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Jim Walsh, Vice Chairman and Global Head of Consumer, Retail & REGAL Investment Banking, who has over 30 years of experience in the consumer sector shares his thoughts on how U.S. consumers are doing and companies’ opportunities and challenges in the current environment.

Technology capital markets have been in a transaction winter since the end of 2021. That deep freeze appears to be ending and the field of prospective buyers is expanding.

At Jefferies’ 2024 Private Internet Conference in Los Angeles, Perplexity.ai CEO Aravind Srinivas sat down with Gaurav Kiuttur, Global Co-Head of Internet Investment Banking, to discuss the shifting search landscape, Perplexity’s growth, and competition from Google and OpenAI.

Thirty years ago, the private aviation market almost exclusively consisted of the people and corporations in many industries that owned private jets. Not anymore. Today, 40% of the world’s 446,000 private jets are in the hands of private aviation companies – like NetJets, Vista and Flexjet – that offer customers more flexible choices of aircraft, […]

Jefferies sat down with Pete Bowden – Global Head of Industrial, Energy, and Infrastructure Investment Banking – to discuss the energy sector’s consolidation, the potential for a “supercycle,” and more.

In 2023, two-thirds of venture capital investment went into AI-related businesses.
Much like the widespread adoption of mobile technologies 15 years ago, AI is poised to radically reshape the private internet market. But how?

In March, the TSX marked a whole year without a new corporate listing. Is Canada on the brink of overcoming its IPO drought, or is the market in for further hardship through 2024?

Arik Shtilman, co-founder and CEO of Rapyd, offers insight into the rise of embedded finance across sectors, the significance of cross-border sales and compliance for modern businesses, and more. 

Asaf Peled, founder and CEO of Minute Media, on the future of sports media; the Israeli tech ecosystem; Minute Media’s latest acquisitions; and more.