May 2008

Soapbox: Expanding Borders

In The Deal NewsWeekly George Casey and George Karafotias, partners at Shearman & Sterling LLP, analyze the SEC's proposed changes to cross-border M&A rules. The Securities and Exchange Commission has... Continue reading

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• Dealscape's rumor mill: Week ending May 30, 2008
• Is Buffett behind Anheuser-Bev?
• Bullish week ends with a fizzle
• Biogen Revelations: [Redacted] Nearly [Redacted] L
• Norway's sovereign wealth fund to hold more than 1
• Is Peltz digging for diamonds at Tiffany's?
• Previewing The Deal: Week of June 2
• Ratings Review: Is CIT paying for Moody's past mis
• Uni-Marts shares your pain at the pump
• Soapbox: New Delhi dealmaking
• UAL-US Air deal unravels as markets remain quiet
• Deutsche Post saying 'auf Wiedersehen' to DHL?
• Would Dems put an end to M&A?
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Goldman's Richard
• Private Capital Symposium Video: DLJ's Rattner on
• ISS says yes to Discovery's 'vote no' campaign at
• UAL abandons US Airways merger talks
• Apollo leads in Fresh Market auction
• Silverjet halts flights
• IDFC Private Equity to raise $700M for Indian infr
• Media Maneuvers: Tweet week
• Bankruptcy Update: Frontier, Mesa, Linens, Small T
• Regional Report: Milwaukee: Beyond the Rust Belt
• Private equity in Cleveland: Hope is not a strateg
• Regional Report: Columbus: Progeny of White Castle
• Q&A with Houlihan Lokey execs: Good news, bad news
• Regional Report: Chicago: Lean on me
• Hard Times: South reach
• Bankruptcy feature: Momentum play
• Risk arb update: BCE
• Cayne apologizes to Bear shareholders
• Bear, Countrywide get a bullish boost
• Ratings Review: S&P keeps Clear Channel on credit
• N.Y. governor excoriates NYRA deal, but will honor
• Dealwatch: Donald Trump
• The WSJ concludes the Bear saga: What about that $
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Peter Schoenfeld
• Private Capital Symposium Video: KPS' Raquel Palme
• Cayne bids adieu to Bear Stearns at holders meetin
• Paulson may have an ally in SEC, CFTC merger
• Bankruptcy Update: Interep, Asarco, RedEnvelope an
• Bear Stearns loses Ch. 15 appeal
• Liberty Lane scraps SPAC IPO
• UAL, US Airways talks may still be on
• Bears quieted by optimistic manufacturing news
• Linens 'n Things wins DIP
• Guy Hands: Give back the money
• CKX accepts new 19X terms
• Blackstone digs deeper into hedge funds
• Rabble Babble: InBev, Anheuser-Busch talk is hoppi
• Roberto Cavalli draws PE shoppers
• Wall Street prefers Democrats?
• Ripplewood may make waves in bond insurer pool
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Mathew Lori and A
• Private Capital Symposium Video: S&P's Diane Vazza
• The WSJ Bear saga, part two: Schwartz, Dimon and t
• Bankruptcy Update: Metcare, American IronHorse, Bl
• Double dose of good news sends Standard Pacific so
• TheStreet: 'Extreme Value Hedging' a must read
• Soapbox: The rise of OID
• Ithmar Capital targets $1B fund for Middle Eastern
• High fuel costs creating woes for elk hunters, oth
• Will KKR take Infineon private?
• Will Time Warner Cable acquire Charter?
• SEC to change rules for credit ratings next month
• Hedge fund takes bigger bite out of Domino's
• Activist fund wins concessions from driller Vaalco
• Quinlan raises $1.1B real estate fund
• Reshaping the Shapes/Arch bankruptcy
• Standard Pacific gains strength as markets look we
• Brewing up a beer deal
• Auction Block League Tables: Lehman taps the oil c
• Blackstone, Apollo linked to Chemtura
• Minor victory for BCE
• Bankruptcy Update: EOS, Joy Dyeing, Solar Cosmetic
• Asia predicted to attract $10B in distressed asset
• Oil bubbles over, spoiling Deal Stocks' holiday we
• FCC head wants XM-Sirius vote soon
• Aircraft leasing firms say they can weather the in
• Comcast may sell cable systems
• Markets take early vacation before Memorial Day we
• The current crisis: One year later
• InBev reaching for a Bud?
