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Entries tagged "GM"

General Motors

As expected, GM exited Chapter 11 on July 10. See highlights of The Deal's coverage of how the auto giant got to bankruptcy and what steps it took to emerge.

Last lap

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

Cheap trick

Creditors are increasingly eager to engage in credit bids — using debt owed to them to either buy companies out of bankruptcy or preserve their value. It's not for the fainthearted.

Traffic jam

British officials are grumbling about Berlin's attempts to saddle it with some of the costs of the Opel deal. But they won't stop the sale.

Gerber at the wheel

Chrysler's ride through bankruptcy kept Judge Robert Gerber busy. Now he must drive the even larger, and possibly more contentious GM bankruptcy through court. He will have to draw upon prior experience overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings of Adelphia, Global Crossing and Lyondell Chemical.

Bankruptcy revisited

Why the General Motors and Chrysler bankruptcies may be creative but illegal.

The glorious dream continues

The Liberty Entertainment-DirecTV merger is another complex, tax-light John Malone deal. But beneath the details lurk real assets and intriguing possibilities.

Traction control

GM's West Coast technology outpost bridges the gap between Silicon Valley and Detroit.

Engine boost

U.K. vanmaker LDV got a small government loan. It's not a Detroit-style bailout, but it may be a sign of the future.

Chrysler revs its engine with Jones Day

Chrysler might not have filed for bankruptcy protection until April 30, but the automaker's restructuring efforts have been generating work -- and fees -- for advisers for months.

Malone's fancy turns to tax-free spinoffs

The $14.6 billion combination of Liberty Entertainment with DirecTV Group, announced May 4, represents a seasonal rite for John Malone -- a tax-free spinoff and merger.

Now for the main event

Chrysler's bankruptcy sets the stage for an even bigger public-private drama at General Motors. That's no accident.

Dead clients don't pay

From armoring your car to hiring bodyguards, some options to keep the bullets away and the drug lords at bay.

Rigors of rehab

The market for debtor-in-possession loans is alive, but it's expensive, picky and creditor-friendly -- yet DIPs are needed more than ever before.

Asia adjusts

When the global economy cratered, China and India girded for the worst, but a surprising amount of M&A still takes place.

Fields of green

From boom to bust to ... boom? The role of private equity in today's marketplace for renewable energies.

Don't bank on it

What private equity firms need to know before investing in financial institutions.

Board to distraction

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has made an unintended contribution to the current economic crisis.

China's turn

The nation takes a low-profile approach to a high-stakes role in global finance.

The wrong way

Bankruptcy, not a bailout, is the best route for ailing U.S. automakers.

GM in bankruptcy

Bailout or not, the odds are it will happen. Here's how it will unfold.

Demolition Derby

A terrible economy and ferocious competition guarantees that General Motors' days as an industrial powerhouse are over.

Crash course

The personal finance mags struggle to offer advice in a market with no good answers. And Fortune reinvents the CEO -- as a lifeguard.

Citi directors call in Cravath

Citigroup's board has tapped Cravath's Robert Joffe for advice on the bank's many challenges.

Tilted pay scales

Despite the credit crisis, vanished profits and government bailout, it's bonus time, but now even conservative activists are saying, 'Enough!'

A second set of eyes

Cravath's Robert Joffe is emerging as a go-to guy for boards of stressed companies seeking their own counsel.