No, we’re not talking about New York souvenirs. Foam Statue of Liberty crowns. Big Apple shot glasses. Ceramic yellow taxi banks. Subway token ornaments… If you’re truly interested in these, there’s a guy selling all this and more...
No, we’re not talking about New York souvenirs. Foam Statue of Liberty crowns. Big Apple shot glasses. Ceramic yellow taxi banks. Subway token ornaments… If you’re truly interested in these, there’s a guy selling all this and more...
Currency-themed deal toys can play off a variety of creative options, including symbols, nicknames, maps, and flags. Samurai. Yankee. Bulldog. Rembrandt. Dim Sum. Kimchi… Over the years we’ve designed deal toys reflecting the full spectrum...
The 2015 edition of the World Series of Poker—just getting underway at the Rio in Las Vegas—will feature a number of changes. Open-Face Chinese Poker, for instance, has sadly been eliminated from the competition. One constant at this year’s...
The continuing surge in cross-border deals has, inevitably, led to more cross-border deal tombstones—including some new and imaginative takes on the theme. In the four months since our previous post on cross-border deal tombstones, the trend we...
Bankers have long found ways to incorporate cars and motorcycles into their deal toys—and even if they have no ostensible connection to the underlying transaction itself. Sometimes cars and bikes get worked into the deal toy design by virtue...
Facebook’s landmark IPO also generated an iconic deal toy. The Facebook IPO deal toy---along with those we designed to recognize the IPO's for Google and Twitter---is arguably the deal toy we're most often asked about. At meetings and...
Code names can provide a great source of deal toy ideas, even if it’s only to enliven an otherwise conventional design. Devising a successful code name for a deal takes some foresight. As former M&A banker Scott Rostan explained to the Wall...
Did Bono get a deal toy? What about 50 Cent? Or William Shatner? Did anyone remember to put Shatner on the distribution list? We honestly don’t know, and quite frankly, it’s none of our business. But we do know that each of the deal...
Blackstone’s $23 billion purchase of GE’s real estate assets recalled another, earlier landmark deal Blackstone began April already the largest private sector landlord in the United States. With its acquisition of GE’s real estate...