Sentences with phrase «more equity financing»

Should more equity financing be used to avoid the risk of debt and bankruptcy?

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• Braavo Capital, a New York - based integrated financing platform for mobile app businesses, raised more than $ 70 million in debt and equity.

Because one - in - four small - business owners use home equity to finance their businesses, this policy makes it more difficult for some small - company owners to obtain credit for their companies.

What's more, lenders charge significant, and growing, premiums for the second mortgages and home - equity - backed lines of credit that are often used for cottage financing.

It's possible that large private equity firms are more willing to consider big buyouts of struggling enterprise companies in light of the blockbuster Dell and EMC deal, a complex transaction involving Dell raising $ 45 billion in debt financing to help carry it through.

Equity: Equity financing is by nature a long - term deal that's more appropriate for sizable investments in equipment or real estate.

Women tended to be more reliant on owner equity and insider financing than men, all other parameters like education, experience, credit scores and firm characteristics being the same.

«In troubled times like these, public companies turn to the private - equity markets because they don't have the same financing opportunities that they might otherwise possess, either by selling more stock in the secondary markets or by borrowing whatever money they need from banks,» he says.

SolarCity raised more than $ 500 million in equity financing prior to its IPO, according to CrunchBase.

In November 2008, within 48 hours after Flaherty's fall update sparked an opposition attempt to form a coalition that could take power from the Conservatives, Harper had sent his ministers to announce the cancellation of everything in the update that had upset the opposition — party financing, pay equity and more.

I'm seeing more and more growth equity financings come to market with an over-sized component of the financing allocated to existing shareholder liquidity.

BFS Capital financing has come into the mainstream because it's more accessible than a bank loan, less expensive than equity, and less risky than bootstrapping.

It has raised more than $ 4 billion in outside equity and debt financing; its investors include a Who's Who of Silicon Valley venture - capital firms (Greylock, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz) and a number of high - profile individuals, such as Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

«More than two years after the financial crisis, we believe the U.S. financial services sector is poised to shift toward capital deployment from capital accumulation in 2011,» wrote Keefe Bruyette & Wood's North America Equity Research team of analysts in a 2011 finance - sector outlook published in December.

And these deficits are now being financed in riskier ways: more debt than equity; more short - term debt than long - term debt; more foreign - currency debt than local - currency debt; and more financing from fickle cross-border interbank flows.

This relationship helped us to achieve more significant scale and to build greater awareness with prospective sellers, strengthened our board of directors by adding Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to our board for a 12 month period, and included an equity investment by Starbucks in our Series D preferred stock financing on the same terms and conditions as all other sales of our Series D preferred stock by us in that financing.

These behavioral finance influences can skew a portfolio's overall allocations toward an overemphasis of potentially higher - yielding equities that in some instances may represent more downside risk than upside potential at current valuation levels.

Without recognizing the role of debt and taking into account the magnitude of negative equity and earnings shortfalls, one can not see that what is preventing American industry from exporting more is the heavy debt overhead that diverts income to pay the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector.

So if you need a way to finance your child's college education or your own retirement, using the equity in your house to get a home equity loan could be a better alternative in the long run to taking on more credit card debt.

I'd add a related wrinkle: when a dot.com bubble bursts, it mops up more quickly because of the difference between «mark - to - market» in an equity bubble and «extend - and - pretend» in a debt - financed housing bubble.

Public awareness of alternative finance options like peer - to - peer (P2P) lending and equity crowdfunding is increasing, and governments are updating regulations to allow more investors to participate in these types of markets.

What's more, using equity as business financing doesn't depend on your credit score.

The following chart, constructed from data in the paper, summarizes average equity return (ERP plus risk - free rate) estimates in local currencies for the 59 countries with more than five responses from finance / economic professors, analysts and company managers.

Speaking at the IFC's 12th annual Global Private Equity Conference in Washington, DC, held in association with the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), IFC executive vice president and CEO Lars Thunell said developing countries were proving more attractive than ever to private equity investors (see Corporate Finance News, pagEquity Conference in Washington, DC, held in association with the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), IFC executive vice president and CEO Lars Thunell said developing countries were proving more attractive than ever to private equity investors (see Corporate Finance News, pagEquity Association (EMPEA), IFC executive vice president and CEO Lars Thunell said developing countries were proving more attractive than ever to private equity investors (see Corporate Finance News, pagequity investors (see Corporate Finance News, page 83).

