The Motley Fool

APRIL 12, 2024

The rebound in Banking gained speed during the quarter, led by near-record levels of investment-grade debt issuance as improved market conditions enables issuers to pull forward activity. Our strong performance in both DCM and ECM drove Investment Banking revenue growth of 35% and overall banking revenue growth of 49%.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We also expanded Zelman's investment banking capabilities into the commercial market in 2023. And in the fourth quarter, the investment banking team closed three transactions, albeit all in the single-family sector, that boosted revenues and expanded the W&D brand significantly. Those are the challenges.

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Beyond chatbots, the company is leveraging Elastic's hybrid search capabilities, combining keyword and semantic search for broader applications. We also signed an expansion deal with a leading sporting goods retailer in North America to support their omnichannel experience.

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Axial

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Axial is excited to release its Q3 2023 Lower Middle Market Investment Banking League Tables. These quarterly league tables reveal the top 25 investment banks active on the Axial platform in Q3. In Q3, 571 sell-side investment banks and M&A advisors brought a total of 2,360 deals to market.

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The Big Picture

OCTOBER 31, 2023

But more importantly, when I’ve heard of liquid alts, it’s generally the investments that they’re making are in liquid, liquid products, mostly public market products. What do we, what have we done historically on the public side that would make sense to port over to the private side and leverage and scale that, right?

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The Big Picture

JUNE 13, 2023

So that was a while back, but nonetheless, I don’t know if it was love at first sight, but we got to get along pretty well, and after a few years working for investment banks, he then joined Goldman Sachs. I joined, effectively, Deutsche Bank. We decided to try to have a go on our own. We were 28, 30 respectively.

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Banks Asset Management Assets Capital 59

Axial

JUNE 6, 2023

A purely proprietary deal is a sure sign that the owners were not thinking about selling until you showed up. Sponsors lay out their investment focus across financials, geographies, and industries, and receive relevant opportunities directly from boutique investment banks, business brokers and company owners.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And I think a lot of investors and, and lenders and really lost their way and agreed to terms and conditions that in under today’s market environment would not be acceptable levels of leverage that would not work. And, and as a result, there is a, a condition where there’s risks and opportunities in the current market.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Debt Banks 52

The Big Picture

APRIL 4, 2023

And what was fascinating about Drexel and kind of the diaspora, if you will, of that era was that we all basically went out looking to take that experience, particularly in high yield and kind of buyouts and financing, and do it at either banks or other investment banks. KENCEL: It’s the investment banking affiliate.

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Private Equity Firms Private Equity Firms Banks Financing 59

Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

UK sponsor-backed financing activity experienced a modest slowdown in Q3 2024, as ongoing M&A sluggishness and seasonal dynamics impacted deal flow, according to the latest data from global investment bank, Houlihan Lokey.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We held our team together throughout the downturn to be able to capture deal flow when markets returned and our investment sales team's efforts in the back half of 2024 were fantastic and set us up very well for 2025 and beyond. Walker -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer It was standard deal flow.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 3, 2023

We raised Alliant's 117th low-income tax credit fund during Q2, and we broadened our investment banking capabilities from predominantly single-family by hiring a new managing director focused on the commercial real estate market. And people say, you know what, it's outside of my band on negative leverage, I'm going to pause.

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The Motley Fool

AUGUST 8, 2024

Our investment sales market presence and team is extremely strong. And as property sales volumes pick up, it will benefit investment sales, debt placement, valuation services, investment banking, and our affordable housing business. Total Q2 transaction volume of $8.4 Thank you for your time this morning.

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Pension Pulse

MARCH 3, 2025

billion) funds approach to investing. After nearly 20 years in investment banking, at Deutsche Bank and then Credit Suisse, in 2013 he moved to Borealis, OMERS infrastructure arm, to run infrastructure globally and then head the capital markets team. We are starting to see LBO [leveraged buyout] activity pick up again.

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The Big Picture

JANUARY 7, 2025

But also it helped private equity do deals, right? Leverage buyouts requires leverage. And when rates were so low, the leverage went, it was cheap and, and and easily accessible. So deal value values came down. So you mentioned deal flow is, has ticked up, I’m assuming that’ll continue into next year.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

And having gone into biotech early and then tech enabled, you know, software using, you know, leveraging the internet in healthcare early, I just felt like payments and FinTech, I wanted to be early. How does this affect the deal flow you see in the companies you look at, do you have your own space and and that’s what you drill into?

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Banks Startups Boutique Investment Banks Companies 52