Dell buyout could mean more debt, junk ratingAs talks have advanced to take Dell Inc private, analysts say the computer giant will have to take on billions of dollars more in debt - an...
- Banks demand cos' assets as collateral to fund buyouts
Gone are the days when corporates could coax banks into financing acquisitions by showing the strength of their balance sheets.
- Big players leave as LBO market slows
Bankers who arranged financing for last year’s largest leveraged buyouts - TXU and First Data - are leaving their firms as the pace of take...
- High finance laid low
Except for oil executives, no group of business leaders is now more resented than the titans of finance, bankers, traders, hedge fund manag...
- Hedge funds see more credit slump
The worldwide slump in credit markets is likely to last for at least another year, triggering a reduction in leveraged buyouts.
- Barclays, RBS lie low as investor confidence dips
Barclays' John Varley and Fred Goodwin of Royal Bank of Scotland Group, who spent six months battling for control of ABN Amro Holding.
- Blackstone's June IPO was an omen for the equity market
Last June Stephen Schwarzman and Peter Peterson made an initial public offering of shares in their buyout firm, drawing about $2.6 billion ...
- When foreign turf is friendlier than home
Domestic M&A activity faces a lot of curbs whereas it's much easier for Indian firms to acquire a foreign entity.
- Just who is Nabisco?
An iconic biscuit brand founded in the late 1890s, Nabisco became the subject of one of the bitterest and hotly contested takeover battles ...
- Indian Davids Will Now Target Global Goliaths
In many ways, this deal is the equivalent of crossing the Rubicon for Indian companies who want to do leveraged buyouts (LBOs). No Indian c...
- Global takeover frenzy fuelled by debt: analysts
Frenetic global takeover activity this year has been driven partly by an over-reliance on debt and this could cause problems if economic gr...
- Bond street’s fearing a new nemesis: LBOs
The world’s biggest bondholders are determined to make an example of Henry Kravis. Pacific Investment Management and Advantus Capital Manag...
- LBO, the smart way to acquire a co double your size
B-School students who graduated in the mid ‘80s got a taste of the country’s first leveraged buyout (or LBO) from clippings of business new...
- Leveraged buys gain momentum
Leveraged acquisitions will occupy centre-stage as India, Inc.’s global buyout appetite goes into overdrive.
- Leveraged buys gain momentum
Leveraged acquisitions will occupy centre-stage as India, Inc.’s global buyout appetite goes into overdrive.
- StanChart looking at services sector in India
After topping the mergers and acquisitions list in ’05 in India, Standard Chartered is looking at a whole gamut of services in India. Start...
- Corus buy: Tatas may go for leveraged buyout
Tata Steel is likely to follow in the footsteps of Tata Tea. India’s largest private steel company is mulling a leveraged buyout (LBO) of C...