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Facebook, the US-based social networking service provider, has submitted its prospectus for a proposed US$5bn initial public offering of shares to regulators, although the timing and scale of the offering has yet to be decided.
2012-02-03Finance
US Mergers and Acquisitions Record (January 23-January 31)
2012-02-03Finance
US Mergers and Acquisitions Record (January 11-January 24)
2012-01-26Closing Bell
This week saw the release of the preliminary full year 2011 figures for the global M&A market from Thomson Reuters. Although the findings are far from surprising, CFW notes that a...
2011-12-16Last week was a week of mixed signals for the near-term corporate financing outlook. On one side, equity market and debt market activity has been rampant. Indeed, issuers in the equity...
2011-05-26Secondary buyouts are in a bull market. CFW predicted back at the turn of the year that these so-called 'pass the parcel' transactions, in which one PE fund exits a portfolio...
2011-05-25What a difference a week makes. Last week the M&A market was alive with tech sector news of Microsoft 's US$8.5bn takeover of Skype ; this week with the operator of the Nasdaq...
2011-05-19If the Shoe fits... wear it. Private equity firms have struggled making exits from their portfolio investments this year, but Capital Partners ' sale of high-end show firm Jimmy Choo...
2011-05-25United States
CFW welcomes news that the US Treasury has sold its remaining stock in bailed out bank Citigroup for US$10.5bn, booking a US$6.85bn profit for the taxpayer and bringing the...
2010-12-09United States
Winter is here. Buyout firm KSL Capital Partners has hit the slopes with the acquisition of the bulk of the shares in Squaw Valley Development Company , the owner of California's...
2010-12-01France
French luxury goods company LVMH pulled off quite a coup de théâtre when it announced that it has amassed a 17.1% stake in posh handbag maker Hermès . The French market regulator,...
2010-10-27United States
Shares in US-based independent Anadarko Petroleum rose during 2010's last day of trading following an unsourced report by a British newspaper that Australian commodities giant...
2011-01-04Analysts at Exane BMP Paribas have suggested that cosmetics giant L'Oreal could use its considerable cash pile to fund large takeovers in an effort to make the firm a less attractive...
2010-12-29United States
Cash-rich majors and relatively cheap tech stocks are helping feed a high level of deal activity in the sector in the y-t-d. According to Bloomberg data, there have been a total of...
2010-11-02SABMiller's Chief Executive Graham Mackay has admitted that the firm will 'have a look at Foster's'. A planned de-merging of Foster's beer and wine businesses is...
2010-09-27Crossing borders remains popular among dealmakers. Ignoring the short-term volatility sparked by the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan and by ongoing political uprisings in...
2011-04-14China
In the latest chapter in the ongoing 'Yuan plan' story which CFW has been tracking closely over the past few months, the private equity (PE) industry in China has reached...
2011-01-11Welcome to a modern day 'gold rush'. Fuelled by gold's continued march higher, we have seen a rapidly strengthening flow of deals in the gold mining sector of late. In a...
2010-12-21China
It may not have been the year of the mega-deal but 2010 at least was the year of the mega-IPO, and the recovery should continue into 2011. Global IPO volumes for the fourth quarter...
2010-12-15
