Brian DeChesare

MARCH 13, 2024

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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Brian DeChesare

MAY 15, 2024

Private equity value creation came on my radar a few years ago when I noticed something: Even though traditional PE deal roles were not doing well, “operational” or “value creation” teams still seemed to be recruiting. What Does the Private Equity Value Creation Team Do in Real Life? Why is PE Value Creation Suddenly “Hot”?

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Brian DeChesare

OCTOBER 30, 2024

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. Can we speed up the data consolidation processes? Your total compensation in U.S.-based

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Global Finance

JUNE 17, 2024

A 10-year veteran at DBS Bank, Karoonyavanich recently expanded his role to cover all Equity Capital Markets business for the bank globally when the firm merged its equities, fixed income and brokerage businesses to form a new Investment Banking unit. In 2017 and 2018, we saw China continue to open up. in the same period.

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Musings on Markets

AUGUST 5, 2023

If you have been reading my posts, you know that I have an obsession with equity risk premiums, which I believe lie at the center of almost every substantive debate in markets and investing. How, you may ask, can equity risk premiums be that divergent, and does that imply that anything goes?

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Startup Valuation Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

To delve deeper into the world of equity incentives and discover how they can revolutionize your startup's growth strategy, keep reading below As the founder of a startup, one of your key responsibilities is to attract and retain top talent that can drive your company's growth and success. Why Are They Important for Startups?

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Startup Valuation Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

To delve deeper into the world of equity incentives and discover how they can revolutionize your startup's growth strategy, keep reading below As the founder of a startup, one of your key responsibilities is to attract and retain top talent that can drive your company's growth and success. Why Are They Important for Startups?

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 21, 2023

In this post, I will begin by chronicling the damage done to equities during 2022, before putting the year in historical context, and then examine how developments during the year have affected expectations for the future. Actual Returns Your returns on equities come in one of two forms. at the start of that year.

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Brian DeChesare

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Your first thoughts reading this article might be, “Wait a minute, why are ‘private equity exit opportunities’ a topic? But despite the hype, people do leave private equity all the time, whether it’s voluntary or forced. Why Leave Private Equity? Private Equity Exit Opportunity #2: Join a Hedge Fund. Good questions.

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Brian DeChesare

APRIL 13, 2022

They all think they can make a fortune buying and selling stocks; in other words, they’re fans of the long/short equity strategy. When the average person thinks of hedge funds, long/short equity is often the first thing that comes to mind. Probably 90% of hedge fund stock pitches use long/short equity or related strategies.

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Brian DeChesare

JANUARY 24, 2024

Let’s start with the elephant in the room: yes, we’ve covered the growth equity case study before, but I’m doing it again because I don’t think the previous examples were great. So, you can think of this example and tutorial as “Growth Equity Case Study: The Final Form.” They over-complicated the financial model (e.g.,

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Brian DeChesare

AUGUST 16, 2023

As with investment banking in Hong Kong , I can summarize private equity in China in one sentence: “If you’re not Chinese, don’t even think about it, and even if you are Chinese, it’s best if you have great connections within the CCP and want to stay in China long-term.” This may change due to factors like the “decoupling” with the U.S.,

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 19, 2022

Starting from the premise that the optimal number of regulations is not zero (and I recognize that there may be those who do not start from that premise), I want to enlist your help as we think through what is the right balance in regulating the private markets, and what those rules should look like. more…).

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Benzinga

MARCH 21, 2024

Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT ) has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority of assets of MotionHall , a Silicon Valley technology start-up. MotionHall serves life sciences with vertical artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. The financial terms of the transaction were not revealed.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 3, 2024

When firms kicked off the on-cycle private equity recruiting process in June this year, before IB Analysts had even started their training , some people were shocked. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, this process used to start ~1 year in advance of PE jobs. interview and hire candidates ~1.5 – 2.0+

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Benzinga

JANUARY 12, 2024

Yesterday, ABB Ltd (OTC: ABBNY ) disclosed the acquisition of Swiss start-up Sevensense for an undisclosed amount. The buyout of Sevensense, a provider of AI-enabled 3D vision navigation technology for robots, is expected to enable speed, accuracy, and autonomy of mobile robots.

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John Jenkins

AUGUST 6, 2024

A recent Nixon Peabody memo provides an overview for emerging companies of the differences between the use of convertible debt and simple agreement for future equity for early stage financings.

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Mckinsey and Company

MARCH 19, 2024

Despite market slowdown and funding woes, some agriculture technology start-ups still retain high value. Here’s how investors can identify and pursue these opportunities in time.

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Brian DeChesare

JULY 31, 2024

If you ever tire of the hype around tech, industrials private equity might be an ideal hiding spot. Morgan’s acquisition of Carnegie Steel in 1901 – was an industrials private equity deal. Table Of Contents Industrials Private Equity Defined What Has Drawn Private Equity Firms to Industrials Companies?

