Ebix did not use any investment bankers for the transaction.
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Deutsche Bank has recently seen some senior investment bankers leave.
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This book shows you part of what investment bankers do.
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So, as investment bankers, we will always sniff out deals.
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"Neuroscientists know about these biases, but investment bankers probably don't."
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Investment bankers have had an awful start to the year.
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Investment bankers floated a valuation of $120 billion last fall.
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Investment bankers, smelling huge fees, will be applauding as well.
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Investment bankers were already on track to have a banner year.
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Yesterday's Merger Monday could net investment bankers $330 million in fees.
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Investment bankers expect this trend to continue this year as well.
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Slack didn't have investment bankers to pitch its shares to institutional investors.
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They were in their mid-30s, probably investment bankers—kind of arrogant.
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Additionally, Credit Suisse has continued to hire investment bankers from other firms.
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We found the 40 most powerful investment bankers at Bank of America.
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It has more investment bankers in the United States than in Canada.
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That was just a way to put all the investment bankers off.
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Investment bankers helped the banks bring in big gains during the quarter.
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Bobby Van's is a watering hole for investment bankers and stock traders.
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Most buy-out giants were founded in recent decades by investment bankers.
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"I think it'll be a busy year for investment bankers," Bhattacharyya said.
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Earlier this year, investment bankers in Brazil expected a revival of offerings.
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Launched in 2011 by former investment bankers Al Preston and Ian Griffiths, WhoCanFixMyCar.
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Investment bankers say there are no obvious strategic buyers for the African business.
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Worse, the advice one gets from investment bankers tends to be quite vague.
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Investment bankers had floated Enel, Iberdrola or Engie as potential buyers of Innogy.
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Patriot's lawyer and investment bankers scrambled to keep the deal from falling apart.
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Gawker and its investment bankers are now soliciting acquisition offers for the company.
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This shit is for investment bankers who need to pretend they have personalities.
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"I think it&aposll be a busy year for investment bankers," Bhattacharyya said.
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It has been valued by investment bankers at as much as $120 billion.
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What Uber and Lyft's investment bankers got right Danny Crichton argues that Uber and Lyft are proof that investment bankers actually are pretty smart in their advice about the pubic markets, and founders should be cautious about ignoring their words.
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The PAC's top donors ranged from investment bankers to attorneys across the United States.
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And purebred investment bankers advising on mergers may have their best moments behind them.
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Its lawyers, accountants and investment bankers are able easily to connect foreigners with mainlanders.
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Investment bankers get juicy fees when firms merge, so encourage them to do so.
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Wall Street has seen many investment bankers switch firms following the spring bonus season.
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In so doing, they will be cutting out the middlemen — primarily the investment bankers.
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She has schooled investment bankers in how to use root concealer to cover gray.
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Finance and InvestingWe found the 40 most powerful investment bankers at Bank of America.
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The marshals went first, followed by investment bankers, accountants, public-relations people, and secretaries.
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There was no reason for the investment bankers who interviewed me to hire me.
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Most investment bankers fail within two years, but Matt's father rose to the top.
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The president's other top economic officials are either investment bankers or private equity managers.
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Investment bankers and other IPO advisers are likely to welcome the potential new business.
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Investment bankers say they are seeing better opportunities and greater appetite from foreign investors.
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Investment bankers previously told Uber it could be worth as much as $503 billion.
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I have spent a huge part of the last two years with investment bankers.
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Investment bankers by their very nature are the most risk-averse people on the planet.
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If companies like Overbond have their way, investment bankers may also see their ranks diminished.
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It's really a financial services play, because it's the investment bankers that are getting rich.
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Investment bankers had previously told Uber it could be worth as much as $120 billion.
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The senior team is made up of a number of former investment bankers and technologists.
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The investment bankers who specialize in distressed companies and recession tactics are in high demand.
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This exuberance could be a sign of the M&A markets overheating, investment bankers said.
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Well-respected and impactful managing directors may trump investment bankers with more seniority and responsibility.
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Investment bankers have estimated that Uber could be worth $120 billion on the public market.
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The conventional view is that these investment bankers and money managers enter politics to influence policy.
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He said that over the past seven weeks the bank had let go 600 investment bankers.
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So far, almost 20163 staff have been hired, with investment bankers making up the biggest group.
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It has also served investment bankers and stock investors well, while undermining our government tax base.
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Note that I'm talking about real Wall Street types, real investment bankers and mutual fund managers.
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My friends and I became the doctors, investment bankers, and lawyers that we trained to be.
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The company has been around for three years, and comprises ex-investment bankers and serial entrepreneurs.
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Overall, the deal-making could exceed $200 billion: it is the stuff of investment bankers' dreams.
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Startup CEOs heading to the public markets have a love/hate relationship with their investment bankers.
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That means Frankfurt and Paris are battling over a shrinking pool of front line investment bankers.
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"[N]obody at Success worked as hard as big-firm lawyers or investment bankers," Moskowitz asserts.
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THE NEIGHBORHOOD I don't really mind that N.Y.U. kids and investment bankers have taken it over.
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"I don't like when investment bankers talk about EBITDA, which I call bulls--- earnings," he said.
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"I don't like when investment bankers talk about EBITDA, which I call bulls--- earnings," Charlie Munger said.
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European banks, who have most of their investment bankers based in London, were worst hit on aggregate.
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Mr. Thiam has repeatedly said that he would not backtrack as a result of investment bankers' complaints.
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Weak economic growth has made it more difficult for European investment bankers to make money at home.
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EXCLUSIVE-BANK OF AMERICA PLANS TO HIRE INVESTMENT BANKERS MAINLY IN HONG KONG, SINGAPORE AND AUSTRALIA - SOURCES
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Unlike Mr. Buffett, Mr. Son, 60, relies on an army of hundreds of investment bankers and analysts.
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Neither did accountants, lawyers, consultants, investment bankers, credit agencies and others who were entrusted with due diligence.
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Investment bankers also point to private equity or infrastructure funds that might be interested in the asset.
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Some of the locals made wine, but they had the air of farmers, not investment bankers. Mrs.
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Settling for mediocrity is hardly going to help it hang on to or recruit top-notch investment bankers.
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For private-equity firms and hedge funds, that means courting pension-fund managers, investment bankers and the like.
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Investment bankers say the prospect of securing approval for any tie-up from Carige's bickering shareholders is daunting.
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UBS, which is battling weak earnings with cost-cutting, says it wants to give investment bankers more flexibility.
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Our in-house venture capital expert Danny Crichton wrote down some thoughts on Uber and Lyft's investment bankers.
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HSBC has said it might shift 1,000 investment bankers from London to Paris, if Britain goes it alone.
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Fast forward to 2010 and General Motors' (GM) conventional IPO run by a syndicate of established investment bankers.
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Same goes for Activism Insights, a tool meant to help investment bankers predict the influence of activist investors.
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I recently went through a divorce, however, and my former husband and I are writers, not investment bankers.
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Barclays has lost five investment bankers from its Americas financial-institutions group over the past month or so.
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Those activities benefit the shareholder class, investment bankers and select industries that supply labor-saving, productivity-enhancing systems.
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Last year, a group of five Credit Suisse technology investment bankers left for Jefferies, prompting a court case.
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When the investment bankers are popular, then you know the life has been sucked out of the party.
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But Mr. Solomon, who has a strong track record managing Goldman's investment bankers, seems alert to the issue.
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JPMorgan's most senior investment bankers gather every Friday morning for a leadership meeting at the bank's Manhattan headquarters.
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Lawyers and investment bankers say that the shadow of Cfius is looming larger than ever over corporate transactions.
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That result looks more favorable after Goldman's investment bankers posted a 15% decline in fees for the quarter.
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Yet it still gets to connect clients with investment bankers worldwide, and lend to companies pursuing mega-deals.
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In an IPO, the company engages investment bankers to help promote, price and sell the stock to investors.
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Goldman Sachs recently trimmed a few dozen investment bankers from its total staff of nearly 37,000, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
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Investment bankers spend a lot of their time trying to persuade their corporate clients to bid for other companies.
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Earlier this year, Reuters reported that Zscaler had been meeting with investment bankers to prepare for a possible offering.
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Dropbox may have been helped along by its investment bankers (they have a way of making these things pop).
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So you might have expected investment bankers to cheer the return of volatility in the final months of 2018.
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The ranking is based lead investment bankers who orchestrated the largest M&A deals in North America in 2019.
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The bank said it was freezing salaries for its investment bankers until at least the middle of the year.
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Uber has been told by its investment bankers that it could be valued at as much as $22016 billion.
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Uber has been told by its investment bankers that it could be valued at as much as $120 billion.
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IPOs books generally need to be covered at least twice for any listing to be successful, investment bankers say.
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Citigroup said that it plans to hire more senior investment bankers, especially in the health care and tech sectors.
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Instead, this proposal would primarily benefit hedge fund managers, lobbyists, lawyers and investment bankers — not Main Street small businesses.
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So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.
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Other structural changes SPAC managers are making include improved disclosure over potential acquisitions, investment bankers and SPAC participants said.
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Investment bankers said several factors needed to be taken into account when assessing the best structure for any combination.
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Uber has been told by its investment bankers that it could be valued at as much as $2343 billion.
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It would probably fetch more than $40 billion in a sale, according to two investment bankers familiar with its finances.
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For senior traders and investment bankers, most compensation comes in the form of year-end bonuses paid early next year.
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In May, The Wall Street Journal reported that the company hired investment bankers to move forward with the IPO process.
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Trump could go further by amending the draconian rules that completely and utterly separate investment bankers from equity research analysts.
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The bank laid off a number of investment bankers on Tuesday because of weak markets, one of the sources said.
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Cuts are expected to impact fixed income and equities trading positions as well as investment bankers, according to the source.
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The company had selected investment bankers, had support of primary backer (Helios Investment Partners), and things seemed ready to go.
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Nomura is boosting its ranks of investment bankers in New York, including senior hires in the tech and finance sectors.
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Morgan Stanley has denied a report that it is already working on moving 2,000 investment bankers to Dublin and Frankfurt.
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Even here, Chropuvka has a secret weapon: Where possible, the group shares data licenses with Goldman's traders and investment bankers.
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He regularly flies to the Hamptons by helicopter to attend to a coterie of hedge fund managers and investment bankers.
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Of those managing partners and partners, 29 are men, five are women, and 15 are former investment bankers or traders.
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Genoa-based Carige has been dogged by governance issues which investment bankers say complicates its search for a merger partner.
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Investment bankers Evercore Group and Goldman Sachs & Co, which represented Anadarko, each earned a $20.29 million fee, the filing showed.
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It is rare for a father and son to work as investment bankers on opposite sides of the same deal.
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Playboy insists this will not be the sort of place where investment bankers hurl bottles of liquor at each other.
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Investment bankers said they were especially wary of mergers that affected big consumer brands or could lead to job losses.
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Finding backers willing to bet on expanding that kind of idea is precisely what investment bankers are supposed to do.
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The hiring ambitions of two of the top European banks may signal another fiercely competitive year for senior investment bankers.
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The Swiss bank will move around 250 investment bankers in the first wave of job shifts, Bloomberg reported in February.
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LONDON — The office buildings around Liverpool Street in Shoreditch here are generally known for housing investment bankers and financial professionals.
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There is the ever-present risk of succumbing to "Wall Streeters bearing fees," as he describes deal-hungry investment bankers.
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Even as some see cultural appropriation in cafeteria sushi, it is surely preferable to sushi meant for only investment bankers.
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Another time, he said, a man invited him to a conference for investment bankers, who wanted poems for their wives.
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In the old days, they were investment bankers who knew a little bit, but not that much about operating companies.
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Investment bankers advising companies on mergers and acquisitions have been cheering on the buoyant markets as good for their business.
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Perhaps the adage "no one ever got fired for hiring Goldman" applies to investment bankers as well as their corporate clients.
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Back-office personnel would move to Warsaw and investment bankers who advise French and Spanish companies would move to those countries.
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Two investment bankers who run bond sales for European borrowers pointed out Deutsche still manages a lot of business across Europe.
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We also believe Congress should tax deal flow payments that go to investment bankers, lawyers, and associated actors like expert witnesses.
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In the first are jobs that Mr Graeber tends to think are socially worthless, such as corporate lawyers or investment bankers.
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The company's investment bankers at Moelis & Co have been focused on an outright sale, rather than a debt restructuring or bankruptcy.
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Mannkind is working with investment bankers on options, the people said, asking not to be identified because the deliberations are confidential.
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Investment bankers and retail bankers freely acknowledge a skill set deficit in managing banks in a world of negative deposit rates.
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It's interesting, you having been one of the few woman investment bankers, you had up close how they think about it.
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First, take the vaunted "IPO window" that is discussed ad nauseam among investment bankers and the financial press which covers them.
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The bank's share price has almost halved this year, prompting speculation that it could lose some of its top investment bankers.
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The investment bankers and lawyers invented inversions and stoked the craze, killing it in their zeal to sell this lucrative concept.
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Goldman Sachs isn't likely to pick up and move to Miami because its investment bankers want to lower their tax bill.
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Goldman Sachs's investment bankers and corporate banking divisions have long managed relationships with some of the world's largest companies, Solomon said.
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AOC was set up by former investment bankers Florian Schuhbauer and Klaus Roehrig and Stada marked the firm's first major investment.
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Other investment bankers said shareholders' decisions to offload some of their shareholdings could also in part be linked to market conditions.
