Investment Banking Blog


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


March 3, 2016

Reg A+ vs. S-1 vs. Reverse Merger: Assessing Your Options for a Retail Public Offering

We likely kiss more frogs than we would like to admit. In almost 90% of cases, potential issuers will likely see me as the Debbie […]
February 29, 2016

Accretion-Dilution Analysis for Mergers and Acquisitions

All-too-often proposed acquisitions are consummated without determining whether the combination of the two entities would create synergies (be accretive) or create a decrease in overall […]
February 26, 2016

Your Investment Banking Internship is Only as Good As Your Investment Bank

…and your investment bank is only as good as its dealflow. We receive a great deal of interest from those seeking internships in investment banking. They […]
February 25, 2016

Buy-Sell Agreement Structuring: Redemption vs. Cross-Purchase Approach Trade-Offs

When a corporation purchases the stock of a departing shareholder, it’s called a “redemption.” When the other stockholders purchase the stock, it’s called a cross-purchase. […]
February 24, 2016

This week in #investmentbanking: @Shutterfly, @Lytx, @Sysco, @Viacom, @MonsterEnergy

On the financial sector radar this week: Lytx has been acquired by private equity firm GTCR for $500 million after a successful recovery from near-bankruptcy. […]
February 23, 2016

Types of Required SEC Filings for Public Companies

Publicly traded companies are required to file initial and on-going reports with the SEC. Some occur at the happening of specific events and others are […]
February 22, 2016

A Negative Interest Rate Policy (#NIRP) Is “Mind Blowing” in its Repercussions

Am I the only one whose mind is being literally blown by the wildly crazy economic experiment being played out by the ECB, Japan, Denmark, […]
February 18, 2016

A Look at Risk Premium Evaluation Models

This article is written under the assumption that the reader is aware of the basic risk premium evaluation models and theories such as the Modern Portfolio […]
February 18, 2016

A Few Things I Have Learned From Failed Deals

I am  a big fan of deal postmortems–the time you take to assess what went right, what went wrong and how you would do things […]
February 17, 2016

How Do #Investment Bankers Make So Much Money?

The perception is that most investment bankers are just rolling in the dough. In reality, the hay-day of investment banking seems to be lagging somewhere […]