More Gambling Tombstones – New & Old

May 9, 2019 by David Parry

Take Shots Embrace the Grind Be a Nice Person Keep Tilt External Be Serious About Your Legacy Dealmaking wisdom from some investment banking grandee? Actually they're tips for beginning World Series of Poker players---offered...

The “Tombstone Tomb”: More IB Tales from the Crypt

May 14, 2018 by David Parry

The firm that helped launch the careers of Ken Moelis, Paul Singer, and Stephen Schwarzman—among many others? It no longer exists. But we see reminders of DLJ around our office every day—along with countless other firms that,...

90’s Deal Gifts With Blackstone, Bear & More!

November 3, 2017 by David Parry

Lehman. Bear. Chase Manhattan. SSB, H&Q, CSFB..... And also Goldman and Blackstone. They're all names featured in our latest gallery of Dinosaur Deal Toys. From 1995: The hotel interests involved here were purchased by a joint...

7 Landmark Tech Deal Toys

September 10, 2017 by David Parry

An LBO. A British cop. A flying taxi. Two Facebook rejects. See these stories, and more, as we unfurl our gallery of landmark tech deal toys. Michael Dell managed to upstage the $25 billion LBO in which he took his company private in...

Landmark IPO Deal Toys: Part 3 of 3

January 11, 2017 by David Parry

Any retrospective of landmark IPO deal toys runs the risk of appearing, well, ill-timed---maybe even tone-deaf. But if you checked out the earlier posts in this series, you know that many of these pieces make for interesting cultural artifacts in...

More Landmark IPO Deal Toys: Featuring Steven Seagal!

November 30, 2016 by David Parry

Mao Zedong. Vladimir Putin. Steven Seagal. What do they have in common? Undoubtedly very little---other than maybe appearing in the gallery below. Be sure to check out as well our earlier collection of landmark IPO deal toys (as well as...

Great Sports-Themed Deal Toys: From Fenway to UFC to Curling

November 2, 2016 by David Parry

So what’s with the title of this post? Why would we possibly use a feeble-sounding, mealy-mouthed term like “sports-themed” to describe this gallery? The answer is pretty simple: we’ve found over the years that some of the most effective...

European Deal Toy Highlights: Private Jets, Robots, & Giant Cranes

August 17, 2016 by David Parry

There is a unifying thread in this gallery highlighting recent European deal toys. What that unifying thread might be exactly isn't readily apparent---beyond maybe the fact that we may simply have liked the deal toys shown here, and also found...

Innovative Asian Deal Toys Inspired by Japan, China, Korea, and More

July 27, 2016 by David Parry

From Tokyo office towers to subsea construction... The gallery below highlights an array of recent Asian deals----including those in the transport, real estate, retail, energy, and cosmetics industries. Star Asia is a Tokyo-based REIT. Big...