| The field of investment banking has changed faces | | | | is a function that has notably flourished over the |
| drastically over the years. Initially the functions of | | | | years and has caused investment banking to become |
| banks and banking institutions with regard to this | | | | one of the most fundamental drivers of the |
| type of banking was clear cut but today, there is a | | | | money-market. The large multinational companies as |
| blurry line between investment banking and other | | | | well as the medium scale companies that are seeking |
| forms of banking. However investment banking has | | | | funding for acquisitions can do so through making |
| taken a dominant role in the financial, business and | | | | their company stocks public, that is making an initial |
| banking industry due to the fact that more and more | | | | public offering or they can seek the help of an |
| businesses are seeking to undergo mergers and | | | | investment banking institution in the trading of their |
| acquisitions to increase the their net worth. Today | | | | shares in the stock market. |
| banks are not the only institutions that are engaged | | | | An important function of investment firm when it |
| in these functions, private equity and venture capital | | | | comes to mergers and acquisitions is the market |
| firms are largely concerned with these tasks as well. | | | | analysis that these firms undertake for their clients. |
| Under the corporate finance functions of an | | | | The procedures that are involved in mergers and |
| investment banking firm, clients are advised on how | | | | acquisitions are largely dependent on market factors |
| to raise funds if they want to engage in a merger or | | | | and complex dynamics in the money market; |
| an acquisitions. For private equity investors and | | | | companies thus get invaluable advice on the suitable |
| venture capitalists the advice they get from those | | | | time to make their move in either merging with |
| who are concerned with this type of banking enables | | | | another company or acquiring another entity that |
| them to make the right decisions. Corporate finance | | | | they are interest in. |