For fear of missing out — the emotion Suster abbreviates as «FOMO» — VCs that ordinarily would have focused on
larger deals have joined the move to early stage investing.
But
large deals would be struck in currencies that were trusted to keep their value better than the Bank of England's devalued product.
These large deals have significantly affected the swap spreads between the Canadian and foreign markets.
Just this year, I was able to help close on one of the largest deals I've had the privilege of working on.
Not exact matches
For one thing, many open - Web advocates argue that these kinds of
deals cement control of the internet with a few
large platforms such as Facebook, which may not always
have the best interests of news and journalism at heart.
Snap, Inc.
has made
deals with
large media companies to introduce original TV - like programming to the company's flagship app Snapchat, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
OPEC's
largest producer and de facto leader — Saudi Arabia — is the most closely watched oil nation for hints about an unofficial oil price target, and speculation
has been ripe since the start of the
deal in January 2017 as to what price the Kingdom is aiming for.
If the acquisition
had gone through, it
would have been the
largest tech
deal in history.
Chen
has vowed to bring in cash from BlackBerry's
large patent portfolio, and he said today the company scored two substantial
deals — one with Cisco, and another with a firm he couldn't name.
He says he recently attended one of the
largest industry trade shows, Mipcom, and ended up talking to the same people he
'd last encountered six years ago, most of whom were still thinking in terms of selling programs region by region to established channels as opposed to «worldwide
deals for rights to be exploited via the Internet anywhere.»
But it seems that she
has her eye on something much
larger than just being a TV star: Dunham just signed a
deal with Hearst Media that will give the publishing giant the rights to distribute and monetize her popular email newsletter, The Lenny Letter.
Critics of the proposed FCC rules, which
had not been made public as of the writing of this story, fear they will still allow
large companies to pay for more robust connections to consumers, as Netflix recently did in a
deal with Internet Service Provider Comcast.
Fledging Perth technology company APE Mobile
has struck
deals with some of the
largest civil engineering contractors and secured Perth business leader Giles Everist to join its board.
On Monday, DFS announced it
has struck a
deal with Symphony and four of its
largest bank clients — Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, and Bank of New York Mellon — on record keeping.
But he
has a «pattern» of using shell companies to purchase homes «in all - cash
deals,» as WNYC
has reported, and then transferring those properties into his name for no money and taking out
large mortgages against them.
The Campbell
deal, meanwhile, is the
largest in the company's history; in the last five years it
has made six acquisitions, including Bolthouse, Plum, and Kelsen.
Parsons» company, Indosole, which produces and sells a line of sandals and shoes made entirely of repurposed old tires,
has achieved a great
deal of visibility thanks in
large part to its community of customers, who support and advocate the company's quest to save one million tires from landfills.
The two - year
deal is one of the
largest show - development agreements Snap
has scored to date.
Wheeler's «split the baby» approach to the contentious net neutrality debate, reported on over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times,
would effectively reclassify Internet service providers as public utilities akin to the phone companies under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, but only in
dealing with
large content providers such as Netflix and Google's Youtube.
In addition, an HTML programmer may
have difficulty
dealing with a
large number of HTML and graphics files at once.
If you're part of a
large organization, you're going to
have to get legal representation to
deal with potential lawsuits.
O'Neill, a member of the International Business Brokers Association, notes that
larger strategic buyers
have started to price smaller ones out of some
deals in the U.S., where the market
has been frothier than in Canada thus far.
Marathon Petroleum
has announced it will buy competitor Andeavor in a $ 23.3 billion
deal that will create the
largest independent oil refiner by capacity in the U.S., surpassing the established leader Valero Energy.
The potential
deal, while still unconfirmed,
has already attracted its fair share of skeptics who doubt it will go through due to Tsinghua's low offer price and the fact that U.S. regulators are likely to be cautious about a
large takeover by a Chinese state - owned company.
The firm
has been investing under - the - radar in a mix of venture and private equity
deals since 2014, but
had not raised a
large fund of pooled capital for
deals until this year.
