Category: Tips & Tricks

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...

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 Tombstones: 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...

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...

Currency-Themed Deal Toys: Unique Designs for Financial Milestones

July 21, 2016 by David Parry

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...

IB Deals On Tap: More Beer-Themed Deal Gifts

June 27, 2016 by David Parry

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...

Rush Deal Toys: 5 Very Quick Survival Tips

May 27, 2016 by David Parry

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...

IB Deals On Tap: Great Beer Industry Deal Toys

February 19, 2016 by David Parry

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...

Unraveling the Bagel Wars: Broncos IB Bankers’ Tasty Feud

February 4, 2016 by David Parry

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...