Private Equity Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Get the week’s top news delivered directly to your inbox – Sign up for our newsletter Sign up Since its first investment in 2015, Compass Group has invested in 14 portfolio companies, more than 230 bolt-ons and has completed four exits.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

While a ceasefire was signed in 2015 in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, sporadic shelling and gunfire continued, culminating in Putin's address of Feb. Since 2014, the Ukraine army fiercely clashed with Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region. 24, 2022, marking the start of the war.

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Private Equity Wire

APRIL 11, 2024

Since its first investment in 2015, Compass Group has invested in 14 portfolio companies, more than 230 bolt-ons and has completed four exits. McGuireWoods served as legal counsel for the fund and Aqueduct Capital Group provided placement agent services.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 6, 2024

OpenAI was founded in 2015 by a team of researchers and entrepreneurs which included Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and Tesla Chief Executive Offficer Elon Musk. It was established as a not-for-profit research organization with a mission to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology that benefits all of humanity.

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Taking place between 2015 and 2019, they were made in the form of multimillion-dollar loans to Aviron shortly after Robertson introduced his daughter , Rebecca Lee Robertson, to the film company's owner, William Sandleir, at Aviron's offices in Los Angeles. That film, titled " After ," was released a year later.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 14, 2024

Sipos previously worked at Clarion from 2011 to 2015. In these roles, he oversaw the legal functions across acquisitions, divestitures, litigation, governance, investor relations, regulatory compliance, human resources and equity compensation.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

They're also popular among income-seeking investors because they can legally avoid paying income taxes by distributing at least 90% of their earnings as dividend payments. With a brief exception in 2018, it has raised or maintained its payout since 2015. At recent prices, Ares Capital offers investors a 9.1%

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

i-Fitness was founded by Foluso Ogunwale in 2015 and operates a chain of low-cost gyms across Nigeria. Rand Merchant Bank Nigeria and CardinalStone Partners acted as joint financial advisors, and Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie acted as legal counsel to CCA. CCA invests across West Africa and operates offices in Lagos and Accra.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 20, 2023

Keep in mind that not even the most influential currencies, like the dollar or the euro, are legal tender in more than a handful of countries today. Drop back to the summer of 2015, and the gain balloons to 10,500%. billion market cap Bitcoin sported in June 2015. dollar over the last year.

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Private Equity Insights

AUGUST 31, 2023

British Business Bank previously supported Panoramic’s £34m Enterprise Capital Fund 1 through its Enterprise Capital Funds programme in 2010, and the £65m Panoramic Growth Fund 2 via British Patient Capital in 2015. Macfarlanes acted as legal adviser to Panoramic. Source: RealDeals Can’t stop reading?

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 17, 2023

Money from Timeshare Exit Team Ramsey was allegedly paid as much as $30 million between 2015 and 2021 to endorse the timeshare exit company. The response Other than downplaying Ramsey's role in endorsing Timeshare Exit Team, Ramsey's legal team does not currently appear to be responding to requests for comments.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 28, 2023

Meanwhile, 3M Company (NYSE: MMM) has gone through legal battles in recent years that are now coming to a resolution. PayPal has gone through growing pains in the past year, revising its earnings and dealing with the effects of decoupling from eBay , which spun off the fintech in 2015. PYPL P/E Ratio data by YCharts. billion to $12.5

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The Motley Fool

OCTOBER 1, 2024

It could be a long legal battle for Visa that diverts management's attention and resources. That was down from a share of 75% in 2015. Both businesses are in leading positions in the payments industry. And as a result, they are vital to the smooth functioning of the economy. It's anyone's guess how the current lawsuit will play out.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 24, 2024

Here's what I found: More: Check out our picks for the best mortgage lenders Month and Year Average Rate on 30-Year Fixed Mortgage November 1980 14.28% April 1984 13.58% July 1988 10.46% March 1990 10.26% March 1993 7.47% July 2002 6.49% July 2006 6.79% May 2015 3.85% September 2017 3.78% July 2022 5.50% Data source: Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Still, the only year the segment exceeded the low end of the guidance since 2015 was 2021, thanks to the bounce-back from the pandemic-ravaged year of 2020. For example, on two separate investor day presentations (in 2016 and 2019), management forecasted 4% to 6% annual organic local currency sales growth.

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The Motley Fool

APRIL 7, 2024

Key qualitative differences between Nvidia now and Cisco in the late 199Os Cisco's CEO in the below chart refers to John Chambers, who led the company from 1995 to 2015. The similarities are only surface deep. Cisco was founded in 1984 by two Stanford University computer scientists and went public in 1990. The company went public in 1999.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Brown joined the firm in 2015, following nine years in private practice as Senior Legal Counsel, before taking the position of General Counsel in 2020. She has been involved in every investment transaction since joining AnaCap and is now responsible for all legal, regulatory and compliance-related activities across the AnaCap group.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 18, 2023

Since it's illegal under federal law to assign less value to a home because of racial prejudice, you can take legal action if you're a victim of discriminatory appraisals. More: Check out our picks for the best mortgage lenders Here's how the difference in mean value appraisals have changed for the two communities since 2013.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 10, 2023

Cut Down In its Prime Amazon's first Prime Day took place in 2015, and for five years sales growth for the event's 48-hour period swelled sumptuously. One seller told Wired he's considering pursuing legal action, but the costs would make that difficult. "It But shareholders have lost their zeal for the Bezos-invented holiday.