• SocGen report No. 62: Kerviel still guilty, bosses
• Time Warner, Blackstone-NBC reportedly Weather Cha
• Ratings Review: AIG's credit gets Moody's downgrad
• Bankruptcy Update: Linens, Mesa Air, Vertis-ACG, J
• Deal International: News on German banks, Hallibur
• Oil prices fall, but oil explorer gains
• More Daiichi details
• Activist campaigns, proxy fights hit all time high
• PE firms merge warranty firms
• Taking prebankruptcy work to the next level
• Icahn blasts Obama at investor conference
• Backstreet Boys promoter gets prison
• Analyst: Encore auction could be start of oil-driv
• Morgan Stanley grabs Merrill's restructuring guru
• Thoughts on comp of a Wall Street shareholder
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Sun Capital's Tal
• Private Capital Symposium Video: DLJ's Steven Ratt
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Gary Parr on Bear
• Deal International: News on UBS, Pardus-Valeo, Phi
• BCE buyout hits another snag
• Harbinger reveals NRG bid for Calpine
• Private Capital Symposium Video: CCMP's Jonathan L
• Sen. Dorgan pushes against more media consolidatio
• Linens 'n Things unsecured creditors and the indig
• Macklowe's GM Building could have a new owner
• Private Capital Symposium Video: John Eydenberg on
• Alliance Boots debt deal finally near
• J.P. Morgan's Dimon looking for deals in the South
• Dealwatch: Movie Gallery
• More Lehman layoffs
• Oil slick fuels anemic markets
• Time Warner's machinations
• Harleysville acquires Willow Financial Bank
• Ackman could book some bucks on Borders sale to Ba
• Just In: Advisers on Time Warner Cable spinoff
• Congress passes NOPEC
• Harbinger, Salton in $915M deal for Spectrum pets
• Corporate Express aims to fend off Staples with Ly
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Carlyle's Zupon c
• Bankruptcy Update: Iridium, Dorado, InPhonic Inc.
• Soapbox: Winging a deal
• Inflation deflates Deal Stocks and broader market
• For telecoms, Huawei auction represents retro stra
• Next up: Waiting for the depression
• Obrem loses campaign against Micrel
• Despite the media, don't expect Ford to sell Volvo
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Middle Market val
• AIG looks to scale down and invest abroad
• Biopharma deals dragged down growth in '07
• Parmalat trial to begin this week
• Private Capital Symposium Video: James Epstein on
• Jamba juices investors, restucturing announced
• The Journal goes bubble happy
• SPAC Heckmann in $625M China Water deal
• PE firms open midmarket lender
• Deal International: News on EADS, Corporate Expres
• Bankruptcy Update: Go Fig, Sturgis, Polar Molecula
• Soapbox: Bear's moral
• Deal Stocks barely budge on deal news
• Stifel Nicolaus: Any Yahoo! deal would receive clo
• Buffett's European vacation
• Citi, Morgan play roles in $12.8B Penn Turnpike de
• Private Capital Symposium Video: S&P's Diane Vazza
• Staples takes Corporate Express offer to sharehold
• Gotti loan shark gets shaken down in USA Commercia
• Delphi sues former investors
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Tony James on Bla
• Airline analysts: 'There will be blood'
• Halliburton may launch bidding war for Expro
• Sizzler's postponed sale example of restaurant tro
• EA takes three for Take-Two
• Soapbox: Smoke on the water
• Buffett's sweet tooth shows in portfolio
• Skies clear for markets on Microsoft-Yahoo new dea
• Obama would target big media
• Bankruptcy Update: Steakhouse Partners, Winstar Co
• Airline Deal Stocks nosedive on oil spike
• The Deal Calendar: May 19 - 23, 2008
• India's ICICI raising $3 billion for new PE funds
• US Airways pilots latest to pan rumored deal with
• SPACs and private equity have a meeting of the min
• Pro and con: Is there a Times in the Journal Regis
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Gary Parr on sove
• Rabble Babble: What others are saying about CBS' a
• Roll Call: Berkshire Hathaway Should Buy CBS?