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Mr. Kindler and James Woolery became senior investment bankers, though Mr. Woolery briefly returned to practicing law at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
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To help build the $100 billion Vision Fund, Misra and Son brought together a bevy of top investment bankers and technologists.
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Atwood trains his lens on as many retired lesbians and rural gay laborers as he does investment bankers and creative professionals.
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Investment bankers last year reckoned the company could fetch a valuation of as much as $120 billion in the public markets.
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Collectors who buy art because they like it are being crowded out by wealthy investment bankers who buy art to invest.
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Investment bankers' nerves are about to be tested further, as more transformative deals make their way through the regulatory review process.
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Investment bankers are now undoubtedly circling the company, hoping to win a mandate for the sale of at least some businesses.
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As Wall Street investment bankers can make up to $30,000 in signing bonuses, management consulting bonus ranges from $3,000 to $30,000.
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The company's investment bankers at Moelis & Co. have been focused on an outright sale, rather than a debt restructuring or bankruptcy.
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Plus, many of the people I interviewed with understood what I was going through because they too had been investment bankers.
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Several investment bankers said that Vedanta's management did have a strong reputation for turning around businesses and keeping costs under control.
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HSBC CEO Stuart Gulliver has said it would probably move about 1,000 investment bankers to Paris if Britain quit the EU. That would affect a fifth of its 5,000 investment bankers in London - mainly those involved in operations linked to Mifid II, the EU market rules covering a range of products from derivatives trading to bond pricing.
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"I don't like when investment bankers talk about EBITDA, which I call bulls--- earnings," Munger said at a recent company shareholders meeting.
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Investment bankers, lawyers and exchanges, such as the New York Stock Exchange and the London Stock Exchange, bemoan this trend, of course.
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The company would probably fetch more than $40 billion in a sale, according to two investment bankers familiar with the company's finances.
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Being joined up works: about half of wealth-management inflows in Asia, Mr Thiam says, come from referrals by local investment bankers.
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Investment bankers expect it to resume rapidly around late March or early April and stretch for longer should market conditions prove favorable.
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Uber's valuation is almost a third less than the valuation of up to $120 billion that its investment bankers predicted last year.
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CSRC also said it would severely punish negligent auditors and investment bankers and actively support compensation claims made by victims of crime.
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A potential deal structure that Time Inc and its investment bankers have been considering is a Reverse Morris Trust, the people said.
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UBS told investment bankers this month to take at least two hours of "personal time", aiming to give them more flexible hours.
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Macquarie is also looking to hire investment bankers with strong sector expertise who have carved out niches for themselves, the people said.
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Kognetics, a software company that uses artificial intelligence to assist investment bankers, says about a quarter of their routine can be automated.
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They also point out that Goldman has thousands of investment bankers around the globe, compared with just 75 programmers inside the division.
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He was appointed to the helm of Deutsche in 2015 to overhaul the bank after years of rapid growth under investment bankers.
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The spin-off will give Prudential Asia unit access to more capital which could be used for acquisitions, investment bankers have said.
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Two former investment bankers — Nizar al-Bassam, formerly of Deutsche Bank, and Dalinc Ariburnu, previously of Goldman Sachs — will also be involved.
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Exchanges have also promoted new methods of bringing firms' public, directly listing on an exchange and cutting out the investment bankers' fees.
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As least based on Spotify, it doesn't put investment bankers out of a job, nor does it dramatically reduce total transactions costs.
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The two have worked together for the past 15 years, ever since they joined Apollo as investment bankers from Salomon Smith Barney.
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We enlisted former executives, industry experts, investment bankers, lawyers, accountants and consultants in an exhaustive diligence effort spanning AT&T's numerous businesses.
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Vestager's reappointment will also grab the attention of chief executives, investment bankers and politicians who favour mergers to create European industrial champions.
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One question for investment bankers is whether beaten-down investors would be prepared to buy into a rush of regional capital deals.
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By the tight-lipped standards of Goldman Sachs, the phone call from one of the firm's most senior investment bankers was explosive.
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Some investment bankers in the city however believe the markets are set to regain some confidence in the second quarter of 2020.
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UBS brought aboard 20 senior-level investment bankers in the US in 2019, according to the reports from recruiting and consulting firms.
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Last year was one of the most competitive and vigorous hiring markets in the US for senior investment bankers in recent memory.
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When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Mark Thompson, one of the firm's investment bankers, who is now twenty-nine, moved into venture capital.
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Another person familiar with the matter said all employees paid above union-negotiated collective wage agreements, such as investment bankers, would be affected.
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Activist hedge funds, which have gained influence in recent years, can act as catalysts in companies deciding to go private, investment bankers say.
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Other mooted candidates, such as Mr Schenck, Jean-Pierre Mustier of UniCredit and Christian Meissner of Bank of America, are experienced investment bankers.
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Investment bankers and industry analysts have noted there is an unprecedented amount of private capital trying to invest in the U.S. renewables sector.
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Investment bankers see the opening up of China's financial sector, from asset management to insurance businesses, providing attractive acquisition opportunities for overseas firms.
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Wiseman has raised the global profile of CPPIB, turning it into one of the first ports of call for investment bankers selling assets.
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The business, led by Chief Executive Hamilton Matthews, is well known by investment bankers for its debt-focused news and data platform Debtwire.
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The bank already set up hot desking for investment bankers in Hong Kong, said David Arena, JPMorgan's head of global corporate real estate.
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Attempts to "reform" or privatize Medicare will leave millions of senior citizens to the tender mercies of Wall Street investment bankers like Mnuchin.
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Investment bankers, who help companies raise debt and equity, may experience the biggest drop, with their bonuses falling 10 percent to 20 percent.
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It's true that some compensation ratios were very low last quarter – JPMorgan only set aside a fifth of revenue for its investment bankers.
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Investment bankers expected corporate bosses to put the brakes on acquisitions amid uncertainty over how Trump would navigate global trade policy and taxation.
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The bank has hired Henrik Aslaksen, who was one of Deutsche Bank's top investment bankers for a decade until he left last year.
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One caveat is that Kering and LVMH are unlikely to want to take on brands that need too much fixing, investment bankers said.
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If we are going to weigh every relationship on the scales of power, well, then investment bankers won't be allowed to date baristas.
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That has weighed on Uber's offering, with its predicted valuation steadily decreasing: • In the fall, investment bankers floated a valuation of $1203 billion.
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Chesapeake has enlisted restructuring lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis and investment bankers at Rothschild & Co. who specialize in reworking debt, the four sources said.
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The president's plan would give tax breaks to investment bankers and hedge fund managers at the expense of real Main Street business owners.
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The Bellamy's deal should have little issue receiving regulatory approval given the manufacturer is not classified as critical infrastructure, investment bankers told Reuters.
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If the priority turns out to be deals, that would be good news for investment bankers who generate fees from large advisory assignments.
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While large conglomerates in developed markets have hired investment bankers to beef up in-house operations, they do still also use external advisers.
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It's well-known that high-profile investment bankers have offshore accounts so that their colleagues can't figure out how much they received in bonuses.
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Most of the bidders were either cash-rich Asian companies or private funds keen to tap into Asia's increasing consumer demand, investment bankers said.
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HSBC has hired senior investment bankers from JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs in recent months after losing a number of high-profile dealmakers this year.
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J.P. Morgan will move a group of analysts — the title given the most junior of investment bankers — there to better support the region's dealmakers.
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Transform Holdco, the retailer's parent, has hired investment bankers to advise on the potential asset sales, people familiar with the situation told the Journal.
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But whether a bid exists now, or will exist in future, is as much a question for regulators as for philosophers and investment bankers.
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The titans of technology have amassed great wealth but, like investment bankers before them, they have discovered that this does not bring them popularity.
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Hillary Clinton's events are hosted by a wide array of people, including art traders, marketing executives, diplomats, investment bankers, movie producers and tech executives.
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Offices were also status symbols, and sitting at a communal table instead of one's own glass office is a big shift for investment bankers.
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If, as investment bankers like to say, the best deals are the ones clients don't make, then corporate chieftains have been on a roll.
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All I know is that a horde of lawyers and investment bankers must be getting well paid right now to figure it all out.
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The Saudi Aramco initial public offering (IPO) has been a mirage in the desert for an army of investment bankers, lawyers and other advisers.
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Earlier this year, Deutsche Bank fired 300 U.S.-based investment bankers as part of a broader overhaul of the global unit, Reuters previously reported.
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Deutsche Bank is preparing to unveil a sweeping, multi-billion euro overhaul within days that would see the axe fall heaviest on investment bankers.
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Not only are the fees that they receive lower, but the investment bankers can no longer promise underpriced shares to their hedge fund clients.
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The saving grace for investment bankers interesting in making money is that merger and acquisition activity is booming, which generates a lot of fees.
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On Wednesday Reuters reported that Aramco had called off the deal – which had yet to officially launch – and disbanded its army of investment bankers.
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Carige has long been dogged by governance issues and investment bankers say concerns about potential shareholder conflicts complicate its search for a merger partner.
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Chesapeake has enlisted restructuring lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and investment bankers at Rothschild & Co who specialize in reworking debt, the four sources said.
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That provision set something of a goal for Uber, which the investment bankers who were hired to take the company public also gravitated toward.
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Orcel had spent his career with competitive investment bankers and demanding corporate executives, rather than the humdrum business of handling payments and mortgage applications.
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For investment bankers who tend to view their compensation as an absolute measure of their value relative to peers, sparring over pay is common.
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"We're seeing a high number of talented investment bankers moving on to corporate life but big banks remain committed to Italy," he told Reuters.
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As college graduates flock to be private equity analysts or investment bankers, few of the next generation workforce remember the darker days of 2008.
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Spotify is to offer its securities directly to the public through a listing on a public exchange without the underwriting aid of investment bankers.
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Until Mr. Sewing, an expert in risk management, took over last year, Deutsche Bank was led by investment bankers reluctant to make drastic changes.
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The White House announced today it would release up to 303 people's financial disclosures, including former Goldman Sachs executives, Trump family members, and investment bankers.
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Investment bankers specialising in financial institutions expect little interest for HSH except from some Chinese groups, some of which have signaled interest in the past.
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If lawyers or investment bankers in New York could earn four times their wage picking strawberries in Guadalajara, there would be no shortage of recruits.
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Investment bankers at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, HSBC, and JP Morgan split up to $700 million in fees for the Bayer–Monsanto merger.
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He is in New York this week, mainly for meetings with business leaders and investment bankers, after visits to Washington and the U.S. West Coast.
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In 2015, Goldman reduced the number of its investment bankers in Singapore — a hub for Southeast Asia — to about 35 from 50, several sources said.
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The German bank also lost two of its top healthcare investment bankers, Jason Haas and David Levin, who also left for rival Barclays in March.
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However, there is a growing sense inside the bank and among investment bankers hoping to work on the listing that the IPO will be cancelled.
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The news wire also said, citing sources, that Morgan Stanley laid off a higher number of senior investment bankers last week than in years past.
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In an interview set to sadden investment bankers across the globe, Kalanick told CNBC he does not expect his company to go public anytime soon.
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The penalties—some $260 billion and counting for big American and European banks—have fallen mainly on commercial and investment bankers who have fiddled markets.
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It has thousands of investment bankers in London, for example, but the city's future as Europe's financial capital has been thrown into doubt by Brexit.
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Industry figures and investment bankers have forecast more dealmaking after legislative changes - passed last month - withdrew heightened regulatory requirements on small and mid-sized lenders.
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So I moved to LA, which is in some sense similar, but instead of investment bankers there are writers, and it's also where I'm from.
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He courted investment bankers, foundation executives, real estate moguls and private philanthropists, and reached out to N.Y.U. alumni across the country and around the world.
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The deal was Amazon's first valued at more than $1 billion, making it a coveted trophy for investment bankers in search of fees and glory.
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Nomura has poached investment bankers from global investment banks as well as boutiques such as Jefferies and Houlihan Lokey since the beginning of this year.
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Greg Fleming, who has made a name as one of Wall Street's most well-known investment bankers and executives, will be leading a new firm.
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UBS told investment bankers this month to take at least two hours of "personal time" during the week, aiming to give them more flexible hours.
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They garnish snow-white cocktails with smoldering cinnamon sticks for off-the-clock diplomats, while I.T. consultants and investment bankers sip Nikka and Yamazaki whisky.
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Some of those investment bankers, Fannie Mae leaders, and other financial manipulators should have gone to jail after the financial crisis; they didn't, and Sen.
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UBS has about 550 investment bankers in Asia including China - where it has a significant presence onshore via a joint venture operation - another source said.
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Lutz Johanning, the author of the study, said Frankfurt was more likely, in any event, to attract risk and regulatory experts rather than investment bankers.
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Goldman Sachs, the top M&A bank globally and in North America in 2019, dominated the list, with seven investment bankers in the top 20.
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CHARLIE MUNGER (PRE-RECORDED): (IN PROGRESS) --see, I don't like it when investment bankers talk about EBITDA, w-- which I re-- translate as (BEEP) earnings.
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This on the heels of the investment bankers who had already exchanged their partnership interests in their companies for a public offering of their stock.
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But after nearly four decades at the firm and its precursors, Simon, one the most senior female investment bankers on Wall Street, retired in August.
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"Marketplace" companies often trade at a higher premium than traditional retailers, because they don't carry the risk being stuck with unwanted product, investment bankers say.
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In 2015 Goldman reduced the number of its investment bankers in Singapore - a hub for Southeast Asia - to about 35 from 50, several sources said.
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We're talking about investment bankers who may have some experience in financing tech, but we're not exactly talking about the most forward-looking leaders here.
