Archive for September, 2009
This wave of M&A deals: Who will be made redundant now?
Strategic acquisitions are once again headline news with the announcement of a number of massive deals on both sides of the Atlantic (see our blog entry: ‘ Has the M&A market returned? Green shoots turn into harvest time…’). Wait a few weeks or months, and the headlines will talk more about the people who will [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Deal success: 2009 better than 2008
A study the Cass Business School conducted for Towers Perrin and reported widely (see, for example, Reuters’ report on 10 September 2009, ‘Deal Talk — Rallying stock markets help accelerate M&A plans’) showed that firms that do M&A deals are more likely to outperform their industry peers (and the market overall) than firms that have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Has the M&A market returned? Can we start harvesting the green shoots already?
What a change a few months makes. Everyone comes back from the summer holidays and the M&A market is once again alive and making front-page news. Looks as if some people didn’t take their holidays this year: US: Disney spends $4bn to purchase Marvel Entertainment, home to the Incredible Hulk and Spiderman, their biggest purchase [...]
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M&A inflexion point: The turn to ‘up’ in activity
Posted on Tuesday, 22 September 2009. Filed under: Commentary, Mergers |
It’s dangerous calling a bottom to a market as you can be wrong and no one (and certainly not me) has a clear crystal ball, but doesn’t there certainly seem to be a marked turn in sentiment about the M&A market – and this is happening before everyone is ready to call the end to [...]
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