In search of IPOs

Meet Timothy Geithner's deputy: Neal Wolin, veteran of the national security apparatus, the Treasury Department and the insurance industry.

Jeffrey Goldstein, formerly of the World Bank, can use his skills with broken economies to help address problems in the United States.

Confirmed in May to be the Treasury Department's assistant secretary for financial institutions, Barr has spent most of his academic career examining how the financial services industry can better reach the poor and other underserved segments of society.

Despite the recession, we found eight young PE mavens worthy of notice.

Akil Hirani of Majumdar & Co.

Kimberly Taylor of Kirkland & Ellis

Silverfleet Capital's Guido May

Lime Rock Partners' Jeff Scofield

Morgan Stanley's Dennis Cornell

Blackstone Group LP's Ivan Brockman

BC Partners' Justin Bateman

Irving Place Capital's Phil Carpenter III

After a four-month stint in law, Lewis Steinberg has donned his banker's hat and rejoined UBS.

Warren Hellman gives up his post as chairman of Hellman & Friedman.

Movie moneymen P. Clark Hallren and Brian R. Mulligam are resetting their careers.

J.P. Morgan telecom banker becomes co-tech chief.

Jean Manas left Deutsche Bank over a bonus dispute. He launched Foros, which got its broker-dealer license in August.

Cisco spent a combined $6 billion to buy Tandberg and Starent. The networking giant's advisers on the Tandberg deal were less conventional.

Attorneys Samuel Saracino and Patrick Schultheis teamed up again for Avocent.

Private equity sponsors get in line to take their portfolio companies public. So far, so good.

Mexico's state-owned oil company is debt-bloated, overtaxed and facing massive production declines, and even a new Pemex chief and new oil and gas laws that promise to open it up to private oil companies may not be enough.

After months of wrangling, GM is close to signing over Opel to Canada's Magna and Russia's Sberbank.

Kerry Stokes, one of the last of the media barons, is fighting for a prized Australian asset.

ITV hopes an unsold asset can reduce a pension deficit. But first the trustees must sign off.

Leveraged finance fuels renewed private equity dealmaking. No, the sky isn't falling anymore.

As companies consider deals beyond their previous purviews, they'll need to revisit their M&A processes, especially for integration.

Are dividend recaps a sign of another apocalypse? The market doesn't think TransDigm Group's recap poses much of a threat.

A host of factors play into the arbitrage trading in the $5.6 billion merger between Affiliated Computer Services and Xerox. The chief concern: potential outs in the merger contract.

Bruce Wasserstein did deals, a lot of them, in a career that's already being called 'legendary.' The Bruce we knew at The Deal reveled in the mechanics of the media. We'll miss him.

Revealed! Tim Geithner spends a lot of time on the phone. But while we know the names of his callers, we utterly lack the context

BusinessWeek got caught in the middle. And as the big get bigger and the small proliferate, Fortune and Forbes face big problems, too.

Pfizer started a trend when it adopted a policy on director elections, but such policies may not be worth the paper on which they are written.

A merger divestiture study would give antitrust agencies data to assess the value of requiring asset sales.

Here are some other reasons why the SEC did not catch Bernard Madoff.

PE firms worry about the risk management of their defined benefit plans. An investment strategy set with explicit reference to liabilities is crucial.

In lending to the new middle market, are BDCs, SBICs or both the answer?