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Perez noted with irony that the very funds managers and investment bankers who describe doom and gloom scenarios are constantly offering financial services to the government.
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Other senior Barclays investment bankers include Joe McGrath and Richard Taylor, co-heads of banking; Joe Corcoran, head of markets; and Andy Jones, head of Asia.
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Investment bankers and traders bore the brunt of the drop as Morgan Stanley slashed the division's compensation pool 17 percent even as revenue rose 6.4 percent.
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It assigns a valuation to Uber of $82.4 billion, significantly less than the valuation of up to $120 billion that its investment bankers predicted last year.
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Unlike rivals that have big retail operations stocked with bank tellers and other salaried branch workers, Goldman's workforce is more weighted with investment bankers and traders.
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Investment bankers responsible for bond issuance still operate largely by feel, calling up asset managers to get a sense of demand, rather than by crunching numbers.
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Most European investment bankers received smaller bonuses in 2016 as their employers cut costs and sought to meet shareholder demands for a greater share of profits.
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The potential is clearly there for SPVs to create a liquidity crisis that could hurt the full spectrum of stakeholders, from startup employees to investment bankers.
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The Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender previously launched a middle-market business in 2007, with more than 30 investment bankers who focused on mergers and acquisitions.
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Investment bankers who know him describe Baumann as introverted and indifferent to executive trappings, but said this should not be confused with a lack of determination.
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The bank has long been dogged by governance issues and investment bankers say concerns over potential shareholder conflicts are complicating its search for a merger partner.
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The top 10 Wall Street firms have cut the number of client-facing investment bankers they employ by 15% since 2010, according to research firm Coalition.
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Also joining Jefferies from BB&T as senior vice president is Karl Kirkeby, along with five junior logistics and transportation-focused investment bankers, the sources added.
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These accreditors are paid fees — up to several million dollars — by the colleges seeking approval, much as ratings agencies are paid by investment bankers selling bonds.
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Last month, BHP appointed four investment bankers to help it sell or a spin off the division, which has proved a disastrous investment for the company.
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Carey, 27, is a senior associate in the division that recruits investment bankers at Korn Ferry International, the New York executive employment search and placement firm.
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The investment bankers sit in a different division than those who make investments for Goldman, and the WeWork investment was made by the merchant banking division.
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Such considerations can go against the very grain of investment bankers, who are conditioned to work on as many deals as possible, not to cap activity.
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The ExamWorks case, however, threatens to open up the floodgates, exposing lawyers to the same type of conflict liability and heat that investment bankers are under.
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Cannabis companies are merging, raising money, and going public seemingly every day, creating a red-hot market for investment bankers who make money off these deals.
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My clients have always been millionaire-types, "masters of the universe," CEOs, owners of hedge funds, entrepreneurs, partners in law firms, investment bankers, and entertainment executives.
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Blue Apron, the biggest U.S. meal kit company, has hired investment bankers to lead its 2017 initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
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As the coronavirus crisis wreaks destruction across the US economy, business leaders are dialing up the investment bankers who specialize in recession tactics, defaults, and distress.
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FRANKFURT, July 9 (Reuters) - The investment bank Jefferies has hired two investment bankers to expand its presence in Germany, according to a memo seen by Reuters.
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The weekend decision to pump full bore is analogous to what OPEC did around 2014, said Brock Hudson, managing director at investment bankers Carl Marks Advisors.
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His appointment could suggest a shift in emphasis away from a strategy of seeking profit growth through the investment bank and giving investment bankers greater influence.
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Those same investment bankers, within weeks, literally, are turning around and saying, 'We have client demand, hence we're going to start up some operations on it.
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That has pushed corporate management teams across Europe to ask investment bankers for help preparing defenses in case an activist crops up on their shareholder register.
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In an already red-hot hiring market for US investment bankers in 2019, competitors have poached a slew of senior bankers from the beleaguered German lender.
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Another person familiar with the matter said that all employees would be affected who are paid above union-negotiated collective wage agreements, such as investment bankers.
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Kapoor's work is perfectly suited for investment bankers' colosseum-sized living rooms, made in the same poor taste as yellow Lamborghinis and other gaudy "luxury" baubles.
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Germany's financial center, which wooed financial firms in London with a "Fall in love with Frankfurt" video, is welcoming investment bankers from Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
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Overall dozens of investment bankers have quit, including senior managers at the bank's top performing European private equity team, the sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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"The world of finance relies on professional expertise: stock traders and investment bankers live off their wits," said Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute.
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Ten months ago, the euro zone's largest lender by market capitalisation announced with fanfare its decision to name one of Europe's best-known investment bankers as CEO.
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The new strategy puts it in direct competition with J.P. Morgan, which decided in 2012 to place investment bankers in regional offices to pitch commercial banking clients.
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Occidental is working with investment bankers on an auction for the pipeline assets, added the sources, who asked not to be identified because the matter is confidential.
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Snapchat had been talking to investment bankers about an IPO towards the end of this year or early in 2017, technology website The Information reported last month.
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Ten months ago, the euro zone's largest lender by market capitalization announced with fanfare its decision to name one of Europe's best-known investment bankers as CEO.
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The investment bankers heading up M&A advisory teams for the likes of Italy and France all tend to live in London rather than Rome or Paris.
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Now in our early 20s, most of us have not yet made any trade-offs between family and career; we're doctors, investment bankers and lawyers in training.
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His appointment could signal a shift in emphasis away from Deutsche Bank's strategy of seeking profit growth through the investment bank and giving investment bankers greater influence.
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Anbang's case could make corporate boards in the United States and Europe more skeptical about the ability and motives of Chinese buyers, investment bankers and lawyers said.
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Earlier this year, Reuters reported that the company had hired investment bankers at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup to lead its IPO slated for this fall.
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Making the job harder is that the traders and investment bankers at these large banks are highly compensated, have big egos and are generally resistant to change.
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LONDON, April 20 (IFR) - Credit Suisse has hired Henrik Aslaksen, who was one of Deutsche Bank's top investment bankers for a decade until he left last year.
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The top 10 Wall Street firms have cut the number of client-facing investment bankers they employ by 15 percent since 2010, according to research firm Coalition.
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Even as volatility became the dominant way to measure and manage risk, a series of academics and investment bankers started laying the groundwork for trading volatility itself.
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Cen was involved in the China Forestry IPO as one of the senior UBS investment bankers on the deal, another person with knowledge of the matter said.
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When Dr. Ibarra studied consultants and investment bankers, she found that high self-monitors were more likely than their authentic peers to experiment with different leadership styles.
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The sector has been expected to consolidate for several months, and mergers could be on the horizon, venture capitalists, investment bankers and analysts said in recent weeks.
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"Pick your favorite three investment bankers, they would tell you that we read everything," Wentworth said on a conference call with investors, when asked about possible deals.
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"It's pretty tough sledding out there," said Matthew Prince, CEO of CloudFlare, who has rejected weekly solicitations from investment bankers encouraging him to take his company public.
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A formal launch date has not been announced but investment bankers have said they expect it to start operating either late this month or in early July.
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But in recent weeks the company and its investment bankers struggled to persuade money managers to buy shares, even at a valuation as low as $15 billion.
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As teenagers with an inordinate amount of AI knowledge, Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra proved to be quite useful to large businesses, investment bankers and other financiers.
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Around 7,000 investment bankers are moving into the eight-floor, purpose-built European headquarters of Goldman Sachs, which has taken 18 years and £1bn ($1.25bn) to develop.
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Neither the prosecutors nor the Wiesbaden court identified the other five defendants by name, but the prosecutors said they included investment bankers from New Zealand and Britain.
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It was his third large fundraiser of the day after spending time in Midtown with a group of investment bankers in the Redbury Hotel earlier on Wednesday.
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According to investment bankers a merger between Fiat and Peugout could generate yearly synergies worth between 2 and 5 billion euros, L'Economia/Corriere della Sera said on Monday.
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By my count, based on a series of conversations with investment bankers, there are probably at least another dozen deals of meaningful size being negotiated in the pipeline.
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Gorman, whose investment bankers are expected to underwrite Uber's IPO this year, said the shutdown not only impacts the IPO market, but also the momentum in the economy.
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We're akin to being an investment bank, though frankly there are a lot of people on the ground in China who are formal investment bankers [working with us].
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Yahoo has steadfastly refused to provide any updates on its deliberations since its board hired investment bankers and other advisers to round up prospective buyers four months ago.
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Its investment bankers have heard corporate treasurers at big U.S. multinational corporations complain that other banks' systems are clunky and outdated, one person familiar with Goldman's plans said.
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Shares of Morgan Stanley edged higher in after-hours trade following a Reuters report, citing sources, that the bank cut bonuses for investment bankers by about 15 percent.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Most European investment bankers received smaller bonuses in 20173 as their employers cut costs and sought to meet shareholder demands for a greater share of profits.
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Investment bankers said the company's failure to buy Boyd showed CIC would not have been able to do the deal without the structure offered by the Goldman fund.
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This has prompted speculation that Sabadell may sell the British bank, although investment bankers say it would be unlikely to do so until the business is performing better.
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NZX set up a team to generate more IPOs from local businesses by promoting the exchange to "influencers" such as accountants and investment bankers who worked with companies.
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Instead, the category is limited to services typically performed by investment bankers and financial advisers, and the guidance says financial services doesn't include taking deposits and making loans.
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Many Spanish companies are ripe for listings, investment bankers say, especially as Spain's economy extends its recovery from a deep crisis and consumer spending continues to pick up.
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The staggering price increases seen in the crypto-market have led to multiple warnings from central bankers, investment bankers and other investors that it has reached bubble territory.
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Those massive health insurance mergers may be dead, but the lawyers and investment bankers who worked feverishly to get the deals approved still walked away with big paychecks.
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Shares indicated 2.2 pct higher Credit Suisse has hired Henrik Aslaksen, who was one of Deutsche Bank's top investment bankers for a decade until he left last year.
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So he'll presumably be bagging more than that for his first gig, scheduled to take place on Monday in front of an audience of investment bankers in Manhattan.
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RIPPLE EFFECT The weekend decision to pump full bore is analogous to what OPEC did around 2014, said Brock Hudson, managing director at investment bankers Carl Marks Advisors.
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The debt transaction is one of the few deals keeping investment bankers busy in the Gulf as the global coronavirus outbreak slams the brakes on capital markets activity.
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Investment bankers also contributed to the results: They posted $1.54 billion in revenue, a 5% increase from a year earlier and $120 million more than analysts had expected.
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Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers.
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And so it's not investment bankers or people like me who are former lawyers really running these companies, overseeing them; they are people that have real operational experience.
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As scores of investment bankers profit from the fee bonanza offered by Chinese companies hunting for deals in the United States, one group is conspicuously absent - Chinese banks.
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The investment bankers are paid a commission for their work that is based on the size of the IPO—usually seven percent for a traditional technology company IPO.
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Her biography says she was a hedge fund VP before starting her Manhattan escort service, which she claimed catered to high-end clients, from investment bankers to celebrities.
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According to Brett Rose, head of the Shanghai branch of recruitment firm Robert Walters, around 21 percent of investment bankers on the mainland are expecting no bonus at all.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Blue Apron, the biggest U.S. meal kit company, has hired investment bankers to lead its 2017 initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Separately, newspaper Mint reported that Jet Airways had approached investment bankers again to help sell a stake in the carrier, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Having announced one strategic overhaul, he had a second crack in March, speeding up the disposal of investment bankers and ditching risky products he at first planned to keep.
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Mr. Trump's longtime investment bankers at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette had backed out of a deal with Mr. Trump to invest in the company shortly before the bankruptcy was filed.
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We should end the coddling of rich investment bankers, sugar farmers and others who use the political process to line their pockets with money from the rest of us.
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For months, WeWork's co-founder Adam Neumann was being courted by Wall Street's top investment bankers in anticipation of one of this year's most high-profile initial public offerings.
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Goldman previously acknowledged its burn rate has been higher than rivals because its workforce has included relatively more investment bankers and traders and fewer bank tellers and salaried workers.
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However, several infrastructure fund managers and investment bankers told Reuters they are not aware of any partnership proposals even though a decision is due in less than three months.
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Playboy Enterprises, the parent company of the iconic men's magazine, has retained investment bankers and has begun exploring a sale, people with knowledge of the discussions said on Thursday.
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"It is not clear why investment bankers should get high bonuses when their business is in the red," Hendrik Leber, a fund manager at Deutsche Bank shareholder Acatis, said.
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Despite Deutsche's woes, its franchise was attracting interest as London's standing as a financial center is threatened by Britain's looming exit from the European Union, investment bankers told WirtschaftsWoche.
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The pitch for such offerings: eliminating the hassle of dealing with venture capitalists and investment bankers, while also avoiding the thicket of regulations that accompany traditional initial public offerings.
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Top executives, including Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein, have told investors they are looking to increase trading revenue by leveraging the relationships investment bankers already have with corporate clients.
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Separately, newspaper Mint reported that Jet Airways has approached investment bankers again to help sell a stake in the carrier, citing two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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The executives have explained how Goldman is trying to get investment bankers and traders to generate more revenue by working more closely together, sources familiar with the conversations said.
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The Blodget settlement was part of a much broader one across Wall Street that exposed the conflicts of interest between research analysts and investment bankers during the dot-com boom.
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Deutsche Bank's cull has already begun, one source said, with around 20183 U.S. based investment bankers fired on Wednesday and another 100 due to leave Germany's largest bank by Friday.
