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Our advisory services focus on businesses that have reached a certain
stage of maturity and growth. Our services also include mergers and
acquisitions, as well as OTC BB listings. In order to support private
fundraisings and identify business partners we develop business &
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North
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Is
your company investment ready?
Ben Hedenberg | Detroit
More capital is available than there are... |
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Global
Market
Building
a new brand name
Elsa Papadopoulou | Toronto
Manufacturing companies place now... |
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Moral
Opinion
Social
and financial streamlining
The world, as we know it, started to rapidly change before are very own
eyes. The fear that oil will reach nightmare-scenario prices, the
massive foreclosures of homes, the collapse of many- otherwise-
reputable banks, and the deep exhale of the stock exchange has... |
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Raising
Equity Strategy
Outlook for the global equity market
Despite increasing concerns about the solvency of some of the world’s
largest economies, a festering European sovereign debt crisis and
slowing global growth, the current risk environment continues to
provide opportunities... |
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North
America
Opportunities
in Medical Device
Ben Hedenberg | Toronto
The medical device market is estimated to be worth US$27 billion by
2014, according to MarketsandMarkets.
Medical devices form one of the largest industries in the healthcare
sector with an estimated size of $250 billion in 2009 and a average
growth rate of 7%. The industry has been outsourcing medical device
manufacturing services for almost a decade now. This trend has brought
about huge profit margins, which has attracted many new players.
Outsourcing has helped medical device manufacturers reduce product
development cost by 10% to 30%.
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 RSS: Read the latest news about the venture capital
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Social and
financial streamlining
Mistakes to be avoided and lessons to be learned.
The world as we know it, has already started to change before are very
own eyes in 2006, when (put the first big bad financial news that made
headlines at the end of 2006). But for those in the financial and
industrial sector who are equipped with sincerity and wittiness to
acknowledge how the natural law of “what goes up must go down” works,
this is not surprising or unexpected.
Imagine a static and predictable world that remains so for ever. Some
may think, “secure- comfortable and safe”. I would rather say, such a
world would lack all prospects for progress, and be short of
visionaries and pioneers. There you have it. When our financial and
social structure collapses, it is the fearless, the bold, the creative
and the futurists who will make the news.
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Outlook for the global equity market 2012
Opportunities exist despite a dim outlook for global economy. Despite
increasing concerns about the solvency of some of the world’s largest
economies, a festering European sovereign debt crisis and slowing
global growth, the current risk environment continues to provide
opportunities that stand out from the dark outlook. Last year 2011 the
winning sectors were those traditionally thought of as "defensive" –
utilities, consumer sStaples, and health care are often among the best
havens in a weak economy. Will 2012 be the same? There some clues to
how the year might develop. Utilities had a big rally in the end of
last year. Once the calendar turned, buying interest dried up and the
utilities sector fell. Health Care, on the other hand, has shown much
steadier recent results. We should expect that health care will
continue to outperform. The current period of deleveraging (paying off
existing debt on the balance sheet) will lead to weaker economic growth
and, resulting to slower growth or contraction in corporate revenues
and earnings.
Raising
New Equity 2011
In 2011 the majority of investors was looking to
maintain their allocations to private equity, with 19% looking to
increase, and 6% looking to decrease their commitment levels. This
indicated that for the majority of investors the level of new
commitments that they will be making will be dependent upon the
distributions that they receive from their existing investments and
their need to recycle this capital in order to maintain their
allocations. In the longer term over a third of investors are looking
to increase allocations (36%) indicating that fundraising was be set
to increase more substantially as we moved into the second half of 2011.
M&A activity in the middlemarket
M&A activity in the middle market showed a meaningful pickup in 2Q
2010 as both deal volume and purchase price multiples expanded compared
to 1Q 2010. According to data collected by GF Data Resources, the
average purchase price multiple increased to 5.6 times in 2Q 2010, up
from 5.2 times in both 1Q 2010 and 2H 2009. While valuations expanded,
so too did equity contributions. According to GFDR, equity
contributions comprised 58.7% of 2Q10 capital structures while senior
and sub-debt capital only made up 32.8% and 8.4% of deal structures.
The climb in transaction multiples seen this past quarter is expected
to continue into 2011.
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2012 market outlook
Will small
cap tech buyouts pick up in 2012
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