy Today

FRP Corporate Finance has advised Harwood Private Equity on its sale of the Vegner Group, one of the UK’s leading property services businesses, to international property management group Odevo. The business, which has 20 offices across the UK and employs around 475 people, has been backed by Harwood Private Equity since 2020.

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Share Repurchases on Trial: Large-Sample Evidence on Market Outcomes, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Finances

Harvard Corporate Governance

Related research from the Program on Corporate Governance includes Short-Termism and Capital Flows (discussed on the Forum here ) by Jesse Fried and Charles C. Wang; and Share Repurchases, Equity Issuances, and the Optimal Design of Executive Pay (discussed on the Forum here ) by Jesse Fried.

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The Credit Markets Go Dark

Harvard Corporate Governance

In The Credit Markets Go Dark , we describe how private credit funds are reshaping corporate governance and corporate finance and offer new data capturing its meteoric rise.

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FRP Corporate Finance advises on £25m Fresh Relevance sale

Accountancy Today

FRP Corporate Finance has announced its team has advised management and private equity investment manager Foresight Group LLP on its sale of e-commerce personalisation platform, Fresh Relevance for £25m. It was a pleasure working with Management and Foresight on this sale.”

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The Corporate Life Cycle: Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investing Implications!

Musings on Markets

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. In 2022, I decided that I had hit critical mass, in terms of corporate life cycle content, and that the material could be organized as a book.

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The Corporate Investment Benefits of Mutual Fund Dual Holdings

Harvard Corporate Governance

Consequently, fund families managing both equity and bond funds are more likely to hold stocks and bonds from the same company simultaneously (“dual holdings”). This post is based on their working paper. Using detailed holding data of mutual funds, our paper first documents a rising trend in mutual fund dual holdings of U.S.