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The Relay Advisors blog is designed to give busy executives, professionals and investors concise, relevant and easily digestible highlights of emerging trends, news and other information that can help them in their planning and decision-making activities.
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Re-Capitalizing Your Company
A re-capitalization occurs when a company's capital structure is changed in order to achieve a desired outcome. There are various types of re-caps with differing objectives.
A private business owner may wish to re-capitalize the company to transition ownership to a different ownership group. It may or may not involve a change of owner control, and the participation of a financial sponsor such as a private equity fund. Sources of capital in these cases include debt and new equity investment with the cash being used to acquire all or part of the company owner's investment in the company. The owner's objective could be to gain liquidity, diversify investment and effect estate planning, or to transition operating management and ownership to a new group.
Read more about different forms of recapitalization...
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Canadian Budget- Great News for Foreign Funds
Strange Canadian rules that held back foreign venture capital and private equity investment were eliminated in Thursday's Canadian budget...
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How Much Should I Pay to a Corporate Finance Shop?
This article describes what business owners should expect from a corporate financier...
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U.S. Venture Capitalists Optimistic - 2010 Survey
Overall, American VCs see an improvement in investments and exits coming in 2010...
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Greek Debt Crisis - Nations Need to Explore Their Own Balance Sheets
EU members are likely to help Greece, but with conditions that underline the intertwined relationships of all countries that are heavy borrowers...
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Competitive Bidding Adds Value
Competitive bidding makes a huge difference when selling or funding a company, as investors and buyers may attribute a wide range of values to private businesses.
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Fourth-Quarter Surge in Deals Lends (Cautious) Hope for 2010
The National Venture Capital Association recently reported that biotech investments declined 19 percent in 2009 compared to 2008.
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Canadian Deal-Making Perks Up
The Canadian IPO market is heating up as at least seven Canadian technology companies are pushing for an IPO in the upcoming months.
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Amazon's New Deal to Alter Publishing Industry
Amazon will pay authors and publishers a royalty of 70% of the list price of Kindle books, shaking up authors' traditional cut of 10%.
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Aurora Interactive: a Canadian Healthcare IT Success Story
Aurora Interactive Ltd., a Montreal-based digital pathology communication software company is well positioned to quickly and significantly penetrate the US and European market within the next few years.
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Why Many Investors Keep Fooling Themselves
Market returns advertised by financial advisors and money managers are higher than the historical effective net returns.
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Private Equity Deals Seen Up As Much As 30% in 2010
Reuters reports Gregory Smith, President of Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association projects that Canadian private equity buyouts will be up 30% in 2010 and that Canadian venture capital investing will remain in doldrums.
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A Proposed New Tax Indicates France’s Attitude Toward the Internet
The French ministry of culture proposes a new tax on online advertising revenues targeting companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Facebook....
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The Art of Valuation Analysis
Business valuation is an art and a science. In advance of choosing a business valuation expert, be sure that the business valuation's purpose is well defined....
