Whitehead, for example,
did deal at some length with the questions of equality and freedom, and the latter topic, at least, has been a common one in process thought.
I've had it confirmed today that City have tabled a bid worth # 25m for Sanchez but Arsenal want to
do a deal at # 35m.
Although Man City suffered a thrashing at Anfield this week, the Premier League title seems like
a done deal at the moment.
The second call we received said the club was confident of
doing a deal at around # 45,000 a week or just over half a million quid for the three months.
Many MPs in the party, meanwhile, are keen to reposition in the hope of
doing a deal at the next election with Labour.
ALSO: since I'll be
doing this deal at the convention, I'll extend it to online purchasers as well.
If the majority has said yes based on dollar value, that's what you're talking about, it's
a done deal at that point.
Private equity is
doing these deals at lower and lower IRRs from what I've heard, and eventually, that is not sustainable, given the levered up risks taken.
Those promises you make to yourself every January may seem like
a done deal at the time, but ask yourself: How are you doing on last year's resolutions?
As Bryan Jaffe, managing director at Seattle - based investment bank Cascadia Capital, puts it, «Seldom
do deals at this level in the food chain involve the status quo in the C - suite.»
The deals we were on completed, litigation continued and where we needed help other firms were very helpful, suggesting
we do deals at their offices rather than ours.
«There's been a bit of an uptick but it's still in the mode where companies who aren't being pushed into coming up with an M&A solution from their creditors or dissident activity don't want to be the ones
doing a deal at the bottom of the market,» he says.
This frustrates many Latin American entrepreneurs seeking investment, as they don't understand why Latin American VCs aren't
doing deals at Silicon Valley valuations.
SESTA still has to clear Congress and the President before it can become law, so it's not
a done deal at this point.
Official Galaxy S8 cases confirm the same, so it seems to be
a done deal at this point.
We also hear that the Surface Mini is essentially
a done deal at this point, and its release is simply a matter of Microsoft deciding it's the right time.
And, businesses looking to raise cash have been willing to
do deals at numbers that made sense.»
For example, rather than
doing a deal at 75 percent loan to value (LTV) it may be 60 percent today.
There are always opportunities to network and
do deals at the BWI Meetup.
Not exact matches
(See How to
Deal with Time Wasters) Such sessions rarely accomplish anything except maybe some pseudo-bonding; they don't have a logical and clearly - understood endpoint so they seem both pointless and interminable; and, most often, they sorta drool to a conclusion without agreed - upon action items and / or documented next steps for
at least half the people in the room.
The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business
deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum
at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up
at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.
So many of the other
deals being discussed are «so what» stories
at best and, as I always say, two warm cups of coffee don't make a hot drink.
As an ex-CISO, what advice
do you have for the many startups
at RSA Conference who are hoping to get attention and close
deals?
There's a great
deal to be gleaned from people who have actually
done what you're hoping to
do rather than from newbies who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping
at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good ideas.
Particularly companies going out to find
deals because they feel that they are under pressure to
do something,» Andrew Cave, Head of Governance & Sustainability
at Baillie Gifford, said.
This doesn't mean there isn't a great
deal of money to be made during the bear market (on both the long and short side), but
at some point we must recognize that our global imbalances all remain.
Some items have prices that make sense, like a triple cheeseburger for $ 3, while others don't feel like much of a
deal at all, like a sausage McMuffin that also costs $ 3.
Niel's NJJ Telecom Europe and French telecommunications company Iliad
did not disclose what they paid for the stakes, but said the
deal put Eir's enterprise value
at around $ 3.5 billion ($ 4.1 billion).
Priced
at $ 9.99 per month or $ 99.99 per year, Beats Music has reportedly struggled to poach subscribers from rivals Spotify and Rdio, but that didn't stop Apple from gobbling up Beats this summer in a cash and stock
deal valued
at $ 3 billion, vaulting Dre's personal fortune to $ 800 million and making him the richest figure in hip - hop history.
Not to mention Jay Clayton, who is not technically from the private equity industry, but also
did a lot of PE
deals while in his most recent job
at Sullivan & Cromwell.
But while the numbers are certainly big enough to justify the billing, the
deal is almost certainly not what it appears
at first sight — and the still - murky reality of it most likely has as much to
do with geopolitics as with business.
«Not that he
did a great
deal of good, but
at least he didn't make a mess,» one business leader wrote.
«GBP fell on the back of the Telegraph report on fear that we could be out of the EU without a
deal even sooner than thought — though actually this doesn't make sense because the only way we could leave earlier than March 2019 would be if a
deal had been struck,» Jane Foley, head of forex strategy
at Rabobank, told CNBC via email.
«It is a great way for us to look
at deals we can
do and companies we can get involved in,» he told me.
Or, if a colleague is great
at dealing with criticism, reach out to them and see if they can show you how to
do the same.
«We're
doing very well, and that's primarily because the Irish VCs are particularly good
at syndicating
deals for Irish companies,» Breheny says.
«
At some point, the lack of productivity by an employee catches up and has to be
dealt with — either in the employee having to
do marathon work days to catch up or by simply firing the offender.»
There is the cheaper Slingbox 350
at $ 179, but it doesn't have Wi - Fi or on - screen setup, both of which are bound to be
deal breakers for many.
«In my own experience in
dealing with the North Koreans, there's never been a discussion that they will denuclearize... I don't believe that they're committed to
doing that now,» Cohen, currently the chairman and CEO of consultancy The Cohen Group, said Sunday
at the China Development Forum in Beijing.
«While OPEC are
doing really well in terms of compliance with their current
deal and are likely to provide strong words of support for continuing some sort of an arrangement going into 2019, they will be talking about how to taper down the scale of the support
at this May meeting,» Shah told CNBC Tuesday.
Executives
at a half - dozen fintech companies said the Vision Fund has told them it's looking to
do deals where it can put
at least $ 200 million to work over one or multiple investment rounds.
It also became apparent that profitsharing didn't compensate for a
deal structure that benefited the private investors
at the government's expense — a lot of SBICs made big profits even as the SBA lost money on its investment.
If you have $ 150 to spend, we recommend jumping up to the Moto G4 instead of the A30, but if you have a hard cap
at $ 100, Alcatel's budget phone is a good
deal — especially if you don't mind the ads and get the subsidized version.
The most substantive results are eight
deals done over the last 5 years that I have been involved with coming out of the University of Texas
at Austin's Texas Venture Labs.
But although Canada's real national pastime is played on the green, in the tax man's eyes business
deals conducted between swings aren't equal to those
done at the rink.
Li Hang, head of Greater China equity capital markets
at CLSA, said: «We really need sector specialist bankers to run biotech
deals, otherwise everybody will say we don't know how to
do the due diligence.»
We could
at any time
do one of the larger
deals but it wouldn't surprise me if there is space between them.
M&A will never be 100 % successful and we learn from every
deal we
do, and so not to pick on any specific
deal, but I've learned, based on relative success of
deals we've
done in the past, is making sure the key leaders
at the company share a vision with the founder, making sure the strategy drives the M&A, as opposed to the M&A driving the strategy, and making sure we have good support mechanisms for these companies after they come in.
The
deal to manage the NBA Store, which it signed in May, is new territory for Fanatics, although it
does have some relevant experience in brick - and - mortar on a smaller scale, thanks to recent retail promotions
at NASCAR tracks and
at college and pro stadiums.
Construction giant CIMIC Group has proposed to acquire all the shares it doesn't own in Perth - based Macmahon Holdings, with the
deal valuing the target
at about $ 174 million.