April 2008

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• 3i puts Ambea on the block with $1.4B price tag
• XM, Sirius extend merger deadline
• Soapbox: At home, in a sense
• Show me the door, PE firms say
• Roll Call: Rumors of Coach-Burberry deal
• SPAC offerings go blank in April
• Roll Call: What's next for Citigroup
• Roll Call: IBM acquires Infodyne
• Time Warner sheds cable as markets see green day
• Conyers wants OPEC minister to appear before task
• Brinker close to Romano's sale
• Icahn wins Time Warner campaign, three years late
• Merrill Lynch plays supporting role in 'Iron Man'
• Axis Private Equity closes $148M infrastructure fu
• Saudi Arabia to launch $5.3B sovereign wealth fund
• Bankruptcy Update: Aloha, Asarco, IBC, RichFX
• Sovereign wealth fund pushes back against EU regul
• Battered home lenders relatively unscathed by palt
• Ratings review: NY Times latest headline includes
• Could American Express become Buffett's main credi
• Leon Black says LBO debt markets will return in 20
• Rabble Babble: EA's Take-Two bid in extended play
• PEI names Carlyle top fundraiser in private equity
• Palmer: Kraft could divest brands to buy Cadbury
• Dealwatch: Homebuilders and bankruptcy
• Roll Call: NBCU and CBS submit bids for Weather Ch
• Blockbuster, EA and Microsoft battle for consumer'
• Bankruptcy Update: Centrix, Mila, SonicBlue and Ce
• Aloha and hard times in Hawaii
• Nason still says 'no' to regulating Wall Street li
• Buenrostro says he'll step down as CEO of CalPERS
• Private Capital Symposium 2008 podcast
• Maguire Properties rejects CEO's bid
• Sorkin debates evil and good with that old devil M
• Deal Digest: April 29, 2008
• Is Cablevision contemplating a bid for Newsday?
• HSBC extends deadline for Korea Exchange Bank buyo
• Will Kerkorian ultimately sting Ford's Mulally?
• Essar, Severstal renew rivalry in bidding for Whee
• Update on Citigroup possible divestments
• Fallen Empire and the rising price of survival
• Rabble Babble: Yahoo-Microsoft stalemate
• Soapbox: Federal Arbitration Act tested
• Big M&A deals abound as markets diverge
• IHOP finds right menu with Applebee's
• Roll Call: How much is ExpressJet really worth?
• Merrill's Thain keeps tapping old friends
• Mark your calendar for The Deal's 2008 Private Cap
• Scores West's sale may go dry
• Just In: Advisers on Mars-Wrigley
• Merger Monday shows no impact on markets
• Roll Call: For IAC breaking up is hard to do
• Roll Call: Kerviel's new gig
• HBOS may seek capital infusion
• Mars chews up Wrigley
• Eos Airlines flies into Chapter 11
• KKR closes $9.4B European fund
• Is the Newsday auction heating up?
• Kerkorian bets $175M on Ford
• Bankruptcy Update: Superior, Enron, Frontier, Shar
• Dealwatch: Confectioners: Mars, Wrigley, Cadbury a
• CalPERS CEO Buenrostro may resign by year-end
• Continental Airlines says no thanks to merger
• Dow ends week with a smile but economy still in qu
• Previewing The Deal: Week of April 28
• The Deal Calendar: Will XM-Sirius extend their May
• Reed Elsevier rejiggers Reed Business Information
• Bove interview: Citigroup may sell to Deutsche Ban
• All together now
• Any UAL deal will be faster than Delta-Northwest t
• As activists seek change, Charming Shoppes looks t
• Citigroup may sell unit to Deutsche Bank
• Soapbox: Top secrets
• ExpressJet defies gravity while markets stay on ea
• Media Maneuvers: Miracle cures
• Tchenguiz, Time Warner raid SCi shares
• Merrill to TPG: Keep your cash
• PE firms ready bid for RBS insurance assets
• Bankruptcy Update: Aloha, Kimball, Death Row and L
• TPG and Merill Lynch talking shop
• Risk arb update: Clear Channel, Penn National
• Wilbur's wheelhouse
• Carlyle may buy another Manhattan office tower
• Follow the Money: Natural self-selection
• Zell's Tribune: No joke
• Satellite killers
• FCC's May agenda: Block D auction on, XM-Sirius de
• The bears fight Wednesday's monoline bulls followi
• Harbinger wins seats on Media General's board
• Ratings Review: S&P gives yellow light to Arby's
• Just In: Advisers in Emerald Hilton's acquisition
• Video: PE Council's Lowenstein on carried interest
• Just In: Advisers on GlaxoSmithKline's acquisition
• Jerome Kerviel's new job
• SEC settles with trader who manipulated Alliance D
• Ryanair a target?
