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Well, you have to have a certain track record, be around for certain length of period, be able to check all of their duediligence boxes, and that takes time and money. ” “Well, we — you know, we just missed our bank projections a second time,” and I’m going on and on. WEAVER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: Right.
I mean, I, I liked, I, I like learned a lot from that job and it’s like really helped me do what I do today because it really touched on a lot of elements of the bank. It was underwriting, you know, it was like doing investmentbanking, underwriting public offerings. I recall you wrote about that.
And that was very important because when this was the dawning of what is now a big analyst program across the country in all banks and investmentbanks. There was no m and a departments in any investmentbank really until the very late seventies. And I was fortunate to be accepted to both.
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It was between corporate law and investmentbanking. RITHOLTZ: So even back then, when it was the size that you could take a Christmas picture with everybody in one room at Goldman, they’re still doing investmentbanking. RITHOLTZ: Oh, really? KLINSKY: Yeah. They’re trading. They’re advising clients.
Under the SIA, Costa will be subject to customary exclusivity obligations, including no shop, no talk and no duediligence obligations (the latter two subject to a customary fiduciary exception), notification obligations and a matching right. and is a leading middle market banking provider in the U.S. A break fee of $14.9
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And we said, let’s just take a little detour here and make sure we understand the credit risk of these things before we sort of travel, start making markets and banking and, and, and really making these a core part of our business. There were financial experiments where the borrower hadn’t been through duediligence.
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I would never recommend investing blindly without duediligence because large hedge funds invest over different time horizons than most retail investors and with distinct goals. However, in recent years the bank has started to get its act together under the leadership of CEO Jane Fraser. Let's take a look.
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