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Other People’s Money – OPM – is a crucial component for improved performance. Using debt to acquire productive assets allows for higher returns on your invested capital. The logic is sound and the returns on invested capital are, indeed, attractive. Similarly, publicly-traded…
In general, Mergers and Acquisitions have been an excellent tool to gain scale rapidly, buy market shares or simply increase geographical reach, just to name a few of the advantages. M&A has also been a proven way to acquire talent, technology, new…
Being involved in a merger or acquisition is almost always complex, irrespective of where you stand. Be it from the buyer, seller, intermediary or adviser’s standpoint, there are many aspects to a transaction and incentives that are oftentimes very different based on…
What to do when your home market is saturated, stagnating or, worse, declining? In many cases, the answer is: Enter other markets. Traditionally, North American and Western European companies have favored developed markets in their international expansion. After all, many will tell you,…
Leverage Buy-Out, or LBO, is often depicted as a nifty way to package large transactions with limited risks. In the recent years, we see, hear and read about it all the time in the news with multi billion Dollar deals involving an…