GLG News by Chief Financial Officers

This article, like most others written about M&A’s, assumes acquisitions are conducted purely to enhance a company’s revenue stream. Most purchases of this nature are in fact completed to either take out a competitor (negating market share erosion), expand a product line (which may be unproven depending...

As the VC market changes its model from IPO to acquisition, many funding firms have paused to catch their breath. The drawback is most acquiring companies have not lost their appetite for the hunt. This statement leaves one conclusion- be flexible in your philosophy or wait on the sidelines and miss...

Many recent articles have argued and discussed the slowdown in VC funding; from Austin Ventures' recent investor funding return to misguided year-over-year statistics that truly point to an IPO slowdown.  The title of this article is misleading, as the content points towards a more meaningful ...

This article highlights several major themes:  The hedge fund industry has experienced the same sort of consolidation as the rest of the financial services complex.  That a company few outside of the business had ever heard of could lose $3B is remarkable.  That there have been no perceptible...

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With India’s booming corporate landscape, many young companies have begun to show signs of success. This tends to lend itself to the next phase in corporate development- M&A activity. While India is in a position to learn from the other market leaders, the US, Europe, and Asia, it appears that M&A...

Google’s recent purchase of YouTube for $1.65B is a huge price to pay for a small private company. Most certainly Google’s calculation took several assumptions into consideration, such as, cost synergies within YouTube’s infrastructure, compatibility of product lines, and an obvious synergies with revenue...