• Retailer bankruptcies looking like those of auto-p
• No layoffs yet for Private Equity pros
• Markets move forward as Triarc adds to its menu
• Wattles pushes Blockbuster-Circuit City deal, but
• NextWave to monetize its hard-won spectrum
• PE Council's Lowenstein predicts higher taxes for
• Roll Call: The Street acquires a stake in Geezeo
• KKR may raise bet on chips
• Roll Call: PE & MA Layoffs in a bear market. Oh My
• Triarc gobbles up Wendy's
• Dealwatch: Fast food
• Just In: Advisers on Wendy's-Triarc deal
• A Day of extremes amongst financials
• Price, management important to SPAC success
• Pappas: SPAC purchase prices more than double
• Don't Grassley, Baucus have SEC sources?
• UBS like Citi will cut jobs
• Linens 'n Things and the duh factor
• Just In: Advisers for Liberty Mutual-Safeco deal
• Soapbox: Consolidation and Convergence in the Tech
• UBS says no merger with Deutsche Bank
• SCi receives bid, borrows from Take-Two's play boo
• SPAC vets expound the virtues of their asset class
• Pappas: SPACs have supply/demand imbalance
• Deal of the Day: Liberty Mutual to Buy Safeco
• Lou Holtz on SPACs, football
• Citigroup starts shedding assets
• Murdoch's Big Apple media monopoly?
• eBay's Craigslist suit: Prelude to a hostile takeo
• Deal International: News on Royal Ahold, CVC, RBS
• Same story brings out same old bears
• Aloha won't be the last airline bankruptcy, but wh
• Is RBS' Goodwin selling to buy?
• Ken Moelis on PE and investment banks
• Credit Agricole raises $950M infrastructure fund
• Is Fortune growing impatient with Pandit?
• Northwest, UAL flying unfriendly skies
• Breaking: Clear Channel banks offer to arbitrate
• Bloomberg not interested; The New York Times is no
• Dealwatch: Rupert Murdoch
• Murdoch divorces Brauchli: Is this about the editi
• Deal Digest: April 22, 2008
• Can Spacs keep up the pace?
• Will News Corp. scoop up Newsday for $580M?
• CIT sells $1.5B in stock offering
• Warburg Pincus closes $15B fund
• Broke banks send markets down
• Hedge funds bring in only $16.5B in first quarter
• Ch. 11 to wash away Dan River
• Meredith Whitney's supplemental bet
• Just In: Advisers on National City-Corsair Capital
• Just In: Advisers on Grey Wolf-Basic Energy
• Templeton Asset Management goes into Iraq
• Activist investors want Citi to split
• Soapbox: The 'combustible atmosphere' for PE
• BofA, National City: Can you spare a dime?
• Liquidity watch: National City raising $7B from PE
• Will Bank of America be the next to seek capital i
• Roll Call: Blue Coat buys Packeteer
• Circuit City plays hard to get with Blockbuster
• ISS supports Sun Capital's Furniture Brands proxy
• Virgin Media LBO rumors once again grace London's
• Roll Call: Raytheon acquires SI Government Solutio
• TGIF: Thank Google it's Friday
• Roll Call: IBM buys Diligent Technologies
• M&A Quarterly Report: Investment banks on global,
• M&A Quarterly Report: Lawyers on global, U.S., Eur
• M&A Quarterly Report: Top 10 global, U.S., Europea
• Citi looking to change its landscape
• Soapbox: Leverage lessons
• Soapbox: In the trade
• M&A Quarterly Report: Time to tinker
• M&A Quarterly Report: Still busy after all these y
• Could bankruptcy be Mesa Air's next destination?
