Two to four move to the due-diligence phase, resulting in a second presentation at a group dinner.
D. from the University of Chicago, Portnoy is a sought-after due-diligence man who specializes in scrutinizing hedge funds.
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Not allowed to perform proper due-diligence, Valeant has not announced what possible synergies would derive from the merger.
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Since its inception in 1989 it has conducted more than 3, 000 due-diligence investigations.
Now, as head of KPMG's investigative due-diligence practice, he digs up dirt on companies that are about to be acquired.
But you then assert that four firms may not provide sufficient choice for such projects as bank investigations and due-diligence reviews.
For BPI, which had reportedly completed a due-diligence review of FEBTC in August, it seemed a replay of the PCIBank fiasco.
Second, is the staff qualified to perform due-diligence reviews of brokerages?
Think of investors doing due-diligence as the most thorough stalking job you could imagine, one prospective angel investor joked to me over lunch at Pipeline.
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Hold on, blog readers, for a quick, deep dive into due-diligence-land.
As a young VC in 1981, I made a due-diligence call about a new cardiac procedure to one of the leading cardiologists in the United States.
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These indemnification agreements throw liability for due-diligence failures back on to the company issuing the shares or bonds, making a nonsense of an underwriter's gatekeeping role.
The rooting is not based on rationality and due-diligence investigations.
All too often, testimonials from former officials substituted for due-diligence.
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This offer is subject to Take-Two agreeing by Feb. 22, 2008 to commence negotiation of a definitive merger agreement and to permit EA to commence a limited due-diligence review of Take-Two.
He also did due-diligence work for companies including Hakluyt, a strategic business intelligence company founded by former members of the British foreign intelligence service, MI6, according to a spokesman for the company.
Solyndra had 73% debt to 27% equity, not the 65%-35% split that the Treasury Department wanted before Energy boxed it out of a 2009 due-diligence review in the push to get stimulus dollars out the door.
But Mr Lerach also says that his fees (typically 12-15% of an award, but less on Enron) are based, in part, on whether he can force the banks to stop indemnifying themselves against their due-diligence failures as underwriters of securities.
Senior members of that committee, led by its next chairman, Howard "Buck" McKeon, have decried the fact that - while the House does not have the Senate's unique role in treaty-making - they are being denied the information and time to perform due-diligence associated with a responsibility they do have, namely for implementation of any ratified accord.
Simply stated, I think when the dust settles on this dispute, the gurus of international investment banking will find that their jobs have been made permanently more difficult by the appearance of a new social investment category that has been declared taboo by some of their largest customers, and by the addition of a new and highly complicated variable to their already crowded due-diligence agendas.
Nokia, Panasonic, Philips, AMD, HP, and Microsoft have piloted internationally agreed-upon due diligence guidance on conflict minerals in line with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development due diligence model.
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As part of my contribution to today's hearing, I wanted to emphasize some of the private sector arguments for companies to implement new security-minded due diligence procedures that bring a self-policing dimension to their activities in a way that mitigates the valid risks involved.
But they're not liable for the actual performance of the funds if they've exercised--and continue to exercise--due diligence.
Do the appropriate fact-check and due diligence before doing any business, interaction or transactions with the listed start-ups.
If the money comes from one of a list of high-risk countries, or amounts to more than SFr10m, the bank must exercise due diligence and cross-check information.
Require identity and risk-based due diligence for politically exposed persons in Switzerland and international organizations.
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The good news is that investment-related due diligence is not particularly expensive.
The Bank shall permanently install personnel within its New York branch to oversee and audit any offshore money-laundering due diligence and monitoring undertaken by the Bank.
Key to getting this round of growth capital was landing the Tooele Army Depot as a customer and the months-long due diligence it entailed, he says.
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