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Corporate Finance : Surge Of Bank Mergers Dominates Deal Activity

December 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     Government-encouraged bank mergers and bailouts are keeping global M&A; activity alive amid the financial crisis, which has severely restricted financing for corporate buyouts. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo’s $15.1 billion acquisition of Wachovia, which derailed a ...

Corporate Finance : Credit default swaps market outstandings shrink as dealers tear up offsetting agreements

December 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE DEBT     Participants in the over-the-counter credit default swaps (CDS) market have sharply reduced the notional amount of CDS contracts outstanding this year through a series of portfolio compression cycles, also known as tear-ups. The notional outstanding volume ...

Features : World's Best Derivatives Providers 2008

November 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BEST DERIVATIVES PROVIDERS 2008     Global Finance’s fifth annual awards for the World’s Best Derivatives Providers come against a backdrop of unprecedented change in financial markets. The long bull market came to an end last year. In its place ...

Corporate Finance : Companies Cancel Ipos As Markets Tumble

November 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS           There were only five initial public offerings in the US market in the third quarter, with no IPO activity after early August. In Europe, withdrawn IPOs were at the highest level in the ...

Newsmakers : Gf Survey Finds Companies Crimping Credit

November 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL       Crunching the numbers: Businesses are preparing themselves for difficult times ahead.   Much of the coverage on the credit crunch has focused on the impact it is having on banks and capital markets, but in a ...

Corporate Finance : Frozen Credit Markets Unmoved By Rate Cuts

November 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE DEBT             Credit markets remain stalled despite heroic efforts by global central banks, regulators and governments to restore confidence in the financial system. A lack of liquidity has made issuing new high-yield bonds almost ...

Corporate Finance : Credit Crunch And A Slowing Economy Crimp Worldwide Buyout Activity, Putting Strategic Buyers In Control

November 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS         Worldwide announced mergers and acquisitions in the first three quarters of 2008 declined by 25% from the same period a year earlier, according to Thomson Reuters, reflecting the effects of the credit crunch ...

Features : Growing pains

October 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance,
  • Emerging Markets

SPOTLIGHT / EMERGING MARKETS Emerging markets have been some of the best performers of recent years. Is their continued growth now under threat?   Since the credit crunch began more than a year ago, it has inflicted most pain on ...

Corporate Finance : High-yield Market Remains Shuttered

October 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE DEBT Less than $1 billion of US high-yield bonds were sold in August, one of the lowest monthly totals ever, as rising defaults and widening spreads above US treasury securities steered investors away from the market. Caribbean Restaurants, the ...

Newsmakers : Private Equity Investments Linked To Corporate Defaults

October 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL       Vazza: Expects the default rate to continue growing.       As private equity investors size up the new opportunities the credit crunch presents, companies in their sights might do well to consider a report published ...

Corporate Finance : Hong Kong To Trade Drs To Boost Foreign Listings

October 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS   Hong Kong’s stock exchange has put a framework in place to begin trading depositary receipts, which will make it the only Asian exchange to allow DR issuers to target retail investors. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKex) ...

Corporate Finance : European Mergers Gain With Pair Of Big Deals

October 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Europe passed the United States in corporate dealmaking in August thanks to two large transactions, including a spin-off and a hostile bid. The total of US mergers and acquisitions for the year to date of $849 billion, ...

Corporate Finance : Hunt Continues For Way To End Credit Crunch

September 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE DEBT     More than a year after the credit crunch burst onto the global stage, regulators and banks are still searching for a way to end the crisis, which appears to be morphing into a chronic condition. The ...

Corporate Finance : Dow Breaks The Mold For Deal Financing

September 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     Midland, Michigan-based Dow Chemical forged an unusual alliance of bankers and investors to finance its $18.6 billion acquisition of specialty-chemicals maker Rohm and Haas. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the Kuwait Investment Authority, a sovereign ...

Corporate Finance : Global Ipo Activity Falters, With Fewer, But Larger, Issues Focused On Emerging Markets

September 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS     Strange as it may seem, there have been bigger initial public offerings since the credit crunch hit, but fewer of them. Global IPO activity reached an all-time high of $287 billion in proceeds in 2007 but ...

Corporate Finance : Central Clearinghouse Planned To Reduce Counterparty Risk In Credit Default Swaps Market

July 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE DEBT     A consortium led by major investment banks active in the huge over-the-counter derivatives market in credit default swaps (CDS) plans to launch a central clearinghouse by September in an effort to reduce counterparty risk in the ...

Corporate Finance : JPMorgan Adds Dr Staff In Latin America, Asia

July 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS     JPMorgan has added new depositary receipt specialists in Argentina, Brazil and Singapore to assist the growing number of companies in these countries that want to have their equity traded on exchanges outside their home markets. The ...

Corporate Finance : Here's your converted text: Telecom Deal Helps Banks Clear Lbo Loan Backlog

July 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS       The agreement announced last month by Verizon Wireless to buy rural cell phone service provider Alltel for $5.9 billion in cash and $22.2 billion in debt did more than create the biggest mobile-phone company ...

Features : Credit Where It’s Due

June 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FOCUS / CREDIT DERIVATIVES As global securitization markets continue to deteriorate, the credit derivatives space is a beacon of light in a relatively dark landscape.   Long: The key is to determine which structures have been hurt which have stability. ...

Milestones : Tighter Lending Standards Part Of Long-Term Strategy

June 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL     Slim pickings: Banks are less keen on lending.   As the fallout from the subprime debacle continues, companies are finding they can no longer rely on their long-standing banking providers for credit. In fact, according to a ...

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