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Lincoln International: Time is right for private firms to sell (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Hardly a week goes by without hearing about another mega public M&A transaction derailed due to softness in the credit markets. Yet lender gridlock for large M&A transactions belie the fact that midmarket transactions ($50 million to $200 million in value) continue to attract lenders and investors. We believe...

Posted on April 2, 2008 9:42 AM

Emerging markets watch: Resource roundup for India, China (from Corporate Dealmaker)

If you're a corporate dealmaker pursuing growth strategies in China or India, there's a wealth of resources out there. But whether they're surveys or reports from consultants, presentations at conferences around the world or reports from news organizations, the trick is finding and making sense of them. That's the purpose...

Posted on March 13, 2008 7:38 AM

Healthcare Symposium 2008: BGL M&A report sets stage (from Corporate Dealmaker)

On March 19, The Deal will be hosting a Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium, monitoring the current pace of healthcare M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. Fittingly, Brown Gibbons Lang & Co. just issued their quarterly newsletter, BGL...

Posted on March 10, 2008 4:14 PM

Study: Midmarket M&A to keep pace in '08 (from Corporate Dealmaker)

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

Fashionably late = failed deals (from Corporate Dealmaker)

It's common knowledge among dealmakers that most mergers and acquisitions fail. The how and why usually points to failure in due diligence, integration issues and so on. DealBook's Andrew Ross Sorkin, however, points to a study from the Academy of...

Posted on February 26, 2008 11:32 AM

Mastering the complexities of China (from Corporate Dealmaker)

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

VDRs and cross-border M&A (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Technology tools replacing physical data rooms are being globalized. Information management and professional services firm BMC Group Inc. recently announced its internationalized multilanguage virtual data room, or VDR, capability. Initially, these VDRs will alow clients to configure the rooms with a Japanese-language interface and also, interestingly, using the Cyrillic alphabet,...

Posted on January 30, 2008 6:02 PM

Bankers: Outlook good for midmarket deals in 2008 (from Corporate Dealmaker)

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

Let the bad times roll (from Corporate Dealmaker)

A down market should offer shareholder activists plenty of opportunity for attractive returns.

Posted on December 15, 2007 1:22 PM

Building scale in ethanol (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Corn-based ethanol fuels arguments as well as cars. As Congress considers legislation to extend subsidies, opponents are mobilizing. Oil companies say market demand should drive growth, the livestock and poultry lobby complains about soaring feed prices, and environmental groups fear possible soil and water degradation. Wall Street has turned...

Posted on December 15, 2007 10:47 AM

Outward bound (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Chinese companies haven't flocked into overseas acquisitions, but they're becoming more active, and the trend will likely accelerate.

Posted on June 15, 2007 1:44 PM

Auctions, auctions everywhere (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The M&A market will inevitably cool, but more efficient processes for selling companies are likely to be a permanent part of the scene.

Posted on August 16, 2006 12:30 PM

Decisions with precision (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Business-intelligence software is proving useful for operational tasks, including due diligence, post-merger integration and the monitoring of supply-chain partners.

Posted on December 15, 2005 6:28 PM

Are method patents still valuable? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Intellectual property issues are looming larger for most companies, but nowhere do they matter more than in the biotechnology industry. That is why a couple of recent decisions on so-called method patents in biotech have attracted such wide interest - and raised so many questions. The first case involved...

Posted on February 15, 2005 1:43 PM