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Slack opted to pursue a direct listing, which means it didn't have investment bankers to pitch its shares to institutional investors or go on a roadshow to drum up hype.
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UniCredit has stepped up preparations for a potential bid for Germany's Commerzbank by drafting in investment bankers including a former top German official, three people familiar with the matter said.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill has turned to high-profile investment bankers and lawyers to help defend against activist investor William Ackman, according to two people familiar with the matter on Thursday.
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New York (CNN)Investment bankers and oil painters walked up marble stairs, gazed at portraits of Nancy Reagan and George Washington, and were ushered to ballroom seats beneath crystal chandeliers.
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Traditionally, companies conducting initial public offerings ask investment bankers to play matchmaker, set an inaugural price, and buy shares to stabilize the stock if needed on the stock's opening day.
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Its investment bankers also handled more stock offerings than any rivals during the period, which in turn helped boost revenue from equity trading, where Goldman is also nabbing market share.
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While he says he is in no rush to do deals, does not need a big acquisition now, and is not talking much with investment bankers, opportunities may be coming.
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Uber and Lyft though are proof though that investment bankers actually are pretty smart in their advice about the pubic markets, and founders should be cautious about ignoring their words.
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The announcement follows news that Deutsche Bank fired 300 U.S.-based investment bankers on Wednesday, and plans to fire a further 100 by the end of this week, Reuters reported.
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Managing-director departuresThere have been a number of high-profile departures from Barclays recently, including five investment bankers from the Americas financial-institutions group (FIG), Business Insider reported in August.
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Germany's biggest bank is cutting a team of 10 investment bankers in the British capital focused on deals in emerging markets, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Trump on Monday said he doubts Bloomberg will run, and sought to diminish his wealth and company, which among other services offers computer terminals and market data for investment bankers.
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Year-end compensation will down 5 to 15 percent for investment bankers that advise on mergers and acquisitions, according to the most widely followed report concerning compensation on Wall Street.
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SmileDirectClub's IPO was such a disaster that the CEO called up JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon to ask what went wrongIt has been a tough couple of weeks for JPMorgan's investment bankers.
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The S.E.C. also might be looking at the substance of Mr. Katzman's complaints, including his accusation that investment bankers asked him for confidential information about a client he was representing.
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Barclays has hatched plans to hire double-digit numbers of senior investment bankers this year as it looks to further expand its share of the US investment-banking fee pool.
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Last week, Adam Neumann, We's co-founder, resigned as chief executive after the company and its investment bankers struggled to persuade money managers on Wall Street to buy its shares.
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Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group has also kept investment bankers busy with takeovers of U.S. telecom operator Sprint and Arm, the British chipmaker, not to mention investments in cash-burning startups.
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Nasdaq is cracking down on initial public offerings (IPOs) of small Chinese companies by tightening restrictions and slowing down their approval, according to regulatory filings, corporate executives and investment bankers.
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Until Mr. Sewing, an expert in risk management, took over in 2018, Deutsche Bank was led by investment bankers reluctant to make drastic changes to the company's aggressive moneymaking strategies.
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An initial public offering, by contrast, creates new shares that raise money in a process that takes more time and costs the company more in fees paid to investment bankers.
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Mr. Dimon, who has led JPMorgan since 2005, insists that he is "[just] part of the army that supports" the investment bankers who he describes as the bank's "Navy Seals".
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But at least three banks - Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit and Morgan Stanley - opted out, highlighting doubts among investment bankers over whether Monte dei Paschi can muster enough investor support for its plan.
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Investment bankers advise companies to price IPOs about 903 to 30 percent beneath their predicted first day performance, sometimes characterized as a "discount" to encourage new investors to buy the stock.
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A mile away, next to Spitalfields Market, investment bankers are supping flat whites in Costa on the ground floor of RBS's offices, oblivious to the enormous plague burial site below them.
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Commentary: It's time for liberals to fight back EU receives 27 proposals from member states to host London-based agencies after Brexit Britain could lose 40,000 investment bankers after Brexit - report
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According to one of the two sources, El-Erian, one of the most influential economists and investors in the world, took part in discussions with investment bankers, regarding Aramco's bond offering.
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FRANKFURT, May 25 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank is cutting a team of 10 investment bankers in London focused on deals in emerging markets, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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Since Britain's vote to leave the European Union, some headhunters on Wall Street have reported getting more calls from investment bankers at European groups asking about jobs at their U.S rivals.
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In 2004, Michael Brill, 51, an entrepreneur and wine lover, founded Crushpad to provide expertise and winemaking facilities to clients — lawyers, investment bankers, tech entrepreneurs — who wanted to make their own.
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If Goldman gets the shift right, it could mark a third great age for the 203-year- old firm, following long spells when investment bankers, then traders, were in the ascendant.
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Goldman has about 15 investment bankers in Madrid, the sources said, and may see more Spanish nationals, currently employed in junior roles, shifting to the local office in the coming months.
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The investment bankers and traders in that unit received 34 cents in compensation for every dollar in revenue they brought into the bank, down from 35 cents-per-dollar in 2016.
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SoftBank valued the company at $47 billion in January, and investment bankers pitched the company on the idea that it could go public at a valuation of $60 billion or more.
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Credit Suisse Group AG has brought on three new senior investment bankers as it continues to build out its healthcare investment banking division, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
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That is catching up to the amount of money raised by initial public offerings, where companies hire investment bankers to help sell shares to investors and trade on the public markets.
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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - U.S. bank Citi is moving several senior investment bankers to client focused roles as part of a reshuffle detailed in an internal staff memo seen by Reuters.
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One study cited by Bloomberg has found that there are more private equity managers who make more than $100 million annually than investment bankers, top financial executives, and professional athletes combined.
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Conte's college roommate, Sam Yam, tells me that amid a sea of fellow students intent on becoming tech impresarios and investment bankers, Conte stood out for his devotion to oddball creativity.
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Because a company is not selling stock in a direct listing, the trading price after listing is purely market driven and is not "set" by the company and its investment bankers.
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Uber I.P.O.: The ride-hailing giant told some investors that a public stock sale could give the company a $100 billion valuation — below a $120 billion that investment bankers had floated.
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This year's low turn out in IPOs was mainly due to a lack of readiness rather than a lack of investor appetite at a time of rising share prices, investment bankers said.
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Investment bankers at UBS can now take at least two hours of "personal time" a week in the latest attempt by a bank to retain staff with a better work-life balance.
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Uber reported on Friday it was aiming for a valuation of between $80.5 billion and $91.5 billion, less than the $120 billion investment bankers told the company last year it could fetch.
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Germany has seen relatively few IPOs this year, but investment bankers have put that down to a dearth of companies at that stage of development rather than a lack of investor appetite.
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Uber reported on Friday it was aiming for a valuation of between $93 billion and $91.5 billion, less than the $120 billion investment bankers told the company last year it could fetch.
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Uber's valuation in the IPO is almost a third less than its investment bankers predicted last year but still above its most recent valuation of $76 billion in the private fundraising market.
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Title: Senior managing director, chairman of global advisory No. of deals: 2Value of deals: $27.8 billionEduardo Mestre is one of the longest-serving and most influential investment bankers at boutique standout Evercore.
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Nearly two-thirds of 1,500 respondents - including investment bankers, lawyers and people who work for private equity firms - said a Trump presidency would create uncertainty that would deter executives from launching bids.
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In 1980, New York was also just coming out of bankruptcy, but the recovery was astonishingly uneven, and as investment bankers cheered their millions, countless New Yorkers were fighting homelessness and gentrification.
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Uber, which is also loss-making and whose investment bankers have said could be valued at as much as $120 billion, is planning to launch its IPO in April, sources have said.
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The fund is not undertaking a formal sale process, but has sounded out investment bankers about whether they have clients that would be interested in a deal, two of the sources said.
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Deutsche Bank has already dismissed 24.8 investment bankers over the past seven weeks and will cut spending by 235 billion euros ($210 billion) by the end of 26 in its investment bank.
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Indicated 1.9 percent higher The German lender's management board is bracing for a wave of resignations from London-based investment bankers and traders unhappy with lower bonus payouts, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung said.
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A new report released Thursday by the Social Mobility Commission, which was set up by the U.K. government in 2010, looked at the unwritten expectations of investment bankers in the United Kingdom.
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You might think investment bankers would be skeptical — or even downright critical — of direct listings, the process Spotify and Slack used to go public instead of holding a traditional initial public offering.
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Merck's board changed its retirement age, meaning Kenneth Frazier will stay on as C.E.O. UBS's investment bankers reportedly fear for their futures once their boss, Andrea Orcel, leaves to lead Banco Santander.
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Mr. Musk offered no basis for the $420 offering price, which would ordinarily be arrived at after reams of analysis by investment bankers and negotiations with a committee of independent Tesla directors.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian mergers-and-acquisitions activity edged lower in the first half of 2018, weighed by trade uncertainty, investment bankers and lawyers said, in contrast to a surge in global dealmaking.
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"Like most of these tie-ups, this is an agreement that investment bankers might love but internet users don't need," said Matt Wood, a policy director at consumer interest group Free Press.
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He described his younger self in the Wired profile as a "professional dater" who had set up a systemic approach to dating modeled after the criteria investment bankers used to analyze deals.
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And investment bankers expect the French M&A sector to remain resilient, helped by last year's election of President Emmanuel Macron, himself a former Rothschild banker, who has vowed to strengthen the economy.
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Pier 21 is also taking meetings with investment bankers who have debt restructuring expertise as it weighs options, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the company's deliberations are confidential.
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Investment bankers say even if Sabadell sells parts of its non-core banking businesses, such as car leasing, asset management or real estate assets, this might not be enough to address capital concerns.
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Malacalza, however, criticised the handling of the recapitalisation under Fiorentino and investment bankers have voiced concerns about Malacalza's influence over the bank, saying it is complicating the lender's search for a merger partner.
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Pier 1 is also taking meetings with investment bankers who have debt restructuring expertise as it weighs options, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the company's deliberations are confidential.
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There is no question the younger Mr. Hughes was working hard at Moelis, a firm that specializes in advising companies about strategic decisions and employs 24 people, about 216 of them investment bankers.
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NEW YORK — Just a few months ago, the WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann was being courted by Wall Street's top investment bankers in anticipation of one of this year's highest-profile initial public offerings.
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FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - UniCredit has stepped up preparations for a potential bid for Germany's Commerzbank by drafting in investment bankers including a former top German official, three people familiar with the matter said.
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Chauhan declined to comment on BSE's valuation or the likely size of the IPO, but investment bankers involved in the process said the exchange could be valued at $750 million to $1 billion.
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We talked to a number of experts about the bank's hiring practices for investment bankers, including the head of human resources Dane Holmes, Wall Street recruiters, executive coaches, and current and former employees.
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Conze was skeptical of the synergies that could be generated from combining broadcast infrastructure - a view shared by investment bankers who also see a lack of upside in combining disparate franchises and languages.
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In private conversations, two prominent Brazilian investment bankers in the past month cut their informal estimates for IPOs this year, citing more volatile global markets and uncertainty about the country's October presidential election.
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Kering is expected to pursue a dual track initial public offering-auction to spin off Puma next year, not before, the Business of Fashion website reported, citing investment bankers in Paris and London.
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"MS is the only bank to have played a lead role on the two largest postponed HK IPOs in past decade," said the email, sent to investment bankers in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan.
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But like the investment bankers who kept shoveling toxic assets into the system even as the thin logic that had once rationalized them vanished, all the incentives pushed toward maintaining the existing fiction.
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The kingdom has valued the company at $2 trillion, a number that investment bankers say would be realistic only if oil were worth $100 a barrel, nearly $40 more than the current price.
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While the four planned divestments are small pieces of these large companies - Halliburton has the smallest market capitalization at $20.9 billion - analysts and investment bankers believe larger asset sales are likely in 2020.
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Investopedia, a website dedicated to simplifying complex financial information that serves millions of users, reports that the best financial modeling courses for investment bankers, for example, range anywhere from $100 to nearly $2,000.
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The tax rate is a vital piece in a puzzle the Saudis need to work out with investment bankers to determine the value of Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest producer of crude oil.
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Investment bankers, usually first in line to orchestrate and help finance cross-border deals, have largely remained on the sidelines, wary of damage to their reputations and fee income if deals blow up.
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Investment bankers say the value can be determined only after the Saudi government outlines the protections that minority investors will enjoy, the taxes they will have to pay and Saudi Aramco's cost structure.
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A transportation colossus, Uber was privately valued at more than $70 billion last year, and proposals from investment bankers suggest that it could be worth as much as $8653 billion after going public.
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The bank is expected to move about 50 investment bankers to Germany, 50 to Madrid, and up to 150 more to other European Union hubs including Luxembourg in the event of a hard Brexit.
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Bogle said the upshot of allowing commercial banks to own investment banks is that underwriters — the investment bankers doing deals from IPOs to high-leverage acquisitions — can shift risk onto their parent companies' shareholders.
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CBS — CBS is talking to investment bankers about how to give chairman and CEO Les Moonves more control in the event controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone dies or is declared mentally incompetent, according to Reuters.
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Investment bankers predict that offerings of well-tested government assets and cheap money will lure conservative-minded long-term investors into deals, even as a sputtering Chinese economy hits demand for Australia's natural resources.
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He presided not only over India's first nuclear test and a mini-war with Pakistan in Kashmir, but also over growth rates that began exciting investment bankers, after many years of disappointing economic performance.
