North America
United States / Finance
While conditions in the US are becoming increasingly fertile for M&A activity, at the same time we are also seeing a major upswing in share buybacks. The recent spike in share buybacks is indicative of the fact that firms have more cash on their balance sheets to spend. In February alone, US buyback volume stepped up a gear to US$56.2bn, according to data from Dealogic.
2010-03-10United States / Finance
Reports have emerged that The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) is in talks to buy the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), with the tabled bid said...
2010-03-03Closing 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
While conditions in the US are becoming increasingly fertile for M&A activity, at the same time we are also seeing a major upswing in share buybacks. The recent spike in share...
2010-03-10United States
The pledge by the newly-founded 'Invest In America Alliance', a grouping of 24 US-based venture capital firms, to invest US$3.5bn in US-based start-ups over the next two years will...
2010-03-01During recent years, issuers seeking access to funding have become increasingly focused on offering formats that do not involve traditional marketing approaches. Having observed...
2010-01-19United States
US private label food group TreeHouse Foods has signed a deal to purchase Sturm Foods from US private equity business HM Capital Partners. The acquisition, which will cost US$660mn...
2010-01-06United States
Real estate may have been the stalwart of the string of IPOs seen in the US so far in 2010, with US$586mn worth of deals, but sentiment appears to be turning against the sector. We...
2010-02-17United States
Sponsor-backed public share offerings are likely to play a pivotal role in the US IPO market in 2010, following a strong rebound in Q409 which saw five venture capital-backed (VC)...
2010-01-13United States
Analysts are predicting that the present success-stories of Silicon Valley are set for a march upon Wall Street. In particular, private listed technology companies, spurred by the...
2009-12-09A few months back, the mention of venture capital or IPOs was a conversation killer. Pairing them together was even less of an option. Yet times are changing. In the year-to-date,...
2009-12-01United States
Reports have emerged that The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) is in talks to buy the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), with the tabled bid said...
2010-03-03When Christine Varney became the head of the antitrust division of America's Department of Justice upon the election of President Obama, it was widely expected that she would oversee...
2010-03-02United States
Oil services giant Schlumberger is in advanced talks to acquire another of the industry's major players Smith International, the Wall Street Journal reported on February 19. If the...
2010-02-22United States
A slump in electricity demand - especially among industrial customers - during the economic downturn, has forced utilities to slash costs and cull projects. This has served to leave...
2010-02-17United 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...
2009-07-15As 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...
2008-06-27United States
A consortium of state-backed investors is preparing to invest up to US$9.8bn into UK and European commercial property. It was reported on Tuesday that a group comprising Qatar National...
2008-05-29
