Entries tagged "Nick Rees"
At the Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference, Nick Rees, a co-managing partner corporate and M&A group of Linklaters LLP, said investments from sovereign wealth funds have slowed down. "They have been less active than we all thought they would be," he explains. See the video after the break. - Maria Woehr...
At The Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference, Nick Rees, co-managing partner of the corporate M&A group at Linklaters LLP, and Paul Beecy, a tax partner at Grant Thornton LLP, discussed cross-border dealmaking and investments by BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- in U.S. businesses. - Maria Woehr...
At the Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference, panelists Paul Beecy, tax partner at Grant Thornton LLP, Nick Rees, co-managing partner corporate and M&A group of Linklaters LLP, and Steve Baronoff, managing director and head of global M&A at Merrill Lynch & Co., spoke about cross-border dealmaking. In this video Beecy explains that dealmaking at the moment is very sparse and strategic, while Baronoff believes there will be a pause in dealmaking that will last until the second quarter of 2009. "Uncertainty is very dramatic in this period of time and even more dramatic in cross-border situations," he said. - Maria...