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Deal Economy 2010: Defining era in dealmaking, II

Jeffrey Solomon of Cowen Group said the first quarter of 2010 for dealmaking 'could be potentially robust.'


Deal Stocks: ABK, AIG, BAC, ENL, GE, LOGI, HPQ

A look at the news moving deal-related stocks including American International Group, Bank of America, Logitech and Hewlett-Packard.


Bidders to ante up $800M for Travel Channel

Auction front-runners News Corp. and Scripps Networks reportedly made offers of about $800 million for a 65% stake in the Travel Channel.


Informa pays the price

It was an expensive no. A day after business-to-business publisher Informa plc rejected a cut-price 450-pence-per-share bid from a realigned grouping of Providence Equity Partners Inc. Carlyle Group and Blackstone Group LP, investors drove down its stock. By midafternoon Friday, shares were down 6.9%, at 386 pence....


PE Pipeline: BCE

To some degree, the bank stonewall on financing large deals in the pipeline can be seen as a profitable waiting game. The shoring up of lender balance sheets with equity capital and leveraged loan offloads has lifted prices in the loan market, which have edged up. If the banks can escape funding, they hit a home run. If they must fund, the delay trims their losses on day one. This appears to be the case with the C$52 billion ($51 billion) buyout of BCE Inc. by Ontario Teachers' Private Capital, Providence Equity Partners Inc., Madison Dearborn Partners LLC and...


PE Pipeline: Strine on specific performance

Specific performance isn't always all it's cracked up to be. Delaware Vice Chancellor Leo Strine Jr. has noted the practical limitations to the remedy in buyouts where the merger agreement obligates a shell company, but not its buyout parent, to complete a deal in certain circumstances. "Specific performance is a sort of hortatory remedy against the shells to call on some sort of shaming mechanism," the judge said in a Feb. 4 hearing in Alliance Data Systems Corp.'s suit against a Blackstone Group LP subsidiary. "You can't make them [perform] if they don't have moola, ching, whatever the words you...


PE Pipeline: Lawsuit could delay BCE buyout

The $23 billion loan backing Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Madison Dearborn Partners LLC's proposed buyout of Canadian telecom giant BCE Inc. is the big kahuna of loans still in the pipeline. ...



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