Archive for April, 2009
M&A Advisors and the New World Order
There’s been a lot written recently about the impact of the downturn on the rankings of the major M&A advisors: much has been made of the drop of Goldman Sachs from the premier position to be overtaken by JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, and the appearance of Evercore Partners in the top 10 (really in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )First Quarter M&A Deal Volumes 2009 — Good sign?
Can we see the light at the end of the tunnel? I think I can. The deal volumes for the first quarter were not bad. Not great, but the fact that they weren’t bad is a good sign. Just as in the housing market, when the declines end, that’s taken to be the start of [...]
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M&A Tipping Point
Posted on Wednesday, 22 April 2009. Filed under: Commentary, Mergers |
Are we at the tipping point where we are back into a more robust M&A market? Just look at yesterday’s headline in the Financial Times: ‘M&A springs back to life’. Reporting on three mega-deals (Oracle’s agreement to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion, PepsiCo’s offer of $6 billion to buy out investors in its two biggest [...]
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