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Its investment bankers shopped the company for about two years, reaching out to dozens of potential buyers and opening DFC's books to several serious bidders even as the company kept revising its projections downward.
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FRANKFURT, April 26 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank fired 300 U.S.-based investment bankers on Wednesday as part of a broader overhaul of the global unit, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.
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Last week Reuters reported the bank laid off several senior investment bankers and cut bonuses by about 15 percent because of a decline in revenue stemming from dealmaking and capital raising across Wall Street.
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For more click Jefferies Group LLC hired five senior investment bankers from Credit Suisse on Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter, in a major move to bulk up its technology banking practice.
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Observers from investment bankers to management consultants say Africa will reap a "demographic dividend" in the future as its bulging youth population drives innovation and consumer markets, as happened in Asia in decades past.
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AbbVie released a statement this week saying it will "act responsibly with respect to drug pricing" even though executives recently told investment bankers they may go back to large, multiple price hikes per year.
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Deutsche Bank named retail specialist Christian Sewing as its new chief executive officer with immediate effect on Sunday, signalling a possible retreat from almost three decades of empowering investment bankers at Germany's largest lender.
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"The investment bankers have been knocking on our door forever," PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi told analysts Thursday when asked again this morning about the possibility of splitting its snack business from its drink business.
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Long-brewing is the friction between exchanges and the investment bankers, securities firms, market makers and asset managers that encourage companies to list on these exchanges and then trade their listed securities through them.
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Many of the gyms that cater to fashion models and investment bankers can feel like bastions of blowouts and entitlement, while public parks and recreation centers still welcome urban dwellers across every imaginable spectrum.
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He was responding to a question about federal criminal charges filed hours earlier against two former Goldman investment bankers over their role in a Malaysian government fund from which about $4 billion went missing.
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With so much in-house dealmaking expertise, investment bankers who have been trying to cultivate Son's lieutenants are fretting over whether they will be hired to work on any of the Vision Fund's deals.
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The region could remain anemic for deals for some time, investment bankers said, with the exception of some companies having to merge to build national champions, such as German lenders Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank.
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They grumbled that the investment bankers were just jealous that the private bankers had figured out how to structure a loan with Trump in a way that seemed virtually risk-free for Deutsche Bank.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Uncertainty caused by the expansion of U.S. sanctions on Russia last year has pushed companies' share prices lower, prompting investment bankers to suggest their clients should delist from local and international exchanges.
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"The investment bankers have been knocking on our door forever," outgoing PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi told analysts earlier this year when peppered about the possibility of splitting its snack business from its drink business.
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People like you and me go into journalism so we don't have to spend huge amounts of time with investment bankers, but ... Yep, and you've been a business journalist for a very long time.
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Investment bankers and economists expect the finance minister, Arun Jaitley, to set an ambitious target for the year beginning on April 1 following strong sales in the current fiscal year to the end of March.
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" Rowe disputes the notion that a Bachelor's degree is the only or surest path to success: After all, he points out, "the world is full of very happy septic-tank cleaners and miserable investment bankers.
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Investment bankers attribute the slowdown to weak biotech stock prices, which have traded down as much as 30 percent after Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton vowed to act against pharmaceutical "price gouging" late last year.
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Last Thursday, Reuters reported that Morgan Stanley laid off several senior investment bankers and cut bonuses by about 15 percent because of a decline in revenue stemming from dealmaking and capital-raising across Wall Street.
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TORONTO, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Rising equity markets and clarity on U.S. tax reform could set the stage for an acceleration in Canadian mergers and acquisitions this year after a slowdown in 20173, investment bankers said.
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Gregory said FirstGroup had appointed investment bankers to launched a formal sale process, but declined to place a price tag on Greyhound, which reported revenue of 645 million pounds in the year ended March 31.
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Admit that while it was sometimes a grind to speak with (generally) boring people -- from investment bankers to clinical pathologists -- it was also exhilarating to find ways to seem fresh and new week after week.
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Traditionally, the financial sponsors team was seen internally as training ground for many investment bankers, who learned to work on deals before they cultivated relationships with the corporate world's movers and shakers, bank insiders said.
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Instead, companies are able to bypass the exorbitant fees associated with initial public offerings, like completing a roadshow and hiring investment bankers, and begin trading by selling existing shares held by investors, insiders and employees.
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Back-office personnel would move to Warsaw and investment bankers who advise French and Spanish companies would move to those countries, Handelsblatt reported, while trading staff who develop new products would move to New York.
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It is planning to seek a valuation between $90 billion and $100 billion, short of the $120 billion investment bankers previously told the company it could be worth in an IPO, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
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The firm has been on a hiring blitz for senior investment bankers this year, and several more have signed on to join the firm in recent weeks, according to internal memos seen by Business Insider.
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Reuters reported this week that UniCredit had stepped up preparations for a potential bid for Commerzbank by drafting in investment bankers including a former top German official, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Johnson Associates, a compensation consulting firm, projected in August that incentive pay for investment bankers could fall 5 percent to 25 percent this year, while for traders, it could drop 5 percent to 15 percent.
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All of us in service businesses — investment bankers, consultants, lawyers and the like — have a story about a colleague who decided he or she was wasted as a mere agent and should be a principal.
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Some 39.2 million shares in the company, based in San Francisco, were sold Thursday for $21 apiece, higher than the range of $18 to $20 a share that the company's investment bankers had recently envisioned.
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BOSTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc has turned to high-profile investment bankers and lawyers to help defend against activist investor William Ackman, according to two people familiar with the matter on Thursday.
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As he builds up the Vision Fund, Son has hired a roster of investment bankers, including Alex Clavel, a longtime telecommunications banker at Morgan Stanley, and technology banker Ervin Tu of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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LeEco's Cheng said he has built a team of 45-50 people, mostly former Wall Street investment bankers, adding that an in-house team is cost-effective and gives companies better control in deal-making.
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New York's Financial District used to be a ghost town when the sun went down — a no-man's land for anything more interesting than a Starbucks to keep the investment bankers going through the night.
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FIS is working with investment bankers on an auction of the public sector and education division, which may attract the interest of other companies in the sector and private equity firms, the people said this week.
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The business pipeline is promising for investment bankers this year, with the planned privatisation of the state shipping company Sovcomflot and the rumoured IPO of En+ Group, a holding company for Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska's asset.
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In fact, the sharp decline in stocks this month has investment bankers feverishly working to help companies file earlier in 2019 on the risk that markets get even less accommodating later in the year, Nason said.
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Based in a townhouse in London's upmarket Mayfair district, the boutique was founded by investment bankers Sir Simon Robey, Simon Warshaw and Apostolides in 2013 and since then has worked on some of Britain's biggest takeovers.
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Mr Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, and Mr Cohn, the chief economic adviser, are former investment bankers and members of a White House faction led by Mr Kushner, the president's son-in-law, known as the globalists.
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China's voracious appetite for overseas acquisitions has propelled Asia to the forefront of global deal-making for the first time, with investment bankers hoping Chinese buyers will continue to support an otherwise slowing M&A market.
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NEW YORK/HOUSTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) - One of Houlihan Lokey's most senior energy investment bankers is departing the boutique advisory firm to join an oil and gas producer, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
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GE is working with investment bankers to find ways to shed its insurance business, which has caused it to book hefty charges while sparking shareholder lawsuits and an investigation by U.S. regulators, Reuters reported in May.
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Investment bankers making the switch include Goldman Sachs' co-head of Italy Francesco Pascuzzi, who also co-heads the global power and infrastructure team, and is looking to move early next year, the sources told Reuters.
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S. deals in the tech, media and entertainment space have dried up over the last six months, according to a studio executive with close ties to investment bankers and private equity dealmakers involved in these transactions.
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Indeed, a few years ago he dropped into the offices of Goldman Sachs just to tell them to keep their chin up, in a widely reported public display of affection for stock traders and investment bankers.
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Many of the investment bankers who had hoped for fat mandates worry that the founder-shareholders who dominate India's business scene (and its debt) are keener to talk about break-ups than actually preside over them.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Anti-trust concerns are preventing corporations from pursuing mergers more than other broad regulatory or economic issues, several senior investment bankers said during a panel on Tuesday at the Milken Institute's Global Conference.
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At the same time, a motley crew of academics and investment bankers have turned volatility itself into something that can be sliced and diced, bought and sold, just like any bond, stock or barrel of oil.
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Investment bankers have said it could be worth as much as $120 billion in an IPO, which would be one of the largest on record and would likely sap most of investors' appetite for ride hailing.
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Although Spotify successfully broke free of its reins last April and entered the public arena unescorted, I expect most unicorns will still choose to pay the fat underwriting fees to be paraded around by investment bankers.
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Uber: The ride-hailing giant told some investors that its stock sale might value it at up to $100 billion, people briefed on the matter said — below a $120 billion valuation that investment bankers had floated.
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Some local companies are likely to tap cheap financing due to the low interest rates to do acquisitions and more transactions could get announced in the fourth quarter of the year, said Sydney-based investment bankers.
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Two British former investment bankers are on trial in Germany for their role in orchestrating an equity trading scheme known as "cum-ex" between 2006 and 2011, which pocketed hundreds of millions of dollars from taxpayers.
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Led by co-founding partners Elie Wurtman — a former general partner at Benchmark Capital Israel — Todd Kesselman and Gina LaVersa — former investment bankers — PICO operates offices in Tel Aviv and New York, in addition to Jerusalem.
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Though the park started as an oasis of sorts for blue-collar workers, today it&aposs not uncommon to see hedge-fund managers, CEOs, and investment bankers alike buying and selling trailers worth over $1 million.
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After decades in which Wall Street masters of the universe were lionized in the media and popular culture, star investment bankers — rich, usually white men in nice suits — just don't match the popular image of criminals.
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One of the executives, Tim Leissner, who was one of Goldman's top investment bankers in Asia, has pleaded guilty in a federal criminal investigation of the fraud and has been ordered to forfeit about $44 million.
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The valuation sought is less than the $120 billion valuation that investment bankers told Uber last year it could fetch, and closer to the $76 billion valuation it attained in its last private fundraising round last year.
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The valuation sought is less than the $224.3 billion valuation that investment bankers told Uber last year it could fetch, and closer to the $76 billion valuation it attained in its last private fundraising round last year.
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The valuation sought is less than the $21 billion valuation that investment bankers told Uber last year it could fetch, and closer to the $224.3 billion valuation it attained in its last private fundraising round last year.
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"I may have discussed this with investment bankers but today I have no desire to sell Neoen and I have not discussed this with the state nor with Engie," he was quoted as saying by Les Echos.
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JPMorgan Chase is tearing down walls and moving its San Francisco investment bankers onto "hot desks," a space-saving layout that has long been a fixture at tech companies, while redesigning offices in Dallas and other cities.
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LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - Britain's smaller companies are hoarding cash and cutting investment, bankers say, a sign of business confidence starting to wobble as the government sets off down the uncertain path of leaving the European Union.
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GE took a $6.2 billion charge in the fourth quarter for re-evaluation of insurance assets, and sources said on Tuesday that the company is working with investment bankers to find ways to shed its insurance business.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Two senior investment bankers specializing in government services, aerospace and defense are departing boutique investment bank Houlihan Lokey Inc for competitor Robert W. Baird, three people familiar with the moves said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department indicted Mozambique's former finance minister, along with eight executives, officials and investment bankers, over their alleged roles in a $2 billion fraud and money laundering scheme, the department said on Thursday.
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SCOR's shares have lost more than 10 percent since late January, when Covea dropped its plan amid an acrimonious fight in which SCOR sued Covea's top management as well as Covea's investment bankers for breach of trust.
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Traders and investment bankers attributed the weak performance to a lack of clarity in India about this new product, an entity that invests in rent-yielding assets and distributes most of their income to shareholders as dividends.
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AIG, the largest commercial insurer in the United States and Canada, is working with investment bankers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc to unload the assets, said the sources, who were not authorized to discuss the negotiations publicly.
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Echoing the historian Lily Geismer, Frank argues that the Democratic Party — once "the Party of the People" — now caters to the interests of a "professional-managerial class" consisting of lawyers, doctors, professors, scientists, programmers, even investment bankers.
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Amid the data dump SolarCity sent to its investment bankers was a double-counting of how much debt the company reckoned it might have in the future, according to merger documents submitted to securities regulators on Wednesday.
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The bank, Malaysia's second largest by assets, was reported to have let go of 10 investment bankers based in Hong Kong due to strong competition, leaving only one to oversee the transition, capital markets publication IFR reported.
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In a rarefied Manhattan club where annual membership costs as much as $303,000, Victoria's Secret models leaned against leather furniture and chatted about runway struts in Shanghai while sharp-suited investment bankers sipped flutes of Dom Pérignon.
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He was responding to a question about federal criminal charges filed hours earlier against two former Goldman investment bankers over their role in helping to finance a Malaysian government fund from which about $4 billion went missing.
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"A few venture capital and investment bankers have taken me out to lunch or coffee to ask for a secret location, a place where their 18-year-old nephew or son or daughter should move," he said.
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Investment bankers have flagged possible divestments to ease antitrust concerns in the United States and Brazil for Linde and in Germany for Praxair, making it difficult to achieve the cost cutting targets with a smaller revenue base.
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He added that ICOs backed by real assets would allow companies to circumvent much of the Wall Street middleman apparatuses, such as the army of investment bankers and venture capitalists, and sell directly to would-be stakeholders.
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Other Chinese tech companies to scoop up Asia investment bankers in recent months include internet search firm Baidu Inc and search and security business Qihoo 360 Technology Co, a Reuters survey of professional networking service LinkedIn shows.
