By Eric Peghini in collaboration with peers It has come to the attention of the SSHB editors that while the Bocconi Students PE association (BSPE) has established itself as a source of buy-side content (a sore but welcome thumb given our host’s title), there still remains bewilderment surrounding the university that
Month: September 2019
Coffee Break with Vincenzo Gazzaneo from Oxy Capital
Infra Funds!
By Eric Peghini Initially posted on the BSPEC blog On a cold, gusty Saturday afternoon, “Nation’s infrastructure is collapsing, MAGA!” This was not a poorly executed haiku but rather a tweet attributable to the one and only infallible D.J. Trump and, never mind your opinion of the POTUS, a rallying cry that the population
Commercial Banking in Hong Kong
Leveraged Finance Debt Capital Markets in Asia
Written by a bulge bracket investment banker in Asia Capital Markets in Asia Pacific Asia is the largest population center in the world and has the fastest growing economies. China and India need no introduction, but Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand – and a little later Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar) also
Introduction to Debt Capacity
Precedent Transaction Comparables
In a previous series, we covered trading comparables in depth. Trading comparables (or simply “comps”) are one of the three core valuation methodologies that investment bankers use. In this post, we cover precedent transaction comparables (also called “precedents” or “transaction comps”) – which are also important, especially for an M&A context. Spreading
Distressed Debt Overview
Introduction to Distressed Debt Similar to all other aspects of finance and investing, distressed debt investing means higher risk and higher reward. Distressed debt is in itself a very unique asset class that falls under the jurisdiction of alternative asset managers – primarily hedge funds. Although debt markets are very large