• Private Capital Symposium Video: Tony James on loo
• TheDeal newsweekly: Week of May 19
• Delaware fends off states, feds
• Ratings Review: Cnet deal to have no impact on CBS
• Bankruptcy Update: Sharper Image, RedEnvelope, Mov
• Immaculate reception
• Really personal finance
• Bankruptcy blues
• As the Bull charges, Cnet leads Deal Stocks
• Oaktree closes $10.6B distressed fund
• Excello may be sign of future for auto parts maker
• Lazard analyst: Expect EA news soon
• Will the Icahn blog read like his letters?
• Just In: Advisers on CBS-Cnet
• Despite codeshare talk, United still looking to me
• Jana's Cnet win the latest in a series of hedge fu
• Soapbox: The next subprime debacle?
• CBS and Cnet: All about those video game-playing m
• Icahn launches Yahoo! proxy fight
• Bankruptcy Update: Kimball, Bag'n Baggage, Palco
• CBS to buy Cnet for $1.8B
• Deal Stocks, broader market bullish on positive ec
• ConocoPhillips' Mulva puts EnCana rumors to rest
• Complete coverage of the Private Capital Symposium
• Private Capital Symposium: Tony James says covenan
• Private Capital Symposium: Tony James on Blackston
• BoNY promises a DIP for Scotia Pacific that it onc
• Private Capital Symposium: Midmarket deals easier
• Private Capital Symposium: Carlyle's Zupon calls t
• Private Capital Symposium: Deals in the middle mar
• Private Capital Symposium: Ken Moelis, LBO cycles,
• Private Capital Symposium: Deutsche Bank's Eydenbe
• Private Capital Symposium: Morgan Stanley's Alan J
• Private Capital Symposium: New Mountain's Mathew L
• Private Capital Symposium: S&P's Diane Vazza on de
• Private Capital Symposium: Value Creation
• Private Capital Symposium: KPS' Palmer on distress
• Delta pilots approve post-merger labor deal
• Ken Moelis: Choice quotes from the Private Capital
• Video of Ken Moelis, CEO, Moelis & Co.: The Deal's
• Private Capital Symposium: Goldman's Shinder on di
• Private Capital Symposium: Lazard's Parr on Bear S
• Private Capital Symposium: Lazard's Parr says sove
• Private Capital Symposium: Ken Moelis on investmen
• Private Capital Symposium: Dealmaking opportunitie
• Private Capital Symposium: Interview with Ken Moel
• A minor skirmish over probability and prediction
• Private Capital Symposium: Sovereign wealth funds
• Private Capital Symposium: Data and trends for 200
• Bankruptcy Update: Rockaway Bedding, Aloha Airline
• Deal International: News on WPP, Alitalia, TomTom,
• A bull named Icahn reportedly charges Yahoo!
• Red tape awaits Finmeccanica's DRS deal
• IAC, Liberty settle their differences
• Private Capital Symposium: In-depth look at the st
• Bush open to open-sky airline policy, but not deal
• Just In: Advisers in Finmeccanica's acquisition of
• Alesco feels IndyMac's pain
• Clear Channel agreement reached
• Roll Call: Is Whitney finished with Citi?
