Typically they are done in concert with and to augment an existing equity financing.
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For now, though, U.S. Bancorp, which has also provided tax equity financing to SolarCity and Sungevity, appears bullish on solar leasing.
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The WCC has heard company presentations and requests for equity financing from nearly 25 percent of the women-led businesses that have made inquiries for funding.
No. 12, "speculative areas beyond housing may suffer in 2007, " has commenced with the evaporation of the asset-backed commercial paper market last summer and the drying up of private equity financing.
Once the rules and regulations regarding the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act are approved, companies can raise both debt and equity financing not just from wealthy angels, but from average Americans.
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The authors conclude that policymakers may have been barking up some wrong trees, chafing at the provincialism of syndicated bank loans, for example, while missing out on how integrated private-equity financing has become.
As many as 28 of the 50 top venture-backed firms in 2011 have since raised additional equity financing, according to Dow Jones VentureSource, which, like The Wall Street Journal, is owned by News Corp.
Additionally, at the time of execution of definitive agreements with respect to our proposal, we expect to provide binding financing commitments from debt and equity financing sources in the form customary for a transaction of this type.
One has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment (and a future up cycle is likely too) and keep in mind that this will limit the ability for these companies to raise equity financing in the future.
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In their simplest forms, debt financing is when a startup agrees to pay back a loan with a predetermined timeframe and interest rate and equity financing is when the business sells ownership shares in exchange for funding.
We are much more ready to abandon or sell a technology in clean tech today if it fails to be highly differentiated because one has to anticipate a continuing negative clean tech funding environment that will limit the ability to raise equity financing for these companies in the future.
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Q3 statistics from Gust, which powers a majority of the organized early stage financing world, show a continued expansion of new, high-growth ventures outside the traditional startup centers, along with an increasing number of entrepreneurs seeking their first round of equity financing with products that are fully developed and ready to take to market.
Nearly two weeks ago, Nomura analyst Alastair Syme floated what looked like a novel idea at the time: with debt financing appearing expensive and asset sales taking time, oil giant BP may consider an equity-linked financing backed by a sovereign wealth fund.
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Alibaba intends to finance the repurchase through a combination of its own cash resources, debt, equity and equity-linked financing.
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We intend to fund the transaction using a combination of equity and debt financing, in addition to Company cash and cash equivalents.
In the past ordinary investors have been shut out of the solar boom, as most projects obtain equity or debt financing from banks and corporations, which lately are not so eager to lend for solar projects.
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Lower spot prices make projects less attractive while decreased equity market interest makes financing harder to come by.
Schulze has indicated that he is in discussions with potential private equity partners and debt financing sources, but has not disclosed such to the Board.
Unlike a bank loan or other types of debt financing, equity capital (whether it's an angel investment or venture capital) gives someone else an ownership interest in your company.
On the business side, he wants to bring the corporate rate down to 25%, paid for by eliminating certain deductions and green energy tax subsidies "so we're not constantly picking the energy flavor of the month, " and perhaps eliminating the tax advantages of debt financing over equity.
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Right now lawyers borrow money at high interest rates from outside investors who hide behind the fig leaf of providing debt financing instead of equity.
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According to a Harvard Business School study, WPP persuaded its banks to swap a quarter of its debt for 47% of WPP's equity, while providing new financing.
Once the company was listed on the Tokyo over-the-counter market in 1996, he had access to equity and other types of direct financing.
Rising debt multiples and falling financing costs has allowed private equity firms to pay more for properties.
It also bulked up its capital late last year by selling 35% of its U.S. auto-financing business to private-equity firms.
My Buffett-inspired model looks for firms with lengthy histories of steady earnings increases, conservative financing and high returns on equity.
In large part this is due to private equity shops taking advantage of the cheap financing to undertake huge deals.
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With small business credit tighter than in the pre-recession era and options for personally financing new companies through home equity lines of credit, credit cards, or savings much more restricted than it once was, many of those reentering the labor force who would have considered starting businesses in more expansionary times are not thinking of starting businesses now.
Otherwise, with no deal activity, bond financing remains depressed along with the equity underwriting calendar.
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