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These days, she dresses employees at Facebook, Uber, Google, and Apple, as well as venture capitalists and investment bankers; she also dresses newly minted tech guys looking to "go from boys to men," as she describes it.
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Chinese overseas M&A investments slumped by more than a third to $140 billion this year from a record last year, data from Thomson Reuters showed, and investment bankers expect the dealmaking environment to remain cautious in 2018.
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More and more highly valued startups could think that they, too, do not need Wall Street's usual fare in order to become a public company, and investment bankers could have a tougher time pitching their services to CEOs.
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The merger's cancellation also represents a blow to the investment bankers who advised the companies, as their fee, typically in the range of a percentage point of a deal's value, is largely predicated upon the transaction being completed.
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Reuters had reported in May that GE was working with investment bankers to find ways to shed its insurance business, which has caused it to book hefty charges while sparking shareholder lawsuits and an investigation by U.S. regulators.
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SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Investment bankers are bracing for the start of a landmark legal case about alleged cartel activity in Australia's financial sector, nervous the proceedings could lead to increased scrutiny and tougher measures from regulators worldwide.
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Three investment bankers with experience in the infrastructure sector told Reuters they believed the new body increased the prospect the DUET deal was unlikely to be given the green light from the Australian government in its current form.
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This year's rush of unicorns to the public market is challenging many long-held notions about the stock market, perhaps most notably the idea that companies need pricey investment bankers and other well-paid middlemen to go public.
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NEW YORK, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse Group AG is accusing a group of five investment bankers who left for Jefferies Group LLC in May of stealing confidential information and trying to coax former colleagues to join them.
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Uncertainty caused by the widening of U.S. sanctions against Moscow last year has hit the share price of Russian companies, prompting investment bankers to suggest their clients should delist from local and international exchanges, Reuters reported on Friday.
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Skilled arb funds — typically stuffed with corporate lawyers, antitrust experts and former investment bankers — buy the shares of targets when they think the deal will go through, and short the ones where they think the deal will fizzle.
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A great mystery here is why the experienced investment bankers in senior positions in the Trump administration hold the Budget of the United States to so much lower standards of integrity than they applied in their earlier lives.
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The appointment of Sewing - with a background in retail banking, auditing and risk - along with the resignation of one of Deutsche's top investment bankers, Marcus Schenck, suggests a shift away from the investment bank, analysts and investors say.
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I mean, let's be real: if the group was a bunch of stable investment bankers and lawyers who were polite, respectful, and had zero interest in getting their catchphrase in Webster's Dictionary, well, what fun would that be?
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The Wachovia deal notwithstanding, it is not fond of takeovers, which it believes bring unforeseen problems and employees who will bolt unless rewarded (those dreadful investment bankers again), at a cost that would make its existing staff bitter.
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While investment bankers certainly have knowledge of how real-world financial markets operate, they lack the scholarly understanding of the larger picture of how those markets interact with monetary policy and connect Wall Street to the real economy.
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The number, which is below a $2100 billion valuation that had been floated by investment bankers, highlights the size of the ride-hailing colossus as it prepares to embark on its market debut, the biggest in recent years.
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When the investment bankers' meeting began, Daniel Pinto and Gordon Smith, JPMorgan's co-presidents and the men charged with running the bank in Dimon's absence, updated the assembled crowd on Dimon's health, according to a person who attended.
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Goldman's role in supporting the fund, known as 1 Malaysia Development Berhad, or 1MDB, has brought intense scrutiny from federal prosecutors, who this month unsealed criminal charges against two former Goldman investment bankers and implicated a senior executive.
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We asked how Uber could have been reportedly told by investment bankers that its valuation might be as high as $120 billion in an IPO when, as we now know, public market shareholders deemed it worth far less.
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Until Mr. Sewing, an expert in risk management, took over, Deutsche Bank was dominated by investment bankers who resisted attempts to pare back those operations, which include businesses like trading in currencies or helping companies to issue bonds.
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The concerns have prompted at least seven medium-sized companies to draw up plans to buy back their own shares or to seek ways to reduce dependence on OFEs, fund managers, company executives and investment bankers told Reuters.
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Bernstein initially took issue with the limited time that the company's investment bankers spent trying to find a buyer before bankruptcy, and expressed concern over the protections Gawker granted to Ziff Davis as part of the sale agreement.
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Three investment bankers who aided Enron in its transactions, who were called the NatWest Three because they worked for National Westminster Bank at the time, fought extradition for three years to keep from facing fraud charges in Houston.
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Despite a wide range of economic sanctions against Moscow and the prospect of more such measures, these transactions send a positive signal to exporters and commodities producers on the quality of Russian assets, three Russian investment bankers told Reuters.
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I went out with a whiskey distiller, a few investment bankers, a bunch of comedians, a carpenter who hung all of the shelves in my apartment, a tugboat captain (seriously), and spent an entire summer dating Australian men exclusively.
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Anirban Sen NEW YORK, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Just a few months ago, WeWork's co-founder Adam Neumann was being courted by Wall Street's top investment bankers in anticipation of one of this year's most high-profile initial public offerings.
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"Lord & Taylor is a storied brand and we will continue to evolve it for the future," a Hudson's Bay spokeswoman said in an emailed statement, declining to comment on moves the company was considering with investment bankers and consultants.
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The activist, led by New York City real estate heir David Winter and hedge fund investor Keith Meister, wanted three board seats and a strategic review by investment bankers as a possible precursor to a split-up of Clariant.
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Analysts have suggested a capital raise may be required soon to boost investor confidence but investment bankers who are not working for the company said over the weekend it would also contradict Musk's promise that Tesla is adequately funded.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - As Valeant Pharmaceuticals considers a multibillion-dollar auction to pare down $30 billion in debt, its challenge will be choosing which assets to sell without compromising any of its key businesses, analysts and investment bankers said.
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While the likes of Frankfurt and Paris are competing for top investment bankers after Brexit, Poland has set its sights on mid-tier financial and technical work where salaries may not be astronomical but jobs are far more numerous.
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It was precisely this mind-set that led Deutsche Bank, Barclays and Credit Suisse to hire many thousands of investment bankers and traders to staff fast-growing London offices in the 20.51 years leading up to the financial crisis.
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When JPMorgan renovated two floors at its Mission Street office in San Francisco last month, it replaced many offices with diner-style booths, designated quiet zones and communal tables for the roughly 250 investment bankers and other employees there.
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His nomination, announced by the bank on Monday, is problematic because some investors consider he did too little to change the bank's culture, aligning himself with former boss, Anshu Jain, and the investment bankers many blame for Deutsche's problems.
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CNBC interviewed 10 people working in the finance industry, from junior investment bankers to senior analysts to find out what's really on their minds about Brexit and how it will impact their lives and the wider City of London.
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The bank has been looking to drive more deal business for its regional-investment bankers based in hubs around the country who work closely with the commercial bankers that interact with clients on a more day-to-day basis.
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One of the sources, who asked for anonymity to disclose details of private negotiations, said that up to 10 companies are in talks with investment bankers to sell shares and five other companies are planning bond transactions by January.
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Since Lebanon's crisis began, the bank has received several calls from investment bankers "trying to support us if we want to sell foreign assets as a way of increasing the capitalization and liquidity of the Lebanese operation", Ghazaleh said.
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For very, very eminent investment bankers saying, 'We think Bitcoin is a bubble, it's for money-launderers, we think there's a degree of illegality about it, and we think people are going to absolutely do their money on it.
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In the last few weeks, the world's biggest oil producer had seemed to be getting its stalled listing back on track by identifying a new chairman and naming a squadron of investment bankers to oversee a Riyadh stock offering.
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Since Lebanon's crisis began, the bank has received several calls from investment bankers "trying to support us if we want to sell foreign assets as a way of increasing the capitalisation and liquidity of the Lebanese operation," Ghazaleh said.
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The rich valuations could discourage acquirers, who also have to assume the risk that antitrust regulators may look askance at more consolidation in the sector after a wave of mergers in recent years, investment bankers and industry experts say.
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Old role: Vice chairman and head of financial institutions group, AmericasNew role: CEOMonth: AugustThe most senior among a cadre of senior financial institutions investment bankers to all quit the British firm within a month of each other this summer.
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WorldCom eventually went bankrupt, wiping out billions of dollars in value from the stock market and calling into question the system Wall Street analysts and investment bankers used to evaluate public companies and try to raise money for them.
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For people not familiar with the term, a direct listing is an alternative way for a private company to "go public," but without selling its shares directly to the public and without the traditional underwriting assistance of investment bankers.
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In a traditional IPO, investment bankers require pre-IPO investors, employees and the company to sign a "lock-up agreement" restricting them from selling or distributing shares for a specified period of time following the IPO—usually 180 days.
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Given publicly traded companies that are not as indebted will have more cash under the new tax system to make rival offers for assets, the changes could make leveraged buyouts harder to complete on attractive terms, investment bankers said.
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About 25 industry leaders attended from companies including Eli Lilly, Pfizerand Johnson & Johnson, along with some of the J.P. Morgan's investment bankers, according to two people with knowledge of the event who asked not to be named because it was private.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Zaoui & Co, the London merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory firm set up by investment bankers Michael and Yoel Zaoui, reported a loss in Britain of 1.27 million pounds ($1.72 million) in 2016, its filings to Companies House showed.
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But that could change as the corporate boards of mid-sized biotech companies, which have been hesitant to seriously consider a sale in a down market, are tempted by the prospect of juicy premiums, investors, analysts and investment bankers said.
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CBS's executives are talking to investment bankers about how their CEO and executive chairman, Les Moonves, can gain more control over the broadcaster after Sumner Redstone dies, or if he is declared mentally incompetent, said two sources familiar with the situation.
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The valuation, outlined in a regulatory filing on Friday, is less than the $22019 billion that investment bankers told Uber last year it could fetch, and closer to the $21 billion valuation it attained in a private fundraising round in 23.
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Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's contemplated $72 billion take-private deal is presenting investment bankers with a dilemma: overlook concerns about how feasible it is or risk missing out on what could be this year's biggest and most high-profile acquisition.
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The valuation, outlined in a regulatory filing on Friday, is less than the $21 billion that investment bankers told Uber last year it could fetch, and closer to the $23 billion valuation it attained in a private fundraising round in 5003.
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The Charging Bull statue on Wall Street, initially intended to represent the strength and resilience of the American people, has long since morphed into a symbol of the people who work near it: aggressive, stubborn, dominating day traders and investment bankers.
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The most efficient way we found was participating in "bus tours" organized by leading investment bankers, where they would gather a select group of these investors in the Valley for a few days to meet with a set of companies.
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There is a consensus among analysts and investment bankers that Syngenta is now off the table, with no company willing to top ChemChina's offer, which amounts to a multiple of 16.4 times Syngenta's 2015 times core earnings including net debt.
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She found out how much investment bankers travel and the insanely long hours they work — and that, despite many women on Wall Street having families, most wait until they've reached a certain level of seniority before daring to have kids.
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A source familiar with the matter said there may have been disagreements between Carige's CEO and its chairman, while investment bankers say concerns about the influence top shareholder Vittorio Malacalza exerts over the bank complicate Carige's search for a merger partner.
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Several other assets have strong potential for cash flow growth, allowing them to command a high valuation relative to their earnings, according to several investment bankers who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss individual companies.
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But in that brief interlude when Unilever was forced to weigh all its strategic options, one that emerged is what investment bankers call a "Pac-Man defense," where a takeover target flips the script and bids for its would-be acquirer.
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Santander faces a 100 million euro ($112 million) claim by Orcel, one of Europe's best-known investment bankers, after the Spanish bank offered him the job of chief executive but withdrew it when it could not meet his pay demands.
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Meanwhile, Jean-François Legault, global head of cybersecurity operations at JPMorgan, addressed the many cybersecurity issues facing retail and investment bankers, which is top of mind for many SWIFT users in attendance after last year's infamous hack attack versus Bangladesh Bank.
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Musk and Tesla could hold off on any fundraising plans for the time being, in part tapping capital markets would contradict Musk's comments about Tesla being adequately funded, investment bankers who are not working for the company said over the weekend.
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LONDON — The main investment bankers involved in the merger between Deutsche Börse and the London Stock Exchange worked at one of Wall Street's biggest companies, Morgan Stanley, the last time the two exchanges flirted with the idea of getting married.
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NEW YORK - JPMorgan Chase & Co is tearing down walls and moving its San Francisco investment bankers onto "hot desks," a space-saving layout that has long been a fixture at tech companies, while redesigning offices in Dallas and other cities.
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One of the bank's former most senior investment bankers Richard Boath, who cooperated with the SFO in its investigation, alleges he was fired "as a direct result" of what he told investigators when questioned as part of their criminal inquiry.
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If the Trump Department of Justice is saying 'we're now going to look at vertical deals as potentially anti-competitive,' you're going to see all kinds of investment bankers and all kinds of others go 'whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
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Prosecutors said on Monday that an investigation showed four detained ex-treasury ministry officials had committed negligence and had exceeded their authority with the cooperation of two detained investment bankers working back then for a now-closed local unit of ING.
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It was a Thursday afternoon at Lady Book Salon, one of the few bookstores in mainland China geared toward women, and Wang Lu, 32, and Emily Zhou, 29, both investment bankers, were discussing what it meant to be a feminist.
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Morrison & Foerster, also known as MoFo, polled more than 150 investment bankers, M&A executives, venture capitalists and lawyers, and found that 52 percent expect that global technology deals will surpass last year; only 15 percent are anticipating a decline.
