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• A quiet end to the year

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 123
  Contact: Brenon Daly As we flip the calendar to the final month of 2009, it’s worth noting that December is almost always a quiet month for M&A. That was particularly true last December, which saw just $6bn of spending on tech acquisitions. The spending level represented a scant 2% of the total $301bn of ...
  6 days ago

• Corel: ‘What a turkey’

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 123
  Contact: Brenon Daly As many of us get ready to sit down with friends and family for our annual Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday, our thoughts inescapably turn to poultry. When we look around at some of the deals out there right now, our thoughts also turn to poultry. For instance, whenever Corel comes up, we ...
  1 week ago

• A management ‘buy-under’ at Silicon Storage Technology?

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 123
  Contact: Brenon Daly In the third-quarter earnings report for Silicon Storage Technology at the end of October, chief executive Bing Yeh went out of his way to tout the vastly improving outlook for the flash memory vendor. Yeh noted that end-market demand had recovered and pricing had firmed up in what had been ...
  2 weeks ago

• L comme LBO

  
  Morninglory, analyse financire — Authority: 122
  Que signifie en anglais Leveraged Buy Out ,Et qu’on peut traduire en français par La Bonne Occase ? Le LBO est un montage typique de l’implication de la finance « spéculative » dans la sphère managériale d’une entreprise et très à la mode depuis les années 90...
  3 weeks ago

• Is IAC looking to sell Ask.com?

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 123
  -Contact Thomas Rasmussen It looks like acquisitive IAC/InterActiveCorp could be gearing up to undo its largest buy ever, Ask.com. At least Barry Diller’s opening remarks during IAC’s conference call last week seem to indicate a desire to explore the possibility. The New York City-based Internet media ...
  4 weeks ago

• IMS deal shows life, if not strength, in leveraged buyouts

  
  DealZone — Authority: 503
  (Recasts lead) If a deal can’t get done with the backing of Canada’s pension fund and capitalism’s mightiest bank, then the leveraged buyout market would truly be dead. So it is with limited fanfare that DealZone welcomes the buyout of IMS Health by Canada’s public pension plan and Goldman Sachs as a sign ...
  4 weeks ago

• George Soros: CRE Bloodletting To Come

  
  Square Feet — Authority: 548
  There has been an increasing amount of optimism within some CRE circles that the distress is somehow going to not materialize. We’d like to agree, but we’re waiting for the employment and wage growth numbers to markedly turn before we start to believe the same thing, though it is comforting to know though that ...
  5 weeks ago

• At long last, Kana gets gone

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 123
  Contact: Brenon Daly Exactly three years ago, we bluntly wrote that there was no reason for Kana Software to be a public company, at least in its current form. Kana’s performance in the intervening 1,000 days since we published that report did nothing to change our view. If anything, as the red ink continued ...
  5 weeks ago

• Dear Private Equity People: Too Soon Guys, Too Soon

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 608
  I wrote about 2 IPOs recently that I felt were hideous in their capital structure and pointless for investors based on their use of proceeds. One of those deals, The Dole Food Company (DOLE) , had its debut the yesterday and for pretty much the reasons I outlined, The Street’s reception was similar to what ...
  5 weeks ago

• Frontrunning: October 27

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 751
  Must read, and word of the day is, as always, Collateral: the NY Feds secret choice to rape America by taking no haircut on AIG toxic crap "Part of a sentence in the document was crossed out. Itcontained a blank space that was intended to show the amount ofthe haircut the banks would take, according to people who ...
  5 weeks ago

• A PE rebound?

  
  Inorganic Growth — Authority: 123
  Contact: Brenon Daly After the turmoil in the credit market essentially knocked PE shops out of tech M&A for much of the past two years, we’re hearing various indications that buyouts may be coming back. We recently noted the rumor in the market that in the coming weeks PE firm Francisco Partners will ...
  6 weeks ago

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