• Baring raises oversubscribed Asia PE fund
• IdleAire takes a rest stop in Ch. 11
• Clear Channel sparks BCE optimism
• Staples increases offer for Corporate Express
• Wall Street accountability: Further thoughts on Be
• Just In: Advisers on HP-EDS
• PE heads still see trouble ahead for debt markets
• Blackstone launches merger arb business in Asia
• HP to acquire EDS for $13.9B
• Deal International: News on Credit Agricole, Calyo
• Bankruptcy Update: Sturgis Iron, Pope & Talbot, De
• Toll Brothers looks for housing deals
• 'For sale' sign may go up for Standard Pacific
• Delphi to increase DIP
• Hewlett-Packard in talks to buy EDS
• SPAC pays $1.3B for Complete Energy
• Dealwatch: Sprint Nextel
• Sprint Nextel to hang up on noncore assets
• Ratings Review: AIG downgrades spell trouble
• Rabble Babble: Clear Channel chatter
• Just In: Advisers in Cablevision's acquisition of
• Pfingsten Partners closes $525M midmarket fund
• Some rationale for Cablevision's Newsday bid
• IndyMac still sees future driving solo
• Chapter 15 takes some of the looniness out of the
• Soapbox: Northern exposures
• Media and telecom sectors shine with rest of marke
• Pearlstine leaves Carlyle for Bloomberg
• Why the machers at Bear won't get their just desse
• International Lease Finance may part with AIG
• Clear Channel settlement may be near
• Auction Block League Table: Revenge of the white s
• Deal Digest: May 12, 2008
• Atkins departure from SEC mixed blessing for hedge
• Cablevision buys Newsday for $650M
• Morgan Stanley continues infrastruture fund bonanz
• Bankruptcy Update: Death Row, Linens, Ziff Davis
• Dealwatch: Cablevision Systems
• News Corp.'s exit for Newsday, puts Cablevision in
• ChoicePoint refiles to CFIUS
• Icahn holds key to Circuit City
• Soapbox: Merger blueprint
• Southern Progress may be Bewkes' next focus
• RealNetworks to separate games unit
• Adult hedge fund gets over $7.9B in commitments
• The Deal Calendar Video: May 12-16
• Previewing The Deal: Week of May 12, 2008
• Centerplate hires UBS to explore sale
• EnCap Golf sinks a hole in none
• Santander may answer Sovereign's SOS signal
• The truth about PE and NYC apartments
• Soapbox: Netsmart to Guttman
• Citi's, Sovereign's struggles highlight weak marke
• Media Maneuvers: The wisdom racket
• Harris reportedly up for sale
• Roll Call: Best of the Blogs
• Citigroup to shed $400B in assets
• Circuit City puts itself up for sale
• Bankruptcy Update: Death Row, Pope & Talbot, Villa
• Deal Life: That prewar sound
• Shell game
• Barbarians at the bank
• Middle Market: Enter at your own risk
• FGIC still searching for a lifeline
• Joyce: Who is bidding for Weather Channel?
• U.S. companies make global connections with market
• Roll Call: Trump casinos for sale
• Roll Call: Schwarzman on selling noodles
• Fortress Investment posts loss
• Buffett's 'All My Children' appearance airs Friday
• Roll Call: Yahoo!-Microsoft rumors
• Adelstein: FCC should consider states concerns ove
• A Charming deal for activists
• Staples deadline for Corporate Express hostile tak
• As Enesco shows, the devil is still in the details
• Ailing WellCare could find remedy in merger
• Avista takes a beating on Star Tribune investment
• Just In: Advisers on Cablevision-Sundance
• Soapbox: The challenges of SFAS 157
• Bankruptcy Update: Ziff, Solar Cosmetic, Tropicana
• Deal International: News on Best Buy-Carphone, Ill
• Banks get split decision in Clear Channel case
• Rockefeller grills Delta, Northwest CEOs
• Airline stocks, markets slip on oil
• It could soon be harder to find an air taxi when y
• Just In: Advisers on Sprint Nextel and Clearwire d
• Interview: Intel Capital chief boosts WiMax
• Lionel and Neil Young roll down the tracks togethe
• EA, Take-Two far apart on price
• Bear Stearns shareholders drop restraining order
• Chrysler's gas promo big on hype, short on innovat
• Greenthal: Now may be a good time to buy a newspap
• Bloomberg, others duped again by dealmaker wannabe
• Crovitz comments on News Corp.'s Dow Jones purchas
• Telecom sector makes M&A connection as markets wal
• Carlyle's Pearlstine sees a future for magazines,
• Citigroup reorganizes investment bank
• Flight attendants oppose United-US Airways talks
• Dr Pepper Snapple trading debut opens flat
• Bankruptcy Update: Lionel, Thinkpath, Home Interio
• Deal Stocks, broader market survive oil and Fannie
• Schumer thinks the price is not right for BofA
• Yahoo! in spin cycle
• Coming to America: European PE firms
• Cablevision ups ante for Newsday
• Roll Call: Cars.com acquires PickupTrucks.com
• Private Capital Symposium: Distressed investing op
• Tropicana: Events turn on 'former' subsidiary's pl
• News Corp.'s options: Newsday or Yahoo!