To believe that people like Schwarzman or Trump, or Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross (net worth US$ 2.5 billion) or Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (the former CEO of ExxonMobil whose net worth is a modest US$ 150 million), will leave Canada alone, that they will look for a better
deal with everyone except their second -
largest trading partner, is not just naïve — it's like jumping into a pool filled with great white sharks because you
've convinced yourself they're vegetarians.
Uber's massive, multi-pronged
deal with SoftBank
has officially closed, ending a contentious process that will make the Japanese conglomerate the
largest single shareholder in Uber and usher in sweeping changes to Uber's governance.
In the cases of the
larger firms, as we
have recently seen in the Burger King tax
deal, amongst others, it typically involves inversions.
«It is a process because we're
dealing with very
large customers — utilities — that
have a very rigorous and regulated approach,» says Sutterfield.
Had the
deal closed, the sale of a half - interest in the Cutbank Ridge shale gas play
would have been the
largest investment of any kind by a Chinese state - controlled firm in Canada and the biggest reason to expect to see Asia - bound liquefied natural gas tankers docking on the West Coast in the not - too - distant future.
Most
large cities
have a number of mezzanine lenders on the lookout for
deals.
President Donald Trump, who
has suggested the
deal would not
have happened without his efforts, said he was told by Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou that the investment could be
larger than $ 10 billion.
We could at any time do one of the
larger deals but it wouldn't surprise me if there is space between them.
Perth miner Galaxy Resources
has announced plans to merge with joint venture partner General Mining Corporation to create a
larger lithium - focused company, in a
deal worth $ 216 million.
The United States
has until May 12 to decide whether to quit a nuclear
deal with Iran and reimpose sanctions against OPEC's third -
largest producer, tightening global supplies.
But it's going to suck for media companies if they put all of this time and effort into original content and no one sees it,» said one media executive, whose company was paid for making Facebook Live videos, but hasn't signed a
larger deal for long - form content.
Both Sprint and T - Mobile
have lagged behind Verizon and AT&T, the two
largest wireless companies, and the proposed
deal keeps the new company entrenched at number three.
Anheuser - Busch (BUD), the world's
largest beer company,
has inked several notable
deals of its own, buying Seattle - based Elysian Brewing and Oregon - based 10 Barrel.
The transaction for Dailymotion
would represent Yahoo's
largest deal since Mayer, a former Google executive, took charge last year.
«As this thing becomes a 10x bigger asset class and
has volatility on par with gold, we'll be
dealing with
larger tickets and smaller movements.
Yahoo is in talks to acquire a controlling stake in Dailymotion, one of the world's most popular online video websites, in what
would be Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's
largest deal since taking the reins in July, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
It's the first time an executive at the nation's second -
largest bank
has publicly laid out how it will
deal with gun - industry clients following Feb. 14 shootings at a high school in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.
The next step was signing up media partnerships and now it
has distribution
deals with seven of the 10
largest publications in Mexico, including El Universal and Publimetro.
The
deal would load up $ 106 billion of debt, the
largest corporate acquisition loan on record, the letter says.
Broadcom's bid for the
larger company is Tan's most audacious move following a string of
deals that
have already made his company one of the world's
largest suppliers of semiconductors.
The
deal gives Lagunitas access to the resources of the world's third -
largest brewer, which
has a plan to take craft beer to the global market.
The
deal, which
would combine the third - and fourth -
largest US wireless carriers, is expected to come under serious scrutiny from antitrust regulators, as the Trump administration
has fervently opposed AT&T's proposed mega-acquisition of Time Warner.
Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second -
largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a
deal that closed earlier this month —
has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.
Instead of suddenly remembering one of these tasks in the middle of a
larger project and derailing your momentum, you'll already
have the time set aside to
deal with them.
Over the next week, the board will encourage the apparently
large number of shareholders that
had not cast votes to support the
deal, said mergers expert Brian Quinn, an associate professor at Boston College Law School.