Will COVID-19 Provide Cover to Corral Value Multiples?
Last summer, we noticed a peculiarly interesting article about what had become a runaway lending environment. Debt capacity had risen as high as 6-7 times EBITDA. What’s more, EBITDA was fast becoming a proforma, go-forward, if-everything-goes-perfect figure. In other words, a substantially puffed up version of the truth that effectively added another 1-2 turns of EBITDA that lenders were willing to put up.
Will Mergers and Acquisitions Multiples Fall as Debt Goes Back to the Future?
Remember the run-up to the global recession when lenders were tripping over themselves to get in on a mergers and acquisitions climate that was positively giddy? When debt capacity, typically expressed as a multiple of a company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization reached milestone levels, eclipsing the “6X barrier” (as coined by PitchBook)? When the term “covenant-lite”, describing loan agreements with fewer protective covenants for the buyer and less restrictions for borrowers, became a thing?
WeWork Didn’t: Are Other Unicorns Taking the Hit?
The saga of WeWork is the stuff of hubris – a financial folly built upon a hope and a dream, financed by a mountain of debt. Once a Google-esque darling of the hyper-hipster Technorati, the office sharing wunderkind saw its valuation tumble from $47 billion to $10 billion to whether it is even viable in the span of a few short months.
Wrangling Deals with Reps and Warranties Insurance
Consider the following from an article published by global insurance giant AON: “2017 and the first half of 2018 posted extraordinary growth in the use of representations and warranties insurance, tax insurance and bespoke contingent...
In Digital Health, Being the Best Isn’t Nearly Enough
If you’re one of the Red Bull Crowd (or is it now La Croix?), you love your technology. You love your code. The logic, the simplicity, the creativity, the elegance, the way it attracts members of the opposite sex (well, maybe not that one, but you get the picture).
In Digital Health, The Pathway to Success Can Also be the Road to Frustration
If you had to choose just one central theme driving health care economic policy today (besides the on again, off again, thumbs up, thumbs down...