January 2008

Posted on January 31, 2008 at 4:06 PM
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Frank R. Mack, CTP, Conway, MacKenzie & Dunleavy Inc., discusses the challenge of doing deals and financings in China. "You're facing 5,000 years of 'It doesn't work this way here'" says Mack. Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 4:00 PM
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Matt Gerdes of Freeport Financial LLP reviews the state of CLO's in the marketplace and how the middle markets may ease the situation. "It's not a pretty picture," says Gerdes. Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:46 PM
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How is the manufacturing industry weathering the current economic downturn? The Keynote Panel at the 2008 Distressed Investing Conference in Las Vegas, reviews the opportunities and challenges facing rust belt companies. Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:40 PM
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Mark Holdsworth of Tennenbaum Capital markets covers the history and transparency of sovereign wealth funds at the 2008 Distressed Investing Conference, sponsored by TheDeal.com and TMA. Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:33 PM
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Members of the keynote panel discuss both the strategy and psychology of investing in the aftermath of the subprime meltdown. For more highlights of the 2008 Distressed Investing Conference. Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:25 PM
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"We're the babies that have been thrown out with the bathwater," says Gregory Cooper of Gregory Cooper about CLO's. Cooper explains the role and popularity of CLO's at the 2008 Distressed Investing Conference, at Las Vegas, Nevada.  Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:16 PM
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Jeff J. Marwil of Winston & Strawn LLP chats with the Deal at the 2008 Distressed Investing Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:08 PM
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Tennenbaum Capital Markets' Mark Holdsworth discussed the economy, corporate debt and technology investing in a down market at the 2008 Distressed Investing conference. While Holdsworth feels the economy is entering a slow growth mode with "things being tough for a while" he doesn't yet think that thet wheels are coming off. As opposed to the last time around, many more companies have taken on debt, but don't have s full understanding of what "it means to have debt, thinking that those sources of capital are going to be the same as equity sources of capital, so it kind of a learning curve for them." Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 3:01 PM
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Hugh Ray of Andrews & Kurth LLP spoke with The Deal at the 2008 Distressed Investing conference, Las Vegas, about what is on the horizon for companies that will have to be restructured in 2008. Ray is expecting a real boom in reorganization investing as the default rate has increased five-fold last year. It is not just the sub-prime loans causing problems but "an overabundance of credit extension" that is coming back to bite lenders now, Ray says. Continue reading

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Posted on January 31, 2008 at 10:37 AM
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Michael E. Heisley, Stony Lane Partners, L.P., discusses the cycles of distressed investing at The Deal's 2008 conference, Las Vegas, Nevada. Continue reading

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