— Aug. 11, 2008 —
Cover story
By Matt Miller
How the student loan industry grew, diversified, boomed and nearly collapsed.
Table of contents
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Despite LBO blowups, strategic sellers seem unconcerned by breakup fees in merger pacts. One big reason: a scarcity of bidders.
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Dealmaking has been on the upswing for several months now, but investment banking merger chiefs don't expect the momentum to last.
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Why strategic dealmakers are faring so much better than financial ones in the downturn.
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Analysis
By Yvette Kantrow |
Fortune deifies blonde and bearish conga-line leader Meredith Whitney on its cover. What's all this fuss about buying and selling?
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Analysis
By Bill McConnell |
The FDIC is taking over more failing banks, and here's where the money comes from.
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Analysis
By Olaf De Senerpont Domis |
Brocade planted a stake in the future of the data center with its bid for Foundry Networks, but investors aren't convinced yet.
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Analysis
By Paul Whitfield |
The creation of Suez GdF and a Spanish gas giant shows national interest can still trump the EC vision.
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The demand for new cancer therapies draws a steady flow of VC investment.
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Judgment Call
By Anita K. Krug, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
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Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin have been charged with fraud. But while they may be proven guilty, they were hardly masterminds of the credit crisis.
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Industry Insight
By Sam Rovit and Allen Schaar, Bain & Co. |
A wave of corporate bankruptcies looms.
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Deal Diary
By Lisa Lee and David Marcus
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Simpson Thacher's Gary Horowitz represented Barr on its $9.8 billion sale to Teva.
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Movers and Shakers
By Lisa Lee and David Marcus
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Fed up with layoffs and losses, dealmakers are leaving Wall Street's biggest players for smaller firms.
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Backstory
By Richard Morgan |
Traditional print phone directories seem destined to fall to the Google juggernaut, though it hasn't happened yet.
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Movers and Shakers
By David Carey
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DLJ Mercant Banking's Nicole Arnaboldi is the first and only woman to lead a $1B-plus buyout shop.
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Hard Times
By Matt Miller |
In these recessionary times, churches across America are going broke. But these are not your average bankruptcies.
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Deal Diary
By Lisa Lee and David Marcus
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Bredin Prat's Patrick Dziewolski, along with a host of lawyers and bankers, advised on KKR's $3.9B agreement to buy KKR Private Equity Investors LP.
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Rules of the Road
By Cecile Kohrs Lindell |
Strong words from a split appeals court give the FTC and Whole Foods plenty of reason to settle before things go too far.
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Editor's Note
By Robert Teitelman, editor-in-chief, The Deal
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The market is like a giant Facebook, increasingly undifferentiated networks that want to connect more and more of everything. This explains why regulation wants to be as monolithic as the markets.
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View from the City
By Jonathan Braude |
British Energy looks to have escaped a sale to EdF. Competition issues can't be ignored.
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Burn Rate
By Alain Sherter, Clifford Carlsen and David Shabelman
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Tech M&A hits the skids, VC exit returns beat the market, and Pickens rips Yahoo!
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Movers and Shakers
By Amy Wu
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Heidrick & Struggles' Alex Alcott: Senior bankers with relationships are particularly in demand right now.
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Capital Calls
By Vyvyan Tenorio |
The buyout heavyweight is offering a complex plan to take itself public.
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Analysis
By Scott Stuart
The final chapter in 2007 buyouts gone bust: Apollo-Hexion-Huntsman have it out in Delaware in September. And the risk-arb market isn't comfortable with First Reserve-CHC.
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