Due diligence ensures that parties to a transaction share a baseline understanding of essential facts. Reaching this baseline, however, can be challenging. A large volume of information, ...
Due diligence ensures that parties to a transaction share a baseline understanding of essential facts. Reaching this baseline, however, can be challenging. A large volume of information, ...
2019 is on track to be a record year for biotech mergers and acquisitions. This year, Big Pharma is up against a number of roadblocks, like pricing constraints and expiring patents. These ...
Experts in mergers and acquisitions are cautiously optimistic as the calendar turns to 2020. Some industries expect strong M&A activity, while others are prepared for a downturn, ...
Virtual deal rooms (VDRs) have made it easier to negotiate sensitive business deals, prepare for litigation and perform other document-heavy tasks. Rather than requiring participants in the ...
In June 2016, voters in the UK announced a desire to leave the European Union by a margin of 1.3 million votes. More than three years later, Brexit has yet to take place — and its shadow ...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in pharmaceuticals got off to a roaring start in 2019. In the first week of the year, two multi-billion-dollar deals were announced. Together, the deals ...
An effective board of directors is a diverse one. It relies on the expertise of individuals of different backgrounds, skill sets and demographics. In an increasingly global workplace, that ...
In September 2019, WeWork announced first a delay and then a withdrawal of its initial public offering. Although it took place in the middle of significant shakeups at WeWork, the move ...
Virtual data rooms (VDRs) save businesses valuable time, money and effort. They help companies safely share confidential documents and manage intellectual property concerns. Data ...
Mergers and acquisitions in Europe dipped in Q1 of 2019. The looming threat of Brexit played a major role in slowing deal activity, and anti-competition rulings added to market concerns. ...
As the only major social media platform focused on professional connections and business relationships, LinkedIn offers a great opportunity to build networks and to learn more about key ...
It's common to see mega-tech companies buy up smaller startups as part of their growth strategies. Larger corporations that can afford to acquire businesses with a competitive edge will do ...
Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea – we know these countries to be among the most productive and profitable in the world. But it wasn’t always like that. The ‘Four Asian Tigers’ ...
Buffett defends 3G Capital Last month multimillionaire Warren Buffet used his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders to show his allegiance to aggressive private equity partner ...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are part of the life cycle of any business. They can help businesses expand, acquire new knowledge, move into new areas, or improve their output with one ...
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Lauren Hefferon began her $3.5 million a year enterprise as a bicycle tour business. Ciclismo Classico was born with not much more than one woman's passion to cycle and to travel. Mark ...
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There has been a lot of hype around India lately. First the World Bank declared that it would be the fastest-growing economy of 2017, then Moody’s Investors Service published growth figures ...
In the City of London, October 27th 1986 was a momentous day. In order to become more competitive in financial services, the UK government deregulated and internationalized the industry. ...
The agriculture industry in the US and around the world is worth many billions of dollars a year and there is always a steady stream of biotech startups looking to solve its problems and ...
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As a virtual data room provider, iDeals aims to streamline the workflow on various private equity deals. But first, let's figure out for everyone's good, once and for all, who is who in ...
Plastic gets more than its fair share of negative press. It pollutes our oceans, it fills up landfill, it’s difficult to recycle, which is perhaps why research shows Americans waste 10.5 ...
Due diligence ensures that parties to a transaction share a baseline understanding of essential facts. Reaching this baseline, however, can be challenging. A large volume of information, ...
2019 is on track to be a record year for biotech mergers and acquisitions. This year, Big Pharma is up against a number of roadblocks, like pricing constraints and expiring patents. These ...
Experts in mergers and acquisitions are cautiously optimistic as the calendar turns to 2020. Some industries expect strong M&A activity, while others are prepared for a downturn, ...
Virtual deal rooms (VDRs) have made it easier to negotiate sensitive business deals, prepare for litigation and perform other document-heavy tasks. Rather than requiring participants in the ...
In June 2016, voters in the UK announced a desire to leave the European Union by a margin of 1.3 million votes. More than three years later, Brexit has yet to take place — and its shadow ...
In September 2019, WeWork announced first a delay and then a withdrawal of its initial public offering. Although it took place in the middle of significant shakeups at WeWork, the move ...
Mergers and acquisitions in Europe dipped in Q1 of 2019. The looming threat of Brexit played a major role in slowing deal activity, and anti-competition rulings added to market concerns. ...
As the only major social media platform focused on professional connections and business relationships, LinkedIn offers a great opportunity to build networks and to learn more about key ...
Technology is transforming the way we do business, including the way we sell and purchase real estate. Tools like virtual data rooms make it possible to streamline real estate transactions, ...
The internet has moved much of our daily business from physical spaces to virtual ones. Cloud-based storage options like Dropbox and Google Drive have made it possible for people to ...
Virtual data rooms (VDRs) have quickly become the most popular and successful tool for data storage and file sharing in the corporate environment. The features that they offer allow for ...
There is a certain list of things that you should do when defining your virtual data room choice, setting the VDR up and using it. Consider these things as unspoken rules that you just ...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in pharmaceuticals got off to a roaring start in 2019. In the first week of the year, two multi-billion-dollar deals were announced. Together, the deals ...
