Great article on the rise of private credit, how regulators view the industry, and how banks are reacting. https://lnkd.in/gjeaPvN4
Centerstone Capital
Investment Banking
Beverly Hills, California 664 followers
Delivering Exceptional Results for Clients Globally
About us
Centerstone Capital is a merchant bank focused globally on mergers and acquisitions, private placements, secondary transactions, debt and IPO advisory, and principal investments. With offices in Beverly Hills and New York, Centerstone is focused on five core industries: Consumer, Business and Consumer Services, Technology, Media / Sports / Entertainment, and Healthcare. Typical transactions range in enterprise value between $100M - $2 billion. The firm was founded by Arash Farin, a veteran of Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Lehman Brothers, and Sage Group, who is supported by a team of managing directors, vice presidents, and analysts in both offices. The firm’s senior leadership has an average of 20 years’ experience. Centerstone benefits from an advisory board composed of high impact leaders from government and business, and currently includes Dave McTague, former CEO of Cole Haan, Alex Brick (SWaN & Legend Venture Partners), and two former members of the Navy Seals’ Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), helping clients think through leadership challenges, culture building, and creating and incentivizing high performance teams.
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- 2023
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- M&A Advisory, Secondary Transactions, Debt Advisory, Private Placements, Principal Investments, and IPO Advisory
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Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season and a great 2025. We are so honored to work with our incredible entrepreneur and founder clients, as well as our partners in the family office and private equity community, to help them achieve their goals. We expect 2025 to be a very active year and look forward to what we will bring to market this year! In the meantime we hope everyone can enjoy this special time with friends and family.
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Great story about resilience and courage under fire.
Jamie Dimon was brutally fired by his lifelong mentor on an executive retreat. Here’s the unbelievable true story of ambition, power and betrayal… Fresh out of Harvard Business School in 1982, Jamie became Executive Assistant to finance legend Sandy Weill at American Express. When Sandy left American Express and acquired Commercial Credit, he invited Jamie to become his new CFO. The pair were inseparable. On Sunday mornings, Jamie’s Volvo could be found in Sandy’s driveway as the two brainstormed. Together, they built a financial empire, buying up businesses to create Citigroup - the largest financial services company in the world at the time. At only 35, Jamie was seen by Wall Street as the heir to Sandy, and the next CEO of Citigroup. However, this strong relationship was about to collapse – in a very big way. Tensions emerged over Jamie’s growing influence. The New York Times ran an article in which Citigroup board member Joe Califano said: “Jamie runs the place”. Accompanying the article was a picture of Jamie front and center, with Sandy in the background. The next day, Sandy barged into a meeting and reportedly yelled: “Who the **** told Joe Califano to say that? And who chose that photo!”. On top of this, Sandy’s daughter Jessica was hired into a senior role under Jamie’s supervision. Over time, Jamie excluded her from key decisions, citing poor performance. Jessica eventually resigned. Sandy took this as a sign of disrespect, allegedly roaring at Jamie: “You insulted her!” Everything came to a head during a Citigroup executive retreat. After 15 years of loyalty, Sandy called Jamie into a private room. Jamie thought it might be to discuss a new promotion. Instead, he was told to resign immediately. Jamie was stunned: “I was totally surprised…it was a hell of a run, but he fired me”. Blindsided and humiliated, Jamie faced professional collapse. But instead of retreating, he joined Bank One, quickly turned the company around and set the stage for his spectacular rise as CEO of JP Morgan Chase. Looking back on that time, Sandy confessed he “made a very bad decision.” Jamie summed up his experience of being fired: “You gotta keep going. Being fired impacted my net worth, not my self-worth.”
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Join us today at 2PM ET for this valuable seminar on M&A in healthcare.
Last call to join Tony Crisman, Darrell Langlois, Jay Liebowitz, Christopher Olson, Andre Ulloa, and moderator Abby R., as they discuss healthcare M&A, borrowing costs, AI, election outcomes, and much more. Register here: https://bit.ly/3OEQaCA #wheredealsaremade #healthcare #finance
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Congrats to our colleague, Jay Liebowitz(Head of Healthcare), on his upcoming participation in this webinar on healthcare M&A. Tune in tomorrow to hear Jay's thoughts on where the market is going.
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We have seen our clients move sales earlier and earlier - well before Black Friday. And the results are showing as e-commerce eats into traditional store sales, as the excerpt from Retail Dive shows. Contact us for more client driven insights: Cyber Monday appears to be losing its meaning, with many shoppers using their phones and computers on Black Friday to make headway on their holiday lists. Salesforce found that on Friday online sales in the U.S. rose 7% year over year to $17.5 billion, while Adobe found that they rose 10.2% to $10.8 billion. Between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., $11.3 million was spent online every minute, per Adobe. “Crossing the $10 billion mark is a big e-commerce milestone for Black Friday, for a day that in the past was more anchored towards in-store shopping,” Vivek Pandya, lead analyst at Adobe Digital Insights, said in emailed comments. “And with consumers getting more comfortable with everything from mobile shopping to chat bots, we have tailwinds that can prop up online growth for Black Friday moving forward.” Chatbots and AI The current buzz around artificial intelligence is giving rise to both fear and excitement, as questions swirl about the forward leap in tech and its effects, and they made their mark on Black Friday this year. AI and AI agents drove more than $14 billion in global online sales on Black Friday, and retailers employing generative artificial intelligence had a 9% higher conversion rate than those that didn’t, according to Salesforce. Chatbots powered by AI were influential, as bot-driven clicks to retail sites rose by a whopping 1,800% compared to last year, Adobe found. A fifth of those surveyed by Adobe said they used chatbots to find deals, with 19% using them to find items and 15% using them for brand recommendations. “Digital retailers who are using generative AI and agents in their customer service experiences saw a nine percent higher conversion rate compared to those who are not,” Caila Schwartz, director of consumer insights at Salesforce, said in emailed comments. “For an industry that is often concerned with margins, especially ahead of rising costs in 2025, this percent increase is a game-changer.” Overall, store traffic on Black Friday was down 3.2%, with footfall down 7% in the Midwest, 2.1% in the Northeast, 3.5% in the South and 3.2% in the West, according to data from RetailNext. Mastercard found that Black Friday online sales rose 14.6% year over year, while in-store sales rose just 0.7% year over year.
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Good article on our dependence on China from one perspective and the complications of disengagement. https://lnkd.in/g9U4JrbG
3 Essential Vitamins Tell the Story of U.S. Dependence on China
hbr.org