Problem:
Case Study: Iridium LLC, Harvard Business School, 9-200-039.
- Please comment on how you would use the projections in Exhibit 5 to estimate value. What method would you use? What are the most important determinants of value?
- What caused Iridium to fail: was it a bad strategy, bad execution or bad luck?
- With regard to Iridium's financial strategy, did it have the wrong target capital structure, issue the wrong kind of capital or issue capital in the wrong sequence?
- Why did Motorola finance Iridium with project debt instead of corporate debt?
- What lessons regarding the financing of large, greenfield projects do you draw from this case study?
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