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Terminating/Restructuring Prohibitive Real Estate, License, Payables & Contingent Liabilities

Gerbsman Partners has been involved with numerous national and international equity sponsors, senior/junior lenders, investment banks and equipment lessors in the restructuring or termination of various balance sheet issues for their technology, life science, medical device, cyber security, solar and cleantech portfolio companies.

These companies were not necessarily in crisis, but had cash (in some cases significant cash reserves) and/or investor groups that were about to provide additional funding. In order to stabilize their Go-Forward-Plan and maximize cash resources for future growth, there were specific needs to address Balance Sheet and Contingent Liability issues as soon as possible.

Some of these areas where Gerbsman Partners has assisted, these companies have been in the process of termination, restructuring and/or reduction of:

Prohibitive Executory Real Estate Leases, Computer and Hardware-related Leases and Senior/Sub-debt Obligations

Gerbsman Partners was the “innovator” in creating strategies to terminate or restructure prohibitive real estate leases and senior and sub-debt obligations.  To date, we have terminated or restructured $810 million of such obligations for private and public companies, and which has allowed them to return to financial viability.

Accounts/Trade Payable Obligations

Companies in a crisis, turnaround or restructuring situation typically have account and trade payable obligations that become prohibitive for the viability of the company on a go-forward-basis. Gerbsman Partners has successfully negotiated mutually beneficial restructurings that allowed all parties to maximize value based on the reality or practicality of the situation.

Software and Technology-related Licenses

As per the above, software and technology-related licenses need to be restructured/terminated in order for additional capital to be invested in restructured companies. Gerbsman Partners has a significant, successful track record in these areas.

About Gerbsman Partners

Gerbsman Partners focuses on maximizing enterprise value for stakeholders and shareholders in underperforming, undercapitalized and undervalued companies and their intellectual properties. Since 2001, Gerbsman Partners has successfully maximized the values of 102 companies in a wide and diverse spectrum of industries. In the process, GP has successfully restructured/terminated over $810 million of real estate executor contracts and equipment lease/sub-debt obligations, and has assisted in over $2.3 billion of financings, restructurings and M&A transactions.

Gerbsman Partners has offices and strategic alliances in Boston, New York, Washington DC, McLean VA, San Francisco, Orange County, Europe and Israel.


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Thank you Eli Manning.  You have been an example of professionalism, leadership and integrity for 14 years.

I have been a life long NY Giants fan and have suffered through the challenging years and rejoiced through the good ones.  Eli, has been a shining light in both those times during his tenure as the Giants QB.

I am filled with great memories from my youth of Gifford, Rote, Tittle, Webster, Grier, Summerall, Huff, Connerly,Katcavage, Modzelewski, Robustelli, Lynch and the great Giant teams of the 80’s.

In the early 60’s, my fraternity brothers from AEPi and I had to go to the state of Connecticut to watch our Giants play.  These were great times and great memories.

Eli, you have given my buddies and I the same joy over the past 14 years.

Thank you.  You are a “class” act.

best

from a long time NY Giants fan

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Bitcoin is over $9,000

Well, it’s over $9,000.

Even as you recoup from attempting to explain Bitcoin to your family over the Thanksgiving dinner table, the value of the cryptocurrency is growing at an increasingly hefty pace. As of the time of this writing, the value of a single Bitcoin was above $9,143, climbing nearly 6 points in the past 24 hours.

At a certain point, news of clearing these incremental price hurdles are going to get old, but given the increasing speed in which Bitcoin prices are knocking through these barriers and hitting all-time-highs, it seems relevant to chronicle the march towards $10,000 at least.

The cryptocurrency currently has a market cap north of $152 billion.

via coinmarketcap.com

My colleague Fitz Tepper said the case for Bitcoin at $10k was pretty strong by year’s end when it hit $8,000 just six days ago, but at this rate perhaps its more relevant to wonder how close to $15k the cryptocurrency will get in 2017 before the rate of investment at least cools.

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50 startups that will boom in 2018, according to VCs

50 hot startups 2018BI Graphics

2018 is almost upon us and so it is once again time to predict which startups will take the tech industry by storm next year.

Who better to ask than the startup experts, the VCs that watch the industry, guide the startups, hear their pitches, and invest in them?

We reached out to a number of top VCs and asked them which startups will boom in 2018. We invited participation from investors from a variety of backgrounds and investing philosophies. This includes some of the top VCs in the Valley (Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Bessemer, Greylock Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia).

We included VCs of note who specialize in seed and early rounds (8VC, Bloomberg Beta, BBG Ventures — which backs startups with at least one female founder.) We also asked some top VCs from the startup nation Israel (JVC, OurCrowd) and VCs that have been known for picking hits (like IVP’s Somash Dash).

We asked them to name a company they’ve backed that’s on track to have a great 2018. After all, they believed in those companies so much they invested. But we also asked them to name another startup they think is cool that they don’t have any financial interest in.

As startup lovers, they gave us this list chock full of amazing up-and-comers creating tech for businesses, gamers, personalized health, robots, high-tech money, new forms of super computers, and even outer space.

http://www.businessinsider.com/50-startups-to-boom-in-2018-according-to-vcs-2017-11/#nauto-an-artificially-intelligent-dashcam-for-vehicles-1

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No turkeys in flock of best Bay Area venture returns of all time

By  –  TechFlash Editor, Silicon Valley Business Journal

“Returning the fund” is the phrase used in the venture world for investments whose returns cover all the bets a firm made from a particular fund.

But not all bets that “return the fund” are equal. In a week when Americans gather to thank their blessings, here is a CB Insights ranking of the 10 all-time best venture returns involving Bay Area-based companies.

The returns are based on how much was invested before a company’s IPO or sale, compared to its valuation at the time of the exit.

A few deals by Bay Area investors that returned the fund but involved companies that aren’t headquartered here have been left out.

That includes Groupon (NASDAQ:GRPN), which provided the third biggest venture return of all-time and was backed early by Accel Partners and New Enterprise Associates. It went public six years ago at a valuation of $12.7 billion after raising about $700 million in funding.

It also includes Snapchat parent Snap Inc., which was the fifth biggest return and was backed early by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Institutional Venture Partners. It went public this year at a valuation of about $33 billion after raising about $3.4 billion in funding.

In both those cases, however, the current market caps of those companies are a lot lower than they were on their Wall Street debuts — $3.1 billion for Groupon and $14.9 billion for Snap.

Let that be a reminder that it’s OK to push away from the feast before you overindulge.

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