Alex Plough
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Articles by Alex Plough
Public Finance Authority shakes up muni market with help from ‘public good’ evolution
by Ryan Bolger and Seth Brumby. Additional reporting by Alex Plough. The municipal bond market finances American civilization. From court houses to school houses, city pipes to street lights, if it’s for the public good, a municipal bond will pay for its construction.
Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Group Confronts Controversial Past As It Seeks $500 Million Buyout Loan
By Alex Plough, Yifan Yu and Mariana Valle Companies generally try to present their best image when they’re seeking investors. But that can be difficult if, like Israeli software company NSO Group, they’re facing multiple lawsuits alleging that their products have been used to spy on innocent civilians.
Banks Pile Into Riskier Deals As Influence Of Obama-era Lending Guidelines Melts Away
By Will Caiger-Smith and Alex Plough After the financial crisis of 2008, relations between banks and regulators turned frosty. In the world of leveraged finance, federal agencies put strict limits on how much debt investment banks could load onto companies. But since self-proclaimed dealmaker Donald Trump walked into the Oval Office, the influence of those guidelines has waned, according to Debtwire data.
Banks Gear Up For Culture Change In Leveraged Lending Enforcement
By Will Caiger-Smith and Alex Plough With the future of the federal leveraged lending guidelines in flux, investment bankers are already preparing for a lighter-touch regulatory environment. Many have started pushing their compliance teams to allow aggressive deals in leveraged finance, as the stars begin to align for a loosening of post-crisis guidelines intended to curb excessive risk-taking, numerous leveraged finance bankers told Debtwire.
American Idle: Decommissioning costs sink offshore drillers into latest crisis
The offshore drilling platform built for Gulf Oil in the late 1970s was one of the biggest to leave the shipyards of renowned Texas engineering firm Brown & Root. The structure rose four deck levels high, featured a helipad, accommodation for dozens of workers and all the equipment needed to extract vast oil deposits entombed in the earth’s crust. Supporting the deck was a tapered 300-foot steel tower, roughly the size of The Statue of Liberty, with eight giant legs anchored into the seafloor.
Public Finance Authority shakes up muni market with help from ‘public good’ evolution
by Ryan Bolger and Seth Brumby. Additional reporting by Alex Plough. The municipal bond market finances American civilization. From court houses to school houses, city pipes to street lights, if it’s for the public good, a municipal bond will pay for its construction.
Debtwire Investigations
Hundreds of stakeholders in the Gulf of Mexico oil and gas sector huddled in a Louisiana movie theater on a late August morning to hear about a USD 40bn problem. This problem had been slow to develop over the last two decades, but a new set of regulations taking effect on 12 September threaten to accelerate its impact across the entire offshore energy industry – from Big Oil to the wildcatters who issued billions of new debt to fund rapid expansion plans.
Debtwire Investigations
Hundreds of stakeholders in the Gulf of Mexico oil and gas sector huddled in a Louisiana movie theater on a late August morning to hear about a USD 40bn problem. This problem had been slow to develop over the last two decades, but a new set of regulations taking effect on 12 September threaten to accelerate its impact across the entire offshore energy industry – from Big Oil to the wildcatters who issued billions of new debt to fund rapid expansion plans.
Dangers in the Deep: A $40 billion time-bomb threatening the Gulf
Debtwire Investigations is a new editorial initiative brought to you by a hand-picked group of some of our best and brightest investigative journalists. A rotating team of five beat reporters have taken countless hours away from their already expert coverage to go far beyond specific credits and market segments to focus on long-form pieces, deep data dives, and impactful investigative analysis.
Shervin Pishevar
#86 Shervin Pishevar Cofounder and Managing Director, Sherpa Ventures Age 42 Notable Deal Uber Residence San Francisco, CA Citizenship United States Marital Status Single Education Bachelor of Arts / Science, University of California Berkeley Shervin Pishevar on Forbes Lists Shervin Pishevar started Sherpa Capital with Goldman Sachs banker Scott Stanford two years ago after spending a couple of years at Menlo Ventures focusing on seed investments in the consumer Internet.
How to loot a country (and get away with it)
Secretive offshore tax havens help funnel billion of dollars out of the poorest countries and into the bank accounts of their corrupt officials. This video shows a how a dodgy politician could hypothetically abuse this shadowy financial network to enrich himself, and explains why we need greater financial transparency in the fight against international corruption.
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