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Video: How do CDSs work?

What are credit default swaps and how do they work?


Distressed Investing 2009: Are CDSs a roulette game?

Until last year the credit default swap market was virtually unknown, but now those financial institutions that were selling credit default swaps are collapsing. At the TMA/The Deal's Distressed Investing Conference in Las Vegas Thursday, David Havens of UBS Investment Bank, Ed Weisfelner of Brown Rudnick and Jeff Fitts of Alvarez & Marsal debated if CDSs are a gamble and the future of the market for these derivatives....



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Loan-to-buy

By Steven Miller, Standard & Poor's

Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'


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Managing your shareholder base

By Bradford P. Weirick and Joelle Khoury, Gibson Dunn

Growth companies and their PE sponsors should be wary of the pitfalls that arise when they layer on tiers of preferred stock.


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Easing the stress of distressed M&A

By Derek Watson, KPMG

Corporate buyers face numerous complexities when trying to identify the right moment to purchase a distressed asset.



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