Archive for February, 2010
Posted on Friday, 19 February 2010. Filed under: Commentary, Mergers |
Where have all the mega-deals gone? There’s certainly been a dearth of deals since year-end. It’s been a long time since I’ve opened up the newpaper in the morning and seen any front-page headlines about a new deal. In fact, it’s been more about cancelled deals (IPOs such as New Look, Travelport and Merlin) or [...]
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Posted on Monday, 8 February 2010. Filed under: Commentary, Mergers |
Typically, the volume of deals in the first quarter of the year are higher than at other times of the year. In fact, if you look at the largest deals since the mid-1990′s (all around $60 billion or more),over one-third of them were announced in January and almost half in the first quarter. Obviously, we [...]
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M&A market not doing as badly as you think
Posted on Friday, 19 February 2010. Filed under: Commentary, Mergers |
Where have all the mega-deals gone? There’s certainly been a dearth of deals since year-end. It’s been a long time since I’ve opened up the newpaper in the morning and seen any front-page headlines about a new deal. In fact, it’s been more about cancelled deals (IPOs such as New Look, Travelport and Merlin) or [...]
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