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Blackhawk Partners, Inc., is one of the world’s most reliable traders and suppliers of a wide range of commodities and financial instruments to industrial and financial consumers globally.
The Firm’s role is to be a trustworthy and competitive partner to businesses in the segments of the market which it serves and to support these businesses as they expand and develop.

The Firm’s customers around the world rely upon its established global network of operations as a source of Metals and Minerals, Crude Oil and Oil Products and Trading Platform Products.
These products originate either from Blackhawk directly or indirectly owned assets, or are secured by Blackhawk from third parties.

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Investing

Philosophy

The underlying philosophy of Blackhawk Partners investment approach consists of funding its private equity and real estate investment acquisitions with a combination of equity and debt.

Blackhawk underwrites the equity portion of a transaction, both directly and through its core group family offices. We often give our other clients the opportunity to invest in our equity transactions as well (see Placement and Relationship Management as per below). When debt financing is required to structure an optimum transaction, it is provided by the wide array of leading financial institutions with whom we have deep relationships.

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Equity method accounting is used when an investing company owns stocks of another affiliate company. There are several different ways of accounting for this ownership, but this method is perhaps the most popular.

Equity method accounting factors in the increase or decease in profits of the invested company. These differences are usually unrealized and not actually obtained by the investing company. The increase or decease is, of course, calculated on the percentage of stocks owned and does not account for dividends paid. For example, if an investor owns 100 shares of an affiliate’s stock. And if that stock increases 10%, only those 100 shares will reflect the 10% increase. The investing company will then record that increase as profit on their ledger.

Before going further, it is important to note that if a parent company owns over 50% of a subsidiary company, equity method accounting is not allowed. Consolidated companies are required to combine the financial figures into one statement for the group of entities. Continue reading ‘Equity Method Accounting Makes a Big Difference’ »