An effective board of directors is a diverse one. It relies on the expertise of individuals of different backgrounds, skill sets and demographics. In an increasingly global workplace, that ...
Virtual data rooms (VDRs) save businesses valuable time, money and effort. They help companies safely share confidential documents and manage intellectual property concerns. Data ...
Many analysts were optimistic about M&A activity at the start of 2019. Despite recession fears rising during the year, mergers and acquisitions are currently well-positioned to weather ...
The oil and gas industry is home to some of the world’s biggest companies, so it should come as no surprise that the industry as also seen some of the world’s largest mergers and ...
It’s no secret that passive funds have become the norm over the past few years. But they don’t come much more passive than the Voya Corporate Leaders Trust. While the most conservative ...
LinkedIn has had an interesting year. In February, the firm reported its worst trading day ever, wiping $11 billion off the company’s value , and soon after the company reported an annual ...
No matter what name you choose to use – foreign exchange traders or Forex traders, currency traders are finding it hard to hit profits. A currency trader is simply someone who buys, sells ...
Ever since it was launched on 1 January 1999, the Euro has been under constant scrutiny. As the replacement currency for (then) 11 European economies (now 19), it instantly became one of ...
When amateurs start investing, the first port of call tends to be the stock market. This is unsurprising, as the stock market’s volatility, and, therefore, opportunities to make huge ...
Trading on the stock market is daunting, and making a profit on a consistent basis can be a complicated challenge. However, here are three rules that can help you to make a smooth start to ...
Cash has always been seen as a non-investment – a back-up plan in case more lucrative investments go south. Over the past decade, quantitative easing, low interest rates and rising rates of ...
Any company that works in the biotech industry needs proper data management tools. For them, information security is one of the most important things. When the organization wants to license ...
Every PC user needs some form of file storage. Both for personal files and business documents, the demand for cloud storage has grown exponentially over the last decade and especially in ...
Clinical trials require the collection of information from volunteers, which may include confidential personal health records and other sensitive information. Researchers are responsible ...
Before the creation of commercial computing, businesses were run with pen and paper and used bulky storage methods to store their data. For most people who are entering the work force these ...
Your company’s initial public offering (IPO) is an exciting and important time in any business’s life. The biotech industry is one of the largest within the healthcare sector. Taking your ...
The development of Virtual Data Rooms (VDRs) has been invaluable in many sectors, but in no sector more so than in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As). Up until the last decade, law firms ...
The pharmaceuticals industry is vastly different to other industries in how it deals with the challenges of cooperation and competition. One the one hand there is immense competition ...
The importance of setting up a virtual data room (VDR) has become apparent over the last decade as they allow for secure file sharing and viewing while you can adjust rules to meet your own ...
Data is arguably any modern businesses most valuable asset. You just have to look at any of the ‘unicorns’ (start-ups valued at over $1 billion) to see that their balance sheet isn’t ...
It is impossible to argue against the fact that they way in which we communicate with each other has changed significantly over the last ten years. The shift has been driven by the ...
As the market for virtual data rooms continues to grow and expand into each and every sector of the digital corporate world, what potential is there for the virtual data room industry as a ...
Like everything else in our digital world, data storage has changed drastically over the last decade and, in some cases, has even come to mean a completely different thing. For example, if ...
Mergers and acquisitions in Europe dipped in Q1 of 2019. The looming threat of Brexit played a major role in slowing deal activity, and anti-competition rulings added to market concerns. ...
It's common to see mega-tech companies buy up smaller startups as part of their growth strategies. Larger corporations that can afford to acquire businesses with a competitive edge will do ...
The end of the tax year is always a stressful one for any business. Making any kind of mistake on your reports or income statements for the tax season can lead to big consequences. So ...
Financial reporting is an integral part of the upkeep of your business and is often required by shareholders. Creating these reports can involve compiling financial statements, quarterly or ...
It’s no secret that the real estate market (including commercial, residential and industrial real estate) is one of the biggest industries in the world. In spite of fears of a repeat of the ...
Confidentiality of documents can often be important in a deal. However, keeping your documents secure can be tricky, because so many highly used data sharing and storing methods are not ...
Growth over the past few years in various real estate markets around the world has led to fears of a repeat of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. While you might think that we learned ...
The birth and commercialization of cloud computing software over the last 15 years has given rise to a number of powerful storage and sharing tools. Virtual Data Rooms (VDRs), are arguably ...
Depending which side of the counsel you are sitting on, business litigation has the potential to be a highly costly or lucrative process. Whether it be dealing with breaches of contract, ...
In his first few months in office, President Trump has made some extraordinary changes. In quick succession, he has introduced a sweeping travel ban , a border wall between the U.S. and ...
In mid-February, Thompson Reuters claimed that China’s inbound M&A deals were already worth $7.1 billion for 2017, doubling in just one year. This followed a record-breaking $46 billion ...
During these times, which seem to be most challenging for citizens banking in Europe, the thought or concern is that EU banks should work together to survive. The economic and political ...