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Ownership Interests
The business lifecycle: Preparing your company for sale | Cazenove Capital May 30, 2025What Does It Take to Prepare for a Business Sale? Our own Anthony Donges, Managing Director in Europe, joins Cazenove Capital’s Freddie Lower in the latest episode of their Business Lifecycle video series.
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Market Trends
The powerful forces propelling performance marketing Apr 22, 2025After a period of uncertainty that tested the advertising world, characterized by volatile budgets and a quieter M&A landscape, a confluence of potent market forces could be set to energize the prospects of the performance marketing sector.
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Capital Thinking
Capital Thinking: 2024 Year-End Review and Outlook in the Oil & Gas Market Dec 27, 2024Deon Daugherty, Editor-in-Chief at Hart Energy’s Oil and Gas Investor Magazine, recently co-hosted the Stephens Energy Investment Banking Group’s latest entry in the virtual thought leadership webinar series, Capital Thinking: Energy Insights for Today’s Market.
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Market Trends
Q&A Spotlight with Evan Smith: Private Equity & Family Office Energy Financing Trends Nov 26, 2024Evan Smith, Senior Vice President of Stephens’ Energy Investment team, recently spoke on the Private Equity and Family Office Energy Financing Trends panel of Hart Energy's 16th Annual DUG Appalachia Conference.
He shared insights along with Mark Burroughs, Managing Director of EnCap Investments, and Jay Salitza, Managing Director of KeyBanc Capital Markets. Here are the highlights of Mr. Smith’s panel discussion.
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Company Spotlight
A Conversation With New Engen's CEO, Justin Hayashi Mar 12, 2024Greg Gordon, Stephens Managing Director, chats with Justin Hayashi, CEO of New Engen, a dynamic digital marketing agency based in Seattle.
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Capital Thinking
Capital Thinking: 2024 Outlook for Upstream Acquisitions and Divestitures Market Feb 15, 2024The webinar series explores challenges and opportunities affecting the energy sector.
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Ownership Interests
Site & Incentive Opportunities for Companies Pursuing Strategic Enhancements Feb 5, 2024Many companies overlook opportunities to boost their ROI on strategic enhancement initiatives, often by leaving discounts, tax credits, and cash awards on the table, underestimating costs, or overlooking local rules and regulations.
Read our latest Capital Thinking article to learn more about Stephens’ Site and Incentives Advisory practice.
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Stephens Spotlights
Spectacular Mega Deals Create Optimism, Suggest 2024 M&A Will Rise Jan 25, 2024The mega deals of 2023 are only one of many factors that create room for optimism about a brighter mergers and acquisitions market in 2024. Recent economic indicators suggest that inflation is slowing, which can lead to lower interest rates. Oil prices continue to fluctuate, but not wildly so, and they remain well above $60.
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Market Trends
Private Equity’s Evolving Playbook in Performance Marketing Dec 6, 2023Today, PE firms are aggressively seeking attractive middle market performance marketing agencies (firms delivering measurable actions taken by audience members) as platform investments, often with the goal of acquiring additional services, scale and specialties.
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Market Trends
Overview of Transatlantic Deal Activity: Q3 2023 Oct 18, 2023The nine quarters up to the end of Q1 2020 – the onset of the Covid pandemic – averaged 196 US acquisitions in Europe per quarter. The level of quarterly dealmaking activity naturally dropped sharply as Covid hit, but then consistently and dramatically increased on a quarterly basis to a peak of 493 US acquisitions of European companies in Q1 2022. However, the level of US acquisitions in Europe has since fallen back towards pre-pandemic average levels (233 in Q3 2023).
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