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The Conflict of Interests in M&A
There is a little, well, there's definitely overlap. Even if your M&A team didn't do a great deal, it's because you're the biggest lender in the syndicates. If I'm going to be the lead advisor, well, why do I help lead the financing as well? So it's not necessarily a conflict of interest, but there's certainly JP Morgan is going to benefit both from the advisory, the arrangement of the debt, and then working with the buyer to sell down the debt and restructure afterwards.
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