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Fiction Entertainments
Pradas, Lidia; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-863-EFinanceOn Wednesday, May 9, 2007, Esteban Lázaro, managing director of Fiction Entertainments, received an unexpected call from Alejandro Sáez, branch manager at Banco Santander, the company's main bank. Alejandro was sorry to inform Esteban that the bank was tightening its credit policies and could not increase the company's line of credit, as Alicia Casado, CFO of Fiction Entertainments, had requested a few days earlier. Alejandro also warned Esteban ...Starting at €8.20
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Accent Equity Partners and the San Sac Deal
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Grabenwarter, UliCase F-983-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was April 2019, and Niklas Sloutski, Chief Executive Officer of Accent Equity Partners, a Stockholm-based private equity firm, had just returned from a meeting with the firm's partners. The meeting in which they reviewed the firm's investment portfolio brought discussions about the implications of pursuing a possible exit from the investment in the San Sac Group, a market-leading provider of waste sorting, containment and compaction products i...Starting at €8.20
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ABC Logistics, S.A.
Pradas, Lidia; Tàpies, JosepCase F-680FinanceABC Logistics, una empresa de gestión de palets estandarizados, nos presenta un modelo de empresa en crecimiento, parecido al de Butler & Lumber (F-515) o Distribuidora de Plásticos Miranda (F-596), en el que el crecimiento anual de la actividad supera al que la empresa puede sostener por sí misma, por lo que debe acudir a ampliaciones de capital con cierta frecuencia. Los objetivos principales del caso son dos: (a) observar como evolucionan las ...Starting at €8.20
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Accolade Group
Kolarova, Lenka; Johnson, RobCase E-225-EFinanceIn September 2005, John Allen, the Chairman and founder of Accolade Group, leaned back in the armchair in his office and reflected on the developments in his company over the past nine years. Allen had a lifelong career in the UK leisure industry, culminating in his founding of the Accolade Group through a £279m management buy-in (MBI) of the Accolade Bingo business from Guss, a quoted UK-based leisure company, in 1997. Allen had a vision that un...Starting at €8.20
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Chicfy
Cabiedes, Luis Martin; Kolarova, LenkaCase E-212-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIn January 2018, Cristina Nevado, an experienced business development professional, made a decision to join Chicfy. Cristina's job description was Chief Operating Officer, and the reported mandate was to lead international expansion and growth, but, somewhat to her surprise, her first assignment was to lead the process of a new financing round. Before launching this project, she reviewed the recently audited financial statements for 2017 to prepa...Starting at €8.20
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Gerposa
Pradas, Lidia; Tàpies, JosepCase F-687FinanceEste caso ilustra un modelo de empresa candidata a un Management Buy Out por razones de sustitución del un accionariado disperso y no vinculado en la gestión de la empresa. El caso permite profundizar en las características de la operación y su estructura financiera.Starting at €8.20
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Supera Capital: How to Make the Most of a Portfolio Company's Growth Potential: Balancing the Investment Period Against the Life Cycle of a Private Equity Fund
Liechtenstein, Heinrich; Marti Erfurt, Mark; Kolarova, LenkaCase F-988-EEntrepreneurship, Finance, StrategyPhillipe Cera, Managing Partner, had been with SUPERA CAPITAL, a leading private equity firm in Southern European countries, since 2000. In early February 2021, Phillipe was reviewing the historical performance of Cecilia, a portfolio company producing strollers and baby accessories. Phillipe wanted to make sure that the value created in the company was unlocked at the right moment. There could be potentially a lot of value at stake, given that S...Starting at €8.20
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Fiction Entertainments
Pradas, Lidia; Rahnema Alavi, AhmadCase F-863FinanceEl miércoles 9 de mayo de 2007, Esteban Lázaro, director-gerente de Fiction Entertainments, recibió una inesperada llamada de Alejandro Sáez, director de oficina del Banco Santander, principal banco con el que trabajaba su empresa. Alejandro lamentaba informarle de que las políticas de riesgo del banco se estaban endureciendo y de que no podían ampliar su línea de crédito, tal y como había solicitado hacía unos días Alicia Casado, directora finan...Starting at €8.20
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Jointly
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-910-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was spring 2012, and Vicente Dahl found himself in a difficult situation. One year earlier, after graduating from IESE Business School, he had decided to take the entrepreneurial career path and co-founded Jointly, a London-based e-commerce marketplace company. Although the business concept proved viable, he and his co-founder had begun to argue about the leadership role in the venture.Starting at €8.20
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QuickBars
Kolarova, Lenka; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-911-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIt was in September 2012 - one year after his graduation from IESE Business School - when Simon decided to move from the comfort of an employee's life to the unknown territory of entrepreneurship. A year and a half later, the venture had made a lot of progress on product development and acquired several customers. The company had also raised financing from its first angel investor, but the company's postfinancing development was very different fr...Starting at €8.20