Entries tagged "buyouts"
Canada recorded a 75% fall in the value of reported buyouts in the first quarter of 2009 from a year earlier, said the Canadian Venture Capital Association.
Although distressed investing has often been the domain of private equity and turnaround firms, the financial crisis has rewritten the rules of dealmaking.
Last year may have been bad for dealmakers, but 2009 is a new year with new opportunities. While the overall economic news remains dour, there are indications that the North American buyout market -- especially take-private transactions -- may recover in 2009 as private equity investors take advantage of low equity prices to make deals, the Toronto law firm Torys LLP has predicted. ...
