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BofA tops in wealth management: Is bigger better? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) not only became the world's largest bank with its $50 billion acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co., it also became the world's largest wealth manager. According to a survey from the wealth management consulting firm Scorpio Partnership, BofA, with $1.5 trillion under management in 2008,...

Posted on July 6, 2009 12:03 PM

Cleantech deals offer ray of economic hope (from Corporate Dealmaker)

After a recent falloff, it looks like the cleantech sector is showing signs of a turnaround. The Cleantech Group, a provider of global market research, events and advisory services for the cleantech sector, along with Deloitte, released preliminary second-quarter results for clean technology venture investments in North America, Europe, China...

Posted on July 1, 2009 3:05 PM

Porsche CEO Wiedeking to banks: More, please (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Porsche SE CEO Wendelin Wiedeking likes to present himself as the bad boy of Germany's corporate culture. And the country's clubby financial types have been happy to let him do what he wants -- because it's always made them money.But now they're getting nervous -- if not annoyed --...

Posted on March 3, 2009 11:01 AM

European executives bullish on transformational deals in '09 (from Corporate Dealmaker)

A survey of executives at European public companies produced some pretty surprising results about M&A strategies in 2008 and the prospects for dealmaking in '09. The Boston Consulting Group and UBS Investment Bank polled 160 chief executives and senior managers and found that despite the global financial crisis, nearly a...

Posted on December 12, 2008 4:13 PM

UBS eyes Middle Eastern investment with second JV (from Corporate Dealmaker)

UBS is expanding its Middle Eastern investment with a second joint venture in the region. On Monday, the bank announced that UBS Global Asset Management is forming a 50/50 joint venture with the private equity firm MerchantBridge to identify and manage investments in the Middle East. Dubai-based MerchantBridge-UBS Private Equity...

Posted on November 17, 2008 10:45 AM

UBS, Citi and the way big banks make mistakes (from Corporate Dealmaker)

With the approaching 10th anniversary of the merger that created Citigroup Inc., the subject of how and why it went wrong has been percolating briskly. Friday brought a self-justifying interview with John Reed, the deal's co-author, in the FT, and a bracing reality check of a response from our editor...

Posted on April 4, 2008 4:54 PM

Hard-won wisdom (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Before he became the CFO working to fix Cott, Juan Figuereo did nearly a career's worth of emerging market work for PepsiCo and Wal-Mart. He learned much about deals along the way...

Posted on March 12, 2008 2:27 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

I-bankers' new realities (from Corporate Dealmaker)

It's 2004. Do you know where your M&A banker is? It's not such an easy question to answer these days. Investment banking executives, long known for business units that boom and bust along with markets, have outdone themselves in recent years. M&A specialists were among the hardest hit in the...

Posted on February 15, 2004 5:04 PM