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Secondary 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...
2011-05-25United States
It is good to talk. Internet communications giant Skype has answered a call from multinational software behemoth Microsoft and accepted the US-based firm's US$8.5bn takeover...
2011-05-11United States
Corporates which successfully kept their heads above water during the global financial crisis are now facing a new wave of problems, but this time from within.
2011-04-25United States
Dealmakers have enjoyed a busy start to the year. But CFW cautions that the market may well enter a period of stagnation over the coming months owing to ongoing political volatility...
2011-03-28Private equity (PE) fund managers need to fasten their seatbelts and prepare themselves for the refinancing ride. The widely-predicted wave of PE-backed insolvencies following the ...
2011-02-23Talk of upcoming deal activity in the tech sector is rife. While CFW continues to believe that we are not about to see the inflation of a new tech bubble (see, 'Dot Com Bubble...
2011-02-09United States
Buyout firms are finding it easier to ink deals with leverage once more. According to Dealogic data, global leveraged buyout (LBo) loan volume reached US$89.3bn in 2010, nearly five...
2011-01-13China
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...
2011-01-11