The more stock you buy, the more interest you have in the company another name for Equity financing is?

In such cases, the exchange ratio will be established and the convertible instrument will convert into equity only after the company has more of an operating history — typically when there is a Series A financing round.

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He has completed more than 100 transactions for clients during his career in M&A, debt and equity financings, and financial restructurings.

U.S. home values have climbed more than 30 % since late - 2012 which means that many of the homeowners who have used FHA financing this decade have at least some home equity.

«Because investments pledged via the EB - 5 program can not have any guaranteed rate of return (otherwise the capital invested is not considered «at risk»), from a developer's perspective, terms are greatly preferable to more traditional bank financing and are less dilutive than equity financing.

As a result of the likely move into negative real returns on cash, more cash savers will move into UK government bonds (gilts), more gilt owners will swap them for corporate bonds, some more will move into equities, and a sliver of risk - takers will use cheaper financing to start businesses or take out loans to build property.

With more than 1,500 deals closed in the last 9 years, we are a leading provider of senior secured financing for mid-sized companies and private equity firms throughout the U.S., Canada and the UK.

According to CBRE's second - edition of Four Quadrants Asia Pacific, as several interest rate cuts were recorded across the region, debt financing turned more active while the equity funding market slowed down.

The model «Convertible Security» Yokum has published also incorporates that clever feature of more sophisticated note templates, whereby the holder of the convertible instrument gets no more preferred equity for her investment than does the new money in the Qualified Financing, and takes her discount in the form of common shares.

«My only point of caution is that price discovery may suffer for the cannabis companies as the banks get more comfortable in the space and bank debt lending and equity financing potentially get linked,» Cusson said.

Similarly, the note's valuation cap establishes a maximum value of the company at that future financing, which also potentially allows noteholders to convert their investment into equity at a more favorable price per share.

He has an experience of more than 12 years in Corporate Finance, Investment Banking & Private Equity.

In our Securities Practice, we act as counsel to more than 80 public companies (including 20 Chinese issuers), as well as, numerous FINRA (formerly NASD) licensed underwriters and placement agents in connection with their financing activities, including private placements and public offerings of equity and debt securities.

Between the Financing & Innovation Conference and the GFBA, FamilyFarmed has helped facilitate more than $ 50 million in equity and debt funding for Good Food businesses in recent years.

He estimated that private equity costs around five percentage points more than public financing but that it was often worth it, especially for more complicated and risky projects.

More than a third of companies trying to raise equity financing failed to do so, while a further 47 percent were not able to obtain all the financing they required.

New Jersey's second - largest categorical program is Parity Remedy Aid, a court - ordered program that targets additional funds to the so - called Abbott districts — the plaintiffs in the Abbott v. Burke school finance lawsuit — to create more equity between them and the state's wealthier and academically more successful districts.

Taking a new tack toward resolving Michigan's long - running dispute over school - finance equity, Gov. John M. Engler has announced a plan to help close the gap between rich and poor districts by making better - off systems bear more of the burden of school - employee retirement costs.

To learn more about how pension spending affects school finance equity in Illinois, download the full report.

Funding equity and financial transparency are more than just tweaks to our school finance system.

Through the Local Control Funding Formula, which Brown shepherded through the Legislature in 2013, the state shifted control over budget decisions from the state to school districts and created an equity - based financing system that directs more money to low - income students, English learners and foster youth.

You will need to pick each individual project to invest in and you might consider splitting your investment between debt financing (less risk but lower potential return) or equity financing (higher potential return but more risk).

Realistically, you essentially could be taking out «home equity» by taking out more than what is absolutely necessarily to finance your education.

Private equity seeks more and more financing, substituting debt for equity, and making the overall financial system less flexible.

Economies are more stable when they limit fixed claims and encourage financing via equity rather than debt.