Ease and convenience have been the main factors that propelled ride-sharing applications Uber and Lyft into what they are today: dominators of ride-hailing, not only in the United States but also worldwide. Established in 2012, Lyft currently caters to 23 million passengers in the US, 95% of which think that Lyft rides are safe. The ride-sharing giant...
Category: Thought Leadership
¿Como levantar fondos sin recursos?
Es un mundo para ricos ¿Se habrá preguntado porque los ricos son cada vez mas ricos y las diferencias económicas entre los más acaudalados y el resto de los mortales van aumentando? La respuesta es simple: es porque el dinero llama al dinero. No voy a extenderme mucho sobre las injusticias del mundo sino exponer...
GDPR law will be a double whammy to M&A practitioners
Unless you do not use emails, you should by now have been spammed by a large number of messages asking you to “opt-in” to keep on receiving marketing material from the issuer. This jocose incongruity highlights only one of the many loopholes of the GDPR law, whose original intention was to reduce the number of...
PMI Strategy: Preservation, Symbiosis, Holding, Absorption
PMI Strategy, the acronym for Post Merger Integration Strategy, is one of the most difficult conundrum for buyers of companies. Indeed, there is enough evidence in the literature showing that acquiring companies actually destroys value. Then, why not challenge buyers on their real reasons for engaging in an acquisition process? Note that I am not...
Leveraged recapitalization
One of our VC-A Members raised recently €270 million to provide debt solutions to the mid-market in Europe. Although his alternative source of funding claims to be more flexible that most lenders and is offering leveraged recapitalization, I suspect that he is looking for interests rates in the 7-8% range, which is currently much higher...