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Eldorado-Sino Gold deal: Industry context (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Canada's Eldorado Gold Corp. (AMEX:EGO) will buy Australia's Sino Gold Mining Ltd. for about C$2 billion ($1.8 billion), making it the largest international player mining gold in China. The Deal Pipeline (subscription required) notes China recently became the world's largest producer of gold, seizing the top position from South Africa,...

Posted on August 26, 2009 10:06 AM

Big board for student loan startup People Capital (from Corporate Dealmaker)

With advice from M&A veterans such as Merrill Lynch & Co.'s former COO of Americas investment banking, Colbert Narcisse, and Ken Kharbanda, AOL LLC's former head of corporate development, startup People Capital is looking to address a growing problem in the U.S. resulting form the economic crisis. The firm is...

Posted on July 1, 2009 8:39 AM

U.S. banks play with fire in Bharti-MTN deal (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The good news for Africa's No. 2 cell-phone operator MTN Group Ltd. may ultimately turn sour for investor J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM).  According to The Economic Times, J.P. Morgan is one of a handful of banks providing $500 million apiece to finance No. 1 Indian cell-phone company...

Posted on June 30, 2009 12:40 PM

More bank consolidation, more layoffs in a buyer's market (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Don't expect banking industry consolidation to slow anytime soon. That's according to Dino Mauricio, a managing director of M&A integration at the management and financial consultancy Getzler Henrich. Over the next six to eight months, Mauricio predicts we'll see financially stable banks on the hunt. "Weaker banks in this environment...

Posted on November 10, 2008 8:04 AM

Top HSBC i-banker heads to medical devices firm (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Katherine Wolf is trading i-banking for corporate development. The former managing director of HSBC Holdings plc's investment banking arm has joined Vision-Sciences Inc. as executive vice president of corporate development and chief financial officer. Wolf co-founded HSBC's healthcare group and led the global medical technology effort, including origination and execution...

Posted on September 18, 2008 12:13 PM

Buying into China's banks (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The world's financial giants have bought multiple minority stakes, aiming to partner in the historic opening of the Chinese financial sector. What will it take to make these deals really work?

Posted on October 15, 2006 8:20 PM

Straight talk on bank deals (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Imagine the information technology issues that arise when two giant banks merge. Each has a huge IT infrastructure, created over many years to serve millions of customers and operate the institution's complex financial plumbing. Melding the two must be a major technical challenge, right? Actually, no. "It's not a...

Posted on December 15, 2004 2:00 PM