Financing Change PRIVATE EQUITY DEMYSTIFIED An explanatory guide John Gilligan and Mike Wright Financing Change An initiative from the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty This is the first report to be published under Financing Change‚ the thought leadership programme of the ICAEW Corporate Finance Faculty. The faculty is the world’s largest network of professionals involved in corporate finance and counts accountants‚ lawyers‚ bankers‚ other practitioners and people in business among its members
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WORLDCOM‚ INC: CORPORATE BOND ISSUANCE Introduction This case raises many interesting questions concerning the record setting issuance of corporate debt by WorldCom‚ Inc. (“WorldCom”). Both the surprisingly voluminous structure of the proposed issuance and the foreboding macro-economic climate in which it was slated spark concerns over the risk and cost of the move. One of the first questions that must be addressed is whether WorldCom’s timing was appropriate. Next‚ the company’s choice of
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provide the bulk of the income but Ford also provides other automotive products and services. For instance Ford’s finance unit‚ Ford Motor Credit‚ is one of the US’s leading auto finance companies. Ford also owns OEM parts producer Motorcraft as well as Hertz‚
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GROUP PROJECT IN MERGER‚ ACQUISTION & CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING “HINDALCO’S NOVELIS ACQUISITION” Submitted By: 1) Rakesh Ranjan (PGEXP/2011/19) 2) Subash Ch. Das (PGEXP/2011/56) 3) Kumud Anand (PGEXP/2011/21) 4) Abinash Kumar Sahu (PGEXP/2011/26) 5) Anupam Sinha (PGEXP/2011/53) 6) Rajeev Kumar Gupta (PGEXP/2011/10) ← “If we earn $10 for every $100 of aluminum we sell‚ we will now be able to earn another $10 for every $100 worth of
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO MERGERS‚ ACQUISITIONS‚ AND DIVESTITURES Delta Publishing Company 1 Copyright © 2009 by DELTA PUBLISHING COMPANY P.O. Box 5332‚ Los Alamitos‚ CA 90721-5332 All rights reserved. No part of this course may be reproduced in any form or by any means‚ without permission in writing from the publisher. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS CHAPTER 2 DIVESTITURE GLOSSARY 3 CHAPTER 1 MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After studying
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#4. Do you think that Avis/Hertz will be able to replicate Enterprise’s success in the local car rental market? It’s hard to believe that Avis/Hertz would be able to replicate Enterprise’s success (at least in the near term) in the local car rental market. Given their current dominance in the market‚ relationships with auto shops/dealerships/insurance companies‚ and reservation system’s direct interface with insurers‚ Enterprise is the most well positioned car rental company for discretionary
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Signal Corporation but later elected to sell it off to some senior managers when they decided that manufacturing Regina’s products is not part of their long-range strategy. The company is originally set to be sold at $31 million but due to the leveraged buyout scheme‚ the buyers ended up buying the company whose worth $98 million in assets and annual sales volumes. Of the new owners‚ Donald Sheelen‚ the former marketing head and now newly named CEO of Regina Company‚ ended up owning 54% of the firm
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describe your approach (qualitatively) to value AirThread. Should Ms. Zhang use WACC‚ APV or some combination thereof? Explain. (2 points) * From the statement of AirThread case‚ we know that American Cable Communication want to raise capital by Leveraged Buyout (LBO) approach. This means ACC will finance money though equity and debt to buy AirThread and pay the debt by the cash flows or assets of AirThread. * In another word‚ it’s a highly levered transaction using a fixed WACC discount rate; however
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The North Face‚ Inc.‚ is a manufacturer and distributor of high-grade equipment and apparel used in mountaineering‚ skiing‚ and backpacking. While the reputation of North Face was built on outfitting expeditions‚ the company’s growth in the 1990s came through the introduction of high-tech apparel in upscale retail stores. With Summit Shops‚ North Face established its use of a "store within a store" concept. In 2006‚ there were approximately 100 Summit Shops located within retail shops in the U.S
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extensively to maximise the available profits1. The market was further developed by the development of securitisation (see Chapter 7)‚ the entry into the market of non banking institutions‚ funds investing in loan products and the expansion of the leveraged buyout market in the corporate sector. Finally in various parts of the world organisations were set up to facilitate standard form documentation and operational procedures to make it easier to use the market. In the U.K. the Loan Markets Association
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