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Wednesday, vertically integrated steelmaker Evraz Group SA reported preliminary results for 2007, which included about a 56% rise in net profit ($2.144 billion from $1.377 billion in 2006). The company also expects a revenue increase in the first half of 2008 of 60% to 65% versus the $6.053 billion in...
Posted on April 2, 2008 1:28 PM
In our last post on India, we told you of Finance Minister Palaniappam Chidambaram's budget, which led to a drop in ADRs, American Depository Receipts, of Indian companies, and about a meeting held in New York discussing said budget last week. That same week, the U.S.-India Business Council, or USIBC,...
Posted on March 5, 2008 3:04 PM
India's latest budget, presented in New Delhi on Feb. 29 by Finance Minister Palaniappam Chidambaram, has already drawn plenty of commentary on what it means for various constituencies, and for the prospects of the ruling Congress party in the next election.Here at Corporate Dealmaker, we're particularly interested in the question of...
Posted on March 3, 2008 8:17 AM
Travel Acquisitions Group, formerly a portfolio of Carlson Cos. known as Carlson Leisure Group, enlisted J.D. O'Hara to serve as the company's new senior vice president of corporate development, with a mandate to seek M&A opportunities. O'Hara hails from investment bank Lehman Brothers Inc., where he advised clients and...
Posted on February 29, 2008 3:32 PM
Dealmakers at middle-market companies are generally optimistic about the current and future deal climate, according to the results of a recent survey. CFO Research Services and CIT Group Inc. surveyed 529 senior-level finance decision makers at...
Posted on February 26, 2008 5:13 PM
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...
Posted on February 13, 2008 11:55 AM
Edward Tse says success in China requires a flexible approach for a diverse market. As Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.'s managing partner for Greater China, Tse advises multinational and local clients on strategy, organizations and operations. And in a wide-ranging article for Strategy+Business magazine, he says that companies seeking to grow...
Posted on February 12, 2008 5:43 PM
Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel Ltd. has created 'India with Airtel' -- a strategic partnership program focusing on providing leading international carriers an opportunity to partner with Airtel. Among the telecom services offered are: managed data and Internet services...
Posted on January 15, 2008 11:26 AM
Last year was the second biggest ever for healthcare M&A, with deals worth more than $226 billion, a 38% increase over the $164.3 billion in 2004 (but a 16% decrease from the $268.4 billion in 2006). Stephen Monroe, managing editor at Irving Levin Associates Inc., which publishes The Health...
Posted on January 11, 2008 2:15 PM
Many investment bankers who focus on transactions under $500 million say that the performance of smaller companies has remained strong and that mergers are going forward, with financing only rarely being a deal breaker. On the other hand, some financial sponsors suspect that if tight financing conditions prevail amid...
Posted on January 7, 2008 12:01 PM
Dealmakers have learned to examine their targets with a thoroughness and an attention to what makes deals work that was rarely seen a decade ago.
Posted on December 15, 2007 4:08 PM
Nearly all deals require a transition services agreement. Looking to a qualified third party for those services can often be an effective tactic.
Posted on December 15, 2007 1:37 PM
A common-sense approach to the vital task of finding more and better acquisition targets.
Posted on December 15, 2007 12:33 PM
As the only big biotech dedicated to relentless acquisition, the company may point the way to consolidation in the sector.
Posted on October 15, 2007 7:53 PM
The fair-value accounting rules taking effect this fall make it more important than ever for dealmakers to value intangible assets accurately -- and as early as possible.
Posted on October 15, 2007 7:49 PM
Asia-Pacific M&A chief Joerg Ayrle talks about valuation, the effect of a hot local stock market, and more.
Posted on October 15, 2007 8:57 AM
In regulation-sensitive industries, small companies rarely have compliance regimes on a par with those at larger ones. That can pose challenges for dealmakers.
Posted on October 15, 2007 8:39 AM
A look at the art and (maybe) science of managing the cast of characters needed to make deals successful.
Posted on August 15, 2007 7:10 PM
A new paradigm for outsourcing - dubbed 'around sourcing' by Thomas Friedman - may really be taking hold. Get ready to manage multiple relationships around the globe.
Posted on August 15, 2007 6:55 PM
With financing free and easy, coverage ratios have tightened up. Is this a precursor to defaults or will the markets continue to generate loads of life-giving debt?
Posted on August 15, 2007 5:55 PM
The current buyout wave may seem to recall the 1980s, but the strategies and structures are very different.
Posted on August 15, 2007 5:46 PM
As chief executive of industrial manufacturer Actuant Corp., Bob Arzbaecher has overseen the acquisition of no fewer than 13 companies in the past six years. A collection of niche businesses totaling more than $1 billion in sales, Actuant manufacturers tools, supplies and engineered solutions and has operations in more...
Posted on August 15, 2007 5:17 PM
Turmoil in the Middle East and nationalism in Venezuela and elsewhere have U.S. energy companies shopping for hydrocarbons in and around the U.S. That's one of the reasons why Anadarko Petroleum Corp., for example, bought Kerr-McGee Corp. and Western Gas Resources Inc. in one swoop last year for $23...
Posted on August 15, 2007 4:32 PM
Peter Klein helped Jim Kilts turn around and then sell Nabisco and Gillette. But those are just two of the high points in his long and eventful career as a consumer-products strategist and dealmaker.
Posted on June 15, 2007 5:30 PM
Home Depot CEO Frank Blake must decide: follow through on a deal-driven expansion into contractor supply or concentrate on fixing the core retail business.
Posted on June 15, 2007 5:25 PM
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