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 Entries tagged "Barclays"From liquidity to liquidationBankruptcy has undergone a rapid evolution in the past decade, shaped by a financial system of tooth-rattling extremes. Go shop till you dropAt least one blast from the private equity past has sounded this spring: the go-shop clause. In two recent deals, a seller used a go-shop to get a better offer, and in a third, the seller generated three alternate proposals but stood by the initial agreement. Blast from the pastBlackRock-BGI probably won't set off a rash of BIG asset management deals. Potential acquirers are scarce, and vendor finance is hard to come by. Companies that can raise equity will have the edge. Barclays lends BlackRock an inexpensive handBarclays lends Blackrock an inexpensive hand, Cohen returns to i-banking and Verizon rings up Debeviose. Movers & shakers: June 15, 2009Jeff Rowbottom, who once ran the U.S. high-yield syndication desk at Barclays Capital, is joining the capital markets group at New York private equity firm... Movers & shakers: June 2, 2009Banc of America Securities-Merrill Lynch Research hired Ethan Harris as head of North America economics and David Bianco as head of U.S. equity strategy. Harris... Alpha Natural wrestles with debt financingCleary Gottlieb's Ethan Klingsberg advised Alpha on its $2 billion Foundation Coal deal. Middle East M&ADealmaking in the Middle East should be strong in 2009. Movers & shakers: May 1, 2009Moelis & Co. announced that Matthew Prest and Charles Noel-Johnson will join the firm's recapitalization and restructuring group in July, based in London. The two... Deck shuffleFor Barclays, the sale of iShares should prove to be an astute maneuver. CVC shares its iShares deal with CadwaladerCadwalader's Geoffrey Levin represented CVC on its iShares deal. Unintended consequencesThe asset protection scheme could encourage banks to force an otherwise salvageable debt into default, but that's not what the economy needs. A look backIn which we reappraise Deals of the Year from a very different time. How bad was the ABN-Amro deal? The turning pointThe decision to send Lehman into bankruptcy marked the shift from a financial crisis to a market meltdown. Movers & shakers: Feb. 12, 2009Morgan Stanley replaced its former global head of mergers and acquisitions, Gavin MacDonald, who died in December at 47. Robert Kindler takes that role in... Pfizer taps Cadwalader for Wyeth adviceMost noteworthy in the $68B deal may be the size of the reverse termination fee: $4.5B. Fear of commitmentThere is demand, there are deals, and there is even money, particularly among strategics. What's lacking in cross-border M&A is animal spirits. It'll take time. Movers & shakers: Jan. 15, 2009Effective Jan. 19, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce will split its investment, corporate and merchant banking unit into three entities: investment banking, corporate credit and... FDIC deposits IndyMac mandate with Lehman alumsJC Flowers is among the private equity firms acquiring IndyMac. The year in reviewThe crisis, pixie dust and the crash of Abstract Man. Less brave new worldWe lost five big investment banks in 2008, but how much does that really matter? Be careful what you wish forIn the U.K., bank CEOs called for state aid and had second thoughts when the strings were attached. Gone but not forgottenU.K. retailers eagerly signed on to sale-leasebacks, but now property values are down, rents are too high and Woolworths is bankrupt. Hobson's choiceFighting the HBOS sale, do swashbuckling Scots offer style or substance? AT&T rings up a doubleHaynes and Boone's Thomas Yang and others advised AT&T on Wayport. The road less traveledIn taking state aid, what separates the homebodies from the adventurers is not philosophy but necessity. Movers & shakers: Nov. 4, 2008Herbert McDade III will leave Barclays Capital at the end of November. McDade, who was president of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., leaves less than two... CenturyTel dials up BarclaysA Cravath team including B. Robbins Kiessling gave legal advise to Embarq in its $11.6 billion sale to CenturyTel. More Lehman landingsBarclays lures Lehman bankers from Nomura, while Credit Suisse and Citadel also nab some top talent. The world below the bulgeBoutique i-banks are holding steady for now, but the future remains uncertain. About-faceDeleveraging among U.K. banks will be painful, however necessary, but lending could take years to recover. Hedging her betsPinetum Partners' Sandy Gross' advice for Wall Streeters looking to move north to the Greenwich, Conn. hedge fund scene: Be patient. Movers & shakers: Oct. 16, 2008Greenhill & Co. opened a Tokyo office to advise Japanese companies on domestic and cross-border merger, acquisition and restructuring opportunities. Kensuke Hotta joined as chairman... Making megabanksThere has never been a wave of post-merger integration work like the one now under way in financial services. China recruitsBlackstone and the Chinese government are close, and the state is helping the PE firm recruit. Where the money isEven with Bear Stearns and Lehman gone, UJA-Federation still believes it will fill its tables at fundraisers. Risk arb update: BCEMars-Wrigley was financed and closed despite bank turmoil. But what will happen to BCE? Lehman BrothersLehman Brothers' Chapter 11 filing came amid a rocky weekend for financials. The latest: Bain Capital, Hellman & Friedman grab Lehman's asset management unit for $2.15B. Cleary helps Barclays pick over Lehman assetsBarclays' Robert Diamond worked the Lehman deals from New York. KKR looks eastMakram Azar, Lehman's global head of sovereign wealth funds has moved to KKR to launch its Middle East and North African office. Off the critical listMark Shafir, Lehman's chairman and co-head of M&A, bolted for Citigroup. Estate mattersLehman passed away on Sept. 15. Now the colossal cleanup begins. Between the cracksEuropean investors try to identify the next bank failures and saviors. Movers & shakers: Aug. 27, 2008See who's in and out at some high-profile firms, including Morgan Stanley, Berwin Leighton Paisner and more. Movers & shakers: July 24, 2008GMAC installs former Bear exec Thomas Marano as ResCap CEO, Northern Rock taps Barclays vice chairman Gary Hoffman as its CEO, and more. Barclays, Citigroup and how long is long enoughThe WSJ compares Barclays's capital raise with floundering Citigroup in 1991. Conclusion: The original sin was Travelers-Citicorp. But the lessons of Citigroup's screw ups remain debatable. | ||||||||||||||||
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