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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... 2011-05-25

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... 2011-05-11

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.

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... 2011-03-28

Private 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 ... 2011-02-23

Talk 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... 2011-02-09

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... 2011-01-13

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

Welcome 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... 2010-12-21

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