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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. Chamber of Commerce, there are about 33 million businesses in the United States and 99.9% of them are small businesses. And, of those, the vast majority are one-person businesses.

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Hargreaves Lansdown, Thoma Bravo, and Brookfield leverage EU’s low valuations

Private Equity Wire

A challenging economic environment, characterised by weak growth forecasts, political instability, and geopolitical risks, along with the strength of the US dollar, has driven US private equity funds to focus on certain European countries, according to Neil Barlow, Partner at law firm Clifford Chance.

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Banks ramp up leveraged buyouts as interest rates fall

Private Equity Wire

Investment banks, which faced significant losses on risky merger and acquisition (M&A) loans due to a spike in global interest rates, are now aggressively returning to the leveraged buyout (LBO) market — one of the most profitable sectors in finance, according to a report by Bloomberg. Lending limits have also increased.

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

Private Equity Professional

He leverages his extensive expertise and SRSAcquiom proprietary data to produce resourceful content regularly utilized by market practitioners. One thing is clear, deal parties are getting more efficient at identifying when RWI might work as intended on their M&A deal and, perhaps more importantly, when it might not.

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Dechert hires Partner in private credit expansion 

Private Equity Wire

Global law firm Dechert has appointed Eliot L Relles as a Partner in its corporate and securities practice group as part of efforts to enhance its capabilities in leveraged finance and private credit. Relles will be based in the firm’s New York office.

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First Solar (FSLR) Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

As disclosed earlier in the third quarter, First Solar also possesses a TOPCon patent portfolio through our acquisition of TetraSun in 2013, which we have begun to leverage as part of our ongoing efforts to develop the next generation of PV technologies.

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Hogan Lovells adds three to PE practice in London

Private Equity Wire

Global law firm Hogan Lovells has hired James Cross, previously with K&L Gates, as a partner in its private equity and funds practice in London. Cusack specialises in leveraged finance transactions and has experience acting for both private equity sponsors and lenders across the capital structure, with a focus on private credit.