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Strategies for Corporate Change

Date Published: January 4, 2010
Publisher: JEFF SCHOON and KEVIN HALL

Many companies struggle to make the business changes required to sustain the required cash flow.

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The New M&A: Buying a Business in Bankruptcy

Date Published: August 20, 2009
Publisher: ANUJ BAHAL, STEVEN SIWINSKI, ANDREW NOORIGIAN

Unlike previous bankruptcy cycles, an unusually large number of these cases have been resolved via an auction sale of the debtor’s assets, rather than a formal reorganization of the business in Chapter 11.

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Navigating Your Portfolio Through Troubled Waters

Date Published: July 24, 2009
Publisher: HARRIS SMITH

Grant Thornton's Harris Smith explores the current state of private equity firms’ portfolio companies, examines some of the most prevalent practices for helping them in this difficult economy, and offers best-practices prescriptions for success.

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Public Versus Private Deals

Date Published: July 24, 2009
Publisher: KENNETH KOCH

Mintz Levin's Kenneth R. Koch discusses the 10 biggest differences between public and private deals.

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Proskauer Issues Warning for Deals Involving Florida RE

Date Published: June 17, 2009
Publisher: Stuart T. Kapp

It is easy to overlook Florida Statute 193.1556 when completing a merger or stock transaction, but the consequences can be costly.

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M&A Plans and Other Strategic Growth Initiatives

Date Published: June 4, 2009
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Sponsor: Merrill Corp

Merrill DataSite™ and Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) joined together to conduct a survey on “M & A Plans and Other Strategic Growth Initiatives” and produced the first report of its kind based on the feedback from the interviews with hundreds of senior financial executives of Financial Executives International (FEI). Find out how the interviewees view the current recession and their company’s future in light of the current economic situation. Get your free copy of the survey and subsequent Executive Report that provide a framework for not only surviving the recession, but using it as an opportunity to grow stronger.

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Improving M&A Value Capture

Date Published: April 22, 2009
Publisher: SUSAN CYPRA, PETER LANG, JOHN GREENAWAY, LAUREN HAWKS

Archstone Consulting's latest white paper explores how buyers can enhance synergies by institutionalizing acquisition reviews.

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Four Ways to Optimize a Distressed Asset Sale: How a Virtual Data Room (VDR) can help you seal a better deal, faster

Date Published: February 17, 2009
Publisher:
Sponsor: Merrill Corp

Are you facing the prospect of a distressed asset sale? One thing is certain: you are about to find yourself in a highly competitive marketplace.

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VDRs are facilitating faster, more transparent and competitive deals

To get due diligence underway, faster

To boost the transparency of the sale

To optimize deal value and offer ongoing value to the private equity investor

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Globalization of Alternative Investments Working Papers, Volume II

Date Published: February 17, 2009
Publisher: The World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum unveiled its second volume of working papers studying the impact of private equity.

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Post Merger Integration: Overcoming Culture Shock

Date Published: September 24, 2008
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Sponsor: Merrill Corp

As merger opportunities continue to present themselves in today’s stormy market, post merger integration issues have moved to the forefront of everyone’s mind. Ideally, merging two companies is a seamless process, but in reality, most of the time, it is a bumpy ride at best. Recently, Mergers & Acquisitions, in conjunction with Merrill DataSite™, conducted a survey of their readership to see how post merger integration issues are affecting their deal making activities. Perhaps, most telling is that 48% of respondents believe the complexity and other issues that arise when integrating two companies are the most common reasons why most mergers fail.

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Ernst & Young - Corruption or Compliance: Weighing the Costs

Date Published: May 20, 2008
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The results from this Ernst & Young survey seek to better understand the role bribery plays in global transactions, noting that foreign bribery investigations in OECD countries increased fivefold from 2005 to 2007.

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Robert W. Baird - 2008 Middle-Market M&A Outlook (Excerpt)

Date Published: March 19, 2008
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Robert W. Baird's outlook for 2008 merger activity is 'extremely uncertain,' with the key factor being the state of the economy. The white paper is an excerpt from Baird's full 2008 middle-market outlook.

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Piper Jaffray - Mergers & Acquisitions Insights, December 2007

Date Published: January 30, 2008
Publisher:

In Piper Jaffray's 2008 outlook, the middle market investment bank believes M&A activity will represent more of a correction of 2007 than a recession.

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World Economic Forum - Globalization of Alternative Investments

Date Published: January 28, 2008
Publisher:

The World Economic Forum investigates the tremendous growth of private equity and its global impact on long-term investment, employment, corporate governance and other measures of economic health.

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AdMedia Partners - Prospects For Media Mergers and Acquisitions

Date Published: January 15, 2008
Publisher: AdMedia Partners

AdMedia surveyed senior media executive to find most were pessimistic about the economy, but expected strategic buyers to more than make up for the diminished power of private equity.

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