Canada M&A Roundup Q3 2019

Mergers & Acquisitions

by Vlad - October 29, 2019October 29, 20190

Canadian M&A market remained robust in Q3, even though experiencing a slight decline after an outstanding second quarter. During the third quarter, 665 transactions valued at $61.2B were announced. While the Canadian buyers were less active during the quarter, the foreign companies continue to be interested in Canadian businesses. During

Dividend Recapitalization: A second helping of debt

Private Equity

by Bocconi Students PE Club - October 25, 20190

By Charly Delanoë and Tom Cordes Initially posted on the BSPEC blog Let’s talk about personal finance. When asked to give a good reason to take on a personal loan, what’s the first thought that comes to mind? If you followed any 101 business class or if you balance your own check

Junior Investment Banker Guide to Office Politics

Human Resources

by Matt - October 17, 2019October 17, 20190

Office Politics in Investment Banking A few years back when Facebook was popular and their share price was soaring, they printed money off of ads for clickbait articles from Elite Daily or some other toxic millennial digital rag. One of the common tropes was 120% of people who work in finance

Should I Take an Unpaid Investment Banking Internship?

by Matt - October 16, 2019October 16, 20190

Unpaid Investment Banking Internships I get asked this often but have never taken the time to address it. Other variants of this question include an unpaid private equity internship (usually a search fund) or corporate finance internship. Unless you are working for your father’s massive company, I think in 95% of cases,

US M&A Roundup Q3 2019

Mergers & Acquisitions

by Vlad - October 15, 2019October 16, 20190

As the tensions between US and China escalated sharply during the third quarter, the global mergers and acquisitions market, as well as the US activity, plunged to reflect the higher risk and greater uncertainty about the potential dealmaking. Deal making in the US fell 40% from last year to $289

List of Middle Market Investment Banks

Lists

by Matt - October 15, 2019February 27, 20200

Here is a list of mid-market investment banks that provide investment banking/corporate finance advisory services to medium capitalization (pertaining to enterprise value) companies. Although there are no hard and fast rules for what is defined as middle market, these companies will generally be too small to be banked by the

Differences Between Working in Investment Banking in Hong Kong and Singapore

Hong Kong

by Karl - October 14, 2019October 14, 20190

From an investment banker that has worked in London, Hong Kong and Singapore New York and London are so yesterday – Hong Kong and Singapore now service the world’s most relevant emerging markets in China and Southeast Asia (and India to some extent). What does it mean to work as an

Q3 2019 EMEA PE-backed M&A Roundup

Mergers & Acquisitions

by Bocconi Students PE Club - October 8, 2019January 10, 20200

By Margarida Veloso Initially posted on the BSPEC blog Global M&A deal value decreased 37% vs Q2 2019 and 24% YOY Global M&A deal value amounted to USD905bn during Q3 2019. This figure represents a 37% decrease in comparison to the previous quarter and a 24% decline YOY. The YTD value of M&A