Director Assessments – Common Sense but Not Common Practice
Handling the sensitive matter of providing meaningful feedback to individual Board Directors.
Running for the Exits: Getting Joint Venture Exit Right
Exits from joint ventures are not always bad, but like death and taxes, they are usually unavoidable. Planning up front can make all the difference.
Reserved Seating and Open Tables – Staffing Management Positions in JVs
With joint ventures, management appointment rights can create reserved seating or open tables for the JV top team. Which will you choose?
Mapping a Joint Venture Value Chain Before It’s Too Late
Seeing a fuller picture of the ongoing flow of contributions from the parents to inform key deal terms, negotiations, and launch planning.
Joint Venture Valuation: 4 Steps to Handling Hard-to-Value Contributions
Techniques to help take complex JV valuation issues off the table.
Structuring Compensation for Lead Operating Partners
The purpose of this note is to outline a process for potential partners to use during deal structuring and negotiations to determine Operator fee structures and levels. In addition, we also make the case for why Lead Operating Partners should be competitively compensated by non-operators, including those in the upstream Oil & Gas industry.
Setting up Joint Ventures in China – Structures of steel or glass?
The 25 unique-to-China deal challenges, and ways to address them.
Taking Valuation Issues Off the Table
The purpose of this article is to explain how the valuation process in JVs should be run – and to outline the most common and best of these deal structuring techniques.