Private equity firm

valuation: the equity valuation and the firm valuation. In fact, we can either use the free cash flow to the firm (FCFF), which is the after-tax cash flow that accrues from the firm's operations, net of investments in capital and net working capital, or we can use the free cash flow to equity (FCFE) that is the cash remaining after a firm meets all of its debt obligations and provides for necessary capital expenditure. Discounting the FCFF at the cost of capital we will obtain the firm value…

Venture firms “syndicate” a large investment. That is, they will attempt to interest other firms in taking a piece of the investment. This permits the firm to invest in a larger number of companies, and thus spread its risk. This is particularly important on subsequent “rounds” or stages of financing. Other venture firms will want to see that the original firm(s) will continue their investment in the company. If existing, more knowledgeable investors aren’t interested in the company, why…

Exceeding clients' expectations – The firm is committed to helping its clients achieve their goals by providing them with the highest quality of legal advice Local excellence, global standards – The firm combines the highest business and law global standards with local service excellence to meet its clients’ needs An ambition for success – Clifford Chance is determined to be the front-runner of leading groups of international law firms Investing in talent – This firm attracts, recruits and…

25 years of experience in leveraged finance, from distressed debt to private equity, to the position. Mr. Oberbeck’s wealth of experience stems from originating, structuring, negotiating, consummating, managing and monitoring investments in a wide variety of middle-market businesses. In addition to his aforementioned roles, Mr. Oberbeck is the Managing Partner of Saratoga Partners, a middle market private equity investment firm, and has served on its investment committee since 1995. In 2008,…

there were control measures to properly monitor or constrain risk-taking at the largest firms. The Dodd –Frank includes provisions that will curb excessive risk taking and hold Wall Street accountable. A couple of the key points that I feel will add transparency to the financial /banking industry. •…

In December of 2015, FullCycle Energy named Sam Tabar as its chief operating officer, according to Private Equity Wire. Tabar is an attorney and financial strategist who has spent years managing the budgets of large institutions and corporations. Prior to signing on with FullCycle Energy, Tabar served as Merrill Lynch’s Bank of America head of capital financing. As head of Capital, Tabar worked would introduce hedge-fund managers to large groups of institutional investors that included…

company can control all production, management, and profits. But also share costs and responsibilities. When two competing firms like HOS and Tykes combine, competition is reduced. Similarly, if a new firm enters an industry by acquiring an existing firm, the number of competing firms remains unchanged. The combination can lead to increased sales overall, if the combined firms have complementary products or…

A firm can finance their investments using two financing types, debt or equity. For more than half a decade, scholars have been debating about the optimal amount of debt and optimal amount of equity that maximize the market value of a firm. Capital structure is defined as the type of the funds, equity capital or debt capital, a company uses to finance its operations and investments. According to a survey among CFOs of 392 companies, only 19 percent of the companies avoid having a target capital…

Brand equity can be a strategic tool to survive in the highly competitive global world. Willingness to invest in socially responsible activities is not a cost or constraint for the company, but a source of competitive advantage (Yoo, 2015). Effective use of corporate…

capital raised by organizations has a cost that is either explicit, such as the interest payments on debt, or implicit, such as the opportunity cost associated with equity capital (Bertomeu, 2015). Majority of companies will combine both equity and debt methods to finance their businesses (Kotabe, & Zhao, 2002). In the global equity markets, stock is traded by publicly owned foreign corporations and cross listing is a common occurrence. Cross listing is when stock is offered on one or more…