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How Courts See the 'Just Say No’ Defense

March 11, 2010 - Tactics like the poison pill are rarely used but can be employed by a target board to get a better offer or a white-knight suitor.

PE’s New Deal Flavor: Joint Ventures

March 4, 2010 - With debt financing still tough to come by, private-equity investors are teaming up with deep-pocketed corporations to find new transactions and help finance their deals.

Pipeline for Energy Companies Fills Up

February 11, 2010 - Leveraged loan and high-yield markets see robust issuance from ­energy and production as well as midstream energy companies.

IDD Deal of the Year Awards

January 28, 2010 - In this year’s roster of IDD Deal of the Year honorees, special guest participants include Congress, the FDIC, an angry public and Spider-Man.

Energy Deal of the Year: JSC Mangistaumunaigas Sale

January 28, 2010 - JSC Mangistaumunaigas deal involved state-run companies and overcame more than just language barriers.

Rothschild Unveils $700M PE Fund

January 7, 2010 - Rothschild, a family owned firm with more than two centuries of history, is following in the footsteps of other investment banks by raising a private-equity fund aimed at third-party investors.

Harris Williams Has Aspirations in Europe

December 17, 2009 - Middle-market investment banking boutique Harris Williams & Co. opened a London office as part of an effort to capture what it expects will be a pickup in European cross-border M&A activity.

Bond Buyer Gives Nod to Dulles Project

December 3, 2009 - This week some 200 muni finance specialists came together to honor the best and brightest in The Bond Buyer's 8th annual "Deal of the Year" awards at the New York Academy of Sciences in Lower Manhattan.

GE Capital Dives Back into DIPs

November 19, 2009 - It's hardly a secret that debtor-in-possession financing and exit money have become more plentiful amid the credit thaw, and one major lender to distressed companies, GE Capital Restructuring Finance, has come back in a big way.

Schapiro Sees Muni Disclosure Vote in '10

November 13, 2009 - The Securities and Exchange Commission will likely vote to adopt final changes to its Rule 15c2-12 on disclosure “very early” next year and will then meet with lawmakers to see what can be done to expand its authority over the muni market, SEC chairman Mary Schapiro said this week.

Fillion: BNP's Man On The Ground In The U.S.

October 23, 2009 - Many in the movie-going public may be surprised that a French-born Wall Street banker helped finance of some of Hollywood's biggest independent films of the 1990s -- Quentin Tarantino's debut Reservoir Dogs, The Shawshank Redemption and The Madness of King George.

European Junk Mart Restarts

October 23, 2009 - Like other companies that tapped Europe's high-yield bond market this year, Hamilton, Bermuda's television company Central European Media Enterprises needed to refinance a portion of its bank debt.

M&A Drives Renewed Interest In MENA

October 16, 2009 - After putting Middle East and North Africa business development on hold last year amid Wall Street's credit crisis, investment banks are resuming efforts to capture more market share in the region. Dealmakers say that expected M&A opportunities are a significant driver behind the renewed interest in the region.

Wall Street's Lab

October 16, 2009 - A specialized market that has for decades served as Wall Street's laboratory where new structures and issuers are introduced, private placements have become an important source of funding for companies looking to pay down debt, or what's come to be known by deal makers as 'The Wall of Maturities.'

U.K. PE Deals Take Hit

October 9, 2009 - Whip out your Rubik's Cube and cue the reruns of Family Ties and Miami Vice -- private-equity dealmaking across the pond has returned to volumes not seen since the 1980s. In the latest research published by Nottingham University Business School's Centre for Management Buy-Out Research and sponsored by Barclays Private Equity, the volume of completed PE-backed British buyouts in the third quarter fell to the lowest quarterly amount, 31 deals, since 1984.