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Features

Caregivers now in need of care

While the public was trained on the pending bankruptcies of the automakers, healthcare was an industry bleeding heavily.

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• Life extension
• The default option
• Scoreboard: Bankruptcy League Tables

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Analysis

Off offshore

The traditional model of offshore funds, typically set up in the Cayman Islands, has recently faced unseen levels of scrutiny. As a result, the future of the so-called unregulated offshore centers has been called into question.


Industry Insight

Seller's delight

Tips on selecting the right buyer for your strategic disposition.


Judgment Call

Let bylaws be bylaws

The authors discuss how to put teeth in advance notice bylaws.


Industry Insight

Closing the tough deal

Terms and structures now used to get deals done are post-closing purchase price payments, earnouts, simultaneous acquisitions, rollups, payments in kind and joint ventures.



Dealwatch

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General Motors

As expected, GM filed for Chapter 11 at 8 a.m., June 1. See highlights of The Deal's coverage of how the auto giant got here and what lies ahead.

• Ponzi schemes, fraud and other misdeeds

• BofA Merrill Lynch exodus

• Bear Stearns exodus

• Magazines

Dealmakers Slideshow


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Insights

Rules of the Road

All in the family

The Obama administration's problem is how to make merger investigations more uniform within the FTC and the DOJ.


Dealmakers

Entrepreneurial acquirer

Jim McCann of 1-800-Flowers.com likes to acquire talent, not just products.


Postmortem

Merrill's mess

Merrill Lynch's track record includes some of the sector's most ill-timed, ill-fated acquisitions.


Capital Calls

Governance, incentives and buyouts

A report argues that private equity governance practice is worse than you'd think. Unfortunately, it's full of holes.


Regulatory

Path to passage

Despite the inevitable fighting and lobbying, much of Obama's regulatory package may well become law.


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