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Finance executives believe that corporations will over the next 12 months begin spinning off or selling businesses with increasing frequency. That was one of the findings of a survey title "Divestitures in Difficult Times" from PricewaterhouseCoopers Transactions Services. Sixty-nine percent of the 215 private and public company executives surveyed in August...
Posted on October 22, 2009 8:00 AM
Computer Sciences Corp. (NYSE:CSC) has completed its acquisition of BearingPoint Inc.'s Brazil consulting business. Terms were not disclosed. The deal supports the emerging market growth strategy of CSC, an IT outsourcing service provider, and expands its expertise in industries including energy, natural resources and technology. CSC is the latest consultancy to...
Posted on August 6, 2009 3:35 PM
You seldom hear about a consulting operation being acquired out of bankruptcy. But in what is surely a sign of the times, we've just seen the close of such a deal: the purchase of the majority of BearingPoint's North American Commercial Services Practice by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a transaction valued at...
Posted on June 16, 2009 2:52 PM
Former mobile telephones tycoon John Caudwell (pictured) is the latest possible rescuer to have his name linked with distressed U.K. vanmaker LDV Group Ltd., which went into formal administration June 8, but he is a long way from taking the keys to the company's Birmingham, England, factory.When Rob Hunt,...
Posted on June 15, 2009 9:32 AM
Following six years of consecutive losses, bankrupt BearingPoint Inc. continues to shed assets. On Wednesday, the bankruptcy court approved the $25 million sale of certain commercial service group assets to PricewaterhouseCoopers. The deal will result in PwC owning a significant portion of the IT consultancy's North American commercial business and...
Posted on April 29, 2009 12:07 PM
Rosetta Stone Inc., maker of the language learning software sold at airport kiosks and through television pitches, set an estimated price range Wednesday for its initial public offering. (Deal Pipeline subscribers can read more here.) If completed, the company's offering will be the third IPO to price this year. The...
Posted on April 1, 2009 12:30 PM
The data shows that the disclosed value of completed M&A transactions for the U.S. entertainment and media sector in 2008 was the highest it's been since 2001. But once you exclude four megadeals from 2006 that took two years to complete, the numbers shrink considerably, reflecting the state of our...
Posted on February 27, 2009 3:43 PM
A new PricewaterhouseCoopers report reviewing last year's merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector and offering an outlook for deals in 2009 confirms what other firms such as Ernst & Young expect : that tight credit, heavy debt and volatile commodity prices will constrict dealmaking this year. However,...
Posted on February 24, 2009 9:26 AM
Robert Filek, a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers' transaction services group -- and a former CD Forum moderator -- said "troubled companies will look to align with larger, stronger players in order to survive, creating the perfect storm for mergers of necessity." PwC said in a lengthy report that the deal...
Posted on December 31, 2008 12:22 PM
"The U.S. is for sale. Our currency is deflated and that is attractive for international buyers. That said, inbound investments into the U.S. will be tempered due to the uncertainty of the U.S. economy... "
Posted on August 25, 2008 2:50 PM
High-profile author and consultant Mark Sirower, who founded the transaction services strategy group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, has moved over to PwC competitor Deloitte Consulting LLP. Sirower is well known in corporate development circles as the author of "The Synergy Trap: How Companies Lose the Acquisition Game." A must-read for many corporate...
Posted on April 10, 2008 8:34 AM
While the world laments the death of M&A given the credit crunch, financial institutions crumbling and the gyrating stock market, oil and gas, power and mining deals are thriving. According to three separate reports over the past month by PricewaterhouseCoopers, M&A value levels were up .3% in the oil and...
Posted on April 2, 2008 2:51 PM
PricewaterhouseCoopers has a new report out that dovetails nicely with the emerging markets focus of the latest Corporate Dealmaker. PwC's "The World in 2050: Beyond the BRICs," examines projected growth rates in the big four emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China, and 13 additional economies that get a...
Posted on March 25, 2008 9:00 AM
Chart Industries Inc., which IPO'd in mid-2006. just named a new vice president of corporate development: James Hoppel Jr. Hoppel joined Chart in 2004 as corporate controller and became its chief accounting officer in 2006, in connection with the firm's initial public offering. He has previous mergers and acquisitions experience...
Posted on March 6, 2008 10:57 AM
Hard-charging, no-nonsense dealmaking certainly has its place in corporate development. But according to a new PricewaterhouseCoopers' report, those dealmakers with a softer touch may ultimately achieve greater deal success.
Posted on February 5, 2008 1:49 PM
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
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