Creative Deal Toy Ideas: 7 Frequently Overlooked Sources of Inspiration

July 27, 2023 by David Parry

Coming up with creative deal toy ideas can be a chore for bankers Especially when they're faced with the same predictable, stock design suggestions. Fortunately, there are a number of imaginative–though commonly overlooked— design...

5 Ideas for “Green” and Sustainability-Themed Deal Toys

September 20, 2023 by David Parry

Sustainability isn't exactly a new focus, either for financial transactions themselves or for the deal toys that commemorate them. After all, sustainability has been a corporate tenet for decades now, and become the centerpiece of any number of...

Custom Lucite Embedments: The Overlooked Questions You Should Really be Asking

September 6, 2023 by David Parry

Custom Lucite embedments, as you may already know, offer an ideal way to preserve, showcase, and honor prized items and objects. Unless you don't know what you're doing. Or you don't know enough about Lucite embedments to ask the questions...

Oil and Gas Deal Toys That Will Leave an Impression

September 5, 2023 by David Parry

When ordering oil and gas deal toys, one of your top priorities should be making them memorable. Most deals require a significant amount of time, effort, and expertise, and you want your deal toy to reflect and truly commemorate that achievement....

Closing Dinner Deal Toys: 5 Ways to Avoid Disaster

August 14, 2023 by David Parry

Bankers can vastly reduce the downside of closing dinner deal toys and other deadlines by guarding against these 5 common pitfalls. What happened to one analyst's deal toys ---deal toys that were supposed to be given out at a closing dinner that...

The “Classic” Deal Toy Connecting Harvard with “George of The Jungle”

August 9, 2023 by David Parry

The classic deal toy above may conjure up some dim memories, and not just of Casper the Friendly Ghost. The Lucite tombstone is also a vestige of another spectral presence: the now-defunct investment banking powerhouse Bear Stearns. But the...

The Story Behind the Deal Tombstone: A Megadeal Signed at a Food Stamps Office

August 6, 2023 by David Parry

In our 42-year history, The Corporate Presence has designed the deal tombstone for a number of landmark transactions. We've designed and produced the tombstones, for instance, for the initial public offerings of Apple, KKR, Twitter, Facebook,...

5 Investment Banking Tombstones for 5 Remarkable Deals

August 1, 2023 by David Parry

The phrase "investment banking tombstones" tends to conjure up some immediate associations. Buttoned-up, drab, and probably most of all, boring. A lot of that's undoubtedly due to the word "tombstone". In just about any context, the word pretty...

Project “Barracuda”? Project “Buzz”? Browse Some Great Code Name-Inspired Deal Toys

July 21, 2023 by David Parry

Code names offer a rich, and too often neglected, source of deal toy ideas. Code names tend to provide ready-made design ideas because they also tend to be both colorful and evocative. The code names for high-profile deals have included, for...