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People are only human. Occasionally they fall in love with other people. Ideally, the ‘other person’ works elsewhere, but sometimes the two work together. Many executives
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The company was in financial difficulties, as changing market conditions had seriously exposed the misplaced strategy. There was however no suggestion that anything improper had
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In previous articles, I covered how a board should react to an unsolicited approach or offer for the company, how it would value it, valuing shares
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My earlier article talked about how a board should respond to an unsolicited approach for the company. This looked at a straight-forward offer that the board
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I was having a good day, sitting in my office sorting a few things out. Then, late afternoon, the phone rang. It was the Chairman
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The board is contemplating an equity raise. The brokers and CFO talk in respectful terms about preserving pre-emption rights and what this means for how
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Companies differ very much in their attitude to the importance of cash. If a business is private equity owned, highly geared (ie has a lot
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One mistake that non-financial people often make is to assume that financial people both know what they are talking about and understand all the financial
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