Sentences with phrase «of deals getting done»

Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP formed its food, beverage, and agri - business practice group in 2009 because it was «seeing a lot of deals getting done,» says Michael Stevenson, a partner in Blakes» M&A and food, beverage, and agri - business practice groups.

The problem is that the number of deals are flat, so the average size of the deals has increased but the amount of deals getting done is down from 2014.

The chances of a deal getting done are roughly 50/50, according to Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports.

As leading transactional attorneys «lick their chops» over the prospect of a thriving M&A market, one question that looms is how will all of these deals get done?

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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.

Thus, anything you can do to reduce the risk and / or increase the reward will improve the likelihood of getting a deal done and enhance the financial terms for the funds.

«For most of the last 80 years, venture as an asset class has been really difficult for the average investor to get in, unless you are a high net worth individual, unless you get the deal flow, you are part of an angel group or you invest into VCs, you just didn't have access into this asset class,» Wang says.

Having done more deals in more businesses than I can count, I've got a few simple rules that have saved me tons of money, helped me dodge more than a few bullets, and added a few years to my life.

The Defense Department missed its own target of getting a deal done by the end of 2017.

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.

Part of the reason for the disparity is that the largest deals are getting bigger, and VCs and their corporate partners are doing more of them.

In these cases, eventually you get to a bad result - either because no deal gets done or - far worse - because the entrepreneur grudgingly and half - heartedly accepts a deal that he's unhappy with and angry about for what he thinks is the good of the business.

While we're on the subject of counterculture — and since I don't get to man Term Sheet very often — I'll make note of another interesting deal that crossed the wire this morning.

Kevin O'Leary: O'Leary will do a deal «if he knows the company can scale to a certain amount, and he can get all his money back in a certain amount of time.

«You can see it in the number of deals being struck but also in the number of conferences, books, and articles on the subject and in the cocktail - party interest I get when I tell people what I do.»

When anger comes knocking, and it will, we have to know how to deal with it appropriately so that it doesn't get the best of us.

«This week, investors got an email explaining that Telegram is doing another private presale four sources with knowledge of the deal told The Verge.

«I can assure you, if we don't get a better deal within the context of NAFTA from Canada and Mexico and refigure this, we're going to have something happen,» White House trade adviser Peter Navarro told CNN this week.

So the trouble is that we've got a mountain of dry powder, but we've got a flat number of deals and an increasing value per deal, so you quickly come to a situation where the industry is becoming much more competitive for each deal that is done.

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Even if he doesn't get the nomination, though, it's clear that the Republican Party has totally lost control of their nomination process, a problem that's going to take a long time to deal with.

It was only the surprise election of Donald Trump and his pro-business agenda that revived hopes that a deal could get done.

Not only did the post end up getting syndicated by multiple outlets, but it also sparked many subsequent online conversations about how to deal with difficult personalities in the workplace, particularly clients or customers who are vital to the stability of your business.

Dow Jones reports Marni Walden of Verizon says she can't say with confidence that the deal will get done.

«I don't think it is a great idea to get into all of this (allegations of White House interference) because every deal raises different facts,» said Andre Barlow of Doyle, Barlow & Mazard.

However, he wouldn't rule out the possibility that a deal could get done soon — possibly in the midst of an election campaign.

The demographic is still profoundly lagging when it comes to purchasing a home (at least when compared to previous generations), but when they do buy, they have been known to get rid of their car if it means getting a better deal.

Back in October, when the wholesale part of that got out, I speculated that it was part of a quid - pro-quo deal with the CRTC, which was in the process of deciding what to do about Bell's usage - based billing proposal.

Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent are scouring for projects, while Didi's acquisition of Brazil 99 showed deals can get done quickly, unlike the political opposition Chinese companies face in the U.S.

They surely never thought, «If we don't wear ties, we'll stand a lesser chance of getting the deal done.»

«Each area needs growth in earnings and in sales, or at least one of those, and the only way to get it by now is to actually do deals, do deals with other companies in the industry,» he said.

According to Tawheed Kader, founder and CEO of sales success platform ToutApp, on average it takes about 30 touches across email, social, meetings and phone calls to get one deal done.

Name: Oliver Kharraz Company: Zocdoc Work - life balance philosophy: My way of dealing with that is to protect my weekends as much as I can, and get most of my work done during the week.

Imagine, the next time you have to give a presentation you didn't have to lug your laptop and remember the right cables to make it happen — not to mention deal with the headache of getting all of that tech to cooperate.

One method you may be familiar with is the exploding offer: A retailer nearby sends a message announcing a fantastic deal, but you have to act on it in X minutes — something thanks to geo - fencing the retailer knows you can do because of the parameters of the ad you got served.

Vanderkam uses the example of business strategist Debbie Moysychyn, who dealt with so many ad hoc meetings and interruptions throughout the day that she felt she couldn't get anything done.

Jon Klein, TAPP TV CEO and former CNN U.S. president, discusses the Department of Justice's demand that AT&T sell either Turner assets or DirecTV in order to get its deal for Time Warner done.

J. P. Morgan originally agreed to pay $ 2 a share for Bear Stearns, with the Federal Reserve promising to cover $ 30 billion of mortgage securities to get the deal done.

«India, it has been an important market for us, but again there is this opportunity cost of the deals that we are not able to do that don't get discussed,» Trump Jr. said, shrugging off criticism about profiteering from the president.

Because of this, the best salespeople you can hire are ones that want to get as many deals done early on to free up their time.

It was hard in that I had to deal with the pay cycles of my clients — do the work in June, for example, but not get paid until September.

If you don't know anyone who is in the business of investing in emerging - growth companies or if you have never made anyone a pile of money from investing in one of your companies, then you're just the type of entrepreneur who will get the most out of having an outside advisor in on the deal.

4) It doesn't need to: Although buying Netflix would give Apple a leg up in the subscription services area, the company doesn't have to acquire the company in order to get most of those benefits — it could strike a licensing deal with Netflix, while also building its own subscription offering similar to Amazon's Prime Video.

«Given how rapidly the [cryptocurrency] space is unfolding, given the breadth of opportunities in front of Coinbase, we feel very fortunate having someone like Emilie with us and helping us figure out how to get those deals done.»

You don't want to the added headache of bringing on another employee, and you figure hiring a freelancer is an effective way to get the help you need — without having to deal with payroll, benefits, and all of that other pesky administrative stuff.

They don't strive to build the finest business they can, diminishing their chances of getting the best deal possible for themselves and their stakeholders.

«You don't think that made a difference in terms of the Congress I've got to deal with,» Obama said.

The Elliotts and Giesbrecht have not been implicated in any illegal dealing — in an interview, Robin Elliott insisted this was the only time they'd ever referred members to an investment and «obviously we're never going to do it again» — but their brand of get - rich - quick seminar has become a fertile recruitment site for investors in a growing number of shady investment schemes.

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But, if this new deal does get the stamp of approval, Staples would become the force to be reckoned with in the office - supply space.