Three ways to learn from thirty years of deal experience
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I’m John Colley. I started in investment banking in 1988 and spent thirty years across M&A, private equity, venture capital and corporate finance — advising on transactions in the City of London. I now teach what actually works, what the textbooks get wrong, and where the real judgement calls live.
Cambridge MA. MBA with Distinction from Bayes Business School. Former British Army Captain.
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