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It's A Deal

By Tom Granahan

Life Goes On

July 1, 2008 - 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

May 29, 2008 - When people say that “out of tragedy something good always comes,” you just know they’re thinking about the test & measurement industry.

Poof!

May 6, 2008 - First it was Level 3 assets, and now this?

Women Are From Venus, M&A Is From Mars

April 29, 2008 - 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

April 27, 2008 - 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

April 1, 2008 - 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

March 17, 2008 - 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.

March 14, 2008 - 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

March 4, 2008 - Bad-mouthing Citi, but to what end? And does it really need saving?

Subprime: Insurers' Best Friend?

February 27, 2008 - There are two sides to every story, and the insurers must like how this chapter is going.

I Hate You ... Call Me!

February 17, 2008 - Yahoo! getting picky in a tough market.

The Giants And M&A

February 5, 2008 - There's no reason M&A can't be resurrected, just like the Giants.

Anything More You'd Like To Tell Us?

January 22, 2008 - Fed introduces more panic, not less.

That's One Way To Lower A Handicap

January 19, 2008 - 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

December 21, 2007 - A nice perk from all of these SWF deals.

‘A Lot’ To Worry About?

November 26, 2007 - 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

November 22, 2007 - 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?

November 16, 2007 - 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?

March 6, 2008 - 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

November 18, 2007 - 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.