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How to Leverage the Gig Economy to Grow Your Small Business

The Motley Fool

Lots of small businesses do the same -- plumbing outfits, law firms, dentists, you name it. Take a law firm, for example. Bid on larger projects and take on more than one at a time. Chamber of Commerce, there are about 33 million businesses in the United States and 99.9% of them are small businesses.

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Blackstone, Rialto, and CPP Acquire $1.2bn Stake in Signature Bank’s CRE Debt

Private Equity Insights

Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust partnered with Miami, Florida-based Rialto Capital and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to make the successful $1.2bn bid for the 20% interest in a joint venture set up by the FDIC to hold the failed bank’s $16.8bn in commercial real estate debt.

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Are M&A Deal Parties Turning Away from Reps & Warranties Insurance? 

Private Equity Professional

After a high-water mark in 2021, a year when buyers often needed to find ways to sweeten their bids in a very competitive M&A landscape, RWI has been purchased on fewer deals each year. Deal parties are now taking a closer look at whether RWI is best suited to meet their respective needs. What the Data Says Fewer deals today use RWI.

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Why GSK Stock Rocketed Nearly 6% Skyward on Wednesday

The Motley Fool

Relieved investors showed their appreciation by collectively bidding the company's shares up by 5.8% GSK announced Wednesday that it has agreed to a settlement with 10 plaintiffs' law firms representing around 80,000 Zantac cases -- 93% of the total number. on the day, a performance that easily eclipsed the 0.7%

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Banks ramp up leveraged buyouts as interest rates fall

Private Equity Wire

Lower borrowing costs enable private equity firms to take on more debt, making them stronger contenders in competitive bidding for acquisition targets. In the US, dealmaking is gaining momentum with renewed market optimism following the first interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve in four years.

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Glencore's Bid For Teck Puts Pressure on Canada's Pension Giants?

Pension Pulse

The previous unreported proposal is an unusual move, but mirrors the broader nationalistic sentiment at display in Canada since the Swiss miner's unsolicited approach for one of the country's top mining firms by market value. billion bid and Ottawa has said Glencore would face rigorous scrutiny.

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Highwoods Properties (HIW) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

We have long believed it would take time for the bid-ask spread between buyers and sellers to narrow. One was financial services and one was -- I'm sorry, as professional services, a law firm and then one was a GSA deal that were driving those economics. Overall, we continue to outperform our financial expectations.

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