Investment Banking Blog


Welcome to the InvestmentBank.com blog where we cover mergers, acquisitions and investment banking topics.


October 23, 2017

What Creates Business Value? Kinetic Value vs. Potential Value

Some deals have actual value (cash flows, assets, etc.) and other deals have potential value (people, ideas, IP, etc.). What a buyer or investor is […]
October 21, 2017

Bake-offs and Beauty Contests

Certain picky and select private equity groups are apt to say, “we do not do M&A auctions or competitive bid situations on any of the […]
October 20, 2017

Fintech: General Industry Overview 2017

Industry Overview Financial Technology (Fintech) companies use computer programs and other technology to support or enable banking and financial services. More broadly Fintech can be […]
October 20, 2017

Big Data & The Buy-Side

When it comes to implementing an effective buy-side strategy, it’s less about who you know and what you know. Embedded in the “what you know” […]
October 19, 2017

Capital Returns vs. Capital Preservation

Gaining that solid return on invested capital is the motive of nearly every investor the world over, but macro trends can cause strategies to shift. […]
October 18, 2017

Eating Your Seed Corn

Too many companies with little to no capital are willing to pay investment bankers sizable sums to provide capital advisory services for raising debt and […]
October 17, 2017

The X-Factor in Raising Capital

If I were to create a matrix of the type of deals we see, it would look something like this: Great deal, great team, great […]
October 16, 2017

Your Deal Is Too Small

Most investment funds–whether private equity, family office or venture capital–have investment minimums. Here’s why: It takes the same amount of labor, sweat and blood to […]
October 15, 2017

Impending Regulation of ICOs

Like Reg A+, many would-be issuers (and some investors) have been recently enamored by the string of successful ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings). However, instances of […]
October 14, 2017

Why Won’t My Deal Sell?

Let’s brainstorm together. Is the deal itself a bad deal? Does the team lack depth or is it incomplete? Does the company have a lack […]