The boutique investment bank's retreat, which has sparked its share of multibillion dollar transactions like Comcast's recent purchase of a majority stake in NBC Universal, is attracting a bevy of deal makers.
For example, C2FO is now clearing a billion dollars in transaction volume every day, up from a billion dollars every quarter in 2014, when Mithril invested in the company.
But multimillion dollar level transactions would probably materialize over weeks.
The rating agencies got a nice fat fee, up to a million dollars per transaction (and there were a lot of transactions going on), for helping to tweak the Mars model.
In fact, if you set up an automatic monthly investment account, the fee drops to four dollars per transaction.
And Kohlberg, Kravis is already working on several billion dollars' worth of transactions in what has already proven to be one of its busiest years.
A few weeks later, he "escaped" to Jordan and then back to his home near Chicago, evading facing further charges involving about half a billion dollars of questionable transactions.
Yahoo's move to spin out the Alibaba shares, a multi-billion dollar transaction, had tax advantages.
This reality means that your deal may get dropped as all hands rush to get a higher-priority, multi-billion dollar transaction over the finish line.
Musk's statements, disseminated via Twitter, falsely indicated that, should he so choose, it was virtually certain that he could take Tesla private at a purchase price that reflected a substantial premium over Tesla stock's then-current share price, that funding for this multi-billion dollar transaction had been secured, and that the only contingency was a shareholder vote.
