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A little perspective on surging oil, mining, utility M&A (from Corporate Dealmaker)

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

M&A trends: Slowing economy spurs divestitures (from Corporate Dealmaker)

In the last six to nine months, says Jeff Greene, economic conditions have led to an increase in divestitures. Greene, Americas leader for Sell-Side Advisory Services at Ernst & Young LLP, spoke with me about the recent activity in the marketplace. The slow growth in the economy has many shareholders...

Posted on March 7, 2008 2:03 PM

Picking up the pieces (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Public Service Enterprise Group's new strategy chief knows the company well, which will surely come in handy as he helps plot a course following its failed megamerger with Exelon Corp. Stephen Byrd, a former investment banker in the power group at Morgan Stanley, has worked with PSEG since the...

Posted on April 15, 2007 2:09 AM

Slimming Suez (from Corporate Dealmaker)

In February 2003, European utilities giant Suez SA named Gérard Lamarche its CFO, senior executive vice president and point man in the execution of an extreme makeover. Lamarche had spent the previous three years in Naperville, Ill., running financial and administrative matters at an American water treatment subsidiary. He...

Posted on August 15, 2004 5:10 PM