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An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers.
With a lackluster IPO market and continued weakness in the appetite of financial buyers, strategic acquirers have been a key source of liquidity for firms that look to sell assets.
U.S. sales to ...
An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers.
Things aren’t all bad for leveraged buyouts. Think energy.
U.S. private-equity firms have announced $9.7 billion of deals in the oil-and-natural-gas sector globally this year, up 47% from the ...
Private equity is an important source of capital for China’s cash-strapped state-owned companies, with the Chinese government contemplating drafting new laws to encourage its development, officials said at a conference in Shanghai.
“The People’s Bank ...
Recently, an executive at a New York private-equity firm, who almost always returns my calls within the same day, took almost a week to get back to me. When he did, he explained he had been traveling, having seen an unusually high volume of prospective ...
If gigantic firms like Washington Mutual and Citigroup are having trouble because of the mortgage crisis, just think of what smaller savings-and-loans have to contend with.
Just like WaMu, which received a $7 billion capital infusion recently, some ...
Consider American Capital Strategies, a publicly traded mezzanine and buyout shop focusing on the so-called middle market that plans to lay off an unspecified number of staffers. “With the decline in M&A volume we intend to make modest adjustments to ...
As if a credit crunch, slowing economy and job losses on Wall Street weren’t taking enough of a bite out of the Big Apple, the city is thinking of taking a bigger tax bite out of the hedge and private-equity funds that call it home.
The liberal tax ...
Hit the road. Don’t just sit in conference rooms watching lawyers and accountants crunching numbers. “If you are going to do something other than sourcing, you have to be in China,” said Matt Finley, managing director of MidMarket Capital, a buyout ...
Private-equity firms, stymied by the credit crunch, are taking pains to get deals doneboth on the entry and exit points.
As a result, some private-equity firms have come up with what they think is a way to effect a sale without triggering so-called ...
WSJ’s take on deals and deal makers
That is because the Wall Street’s private-equity-fee machine appears to be grinding to a halt. Indeed, since the credit market seized up last summer, sponsors and banks haven’t had the best time of their courtship, ...
