— Commentary and analysis from The Deal journalists —
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View from the City
By Jonathan Braude |
Economies have stabilized, but unemployment will get worse, and banks face further losses. No wonder private equity investors are a cautious lot.
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Capital Calls
By David Carey |
A report argues that private equity governance practice is worse than you'd think. Unfortunately, it's full of holes.
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Deals
By Olaf de Senerpont Domis |
After winning Silicon Graphics out of bankruptcy, Rackable Systems has its work cut out for it. Competition from the likes of Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Sun Microsystems made existence tough for SGI, and the combined company will have its hands full.
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Media Maneuvers
By Yvette Kantrow |
As the recession has tightened its grip, advice about saving has been replaced with a tyrannical fiscal correctness. Remember the carp.
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Safe Harbor
By David Marcus |
Do proxy advisers wield real power? The outcome of two highly visible proxy fights and an academic study suggest not.
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Rules of the Road
By Cecile Kohrs Lindell |
The Obama administration's problem is how to make merger investigations more uniform within the FTC and the DOJ.
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Bankruptcy
By Chelsey Franks |
See The Deal's lists of the top firms and practitioners with active bankruptcy cases.
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Hard Times
By Chelsey Franks |
While the public was trained on the pending bankruptcies of the automakers, healthcare was an industry bleeding heavily.
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Arbitrage
By Scott Stuart |
Citigroup Inc. reached a definitive agreement with the U.S. government for its exchange offer of $58 billion on preferred shares for common.
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Media Maneuvers
By Yvette Kantrow |
Climb off the Roubini bandwagon. Join the BusinessWeek optimism campaign and sip from an economic glass half-full.
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