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For example, because an SEO has both an established market price for the issuing firm's equity and extensive public information, there may be little information asymmetry for the investment banker to resolve.

We chose to study the hiring of an investment banker to advise an acquirer on an acquisition because it allowed us to meet our research goals, and the hiring of an investment banker is a substantively interesting and important decision to study, as investment bankers can have significant effects on acquisition activities.

The loan itself typically involves the issuance of unsecured short-term, high-interest, increasing-rate, subordinated notes to the investment banker. The notes are often subordinated to (and conditional upon) a secured bank loan used to finance the largest portion of the acquisition.

Based in Northern Virginia, Harries has earlier worked as an independent investment banker, financial advisor and board member for selected technology clients since 2000.

My problem is this: should I tell her my brother is an investment banker?

Seen through cynical eyes, the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation and Donaldson's subsequent "reform" efforts at the SEC were simply a means of distracting attention from the enabling role that the NYSE, NASDAQ, and SEC too played in the fleecing of American investors with the New Economy bubble, a role abetted by an assortment of well-compensated investment bankers, lawyers, auditors and other supposed gatekeepers.

First, when the warrants were written, the parties agreed on their price (as determined by an independent third-party investment banker); thus, there was no bargain element to the warrants' acquisition.

Although the company hires the underwriters and pays the IPO fees, the investment banker must balance the conflicting goals of several audiences.

How do you manage the disparate philosophies inherent in your business, that is, the mentality of the trader versus that of the investment banker?

Why was Levine, an investment banker trained to know the meaning of fiduciary duty, feeding information worth "a fortune" to a stock speculator?

Our study, like previous studies investigating initial public offerings, does not determine how investment banker prestige affects performance.

Before a term sheet is kicked out by the investment bank, an engagement letter will often be sent as a show of commitment and as initial introduction to the general terms that the investment banker is considering.