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 4, 2023

We started the year with significant uncertainty about whether the surge in inflation seen in 2022 would persist as well as about whether the economy was headed into a recession. The NASDAQ also gave back gains in the third quarter, but is up 27.27% for the year, but those gaudy numbers obscure a sobering reality.

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With investment banking internship recruiting starting earlier and earlier, you also need to win pre-banking internships earlier. People debate the best options: Search fund internships , private equity internships , boutique bank internships, real estate internships, and even wealth management internships have their pros and cons.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 11, 2024

As you look at my class list in the next section, you will note that each of the classes is built around a story line, with the sessions building up to what is hopefully a climax. to the transactional (how much of my business should I give up for a capital infusion?)

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Sell-Side Definition: In the finance industry, “buy-side firms” raise money from institutions and wealthy individuals and invest on their behalf, profiting from management fees, performance fees, or both; “sell-side firms” earn money from commissions charged to facilitate deals and to sell, market, and trade equity, debt, and other securities.

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Musings on Markets

JANUARY 30, 2023

If 2022 was an unsettling year for equities, as I noted in my second data post, it was an even more tumultuous year for the bond market. As a result of these rate changes, the term structure which started the year as upward sloping, ended the year downward sloping, giving rise to the usual talk of an imminent recession.

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Brian DeChesare

DECEMBER 4, 2024

No matter the economic climate, you can always bet on sports fans to show up for their favorite teams. But this started changing in the 2010s and early 2020s as team values skyrocketed and billionaires, sovereign wealth funds , and sports private equity firms all jumped into the sector. What is Sports Investment Banking?

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Musings on Markets

JULY 17, 2023

At the start of the year, the consensus of market experts was that this would be a difficult year for markets, given the macro worries about inflation and an impending recession, and adding in the fear of the Fed raising rates to this mix made bullishness a rare commodity on Wall Street. That pessimism was not restricted to market outlooks.

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Lighter Capital

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Equity dilution is simply the result of supply and demand. To grow the business, founders and co-founders often sell an ownership stake in the company, or equity , to investors to raise capital; many will also issue equity to hire and compensate early team members. Think of equity shares as pieces of a pie.

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Viking Mergers

AUGUST 19, 2022

Back in 2020, however, I shared my opinion that the COVID-19 pandemic was a wake-up call for many Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) who realized being at home wasn’t too bad and that life is too short to work until the very end. As soon as your ability to run the company declines, the business starts to decline with it.

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Musings on Markets

MAY 6, 2022

In most time periods, those recalibrations and resets tend to be small and in both directions, resulting in the ups and downs that pass for normal volatility. Clearly, we are not in one of those time periods, as markets approach bipolar territory, with big moves up and down.

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IVSC

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

He leads a team of quants, focusing on the valuations of complex securities and instruments issued by start-up companies to venture capital and private equity investors. He has provided advice and expertise in various areas, including valuations of businesses, financial instruments, and intellectual properties.

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Appraisers Blog

JUNE 27, 2023

He’s getting $800+ per, plus various expenses and follow up. We ran up to somewhere west of Loveland a few times last week, caught a fish, took in fresh air, that was nice. Thinking of something in insurance though, just not sure yet. Reminds me what it was like pre amc days.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Private equity firms seek operational opportunities. While the NFL is opening up to private equity investment, there are stringent rules in the NBA and the NHL around owning minority stakes. GF: So, where else in the sports ecosystem can private equity firms find opportunity? Or, do you look for private equity investment?

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Viking Mergers

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

For example, he started a small coffee business that exclusively sold coffee from the countries where they worked in South America. I actually thought about starting something like a consulting business or a publishing company,” Ken recalls. I had just started learning about acquisition entrepreneurship, and I thought, ‘Wait.

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In this post, I will start with a working definition of riskt that we can get some degree of agreement about, and then look at multiple measures of risk, both at the company and country level. In closing, I will talk about some of the more dangerous delusions that undercut good risk taking. What is risk?

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Brian DeChesare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. Equity Research vs. Fixed Income Research Common Myths What Do You Do as a Fixed Income Research Analyst or Associate? Each role has common analytical elements, but the specifics and deliverables differ (e.g.,

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Brian DeChesare

JUNE 19, 2024

I noticed the other day that we had articles about how to start a private equity firm and how to start a hedge fund but nothing on venture capital. But just like superhero movies, career advice works best when it’s a trilogy – so we’ll complete this trilogy with how to start a venture capital firm.

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Appraisers Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Better financial education of the public at large starts with the basic concept of cash equivalent payment over the amortized term. The secret to the Jones’es up the street, the ones with all the fun toys, bbq’ing regularly, and flex cash; They financed half the principal debt amount compared to the next guy.

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