• M&A Quarterly Report: That sinking feeling
• The current crisis: Portfolio's answer to financia
• JC Flowers withdraws bid for Friends
• Garbitrage: No talks on Alliance Data
• The Deal: Week of April 21, 2008
• Roll Call: NBC Universal ups shares in SCi Enterta
• Merger mumbles continue for Societe Generale
• PE firms extend their global reach
• Media Maneuvers: Brilliance schmilliance
• Time for banks to shop till they drop
• Halliburton emerges as rival bidder for Expro
• Bond insurer shares skyrocket on not-so-bad mortga
• Republican strategist Mehlman joins KKR
• Hedge funds top $2.6T under management
• Bouton ousted from SocGen
• TPG completes WaMu investment
• Move over BET, Univision for the Italian-American
• Bondholders take the squeeze off Tropicana
• Activist hedge fund SRM boosts Countrywide stake
• Forget oil. In Taiwan, Yankees pitcher Wang rules
• Biogen Idec slate snubs Icahn's nominees
• American Beacon sale not a sign of pending AMR dea
• Roll Call: Ty's Toy Box merges with AllAboardToys
• Roll Call: Dow Jones buys Generate
• Roll Call: Baker Hughes acquires consulting firms
• SEC taps new M&A chief
• Markets try to find footing while GE-Citi do deal
• SEC's Cox appears before Congress with hat in hand
• Sky-high oil good news for bankrupt driller Dorado
• Macklowe's ATM could be his company
• Advent closes $1.58B Central and Eastern European
• Dealwatch: Blockbuster
• Deal Digest: April 17, 2008
• Is Linens 'n Things getting out of Canada?
• Dealwatch: Takeda
• Expro International in $3.2B LBO
• Wilbur Ross aiming at thrift bank rollup
• Costa Brava loses case against Telos
• General Growth may look to sell-offs to pay debt
• Deutsche Bank reportedly selling debt at 90 cents
• Tommy Hilfiger may float in 2009
• For Blockbuster, will Circuit City detonate the ti
• WaMu's earnings call: TPG infusion an opportunity,
• Congressman raises red flags over dead Huawei-3Com
• Roll Call: Rick's Cabaret buys The Executive Club
• Private equity raises $163B worldwide in first qua
• Roll Call: Direct Energy acquires TransGlobe Energ
• Roll Call: Boston Scientific acquires CryoCor
• J.P. Morgan leads earnings parade, igniting market
• Roll Call: Ziff Davis update
• PE firms racing to raise infrastructure funds
• Rabble Babble: Will WaMu shareholders whittle down
• Is Sequoia Capital expanding into hedge funds?
• Delta, Northwest shares mauled by weaker-than-expe
• CtW declares WaMu victory, turns up the heat
• Soapbox: Mitigating circumstances
• Shipping magnate Georgiopoulos starts cleantech PE
• Deal International: News on Atos Origin, 3i and mo
• Live Blogging: WaMu's conference call
• Airline stocks see turbulence as WaMu's troubles c
• Meet Henry Kravis' cartoon alter ego
• Ratings Review: S&P has reservations on Delta-Nort
• Linens 'n Things: Signature retail bankruptcy stil
• ISS backs Harbinger in Media General battle
• FGIC's only option: Sell the good book, keep the b
• Roll Call: Dealbreaker provides insight into banke
• Dealwatch: Punch Taverns
• Rabble Babble: Fear and loathing over airline deal
• Banks taking a haircut on LBO debt sales
• Markets shun Delta-Northwest merger
• Roll Call: Natus Medical to acquire SonaMed
• Democrats wanted more from FCC auction
• Blodget goes after Wachovia CEO, but the field is
• Soapbox: IPO sweathogs
• Deal Digest: April 15, 2008
• Soapbox: Making Movies
• Deal International: News on Eramet, Roche, Atos Or
• CtW calls for WaMu to acknowledge shareholder sent
• Wachovia weighs down Deal Stocks
• M&A activity gets boost from injection of drug dea
• Bear Stearns: May the Schwartz be with J.P. Morgan
• Liquidity Watch: Capital Source finds a new founta
• Blockbuster: Who needs financing, when you've got
• Linen 'n Things' critical vendors need to be paid
• Blockbuster + Circuit City = Kmart + Sears
• HRJ Capital closes $195M distressed fund-of-funds
• JC Flowers bid for Bear
• Goldman Sachs dumps LBO debt at deep discount
• PrimeSource buys Coast To Coast
• Not even Blockbuster deal spurs markets
• Roll Call: Pageflakes acquired by Live Universe?