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"In the normal course of business, the company routinely holds discussions with investment bankers and other third parties about raising equity financing or refinancing the company's existing debt to take advantage of market conditions," Charming Charlie said in a statement.
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Mr. Bourkoff had no formal role (and wasn't being paid), but, as investment bankers often do, offered his advice, which was to focus on the interests of the company and not Mr. Dauman's increasingly bitter and personal feud with the Redstones.
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As an example, the researchers found that wearing brown shoes with a business suit was generally considered unacceptable among British investment bankers, but a similar judgment did not apply to bankers from Continental Europe, where brown shoes were more commonplace.
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Read more: High-flying investment bankers, reclusive billionaires, and 'The Wolf of Wall Street': a guide to the major players in Malaysia's 1MDB scandalI attended Instagram influencer Caroline Calloway's 5-hour, $165 creativity workshop that people have called a 'scam.
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As most of the small Chinese companies pursuing U.S. IPOs have no U.S. business presence or brand recognition, hiring U.S. citizens as board members is now being adopted as a tactic to get listings approved, Chinese executives and investment bankers say.
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Old role: MD, shareholder defenseNew role: Global head of activism and raid defenseMonth: AugustAs investor activism proliferates, investment bankers who can step in and mount a quick and effective defense for companies have become a hot commodity on Wall Street.
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The appointment of Sewing - who has a background in retail banking, auditing and risk - along with the recent resignation of one of Deutsche's top investment bankers, Marcus Schenck, suggests a shift away from the investment bank, analysts and investors have said.
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HONG KONG/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Investment bankers the world over are paying close attention to court hearings in Sydney in a landmark legal case that alleges cartel activity by Citigroup and Deutsche Bank employees, with JPMorgan witnesses appearing for the prosecution.
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HONG KONG/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Investment bankers the world over are paying close attention to court hearings in Sydney in a landmark legal case that alleges cartel activity by Citigroup and Deutsche Bank employees, with JPMorgan witnesses appearing for the prosecution.
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One of the sources said on Wednesday Goldman had laid off traders, back office staff and investment bankers in Russia recently and linked the cuts to the bank posting its worst quarterly results in more than four years in April.
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As investment bankers and Saudi officials plan the trading debut, there are more questions than answers: Is the company worth $2 trillion, as the Saudis insist, or a small fraction of that, as argued by bankers and international oil experts?
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But investment bankers say the value of the company can be determined only after the Saudi government outlines the minority protections that investors will have, what taxes they will have to pay, and what Saudi Aramco's cost structure will be.
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Russian businessmen Roman Abramovich and Oleg Tinkov offloaded some of their respective stakes in their companies through accelerated bookbuilding deals (ABB), which investment bankers said demonstrates continued global interest in certain Russian assets despite sanctions and a challenging business environment in the country.
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About 25 industry leaders attended from companies including Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, along with some of the J.P. Morgan's investment bankers, according to two people with knowledge of the event who asked not to be named because it was private.
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Ronen will join SoftBank Chairman Masayoshi Son's growing roster of investment bankers at the company, including Alex Clavel, a longtime telecommunications banker at Morgan Stanley , and another former Goldman Sachs banker, Ervin Tu. SoftBank closed the world's biggest private equity fund in May.
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Ucommune's decision to explore a listing has surprised investment bankers given the similarities between its business and that of embattled U.S. rival WeWork, which this week had to be bailed out in a $10 billion deal after investors soured on an IPO plan.
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The valuation that Uber is seeking in its IPO is less than the $21 billion that investment bankers told Uber last year it could fetch, and closer to the $23 billion valuation it attained in its last private fundraising round in 2500.
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The valuation that Uber is seeking in its IPO is less than the $120 billion that investment bankers told Uber last year it could fetch, and closer to the $76 billion valuation it attained in its last private fundraising round in 2018.
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Ucommunes decision to explore a listing has surprised investment bankers given the similarities between its business and that of embattled U.S. rival WeWork, which this week had to be bailed out in a $10 billion deal after investors soured on an IPO plan.
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We also talked about why mutual fund companies (with which TCV sometimes competes on deals) don't make great private company shareholders, and what can be the bad advice of investment bankers, who are largely telling companies to wait until 2017 to go public.
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Many people think her Wall Street reform plan is O.K. But on a personal level, it was inexcusable of her to give those $200,000 speeches for investment bankers and the like when she knew she was going to be running for president.
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NEW YORK, Feb 22 - JPMorgan Chase & Co is tearing down walls and moving its San Francisco investment bankers onto "hot desks," a space-saving layout that has long been a fixture at tech companies, while redesigning offices in Dallas and other cities.
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Although tempting, Valeant would probably do best to avoid unloading its worst performers, like female libido drug Addyi, which could force it to suffer a writedown on its balance sheet and further depress its stock, according to one of the investment bankers.
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That is still a fraction of the $120 billion valuation that investment bankers have told Uber it could wind up with in its IPO in April, thanks to its international presence and expansion into sectors such as food delivery and freight hauling.
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Throwing out the rulebook that expects CEOs to be surrounded by investment bankers and other advisers when dealmaking has become a trademark for the 7.53-year-old CEO and chairman of Total, who took the helm of the French energy major in 2014.
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Yes, everybody is doing it—Hillary Clinton's Wall Street speeches played a role in her doomed presidential run and investment bankers were seemingly the only people who cared what former President George W. Bush had to say after he left office in 2009.
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Yet asked if an IPO is in sight for 2017, Royan says C2FO has no plans to go public yet and that he generally believes there should be a "line of sight to saturation" before an outfit starts talking with investment bankers.
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The bank assigned a "much more modest" valuation to the company than the $0003 billion value set earlier this year, or the $61 billion to $96 billion range the firm's investment bankers told the company's top execs it might get in an IPO.
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Unlike the bid by Deutsche Börse to acquire the London Stock Exchange, in which the deal makers representing both companies were former Morgan Stanley investment bankers, in the ARM acquisition only the SoftBank side is heavily represented by ex-Morgan Stanley bankers.
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This scandal feels different from the mortgage crisis because it was not carried out by the 1 percent—such as wealthy investment bankers indifferent to the effects of their actions on regular homeowners—but by "$12 an hour employees," as one lawsuit alleged.
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It would take a lot more than this bizarre situation for most founders to be deterred from accepting a check from Sequoia, whose imprimatur can make everything easier, from assembling a team, to attracting press, to, later, luring the right investment bankers.
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Eight years after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the people who caused it — reckless investment bankers — have bounced back almost as if it never happened, while many American homeowners and wage earners have yet to recover their lost wealth.
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PRO-BUSINESS, BUT HANDS ON Investment bankers expect the sale of the state's corporate holdings to be spread over time and that it may not be a smooth process under Macron, given his interventionist approach during previous negotiations over deals involving state.
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The total number of frontline investment bankers in Asia Pacific is estimated to drop about 15-20 percent this year versus a 5-13 percent fall last year, said John Mullally, director of financial services at headhunter Robert Walters in Hong Kong.
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The others include Robert E. Rubin, the former treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton; Roger C. Altman, the former deputy treasury secretary in the Clinton administration; and two investment bankers who are major Democratic fund-raisers, Deven J. Parekh and Blair W. Effron.
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Last month, the Barclays chief executive, James E. Staley, was formally reprimanded by the lender's board for trying to expose a whistle-blower who had filed an anonymous complaint about one of the bank's top investment bankers, a friend of Mr. Staley's.
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Jet Airways (India) will be unable to fly beyond 60 days unless cost-cutting measures including pay cuts are put in place, and it has approached investment bankers again to help sell a stake in the carrier, local media reports said on Friday.
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Musk and Tesla could hold off on any fundraising plans for the time being, in part because tapping capital markets would contradict Musk's comments about Tesla being adequately funded, investment bankers who are not working for the company said over the weekend.
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And even though direct listings may represent a smaller pool of fees for investment bankers, the ones we talked to said that they are embracing different paths to going public and working with companies to figure out which option makes the most sense.
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LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS asked staff whether they would prefer to relocate to Amsterdam, Madrid or Frankfurt after Britain leaves the European Union in a survey sent to its investment bankers on Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Investment bankers and industry analysts now say Kraft is more likely to pursue another company with a big, growing HPC business, rather than a peer in the food sector that would require it to repeat the same M&A cycle a couple of years later.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - CBS Corp's executives are talking to investment bankers about how their CEO and executive chairman, Les Moonves, can gain more control over the broadcaster after Sumner Redstone dies, or if he is declared mentally incompetent, said two sources familiar with the situation.
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It is the second time recently that JPMorgan's research arm has drawn ire from the Indonesian government, and highlights the inevitable conflicts banks face when their analysts express a negative view on a country or company that their investment bankers are trying to court.
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A potential influx of foreign cash and improved stock valuations under the Trump administration would likely boost dealmaking in the industry, which has been anemic ever since political rhetoric against high drug prices picked up late last year, industry analysts and investment bankers said.
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That's the attitude some retailers competing against Amazon are taking, as to the Financial Times reports that following Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, investment bankers are hearing an upsurge in requests from clients to pitch their companies as acquisition targets for the ecommerce giant.
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Reuters reported last year that Nomura planned to add a dozen senior- and mid-level investment bankers over the next 12 to 18 months in the United States as it anticipated more deals by Japanese firms in the area or by U.S. companies overseas.
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Investment bankers have also come under fire; the Royal Bank of Canada was ordered to pay $76 million for appearing to be too conflicted and running a bad process over the buyout of the Rural/Metro Corporation by the private equity firm Warburg Pincus.
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But among the members of the 13-member team of advisers announced on Friday are hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson and investment bankers Steve Feinberg and Andy Beal, as well as a former top steel executive and a former high-ranking U.S. government official.
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In Mr. Massini's understanding, trouble found its true engine when the last of the actual Lehmans ran Lehman Brothers and management was given over to the ambitious roughnecks in the trading division rather than the well-mannered investment bankers who had been in charge.
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But investment bankers said on Wednesday that a leveraged buyout of Tesla — which in theory could cost as much as $70 billion if all of Tesla's shares were bought at the price of $420 a share that Mr. Musk floated — is likely a nonstarter.
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In the first nine months of 2016, it took typically a month or two to get the CSRC's go-ahead for a private placement, but that had stretched to more than four months in some cases by the last quarter of 2016, according to investment bankers.
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For one dizzying, schmooze and booze-filled week every January, thousands of tech execs, VCs, and investment bankers grind their way through a four-day slog of panel sessions, poster presentations, networking meetings, and cocktail-drenched after-hours parties in their industry's premier orgiastic dealmaking event.
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A recent survey of investment bankers, development professionals and private equity leaders showed that 62 percent believe the presumptive GOP nominee will be bad for the global deal climate, according to Intralinks, an M&A content collaboration company that said it collected results from 1,500 respondents.
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Investment bankers with experience in the entertainment industry were also puzzled by Paramount's announcement in April that it had sold pieces of its two biggest summer movies, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" and "Star Trek Beyond," to Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company.
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For more than 40 years, the S.E.C. and the Justice Department have frequently overreached in their zeal to impose on noninsiders the same obligations as true insiders — officers and directors, lawyers, investment bankers and journalists — who steal confidential information from their employers or defraud their customers.
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Then he would use his discretion in order to "narrow the gap between high-end and low-end awards"—between, say, awards made to the families of highly compensated investment bankers and those made to the families of restaurant workers who had been paid by the hour.
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The idea that we should be constantly policing our thoughts away from the past, the future, the imagination or the abstract and back to whatever is happening right now has gained traction with spiritual leaders and investment bankers, armchair philosophers and government bureaucrats and human resources departments.
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Deal Professor If SunEdison enters into bankruptcy, the autopsy will no doubt reveal a suicide, finding the solar energy company done in by financial engineering that was too clever and by a failure of its executives and investment bankers to remember the lessons of the financial crisis.
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An informal poll of five investment bankers by Reuters put the share of sales that failed to close in the fourth quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of this year at between 50 percent and 80 percent, with Marinelli putting the figure at around two-thirds.
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The State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) has informed investment bankers and lawyers of the rule, borne out of government concern that cornerstone investment allowed large amounts of funds to leave the country and contribute to a decline in the value of the yuan, the people said.
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The company is exploring a different way of going public by directly listing its shares on an exchange — a stark departure from the tradition of large tech companies using investment bankers like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase to underwrite their shares and sell them to the public.
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A direct listing allows Airbnb to bypass some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in fees it is forced to pay investment bankers who underwrite shares in a traditional I.P.O. Among venture capitalists and others in Silicon Valley, the idea is beginning to gain more traction.
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But more than a dozen expected stock offerings of relatively obscure software firms targeting business customers - little-known names such as Apttus, Tintri and Okta - could be just as important in thawing a long-frozen IPO market, according to investment bankers and advisers who work on IPOs.
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Though for just one day, the delay raises the chance of pre-trial hearings running into next year, eroding hopes of a swift resolution to a case that is being closely watched by investment bankers around the world since it may change how they run capital raisings.
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Hudson's Bay engaged investment bankers and consultants to advise on potential deals regarding its department store portfolio or a restructure of its business, and reached a conditional agreement to sell its Vancouver flagship store building, people familiar with the matters told Reuters in April and May.
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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb's keynote address was delivered via video conference from a meeting room in Washington, D.C., to thousands of investment bankers and health-care executives, and his audio cut out altogether just as he was making a key point on teen nicotine use.
