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View from the City

Not so fast

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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Analysis

Off offshore

The traditional model of offshore funds, typically set up in the Cayman Islands, has recently faced unseen levels of scrutiny. As a result, the future of the so-called unregulated offshore centers has been called into question.


Industry Insight

Seller's delight

Tips on selecting the right buyer for your strategic disposition.


Judgment Call

Let bylaws be bylaws

The authors discuss how to put teeth in advance notice bylaws.


Industry Insight

Closing the tough deal

Terms and structures now used to get deals done are post-closing purchase price payments, earnouts, simultaneous acquisitions, rollups, payments in kind and joint ventures.



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Capital Calls

Governance, incentives and buyouts

A report argues that private equity governance practice is worse than you'd think. Unfortunately, it's full of holes.


Deals

Reviving a legend

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.


Media Maneuvers

Carping

As the recession has tightened its grip, advice about saving has been replaced with a tyrannical fiscal correctness. Remember the carp.


Safe Harbor

Spheres of influence

Do proxy advisers wield real power? The outcome of two highly visible proxy fights and an academic study suggest not.


Rules of the Road

All in the family

The Obama administration's problem is how to make merger investigations more uniform within the FTC and the DOJ.


Bankruptcy

Scoreboard: Bankruptcy League Tables

See The Deal's lists of the top firms and practitioners with active bankruptcy cases.


Hard Times

Caregivers now in need of care

While the public was trained on the pending bankruptcies of the automakers, healthcare was an industry bleeding heavily.


Arbitrage

Risk arbitrage: June 22, 2009

Citigroup Inc. reached a definitive agreement with the U.S. government for its exchange offer of $58 billion on preferred shares for common.


Media Maneuvers

Little Miss Sunshine

Climb off the Roubini bandwagon. Join the BusinessWeek optimism campaign and sip from an economic glass half-full.


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