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Corporate Finance : Cross-border Mergers Set Record, As Global Consolidation Continues In Many Industries

February 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Mergers & Acquisitions     Cross-border mergers and acquisitions accounted for a record 47% of worldwide M&A; transactions in 2007, as global consolidation continued to drive merger activity in the materials, financials, and energy and power sectors, according to Thomson ...

Corporate Finance :Investors Climb Aboard China Railway Ipo

January 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS       When state-owned China Railway, the world’s third-biggest construction company, offered $3 billion worth of shares for sale in its initial public offering in Shanghai last month, it attracted more than $450 billion in subscriptions. Clearly, ...

Features : Adapting To Survive

January 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

  SECTOR REPORT / PRIVATE EQUITY   Cash-heavy buyout firms are still looking for deals, but the rising cost of borrowing may result in their emulating their smaller private equity cousins.     Just a few months ago there were ...

Corporate Finance : Mining Industry Offers Rich Vein For Mergers

January 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS More mergers in the mining industry are likely in 2008, analysts say, including potentially some of the biggest M&A; deals ever. Australia-based mining company BHP Billiton in November announced plans to launch an unsolicited tender offer to ...

Corporate Finance : High-yield Spreads May Widen Further

January 01, 2008
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE DEBT       With banks still reluctant to lend, corporations that have delayed borrowing during the recent turmoil in the credit markets may have little choice but to issue debt in the coming months, putting further pressure on ...

Corporate Finance : Record Year For M&a Crawling To Finish

December 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     The year 2007 already has set an all-time record for the value of worldwide mergers and acquisitions, thanks to the growing influence of private equity funds and attractive financing opportunities earlier this year. However, deteriorating ...

Features : Changing The Game

December 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance,
  • Islamic Finance,
  • Global Investing

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS With sovereign wealth funds rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces in global finance, one key question has emerged: Should they be feared or revered? With the subprime-induced credit crunch causing stocks of financial giants such ...

Corporate Finance : Petrochina Ipo Spurs Shanghai Stock Surge

December 01, 2007
  • Asia-Pacific,
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance,
  • Emerging Markets

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS     PetroChina, China’s largest oil and gas producer, added fuel to the fire of Shanghai’s overheated stock market last month with its initial public offering on the mainland. The company’s A-shares surged 163% in their $8.9 billion ...

Milestones : DP World IPO Catapults Dubai Market Into The Limelight

December 01, 2007
  • Middle East,
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DUBAI     DP World’s flagship port operation in Jebel Ali, Dubai When DP World, the Dubai government-owned port giant that bought the UK’s P&O; in March 2006, lists at the end of November (still pending as this issue of ...

Corporate Finance : Banks Chop $100 Billion Off Backlog Of Lbo Financings As High-yield Bond Issues Come Back In Demand

December 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE FINANCING FOCUS     Prospects have improved for clearing away a huge backlog of leveraged loans and high-yield debt to finance already completed corporate takeovers, thanks to a revival of new issuance in the US high-yield bond market. Nearly ...

Corporate Finance : China Unleashes Ipos To Soak Up Liquidity

November 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS     China has approved a series of major IPOs in recent weeks in an attempt to cool its soaring stock markets by flooding them with a growing supply of new issues. The country’s main Shanghai index has ...

Corporate Finance : European Energy Deals Keeping Investment Bankers Busy Despite Slump In Leveraged Buyouts

November 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     Energy companies are fueling a merger boom in Europe, as the industry continues to restructure in response to liberalized markets and foreign competition. Investment bankers are welcoming the advisory fees from these huge deals at ...

Cover Story : Stop Party People

November 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance,
  • Global Investing

PARTY ON! PRIVATE EQUITY   Private equity has had a tough year. It was hounded by legislators for its methods during the first half of 2007. And in the second half it was hit by the credit crunch. Can its ...

Corporate Finance : Us High-yield Market Coming Back To Life

November 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / CORPORATE DEBT     The high-yield bond market in the United States has revived, thanks in part to the Federal Reserve’s half-point interest rate cut on September 18, with some companies able to double the size ...

Features : Collateral Damage

October 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance,
  • Global Banking

FOCUS / TERRORISM FUNDING     Legislation aimed at cracking down on funding for terrorists is having some damaging side effects for banks and businesses. Kochan: It may be a fallacy that banks can anticipate terrorist financing. Following the attacks ...

Corporate Finance : Deals Still Getting Done, But They Are Smaller

October 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The global credit crunch appears to be having a major impact on the size and financing of takeovers, where cash deals for much smaller targets are increasingly the rule. The biggest announced M&A; transaction worldwide in August ...

Corporate Finance : China, Russia Compete For Biggest Ipo Of Year

October 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS China is likely to have the year’s biggest initial public offering for the second year in a row, although there remains a chance that Russia will beat it out. As Global Finance went to press, China Construction Bank ...

Corporate Finance : Commercial Paper Market Dries Up

October 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / CORPORATE DEBT The market for short-term corporate IOUs, or commercial paper, has continued to shrink in recent weeks amid the spreading credit crunch, putting more pressure on traditional bank credit lines. Commercial paper outstanding in the ...

Corporate Finance : High-yield Market Closes For Repricing

September 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate debt / corporate financing news     The high-yield bond market in the United States all but shut down for new issues in July, as subprime mortgage losses led to a repricing of corporate credit risk and an end ...

Corporate Finance : M&a Activity To Stay Hot In Some Sectors

September 01, 2007
  • Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Mergers & acquisitions / corporate financing news     Global announced mergers and acquisitions totaled $550 billion in July, more than double the total for the same month a year earlier, according to Dealogic, but tighter credit conditions threaten to ...

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