Category Archives: Corporate Restructuring

Success in Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity is par for the course in the corporate world these days. Over the last several decades, there has been a consistent increase in both the number and value of transactions taking place, not only in … Read More…

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Asset Bubbles and Bursts: The Re-emergence of Rational Valuation

Aswath Damodaran, the famed NYU finance professor and High Priest of quantitative valuation, shares a lot with Edward Altman, his equally famous colleague at NYU. (Damodaran penned “Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset”, a … Read More…

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Rethinking the Corporate Ladder

Periods of economic upheaval tend to see organizations rethinking their relationship with their employees. Some of this is driven by the employer (see the ‘rightsizing’ that has taken place over the last year), but others are driven by the changing … Read More…

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Surviving the Storm: Value Creation in the US Auto Parts Sector

In a period of unparalleled economic turbulence, perhaps no industry has been more severely impacted than the US Auto Parts industry. The sector, in tandem with the Big 3 Automakers, has been facing severe financial distress over the last year … Read More…

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Offshoring – Taking its place within the Management Toolkit

One of the most intriguing findings from our recent Financial Services survey related to the impact of offshoring (and outsourcing*) on the financial job market – both in recent years as well as today. All in all, 70% of recruiters … Read More…

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