Assignment: Arundel Partners You should prepare the Arundel Partners case for class discussion. I will ask several members of the class to present their analyses of the case issues‚ and we will discuss the pros and cons of each approach. In particular‚ one might think of analyzing this case using the real options perspective‚ and/or one might think of analyzing this case using the traditional analysis perspective (DPL‚ @Risk‚ etc.). Choose one or both of these ways of thinking about the problem
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Executive Summary Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project They would be interested in purchasing the sequel rights for one or more studiosˇ entire production over an extended period of not less than a year. If a particular film was a hit‚ and Arundel thought a sequel would be profitable‚ it would exercise its rights by producing the sequel. Alternatively‚ they can sell the rights to the highest bidder. Inevitably‚ the performance of the original films would not justify sequels‚ and for them the sequel
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mainly intrigued by the rare quality of objects. These objects possess a greater value because they are in limited supply‚ and are extremely exclusive. The Wilton House is one of the few institutions that possess some of the Arundel marbles‚ and numerous other sculptures. The Arundel marbles are from classical Rome. These possessions reinforce the idea that some objects are collected based on their rarity‚ rather than their intrinsic value. This provides the owner with a certain amount of social persuasion
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concerned with only actual returns‚ but the CAPM is a good tool for explaining what can happen in an individual marketplace. 5. Ameritrade does not have a beta estimate as the firm has been publicly traded only for a short period at the time of the case. Exhibit 4 provides various choices of comparable firms. Which firms do you recommend as the appropriate benchmark for evaluating the risk of Ameritrade’s planned advertising and technology investments? Explain. The two firms that would most closely
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BF322: Advanced Corporate Finance Case Study – Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project Group Members: Chen Yanheng Loon Shu Juan Melissa Ong Joseline Tan Hui Kiow Fundamental Analysis Arundel Partners is an investment group‚ set up to purchase sequel rights associated with films produced by one or more major U.S. major studios. By owning such rights‚ Arundel will be able to wait and see if the movie was successful‚ before deciding whether to exercise its right and produce a second
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HKU763 PREETI GOYAL PEOPLE MANAGEMENT‚ THE MANTRA FOR SUCCESS: THE CASE OF SINGHANIA AND PARTNERS It was 9:15am on 25 April 2006. An article published in that day’s Economic Times‚ a leading Indian financial daily‚ had attracted the attention of both Mr Ravi Singhania and Ms Manju Mohotra. Singhania was the founder and managing partner of Singhania and Partners‚1 one of the largest full-service national law firms in India; Mohotra was its chief executive. The Indian legal services industry
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Rebecca Lamb Jessica Avalos Leah Anderson Stonemor Partners LP Stonemor Partners’ primary sources of liquidity is cash flow from operations and amounts available under their Credit Facility. In the past the company been able to increase their liquidity through long-term bank borrowings and the issuance of additional common units and other partnership securities‚ including debt‚ subject to the restrictions in their Credit Facility and under their senior secured notes. The
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When “An Arundel Tomb” was first published in The Whitsun Weddings in 1964‚ a number of reviewers singled the poem out for comment. Christopher Ricks‚ in The New York Review of Books‚ described Larkin as “the best poet England now has‚” and said of the collection “people will be grateful for its best poems for a long time.” Ricks listed “An Arundel Tomb” as one of the six best poems. Praise came also from Joseph L. Feather-stone‚ in New Republic‚ who used the last two lines of the poem to illustrate
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How are the principals of Arundel Partners planning to make money by buying rights to sequels? Essentially‚ a sequel right is similar to a call option. If a movie turn out to be a hit and the sequel could be profitable‚ Arundel would exercise the sequel right by producing the film itself or selling the right to another investors. If the sequel might cause a loss‚ Arundel could simply give up the right. The sequel right gives Arundel the opportunity to break-even costs of production with a successful
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possible for the right price if at all rejecting the takeover bid will strengthen USG’s negotiation strategy and encourage the tendering company to increase their price. The bid was considered to be unsolicited‚ coercive and inadequate. Desert Partners has indicated a willingness to increase their tender offer to $50.00 per share in cash‚ debt‚ and stock. This change is not official and we feel that this makes their true intentions uncertain.
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