• Markets struggle as J.P. Morgan finds a Target
• Clinton turns up the anti-Wall Street rhetoric
• Silver Lake closes $1.1B midmarket fund
• Could ResCap's future portend bankruptcy?
• PAI Partners latest to close European fund
• Sprint's model for merger trouble
• Tropicana files Ch. 11
• Deal Digest: May 6, 2008
• Bankruptcy Update: Linens, Ziff Davis, ALT, Bag 'n
• Deal International: News on UBS, BlackRock, Bharti
• Ailing FGIC could be next monoline to bring in new
• Let's not make a deal
• Countrywide's creditworthiness is shrinking
• The Street is covered with pink slips
• Soapbox: Deals for Life
• Lionel: Long may you run
• Buffett's M&A plans has Euro focus
• The death of Microsoft-Yahoo! attracts the bears
• The Deal Calendar: May 5 - May 9, 2008
• Layoffs continue on the Street
• Video: Middle-market matters
• Paul Capital closes $1.65B secondaries fund
• Soapbox: Hedging Risk
• Auction Block League Table: Greenhill, Tristone ch
• Deal Digest: May 5, 2008
• Yahoo! shareholders speak out
• Yahoo! shareholders brace for a painful day
• Bankruptcy Update: Parmalat, Frontier, Aloha, APG
• PE Pipeline: The debt pipeline
• Microsoft withdraws Yahoo! bid
• PE Pipeline: Clear Channel Communications
• Microsoft, Yahoo! talk higher offer
• Does Newsday mean convergence?
• Newark mayor wants to hoop it up for NBA's Nets
• PE Pipeline: BCE
• Kerkorian may push for more divestitures at Ford
• The Deal newsweekly: Week of May 5
• CNBC: Discussing 'Betting on the farm'
• ING buys CitiStreet for $903M
• Linens 'n Things files for Chapter 11
• TPG looking at $16B bid for RBS' insurance arm
• Bankruptcy Update: NSC, AIM, Fedders, Ultimate Fit
• Feeding at the trough
• Follow the Money: Buffett on the prowl
• Betting on the farm
• Deal of the Quarter: Ensuring the insurer
• Social club
• Risk-Arb update: Take-Two, Clear Channel, more
• Another class-action lawsuit filed against Citigro
• As oil sinks, airline Deal Stocks fly
• Bank of America: Mo money, no funny
• Congressmen demand more concessions from Sirius, X
• Devils' owner seeks power play for NBA's Nets
• Sun setting on Furniture Brands' independence
• Credit crunch slowing middle-market deals
• Deal Journal: I got you under my skin
• Sirva: When prepack bankruptcies aren't prepacks
• Bear Stearns layoffs begin
• Cerberus backs away from Blackwater deal
• Connecticut investigates Berkshire's conflicts of
• Carl Icahn to finally join blogosphere
• Deal Digest: May 1, 2008
• Bankruptcy Update: Hoop, Death Row, Tarpon, Delphi
• KKR embraces a new kind of green
• Deal International: News on Baugur, Eurasian Natur

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