• The current crisis: From credit crunch to bankrupt
• GE's earning reignite NBC sale speculation
• Deal calendar: Week of April 14, 2008
• Deal International: News on Manitowoc-Enodis, Tita
• Soapbox: The Ha-Lo effect
• Deutsche Bank shopping $20B in LBO debt to PE firm
• Blockbuster's latest move could be a short Circuit
• Steel Partners II LP seems to be on a tear lately
• Week ends on sour note as GE shortfall bruises mar
• Democrat Dingell raises media ownership concerns
• Dealscape's greatest hits and wackiest rumors: Wee
• Meet the world's only female activist hedge fund m
• GE brings bad things to investor's lives
• Icahn hints at why Leon Black is taking Apollo pub
• Linens 'n Things retains restructuring firm Conway
• Merrill Lynch's overseas expansion: New guy, old m
• The current crisis: Soros and Blankfein search for
• Roll Call: April 11, 2008
• Bank of Nova Scotia interested in National City au
• Deal Digest: April 11, 2008
• Deal International: News on BE-RWE, TUI and more
• Tech helps drive Deal Stock gains
• Rabble Babble: Who doesn't want Yahoo!?
• Lobbyist: Politicians will discourage sovereign we
• Shoot-down of Canadian satellite deal not a shocke
• California bill that threatened PE is dead -- for
• Ratings review: 'A' highly rated loan for Monsanto
• Gemstar withholds loot from former CEO
• BusinessWeek's unnecessary bashing of the Freescal
• Delphi may make Appaloosa pay for buyer's remorse
• Sen. Kohl worried about Yahoo! developments
• Newsday: Zuckerman in, Cablevision out
• Darwin fund evolves
• Proskauer Rose's Richard Zall on liabilities in he
• Weil Gotshal's Fiona Schaeffer on healthcare M&A r
• Roll Call: April 10, 2008
• Hedge funder Hendry on why we'll be down for 25 ye
• Deal Digest: April 10, 2008
• Sharper Image chairman resigns, looks to buy compa
• Soapbox: Continental competition
• Deal Stocks sputter as Texas tea soars
• Chinalco looking for more deals
• Fitch Ratings spots stains in Linens 'n Things
• Skybus founder says bankrupt airline will fly agai
• Icahn gets back to Biogen Idec
• Delta, Northwest flying into labor troubles?
• Rowan receives strong interest in LeTourneau
• Carlyle's Rubenstein explains PE firms' attraction
• First Marblehead and the media blame game
• Markets shift in reverse, dragged down by financia
• Washington Mutual spurned J.P. Morgan buyout offer
• Circuit City's stock jumps on fourth-quarter profi
• Deal Digest: April 9, 2008
• Roll Call: April 9, 2008
• Deal International: News on Eiffage, Jelmoli, BHP
• Soapbox: The reformation
• Citigroup set to sell $12B in loans to PE firms
• Bears come home, kick bulls out
• Squadron Capital to raise $400M fund-of-funds
• The reality of WaMu's expectations
• Journal Register puts up the for-sale sign
• In Linens 'n Things prepack talk, all roads lead b
• Education Resources Institute no longer big man on
• CIC: Code of conduct will only hurt feelings
• WaMu sees new money but bears paw at Deal Stocks
• CFIUS clarity to come soon
• Greenspan keeping score on Greenspan
• Wall Street's fees from private equity firms fall
• Roll Call: April 8, 2008
• Deal Digest: April 8, 2008
• WaMu to raise $7B in new equity
• Credit Crisis Contenders: How markets are treating
• Is Linens 'n Things headed for Chapter 11?
• TPG invests $800M in SIA
• Deal International: News on TPG-SIA, Pernod Ricard
• FTC's David Wales on mergers in healthcare
• WaMu news leads the bulls home
• Wilson Sonsini's Chul Pak on healthcare's regulato
• Citigroup raising $5B infrastructure fund
• Could Nestle's Alcon sale beget more deals?
• W.R. Grace asbestos settlement long time coming
• News of WaMu's pending TPG recapitalization fuels
• Who's the next airline to go bankrupt?
