North America
Canada / Finance
Canadian food and retail conglomerate George Weston has purchased the US frozen bakery producer Keystone Bakeries for US$185mn. The deal comes 18 months after George Weston sold a US bread-making unit to the Mexican food group Bimbo for US$2.4bn and indicates that it is now ready to reinvest some the cash generated from this sale.
2010-09-01United States / Finance
US energy assets continue to lure in non-traditional investors, which are seeking to capture the stability and growth on offer in the US energy infrastructure market. The latest to...
2010-08-26United States / Finance
US-based regional fixed-line telecommunications operator Windstream Corporation has agreed to acquire privately owned fibre network operator Q-Comm Corporation for around US$782mn....
2010-08-24Closing Bell
United States
With another week dominated by talk of bankruptcies and bailouts, it is easy to think that M&A activity has ground to a halt. A month ago Simon Collins, head of corporate finance...
2008-11-13United States
President-elect Obama may have won under a mantle of change, but as far as M&A activity there is not much he can do in the short term. In more normal times, some dealmakers might...
2008-11-06United States
Even though deal-makers and investors are still preoccupied by the volatility in equity markets, a scarcity of available debt and falling deal volume, there is still plenty of scope...
2008-10-31United States
As our sister publication Emerging Markets Monitor is forecasting oil at US$50/bbl in the near-term, and potentially even lower over the coming months, the conclusion is that the...
2008-10-24United States
US energy assets continue to lure in non-traditional investors, which are seeking to capture the stability and growth on offer in the US energy infrastructure market. The latest to...
2010-08-26United States
India's Reliance Industries has struck its third US shale acquisition deal since April 2010 as the company continues to build its position in the booming North American unconventional...
2010-08-05General Motors Company (GM) has laid out some of its strategies for regaining market share in North America, largely aimed at the financial side of the business. While heavy discounts...
2010-06-30General Motors Company (GM) has laid out some of its strategies for regaining market share in North America, largely aimed at the financial side of the business. While heavy discounts...
2010-06-25United States
Plans to privatise Midway International Airport in Chicago have hit repeated stumbling blocks following the notorious failure of the winning bidders to secure funding in April 2009....
2010-08-04United States
US shale explorer Oasis Petroleum raised US$588mn in an initial public offering (IPO) of a portion of its share capital on June 16 2010, according to a company statement.
2010-06-23Canada
Privately-owned Canadian oil sands player MEG Energy has released a preliminary filing ready for an IPO on the Toronto Stock Exchange later in 2010.
2010-06-23United States
In a market characterised by rising risk aversion and increased volatility, it is not just IPOs which are suffering, follow-on offerings are taking a hit too. And with volatility set...
2010-06-02Canada
Canadian food and retail conglomerate George Weston has purchased the US frozen bakery producer Keystone Bakeries for US$185mn. The deal comes 18 months after George Weston sold a US...
2010-09-01United States
US-based regional fixed-line telecommunications operator Windstream Corporation has agreed to acquire privately owned fibre network operator Q-Comm Corporation for around US$782mn....
2010-08-24United States
US biotechnology company Emergent BioSolutions has signed a definitive US$98mn agreement to acquire Trubion Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company specialising in protein therapeutics....
2010-08-18United States
US independent Apache is struggling to seal a deal with BP to acquire half of the British major's stake in the Prudhoe Bay field on the Alaskan North Slope. Talks between the two...
2010-07-21United States
While CFW has recently described how exits by private equity firms on the back of rallying equity markets will give a boon to the IPO market (witness the September 4 US$1.15bn filing...
2009-09-09United States
In recent weeks we have been highlighting tentative signs of improvement in the US IPO market, arguing that one of the key factors putting upward pressure on issuance would be a move...
2009-08-21United States
July 22 saw UK based private equity (PE) firm Apax Partners agree to buy US personal finance data provider Bankrate for US$571mn, in one of the largest acquisitions by a PE investor...
2009-07-28United States
Even as a combination of intransigency by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the unexpected stock market rally in the US could yet stifle significant investment...
2009-07-15United States
Prior to the financial downturn, so-called 'club deals', in which buyout firms team up with one another to make large-scale acquisitions, were celebrated by private equity (PE ) firms...
2010-04-28As we enter a period of market instability, it might be an appropriate time for re-evaluating portfolio allocation strategies. Morningstar suggests that the average US fund investor's...
2010-02-02United States
I is looking increasingly likely that Sovereign wealth funds from the Gulf will not be willing or able to play the role of saviours of the global financial system, and Western banks...
2008-11-06United States
Another week, another Gulf investor buys into a troubled western financial institution. This time it is the turn of Barclays Bank to seek funding, to the tune of GBP4.5bn. Whatever...
2008-06-27
