By Adem Abbas and Fabrizio Coccaro Initially posted on the BSPEC blog Introduction Last year, many investors began noticing Latin America for their large private equity and venture capital deals, often backed by the SoftBank group. With 20% of Softbank’s fund portfolio invested into countries such as Mexico and Colombia due to their
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Canada M&A Roundup Q4 2019
Contribution from Kirill Sukhikh, Edited by Vlad Kovalenko Canadian M&A market in the fourth quarter has seen a decrease in aggregate deal value by $8.8B comparing to the previous quarter. 677 deals valued at $69.8B were announced over the third quarter. Consumer Cyclical sector accounted for $17.27B, Financial sector for $16.24B
Interview with: Big 5 Commercial Banking New Grad – Interest Rates, Hours
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Who Makes the Most Money – Investment Banking, Private Equity or Hedge Funds?
Most finance undergrads have heard that the ideal path is going from a top-tier investment bank to a top-tier private equity firm, making partner and then making tens of millions of dollars. Actually, undergrads only think about the first two steps – Morgan Stanley M&A à Blackstone Private Equity They do
Management Buy-Ins (MBIs)
By Peter Maxwell and Štěpán Koníř Initially posted on the BSPEC blog MBI, MBO and BIMBO…No, this is not a fairy tale about the big-eared elephant and his siblings. In fact, these terms refer to a class of acquisitions with an active role of management; management buy-in (MBI), management buyout (MBO) and
Canada M&A Roundup Q3 2019
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
Should I Take an Unpaid Investment Banking Internship?
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,