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As Judge Rakoff pointed out, all someone privy to confidential market-moving information — corporate executives, investment bankers, lawyers — would have to do is tell a family member and ask for nothing immediate in return, which already seems to be one of the first instincts of many inside traders.
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The alleged co-conspirators arranged for more than $2 billion in loands intended to fund three maritime projects, but diverted more than $200 million in loan proceeds in bribe payments to former Finance Minister Manuel Chang and other officials and kickback payments to three investment bankers, the department said.
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A long-time startup advisor, who asked not to be named because their firm represents many technology companies, said investment bankers and independent board members are "very aware" of the market conditions and will be discussing with their companies what needs to be done to protect their investments.
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SE investment bankers could deliver, as soon as Friday, their final recommendations on the valuation of the state-owned energy giant in an initial public offering, with the headline number expected to fall well short of the $2 trillion targeted by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. on.wsj.
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It is not just investment bankers seen taking a pay cut, as hedge fund compensation is estimated to decline 5 percent to 15 percent, and pay for asset managers is seen off 5 percent to 10 percent due to weak inflows and lower to flat appreciation in assets under management.
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Without changes to that business model, Casino could struggle to find a buyer for the 43 percent stake it holds in Via Varejo, and efforts by other chains to sell themselves and end years of over-borrowing and internal conflicts could also prove fruitless, investment bankers and industry players say.
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Think of four types of personalities and behaviors: Dominant: decisive, authoritative Improv: outgoing, "we will just figure it out" Steady: wants to help others, accommodates clients wishes Conscientious: fact-driven, anal retentive Here's how these four personalities show up: Investment Bankers The D decisive banker sells clients with their confidence.
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Investment bankers say that if Sabadell sells parts of its non-core banking business units, such as car leasing, asset management division or real estate assets, this might not be enough to address concerns about its capital and say that the real game changer would be a merger in Spain.
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IT'S NOT NECESSARILY WHAT EVERYBODY THINKS ABOUT TRADERS LIKE THIS ON THE FLOOR, IT'S THE ACCOUNTANTS WHO SUPPORT THEM, IT'S THE HR TEAM THAT SUPPORTS THEM, IT'S THE LEGAL TEAM THAT SUPPORTS THEM, IT'S THE INVESTMENT BANKERS, IT'S THE CORPORATE BANKERS, IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT RUN THE CASH MANAGEMENT FRANCHISE.
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Sony, for example, was able to hire investment bankers and prepare its strategy weeks before Daniel Loeb's Third Point approached it with its demands, after Reuters reported in April that the hedge fund was raising a special purpose vehicle to target the Japanese company, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Uber, the world's biggest ride-hailing company, has been told by investment bankers that it could be worth as much as $120 billion in an I.P.O. At that valuation, it would be the biggest offering since the Alibaba Group of China began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014.
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The group, which includes investment giants Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, has a record $1.5 trillion in cash ready to deploy and has been actively seeking deals across the struggling travel, entertainment and energy industries, according to a half-dozen investment bankers who declined to be identified speaking candidly about potential clients.
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Old role: Global head of asset management investment bankingNew role: Global head of asset management investment bankingMonth: JulyVitols, a Barclays vet of more than a decade, was among a cadre of senior financial institutions investment bankers to all quit the British bank within a month of each other this summer.
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BERLIN/FRANKFURT, July 4 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Thursday: Deutsche Bank is preparing to unveil a sweeping, multi-billion euro overhaul within days that would see the axe fall heaviest on investment bankers, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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The successful bid was approved without a competitive process and investment bankers involved in negotiations told Reuters it represented up to $2.3 billion less than offers from Chinese-government owned State Grid Corp of China and Hong Kong-listed Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd that were both knocked back over "national security issues".
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"It's going to be a really interesting natural experiment," said John Coffee, director of the Center on Corporate Governance at Columbia Law School, who also agrees the investment bankers are probably not on Spotify's side, missing out on fees and the potential for a big one-day bounce for important institutional clients.
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The group, which includes investment giants Blackstone, Carlyle and KKR, has a record $1.5 trillion in cash ready to deploy and has been actively seeking deals across the struggling travel, entertainment and energy industries, according to a half-dozen investment bankers who declined to be identified to speak candidly about potential clients.
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A small man with a wide grin and a monkish buzz cut, he is an autodidact and former engineer and the reason educational PBS is on the TV. He provides Scrabble and discussions on Thomas Paine for a slew of regulars ranging from English expat investment bankers to restaurant deliverymen ending their shifts.
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The following are some of the main factors expected to affect Swiss stocks: The Swiss bank asked staff whether they would prefer to relocate to Amsterdam, Madrid or Frankfurt after Britain leaves the European Union in a survey sent to its investment bankers on Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Old role: Head of internet and digital media investment bankingNew role: Senior MD, internet and digital media investment bankingMonth: JanuaryOne of the industry's top internet investment bankers, the nearly two-decade veteran Kajani reportedly has more than 100 transactions under his belt, ranging from M&A deals, to IPOs, to private capital injections.
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And earlier this month she insisted that everyone but she and Klobuchar "is either a billionaire or receiving help from PACs that can do unlimited spending" (in the process lumping Sanders together with Buttigieg and Vice President Joe Biden, whose campaigns are funded by super PACs backed by real estate moguls and investment bankers).
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"Donald has been the embodiment of doing first class business in a first class way, and has been a role model and mentor for an entire generation of investment bankers at Morgan Stanley," Morgan Stanley President Colm Kelleher and global co-heads of investment banking Franck Petitgas and Mark Eichorn said jointly in the memo.
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So here's CNet covering Amazon's IPO in that year, after noting that its debut had "[s]ilenc[ed] any doubts about its chances on the public market": Initially, [Amazon] had been set for a $12-to-$14 range, then got bumped up to $14 to $16 before the company's investment bankers settled on the $18 price.
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Banks must get out of "ghastly collective jams" such as free-in-credit banking, which subsidises the better off at the expense of those who pay penalty charges on overdrafts, he said, and the overpayment of investment bankers is so baked in that it appears easier go out of business or to fire people than to pay them less.
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"I also have friends here in New York who make between $1 [million] and $3 million a year as investment bankers or partners at a law firm," Galloway says — incomes which would put them in the top 1 percent of all wage-earners in the US, according to an October 2018 report from the Economic Policy Institute.
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The British lender has reshuffled some of its top investment bankers so they can focus on the UK, anticipating that the weak pound and a quiet 227 will lead to a rise in dealmaking and share listings next year even as the country faces its biggest political and economic shake-up since the Second World War.
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Ongoing M&A deals with potential Chinese bidders include Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's sale of its more than $3 billion life insurance and wealth business, investment bankers say, and Chinese insurers have also shown interest in buying Hong Kong Life Insurance Ltd, one of few independent life insurers in the financial center, which could fetch $600 million.
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Last week, six senior members of Deutsche Bank's metals and mining investment banking team, which was responsible for overseeing deals in the coal industry, said they were decamping for Jefferies, a smaller, scrappy New York investment bank that has a knack for scooping up investment bankers who increasingly feel out of place at larger, more heavily scrutinized global banks.
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Ongoing M&A deals with potential Chinese bidders include Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's sale of its more than $3 billion life insurance and wealth business, investment bankers say, and Chinese insurers have also shown interest in buying Hong Kong Life Insurance Ltd, one of few independent life insurers in the financial centre, which could fetch $600 million.
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EVERYBODY IS SUSCEPTIBLE BECAUSE THEY'RE COMPETITIVE AND THEY WORK – THEY WANT TO PROSPER, SO THE INVESTMENT BANKERS GO TO THE CEO OF COMPANIES AND SAY, LOOK, INSTEAD OF INVESTING IN CAPITAL, WHY DON'T YOU JUST BUY BACK YOUR STOCK, AND IN THREE YEARS YOU'LL BE OUT OF HERE AND MAKE $2381 MILLION AND NOBODY WILL CRITICIZE YOU.
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Investment bankers at the embattled financial institution are steeling themselves for a double-digit cut to their bonus pool, according to the FT. Deutsche has been battered by bad news in the past year: Its stock price hit record lows, competitors are gobbling up its market share, and top-level employees are jumping ship as it fires thousands of others.
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READ THE FULL STORY HEREOne of tech and media&aposs most influential investment bankers said 2020 may see a shakeout in the streaming wars — here&aposs the full memo he sent to staffA top tech banker used a Futurist sculpture that sold last month for a record price – $16.2 million – as a metaphor for how he&aposs thinking about market tensions right now.
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AND THE INVESTMENT BANKERS THEMSELVES TOLD THEM THIS THING IS NOT GOING TO TRADE AT A DISCOUNT IT IS GOING TO TRADE AT A 5% DISCOUNT MAYBE A 10% DISCOUNT MAYBE A 5% PREMIUM DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT AND THEN WHEN THEY LOOKED AT THE VERY LOOSE COVENANCE MY UNDERSTANDING IS THEY SAID DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT, WE'RE GOING TO BE HONEST ABOUT THIS.
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The firm, founded by veteran investment bankers Sir Simon Robey, Simon Warshaw and Philip Apostolides in 20.7382, has quickly established itself as one of the UK's leading M&A advisory businesses with roles in blockbuster deals, including Royal Dutch Shell's $53 billion acquisition of BG Group, announced in 2015, and Reckitt Benckiser's $16.6 billion purchase of U.S. baby formula maker Mead Johnson Nutrition last year.
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The inefficiencies in the investment world — often most visible in the giant bonuses and private yachts of investment bankers and hedge fund managers — might leave venture capitalists salivating, but the problem for consumers is over whether it's really that good to leave them in complete control of their financial future, able to jump in and out of investments at the tap of a smartphone.
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Read more: High-flying investment bankers, reclusive billionaires, and 'The Wolf of Wall Street': a guide to the major players in Malaysia's 1MDB scandal The Justice Department is investigating whether the Trump Victory committee, an organization that raises money for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign as well as the Republican National Committee, took $100,000 of that stolen money in December 2017, according to the Journal.
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The company said in its regulatory filing that the directors who would remain after the name change would be Jeffrey Smith, the activist investor who helped prod change at the company; Tor Braham and Catherine J. Friedman, former investment bankers; Eric Brandt, a former chief financial officer of the chip maker Broadcom; and Thomas McInerney, a former chief financial officer of the media company IAC.
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She and her husband are not unique among politicians in enriching themselves on the speaking circuit and in the business world—everyone from Al Gore to Rudolph Giuliani has done so—but it is understandable that, when those fees amount to tens of millions of dollars over the years, and when Clinton speaks in such familiar tones to audiences of investment bankers, her opponents assume the worst.
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The big advantage of a direct listing is that it reduces the two big costs of an IPO—the direct cost of the fees paid to investment bankers, which are typically 22018% of the proceeds for IPOs raising less than $22019 million, and the indirect cost of selling shares at an offer price less than what the stocks subsequently trades at, which adds on another 903%, on average.
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Investment banks on the Pfizer and Allergan deal, including Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Centerview and Moelis, lost more than $200 million in fees when the companies walked, showed data from consultancy Freeman & Co. Faced with greater hurdles to get deals through, some investment bankers are rethinking how they want to structure their payoffs, including trying to get more cash upfront rather than a big check after a deal closes, said a person familiar with the matter.
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Investment banks on the Pfizer and Allergan deal, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Centerview and Moelis, lost more than $200 million in fees when the companies walked, showed data from consultancy Freeman & Co. Faced with greater hurdles to get deals through, some investment bankers are rethinking how they want to structure their payoffs, including trying to get more cash upfront rather than a big check after a deal closes, said a person familiar with the matter.
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Investment bankers advising companies on M&A warn privately of increasing scrutiny over mergers and acquisitions driven by what they see as political motivated protectionism following the election of Donald Trump and Britain's vote to quit the EU. Ofcom said on Tuesday it will go to the European Commission to try to force BT to legally separate Openreach, the division that supplies broadband to millions of homes and businesses, in a bid to spur investment in the country's aging network.
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I'M SAYING THAT HE REALLY – I THINK THE REAL QUESTION IS THIS HE THINKS HE CAN COERCE SHAREHOLDERS INTO TAKING HIS OFFER WITH SCARE TACTICS SAYING, IF YOU DON'T, I'M GOING TO TAKE IT -- I'M GOING TO DO AN IPO AND CRAM IT DOWN YOU AND HE BELIEVES BECAUSE IT'S IN THE CHARTER -- WHEN HE BOUGHT EMC, THEY PROMISED, HIS INVESTMENT BACKERS, PROMISED TOLD THOSE WHO BOUGHT -- THAT'S WHY A LOT OF THE DVMT, THE TRACKER STOCKHOLDERS ARE UPSET HE TOLD THEM HE -- AND THEIR INVESTMENT BANKERS TOLD THEM THERE WOULD REALLY BE VERY LITTLE DISCOUNT.
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WeWork is reportedly cutting 2,000 jobs as soon as this week, with the staff turning against Adam NeumannGoldman Sachs says it absorbed an $80 million write-down after WeWork's IPO disasterGoldman Sachs unloaded some of its WeWork shares before its investment bankers pitched investors on what it once considered a $60 billion-plus IPOWeWork used massive discounts — in some cases, essentially giving away space for 2 years — to try to poach customers from rivalsWeWork is reportedly favoring JPMorgan over SoftBank to bail out the buckling real-estate firmInvestors are more worried than ever that WeWork won't be able to pay down its debtStartups like Glossier and Rent the Runway love throwing Instagrammable 'summer camps' for employees — but WeWork's version has become a cautionary tale
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