That place where the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos play—what’s it called again? Good question. For years the Denver Post refused to call it anything other than Mile High, even after that venue had been demolished and replaced, in...
That place where the Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos play—what’s it called again? Good question. For years the Denver Post refused to call it anything other than Mile High, even after that venue had been demolished and replaced, in...
Batman…Superman…Wonder Woman…Captain America…Iron Man. For moviegoers everywhere, 2016 holds the promise of many things, including Truth, Justice…and the continued overuse of the word “iconic”. Scheduled for release on March...
Most bankers love looking at deal toys. Particularly those done by rival banks…and even if (maybe especially if) their firm lost out on the underlying deal itself. But as we noted in our November round-up of European deal toys, most...
If you’re a first-year analyst and missed out on the HFS deal, you have a fairly good excuse. Most likely you had not yet been born. And Petco, Pabst, Party City and some of the other deals included here? You were probably, technically,...
Bankers are always curious to see tombstones designed for competing banks—and even more so if they had some familiarity with the underlying deal itself. The sad fact is that many bankers rarely get to see deal toys from outside their group, let...
We’ve done our best to teach you about the many virtues of Lucite. Its resiliency. Its permanence. Its versatility. Its durability. Lucite’s unique capacity to preserve, project, and further your organization’s brand. To keep your...
Eagles or Falcons? If we’re talking about the weekly NFL pool, you probably want to steer clear of the Eagles. And if you’re considering a code name for a deal, you may want to steer clear of both. Falcons and Eagles, in fact, figure...
Our two previous posts in this series (The Tombstone Tomb and More Tales from The Crypt) generated so much interest that we wanted to provide another installment. But not without addressing again a very basic concern: namely, that we might come...
Deal tombstones are necessarily time-bound; they commemorate the closing of a given deal, and celebrate, as well, all the time and effort that went into achieving that closing. But what about the rest of the story? What happens in the weeks,...