The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008
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Wondering why Leon Black is taking buyout firm Apollo Global Management LLC public? Well, fellow private equity dealmaker David Rubenstein of the Carlyle Group offered an explanation on why the industry is filing to go public during The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 event last November. Rubenstein thinks that private equity is going the same route as investment banks in the 1960s, when no respectable banks were public. Watch the video after the jump. - The editors...
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With the credit crunch hindering the nation's M&A and globalization firmly taking hold of the world's economy, cross-border investing has become an even more important topic in the global economy. Following the Cross-border bonanza panel at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference, PodTech's Jason Lopez spoke with experts John Noone of IBM Corp., PricewaterhouseCoopers' Gregory Peterson and John Burnett, EVP and research director at Wall Street Access, for additional insights....
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The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference examined some of the most important trends that will affect dealmaking in the next year. After the energy, real estate and healthcare panels, Jason Lopez spoke with industry experts from each of the sectors. (Listen to the podcast.)...
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More from The Deal's John Morris' keynote interview with famed distressed investor Wilbur Ross Wednesday at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference at the Ritz-Carlton, Battery Park in New York City....
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The business news continues to concern the deal community, as financial institutions take more big hits from overexposure to collaterized debt. How will this impact global M&A? The world's leading dealmakers gathered to discuss the question at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Battery Park in New York City....
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Famed distressed investor Wilbur Ross sat down with The Deal assistant managing editor John Morris at the M&A Outlook 2008 conference at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park, New York City, Wednesday afternoon to discuss his approach to distressed investing....
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Dealmakers at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park in New York City next delved into the healthcare sector. It's November, and the $267.1 billion of healthcare deals done in 2006 seems an insurmountable mark. However, this year's first three quarters haven't been too shabby, as a total of 722 deals were announced in the healthcare industry worth a combined total of $173 billion, according to investment researcher Irving Levin Associates Inc....
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The keynote panel at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference featured three of Wall Street's top dealmakers: Bruce Wasserstein, chairman and CEO of Lazard and chairman of The Deal LLC; Leon Black, founder of Apollo Management; and Martin Lipton, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, who sat down with The Deal's editor in chief Robert Teitelman to discuss the state of M&A....
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After a brief networking break, the debates continued at the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park in New York City. The subject: take-privates. The Deal's assistant managing editor, who also happens to be a former lawyer and PE sage, John Morris spoke with Greg Mondre, managing director of Silver Lake Partners, and Dusty Philip of Goldman of Sachs & Co. They're task was to answer the question, "Is the public company dead?" And the answer: Not yet, but public companies have to contend with certain barriers and encumbrances that private companies do not....
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The keynote panel at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference featured three of Wall Street's top dealmakers: Bruce Wasserstein, chairman and CEO of Lazard and chairman of The Deal LLC; Leon Black, founder of Apollo Management; and Martin Lipton, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, who sat down with The Deal's editor in chief Robert Teitelman to discuss the state of M&A. On the financing markets "The ability of private equity and acquisitive strategic buyers to innovate in terms of financing is almost unlimited," said Lipton....
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The keynote panel at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference featured three of Wall Street's top dealmakers: Bruce Wasserstein, chairman and CEO of Lazard and chairman of The Deal LLC; Leon Black, founder of Apollo Management; and Martin Lipton, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, who sat down with The Deal's editor in chief Robert Teitelman to discuss the state of M&A. Speaking Wednesday afternoon, Apollo's Leon Black commented that "there's no question that this summer the world changed for private equity" as the credit markets that allowed "private equity to go from being 3% of the...
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With winter just around the corner and oil surging toward $100 a barrel, the energy sector has been on the minds of consumers as wells as dealmakers lately. A panel of dealmakers gathered Wednesday at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Battery Park in New York City to discuss the M&A opportunities in the sector. The general sentiment of the three panelists, Richard A. Vaccari, vice president, mergers and acquisitions at Sempra Energy; Douglas Korn, senior managing director and executive VP at Bear Stearns Merchant Banking; and Jamie Welch, head of global energy, investment banking division, at...
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A panel at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference at the Ritz-Carlton, Battery Park in New York City Wednesday weighed in on cross-border M&A deals, which have become increasingly more commonplace, as The Deal's senior writer and moderator Matt Miller said, but not predictable or easy to navigate. Dealmakers, including Christina Mohr, a managing director of M&A with Citigroup Inc.; Dechert LLP partner Ian A. Hartman; John Noone, an IBM Corp. managing consultant; and Peter Gottsegen, the founding partner of Canada-focused private equity firm CAI; dished on the expansion of cross-border M&A deals, the role of emerging markets, the effect of the credit crunch and the emergence of sovereign wealth...
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A panel at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference at the Ritz-Carlton, Battery Park in New York City Wednesday moderated by The Deal senior editor Vyvyan Tenorio weighed in on the impact of the credit crunch on the middle market, what it's done to growth and cyclical deals, and the resilience and volume of the middle market. The panelists Steven Dresner, president of Dresner Partners; Michael J. Lyons, senior managing director at Lincolnshire Management Inc.; Robin Marshall, a partner at 3i Group plc; and Adam D. Sokoloff, managing director and head of financial sponsors and private capital group for Jefferies &...
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Shortly after speaking at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference at the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park in New York City, Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein spoke with CNBC's Rebecca Jarvis. He spoke about some of the same issues that he discussed with The Deal's senior writer David Carey. — The editors Watch the video from CNBC.com Read about his keynote at Dealscape...
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With the credit markets tightening, the real estate sector has definitely cooled off. Deal valuations for real estate assets have declined, and big deals in the real estate sector have not happened since Blackstone Group LP's purchase of Equity Office Properties in early 2007. So, what does the future of M&A have in store for the real estate industry? Lisa Eyles Beeson, head of real estate mergers and acquisitions at Lehman Brothers Inc.; Marc Faecher, senior vice president at TRC Cos.; Seth Weintrob, a managing director at Morgan Stanley Real Estate; and Roger Marinzoli, vice president of mergers and acquisitions...
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David Rubenstein, the co-founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group, sat down with The Deal's David Carey this morning to discuss some of the key issues facing private equity, such as increased scrutiny from the media, politicians and labor, threats of regulation and taxes all while managing more capital than ever before in its history....
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At Wednesday morning's M&A Outlook 2008 conference, Thomas Burnett, the director of research at Wall St. Access, used data compiled by The Deal and Wall St. Access to give the audience an overview of what has been a remarkable year for M&A activity. Download the complete presentation here....
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The Deal's M&A Outlook 2008 conference kicked off Wednesday morning in New York City at the Ritz-Carleton, Battery Park, with a panel of top dealmakers taking a look at where mergers and acquisitions activity is headed going into 2008. The panel, moderated by Gregory Peterson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, consisted of Howard Ellin, partner and deputy head of M&A at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Louis Friedman, vice chairman of investment banking at Bear, Stearns & Co.; David Johnson, IBM's VP of corporate development; and Stephen Zide, a managing director at Bain Capital LLC. Panelists offered various perspectives:...
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During the first three quarters of 2007, a total of 722 deals were announced in the healthcare industry worth a combined total of $173 billion, according to investment researcher Irving Levin Associates Inc. The firm notes it now seems unlikely that this year's dollar amount will surpass the record-breaking $267.1 billion reached in 2006. ...
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