Posted on September 16, 2008 at 1:46 PM
Filed under: 2008 | Cover Story | July-Sept. 2008 | The Magazine
Tagged: InSearch Worldwide , movers , Randy Gulian

Strategics aren't just enjoying their current primacy in the M&A market; they're also seizing the moment to add talent and improve their corporate development operations.  Continue reading

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Posted on June 16, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Cover Story | Deal International | Integration
Tagged: Japan , licensing , M&A , The Deal

Alex Lash's cover story in the current issue of The Deal newsweekly explores dealmaking in Japan. While the focus is Japanese drugmakers striking deals -- M&A and licensing, mostly -- to expand westward, the piece includes plenty of detail of interest to any corporation looking to acquire or team up...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 10, 2008 at 9:29 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Best Practices | Corporate Strategy | Corporate Tool | Cover Story | Deal International | Joint Ventures and Alliances
Tagged: business strategy , Corporate Dealmaker , divestitures , joint ventures , M&A , valuations

Corporate Dealmaker editor Kenneth Klee and senior editor Suzanne Stevens discuss Corporate Dealmaker's latest magazine, "The Valuation Issue: Perspectives, tools and trends."  Continue reading

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Posted on June 6, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Filed under: 2008 | April-June 2008 | Cover Story | The Magazine | Trends
Tagged: Valuation

To the world at large, the price for a given acquisition often seems like the simplest part of the story. The number in the press release may be big, it may look high or low, but it's still a number, tidy and unambiguous. Company A is buying Company B...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 1, 2008 at 7:00 PM
Filed under: 2008 | April-June 2008 | Cover Story | The Magazine | Trends
Tagged: Emerging Markets , Valuation

Valuation work informs every stage of the transaction process. Before an acquisition, a company's deal team projects cash flows and quantifies synergies to negotiate a purchase price and guide due diligence. After the closing, the valuations of tangible and intangible assets and the assignment of enterprise values to business...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 1, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Filed under: 2008 | Acquisitions | April-June 2008 | Cover Story | The Magazine
Tagged: Fairness Opinions , Valuation

All's fair in love, war and, it turns out, the pricing of M&A deals. You can look up that last point in any one of the thousands of fairness opinions buried in public company proxy statements. In each transaction the adviser rendering the opinion was paid to confirm that...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 12, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Filed under: 2008 | Corporate Strategy | Cover Story | Jan.-March 2008 | The Magazine | Trends
Tagged: China , Davos , emerging markets , General Electric , globalization , IBM , KPMG , offshoring , overseas , revenue , Romania , survey

First came the very largest companies. Now middle-market dealmakers are stepping up their movement into emerging markets.  Continue reading

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Posted on March 12, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Filed under: 2008 | Best Practices | Cover Story | Jan.-March 2008 | The Magazine | Trends
Tagged: Bryan Larson , Capstone Turbine , China , Commercial Service , David Bohigian , Department of Commerce , Feds , General BioDiesel , government , India , Jim Crouse , Li Weaver , market research , Maryland Center China , Michigan China Office , National Development and Reform Commission , NDRC , Neapco Drivelines , Steve Feld , Tennessee China Development Center , U.S. Embassy , Yale Wong , Yvonne Warmbier-Ramp

From affordable exploratory trips to high-level introductions to market research, the U.S. government can be a valuable source for companies eyeing the China market.  Continue reading

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Posted on February 13, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Cover Story | The Magazine
Tagged: 2007 , Deals

Dealmaking in 2007 was marked by unprecedented highs and devastating lows. That's what makes the annual "Deals of the year" feature in our parent publication The Deal a particularly important read this year. Not only does it deconstruct some of the year's biggest and most complicated transactions, it chronicles deals...  Continue reading

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Posted on December 15, 2007 at 5:00 PM
Filed under: 2007 | Acquisitions | CD Community | Cover Story | Deal International | Joint Ventures and Alliances | Nov.-Dec. 2007 | People | The Magazine | Trends
Tagged: Anne Madden , CD Forum , conference , deal activity , dealmakers , Honeywell , M&A , MAC clause , people , private equity , strategics

The word from our big October conference is that the credit crunch now sidelining PE does indeed create opportunities for corporate buyers. Still, there's no turning back the clock on the changes of the last few years.  Continue reading

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