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September, 2010

 Past Issues

Cover Story

Navigating GM's Four-Point Turn

AlixPartners' Albert Koch, who helped oversee the automaker's revival, identifies the takeaways from the turnaround.

Round Up

Retail Landscape Gains Clarity

It's still the properties that 'need to sell' that are available, though the healthy retail names are expected to resume M&A activity once strong assets re-emerge.

Revisiting a Dated Pipeline

Corporate development executives are re-evaluating past targets; they're discovering a lot can change over three years.

Little Deal, Big Buyer

Micro-cap companies are increasingly being swallowed up by giants like Honeywell, Google and others. The prospect of these deals, for sellers, are no longer as harrowing.

LBO Watch

An Encore for Second-Lien Financing

With CLO activity muted and leverage tough to come by for other lending vehicles, demand exists for an alternative.

Private Equity Rediscovers Leverage

Lender aggressiveness moves in fits and starts, though leverage levels are trending higher.

A Principled Fight

Twelve months after the ILPA first unveiled its guidelines, the impact is still up for debate.

Profile

Rebel Yell

After some false starts, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey now believes it's ready to take on Wall Street.

Q&A

An Unlevel Playing Field

DLA Piper's Charles Baker discusses some of the vagaries of trying to buy a professional sports team.

The Watercooler

Benihana on the Block

Proposed proxy fight has family bickering, plus other companies in play.

PE, IRR Back in the Hot Seat

"Artful obfuscation" is how a study describes PE reliance on IRR, plus other news deal pros are talking about.

Beltway Monitor

Could Airline Regulation be Next?

One banker is in favor of government intervention even if it ends consolidation among the carriers, plus other news.