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Entries tagged "PNC"

The new super-regionals

With the biggest banks busily digesting massive acquisitions and bumping up against deposit caps, midtier acquirers are gobbling up FDIC-seized banks. Haven't we seen this before?

Alpha Natural wrestles with debt financing

Cleary Gottlieb's Ethan Klingsberg advised Alpha on its $2 billion Foundation Coal deal.

Cablevision, Washington Post bolster defenses

Loans are available for companies that don't need them, as the two companies' successful bond offerings prove.

Influence muddling

Geithner has issued guidelines curtailing lobbying for TARP money. What they mean is anyone's guess.

A matter of interpretation

Did fair-value accounting deepen the crisis or provide the remedy? Does the market provide a rational view of true value or a procyclical blast of emotion? The debate roars on, with no end in sight.

Buyouts and banks

A once-promising relationship has been marked by disaster, so what lessons are there for investors still intrigued by the bargains?

So much for all that

Remember the emergency, three-page bailout plan to buy toxic securities? Well, never mind.

Beneath the TARP

Whatever happened to Treasury buying toxic assets? Maybe the feds figured consolidation is a faster road to stability.

Taking the PIPE

Private equity investments in public companies have a mixed record. But where else can investors put their money?

Hammerin' Hank

In which we track the wandering peregrinations of a bailout story from its source in boring wonkery to its final resting place on outraged cable.

Cravath in a lot of cookie jars

Cravath's Faiza Saeed represented Morgan Stanley's board on the company's conversion to a bank holding company and its stake sale to Mitsubishi UFJ.

Nat City counts on S&C

H. Rodgin Cohen, Edward Herlihy advise on yet another bank deal.

Deep in the funk

As the credit crunch has grown worse, even the best deals are having trouble getting financed.