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Cobalt

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Key Takeaways To establish the list of elections we looked at Brazil (Q4 2018, 2022), Mexico (Q3 2018, 2024), Argentina (Q4 2015, 2019, 2023), and Colombia (Q2 2018, 2022). The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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Private Equity Wire

OCTOBER 22, 2024

They work closely with clients, leveraging in-house legal expertise to develop proprietary insurance contracts that address industry-specific risks. Cyber insurance provides financial protection against losses from data breaches, ransomware or system outages, covering costs like legal fees, notification expenses, and system restoration.

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Cobalt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Key Takeaways To establish the list of elections we looked at Brazil (Q4 2018, 2022), Mexico (Q3 2018, 2024), Argentina (Q4 2015, 2019, 2023), and Colombia (Q2 2018, 2022). The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. This blog post is for informational purposes only.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 21, 2024

Ongoing legal challenges that have included its role in the opioid crisis. In other words, there are tangible reasons why Walgreens Boots Alliance has declined by 81% since its stock hit an all-time closing high in 2015. The costly launch and expansion of its healthcare services operations, which resulted in a $5.8 quarter to $0.25/quarter

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

More : Our picks for the best credit cards While this tactic drastically reduces the alcohol budget by avoiding the high markups typical at many venues, hiring a professional bartender, ideally one who is TIPS-certified, to handle legal and liability issues is crucial.

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Sara Grillo

JUNE 24, 2024

Actuarial Guideline 49 of 2015, via the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) sought to cap, or limit the highly unlikely, aggressive illustrations used in the sales software prior to 2015. Also, nothing in this podcast or blog can be interpreted as legal or compliance advice.

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The Motley Fool

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It came out with the first tensor processing unit (TPU) in 2015. Alphabet's dataset here is proprietary, which is why OpenAI (the organization behind ChatGPT) may encounter legal trouble from scraping data from YouTube transcripts to train its own AI. This computing hardware has now advanced rapidly.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This legal overhang has been something of a cement weight tied around J&J's proverbial ankles. marks its cheapest valuation since 2015. Its underperformance can primarily be traced to ongoing litigation that alleges its now-discontinued talc-based baby powder causes cancer. Lastly, NextEra Energy's forward P/E ratio of 17.6

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Cobalt

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

We can see this reflected in the chart above as well; NAV briefly exceeds dry powder levels from 2010 to 2015 and then accelerated in 2020. However, between 2015 and 2020, there is a massive rise in NAVs as investors spent down dry powder amid a globally declining energy investment period and historic drops in oil prices.

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Cobalt

AUGUST 11, 2023

We can see this reflected in the chart above as well; NAV briefly exceeds dry powder levels from 2010 to 2015 and then accelerated in 2020. However, between 2015 and 2020, there is a massive rise in NAVs as investors spent down dry powder amid a globally declining energy investment period and historic drops in oil prices.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 2, 2024

life insurance companies had a very strong quarter, with pre-tax income estimated at $258 million, driven primarily by benefits from LTC in-force rate actions, including the impact of legal settlements. We continue to significantly reduce tail risk through our multiyear rate action plan, or MYRAP, and legal settlements.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 17, 2024

This consistently successful medical device maker pays a generous dividend Eric Volkman (Medtronic) : Following its acquisition of Irish peer Covidien in 2015, medical device maker Medtronic established its legal headquarters in the country.

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Cobalt

MAY 3, 2023

T he return s are consistent and generally positive from 2006 to 2015. Looking Ahead While this chart analysis ends in 2015, it gives us insight into the potential direction of future investments. The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 1, 2024

As we have said before, Genworth is not a party to the case, but previously owned the payment protection insurance business before selling it to AXA in 2015. The strong progress on our multi-year rate action plan or MYRAP and legal settlements continues to significantly reduce the tail risk on this block.

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Cobalt

MARCH 18, 2024

Post-2015 buyouts greater than $2.5 The information contained in this blog post is not legal, tax, or investment advice. billion have become much more commonplace, with over 30 being raised each year. That offers LPs opportunities to invest more in the funds, potentially propping up the inflated averages so far in the 2020s.

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H.I.G. Growth Partners

AUGUST 14, 2023

Founded in 2015, Worksuite combines best-in-class features such as freelancer talent management, project management, automated compliance, tax forms, and payments. The Company enables its customers to recruit, onboard, manage and pay freelance workers in one centralized system.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Even with the legal overhang of roughly 100,000 lawsuits that allege the company's now-discontinued baby powder causes cancer, J&J is perfectly positioned to deliver for its patient shareholders. Fintech's industry leader is also trading at its lowest valuation since being spun off by eBay in 2015.

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The Big Picture

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And according to NRF data itself, from its annual Retail Security Survey, shrink attributed to external theft, including organized retail crime, has largely remained the same since 2015. Online dasher recently reported that “The average retail shrinkage rate has hovered around 1.4% for over a decade.”

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