[Posted on January 28, 2008 at 2:08 PM]
Robert Willens chimed in on the BofA/Countrywide deal structure this week. An LLC is planned in connection with the agreement. As Willens writes, the forward triangular merger format has been
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[Posted on January 25, 2008 at 5:33 PM]
Timothy Bryant, a McDermott, Will & Emery partner and new Deal contributor, weighs in on a growing trend of private equity firms and hedge funds investing in healthcare royalty streams
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[Posted on January 24, 2008 at 1:34 PM]
Steven Miller, managing director of Standard & Poor's Leveraged Commentary and Data unit and a frequent Deal contributor, lays out his forecast for the next 12 months of lending for the buyout crowd
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[Posted on January 18, 2008 at 11:58 AM]
While protesters descended as Carlyle Group's David Rubenstein spoke at Wharton's private equity and venture capital conference Friday morning, things were much calmer just two months ago, when Rubenstein spoke
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[Posted on January 15, 2008 at 3:17 PM]
Deal contributors Jonathan M.A. Melmed (left) and J. Allen Miller, Chadbourne & Parke LLP private equity transactions partners, take up the comeback of the "pay-to-play" provision in a Judgment Call
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[Posted on January 15, 2008 at 2:02 PM]
A New York Times item Tuesday explored the loopholes investors use to get around disclosure requirements including swaps with investment banks, which buy shares on their behalf but never transfer
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[Posted on January 11, 2008 at 5:21 PM]
For the past 20 years, Robert Willens has been a tax and accounting specialist at Lehman Brothers Inc.On Monday, Willens launches an independent consulting firm for investors, called Robert Willens
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[Posted on January 11, 2008 at 3:11 PM]
Deal contributors Peter G. Smith, Philip R. Weingold and Blake A. Rigel, corporate and tax attorneys with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, take a look at what's on Congress'
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[Posted on January 11, 2008 at 3:04 PM]
When agricultural giant Monsanto Co. and fertilizer maker Mosaic Co. recently announced strong earnings that blew past expectations, the dealmaking trend in the industry received a bullish push that promises
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[Posted on January 11, 2008 at 2:54 PM]
In an exclusive column for TheDeal.com, Alan G. Quasha, founder, president and CEO of Quadrant Management Inc., weighs in on China's new bankruptcy law, which took effect in June after
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[Posted on January 11, 2008 at 12:37 PM]
Longtime Deal contributor Joseph W. Bartlett (Fish & Richardson) began 2008 examining both sides of private equity.In part one of his exclusive column for TheDeal.com, Bartlett details the movements poised
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[Posted on January 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM]
China has enormous foreign currency reserves -- $1.46 trillion, according to October 2007 data -- an amount increasing quickly on the back of a huge trade surplus. Much of
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