FREE Site Registration!
Sign up today and take advantage of member-only content — the kind of timely, cutting edge industry insight that only IDD can deliver.

FREE site registration entitles you to:


IDD Daily Updates and Restructuring Alert Weekly Updates, our email news alerts

Industry White Papers

Expert Blogs

   

It's A Deal

Life Goes On

- By now, you’ve seen the numbers that marked the carnage that was the first half in M&A. It’s enough to make you want to auction off your life like that guy on eBay did.

Measured Success

- When people say that “out of tragedy something good always comes,” you just know they’re thinking about the test & measurement industry.

Poof!

- First it was Level 3 assets, and now this?

Women Are From Venus, M&A Is From Mars

- If you’re in M&M, er, M&A, now you may know what it feels like to be a kid in a candy store.

Crisis In Confidence

- To badmouth the economy as you buy a new lawnmower is one thing, but $200 billion in level 3 assets is quite another.

Reality Check

- I keep reading about how UBS’ plan to form a separate unit to hold its garbage is such a good idea, and frankly, I don’t get it.

This Is No Bear Market

- On the heels of Sunday night’s remarkable news that Bear Stearns was finished, it struck me that this deal should be far from done. Not because there’s virtually no reason that existing Bear holders should vote for it, but because it seems to me that the bidding should just be beginning.

Confidence Builder. Not.

- Well, we got a first-hand glimpse Friday of why some of us have been so very worried about the stranglehold within the credit markets. It was never just about a run-of-the-mill slowdown in the economy, or a meaningless debate about whether we were or were not officially in a recession.

Nothing Foreign About This Idea

- Bad-mouthing Citi, but to what end? And does it really need saving?

Subprime: Insurers' Best Friend?

- There are two sides to every story, and the insurers must like how this chapter is going.

I Hate You ... Call Me!

- Yahoo! getting picky in a tough market.

The Giants And M&A

- There's no reason M&A can't be resurrected, just like the Giants.

Anything More You'd Like To Tell Us?

- Fed introduces more panic, not less.

That's One Way To Lower A Handicap

- Jimmy Cayne is out of the top job at Bear Stearns, but how much will actually change at the embattled firm?

League Tables Aren't That Important

- A nice perk from all of these SWF deals.

‘A Lot’ To Worry About?

- There are some days when I honestly believe there are two things in this world that will never die: cockroaches, and the US consumer. (Yes, these are in fact two different animals, though some shoppers can often be mistaken for their smaller brethren.)

Let The Fun Begin, Again

- Wall Street folks are an optimistic lot. The credit crisis probably hasn't even hit bottom yet, but a sizable chunk of interested parties has declared that the worst is not only behind us, but that it's all behind us. Gee, that wasn't so bad.

What Crisis?

- Some of us from IDD recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Thomas Lee, he of private equity fame, for a brief chat. It was an enlightening conversation given the current circumstances with which the financial world is grappling.

Smooth Sailing. Right?

- It was just a few weeks back that a handful of investment banks -- Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley and Bear Stearns among them -- went public with bold pronouncements that the worst of the credit market shellacking seems to be behind us.

The Blame Game

- Few people on Wall Street were likely to be more relieved by Merrill Lynch's confidence-shattering third-quarter results than Citigroup's CEO, Chuck Prince.