There are a couple of relatively subtle ways you can differentiate Conor McGregor and fellow Irishman William Butler Yeats. Only one of them knocked out Jose Aldo in Las Vegas in 13 seconds. Only one of them won a Nobel Prize in Literature. Only one displayed a chest tattoo of a gorilla wearing a crown. […]
CR7 just bought a new car… Fresh off Portugal’s Euro 2016 victory, Cristiano Ronaldo—whose automobiles, wrecked or otherwise, have figured prominently in this blog—just purchased a $2.27 million Bugatti Veyron, aka “the fastest legal road car in the world”. But don’t be too jealous; he hasn’t been able to drive it yet…. He’s still on […]
Yes, you’ve probably already heard of “that” app. Maybe it’s the one that purports to reveal a watermelon’s ripeness. (Melon Meter) Or lets you swallow a sword. (iSword) Or crowd-source real-time feedback and pointers during a date. (Crowdpilot) Or just altogether sap your motivation. (Demotivational Pics) But before doing anything to your motivation just yet, […]
The selection of deal toys included here, highlighting just some of the transactions we’ve helped commemorate recently in the UK and the Continent, is, well, eclectic. But that’s in keeping with the other European galleries we’ve recently put together. After all, our gallery of European IPO’s covered a good deal of ground: from bookmakers to […]
Nothing to celebrate? There has to be something out there for us. After all, Cleveland just won a championship…finally. Euro 2016 has 8 countries still alive. Ramsey Bolton, on the other hand, is pretty much dead. And no one (so far at least) is clamoring to revive him. So anyway, now that you have a […]
“9 Ways Candy is Good for You” Unlike most headlines this is one that isn’t likely to cause depression–which, coincidentally, is just one of the many conditions candy (in this case chocolate) has been proven to alleviate. None of which may interest you. So if you’d like, you can just skip the nutritional science and […]
IPO’s? Really? Actually, yes. The global downturn in offerings is hardly news; just as familiar are the factors—ranging from the Spanish elections to the EU referendum later this month—said to be inhibiting the European IPO market. But when you see recent signs of optimism on the European IPO front from the Financial Times, and especially, […]
Ordering rush deal toys doesn’t have to be an ordeal—assuming you act fast and follow some time-tested guidelines. Maybe you just forgot… Or maybe someone simply forgot to tell you. Or maybe the closing event just got scheduled—so it’s really no one’s fault. But it’s still your problem….And however it happened you now have to get deal toys […]
Our last collection of European deal toys represented deals ranging from British beers to Danish football to German service stations to Italian tires and French retailers. This collection is just as diverse. The tombstones shown here cover hydraulics and cosmetics, mascara and insurance, construction and car care. We hope you enjoy the gallery below. And […]
The subject here is celebrity investors. And we will begin with the obligatory reference to… Ashton Kutcher. It was either him or Bono, and since Fortune just beat us to the punch with a cover profile of the philanthropist and Facebook beneficiary, we’ll stick with the guy who’s been credited as an early investor in […]
Seen any good deal toys lately? As we noted in our last round-up of European deal toys, most bankers see surprisingly few—and even fewer outside their firm, office, and even their group. We’ve put together here another gallery highlighting some of the many tombstones designed recently by our London office for banks and firms across the […]
Zombie Dust…Kozy Yak…Surly Darkness…Viking’s Lament… These are just a few of the (characteristically) cryptic names of craft beers. But they could also conceivably be subjects of upcoming deals. 2015 saw 19 craft-beer deals announced in the U.S. alone, totaling $13 billion in value; and while high-profile deals have also recently involved global macro brewers such […]
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 2001, by Invesco Field. Some local fans and holdouts, claiming a proprietary right based on the […]
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 25th, “Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice” will feature, unsurprisingly, the iconic clash of the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel. Subsequent releases will focus […]
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 bankers actually see very few deal toys outside their own office, or even group; and fewer still outside […]
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, around for these; but as with the ground we covered in the […]
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 alone outside their country, region, or, especially, continent. We’re therefore putting together a […]
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 organization’s name—and, by extension, yours– in front of both clients and potential clients. But what about its usefulness in, say, […]
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 among the 10 most popularly used deal code names globally. Project […]
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 off as snarky or mean-spirited jerks. Over the years we’ve received many requests for deal tombstones […]
