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Tranched preferred stock combines a current issuance with rights to buy additional shares in the future. For investors and companies alike, it’s a simple but effective early-stage financing technique when the need for cash is immediate and likely to continue. Tranched preferred is common in industries that have many technical or regulatory milestones (biotechnology or information technology, for example).
In this white paper, we step through the structure and advantages of tranched preferred. We also look at a typical example, then discuss how this financing structure affects the valuation of the underlying shares.
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The guidance calls for a more formal valuation methodology based firmly on option theory, using the market for real options.
Convertible securities can be an attractive source of capital for mature and early-stage companies alike. But their dilutive impact is a potentially complicated issue. In this issue brief, we take a closer look at that impact and introduce the “if-converted method” as an elegant way to determine the dilutive impact of convertibles.
Warrants are outside financing instruments that can be used on a standalone basis or as sweeteners in a broader financing transaction. Often, warrants contain what are called down-round or ratchet provisions, which are designed to protect early-stage investors from future dilution. These features require special modeling outside of Black-Scholes and give rise to other accounting implications. Learn more in our newly published white paper.
The implementation of ASC 842, the new accounting standards governing leases, is hitting companies right now. What are the next steps?
Some companies lean on complex securities as key financing arrangements. Others encounter them as a “side effect” of other investment strategies and transactions. Either way, the fair value of these…