• PE firms close big middle-market funds
• Dealmaking fuels Monday market surge
• Borders renegotiates backstop deal with Pershing
• Roll Call: April 7, 2008
• China Investment Corp.: 'Vultures we are not'
• Soapbox: No pruning necessary
• Deal Digest: April 7, 2008
• Deal International: News on Novartis, Alcon, SNAC
• TPG to make $5B deposit at WaMu
• Private Capital raises $58.5B in first quarter
• Fuel costs claim three airlines in a week
• Dealscape's greatest hits and wackiest rumors: Wee
• Circuit City inches toward a sale
• Markets mixed as Landry's registers on CEO's menu
• Roll Call: April 4, 2008
• Cramer is not sweating over death threats
• Understanding Paulson's blueprint
• Talk of Tulane: Our correspondent in his native ha
• Still angry? Vent at Bearsucks.com
• Rabble Babble: UBS investor wants to shake and bre
• Talk of Tulane: Perella and Lipton wax nostalgic,
• Hedge funds pressure banks on Clear Channel deal
• The Deal: Week of April 7, 2008
• Honeywell gets more protection as markets look lif
• Media Maneuvers: Jeremiah was a bullfrog...
• THQ searches for a partner to play with
• Soapbox: SWF showdown
• KKR's Nathaniel Zilkha on healthcare costs
• Reed, Weill and management as an immune system
• GS Capital bounces away from Myers buyout
• Soros: Credit default swaps are the next Damocles
• Blodget blames Schwartz, not Cayne, for Bear's col
• Deal Digest: April 4, 2008
• JC Flowers & China Investment in $4B PE fund
• Fifth Third, KeyCorp front-runners for National Ci
• Fed's support of Bear bailout keeps Bears away
• Wallflower United still looking for a partner
• Baucus, Grassley seeking Bear Stearns attention
• Activist investor Wattles calls for Circuit City s
• Talk of Tulane: Strine on board minutes
• ATA, Aloha: Bankruptcy is in the air, again
• Talk of Tulane: Lehman's Shafir offers gloomy M&A
• General Atlantic's Korngold on M&A opportunities a
• Bain Capital's Chris Gordon on Quintiles acquisiti
• Dealwatch: Steakhouse buyouts
• Merger Arb Alert: M&A down in the first quarter
• ATA's last bankruptcy prompted dealmaking
• Spanish Broadcasting finds itself the target of he
• Roll Call: April 3, 2008
• KKR Financial raises $355M in offering
• The Times on Citigroup and Sandy Weill: Not dead y
• Video of Bernanke, Cox, Dimon testimony
• Clear Channel suit stays in Texas
• Kerviel may file Kafkaesque challenge to SocGen di
• Kimpton raises $246M RE fund for boutique hotel ro
• Market is somewhat recession proof
• PE firms continue to rake in cash
• Dealwatch: Miners
• KKR's Nat Zilkha on healthcare M&A trends
• Activist investor Mitarotonda takes Dillard's oliv
• Rabble Babble: Paulson's plan
• Diamond, Lexington and the sad parade of auto part
• National City suitors, few and far between
• How bleak does Ford's, GM's future remain?
• Market takes breather, while Deal Stocks swoon
• Johnathan Korngold on M&A in healthcare
• Rumors pop Clear Channel stock
• Roll Call: April 2, 2008
• John Leone on investing in university research
• BCE buyout: Static from Clear Channel deal
• Soapbox: NYSE Euronext loves PE
• Deal Digest: April 2, 2008
• Deal International: News on Colonial, Northern Roc
• Altaris Capital's Michael Kluger on healthcare fin
• Jana's white paper: 38 pages of Cnet's troubles an
• Little Mass. bank challenges TD in court
• CCMP's Benjamin Edmands on challenges, trends in h
• Dimon gets pat on the back and raise
• Movida, Starvox: Latest in string of telecom bankr
• Roll Call: April 1, 2008
• M&A among power companies remains electric
• Goldman Sachs to advise National City on possible
• Ron Burkle's labor problems
• Could CalPERS, CalSTRS exit private equity?
• Icahn's run in with Jamail in his own words
• Soapbox: Fueling the alternatives
• CCMP Capital Advisors' Benjamin Edmands on healthc
• Lehman and KKR financial plan stock offerings

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