What exactly are "financial tombstones"? You can find some good definitions of financial tombstones online, though some are slightly inaccurate, or just incomplete. For instance, you may have come across this: "Financial tombstones (also known...
What exactly are "financial tombstones"? You can find some good definitions of financial tombstones online, though some are slightly inaccurate, or just incomplete. For instance, you may have come across this: "Financial tombstones (also known...
Are there M&A tombstones in your immediate future? Even if you don't fully buy into the M&A "tidal wave" forecasted by some sources, there's pretty good evidence that, at the very least, surf's up. Since September, announced mergers have...
Investment banking has always been challenging and demanding. Your team makes big sacrifices in pursuit of even bigger rewards. For over 50 years, the use of a tombstone in investment banking has been the perfect way to recognize this effort. A...
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...
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,...