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- Deals Without Delusions
- The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Roy Behren and Michael Shannon: How to Make Money from Mergers
- The Merger Fund's managers share their views on the recent surge in corporate takeovers, and how you can profit from it. Professionals use the fairly conservative strategy of merger arbitrage — buying the stock of the firm about to be acquired and ...
- Articles 2009-10-05
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- Personnel Changes at Infineon: Ulrich Pelzer Takes over Investor Relations, Dr. Erk Thorsten Heyen Becomes Head of Corporate Strategy and Mergers & Acquisitions, and Dominik Asam Moves to Siemens Financial Services
- MUNICH, Germany -- Effective October 1, 2005, Ulrich Pelzer (32), previously Senior Analyst for semiconductors and semiconductor equipment at the investment bank Lehman Brothers in London, will assume responsibility for Investor Relations at Infineon Technologies AG. Also from September 1, Dr. Erk Thorsten Heyen (39), until recently head of the...
- Research articles 2005-07-25
- Final Rule: Investment Company Mergers
- The US Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to amend the rule under the Investment Company Act of 1940 that permits mergers and other business combinations between certain affiliated investment companies. The amendments would expand the types of business combinations permitted by the rule and make it available for mergers...
- White papers 2002-07-18
- Evidence On Mergers And Acquisitions
- This paper provides a broad-brush treatment of the empirical economics literature regarding the effects of mergers and acquisitions. Much of the literature has direct or indirect implications for competition policy. Of most direct interest to those concerned with merger-related antitrust issues are three types of empirical studies: stock market event...
- White papers 2001-09-25
- Mergers And Technological Change: 1885-1998
- This paper analyzes mergers over the past century in a growth model that emphasizes technological change. It explains the positive relation between mergers and stock prices, the positive relation between internal growth of firms and their acquisitions, and the positive relation of mergers with other measures of reallocation such as...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- The Q-Theory Of Mergers
- The Q-theory of investment says that a firm's investment rate should rise with its This paper argues that this theory also explains why some firms buy other firms. It discusses about that two distinct used-capital markets, mergers as used-capital trades and prior evidence. It induces the estimates of investment and...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- FIE mergers to rise as market opens: as international integration gathers pace, mergers and acquisitions in the foreign investment sector are going to become more and more common. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer attorney Harry Brunt looks at how this trend
- SINCE the late 1990s there has been a significant increase in the number of corporate acquisitions and mergers in Vietnam involving foreign-invested enterprises FIEs. SINCE the late 1990s there has been a significant increase in the number of corporate acquisitions and mergers in Vietnam...
- Research articles 2003-07-21
- U.S. Bank mergers cause problems for low income areas, researchers say
- Bank mergers in the U.S. generate negative economic impacts on poor neighborhoods, resulting in an increase in property crime, researchers report in The Journal of Finance (April, 2006). The authors argue that bank mergers should be carefully regulated to prevent economic deterioration of the affected neighborhoods. Among the...
- Research articles 2006-04-24
- The Effects of Bank Mergers on Credit Availability: Evidence From Corporate Data
- A large literature on the effects of bank consolidation focuses on direct efficiency gains for participating banks and market power effects. The special nature of credit markets suggests that indirect informational effects for borrowers may be generated by bank consolidation. This report on investment and financing constraints also test whether...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Big Six mergers shake-up market
- Last week's announcements of the potential mergers of the Big Six accounting firms Coopers & Lybrand with Price Waterhouse, and then the nearly billion dollar combination of investment and insurance giant Travelers and its Smith Barney group with Salomon Bros., left space watchers breathless.Along with the potential scrapping of redundant...
- Research articles 1997-10-01
- Argentina: Mergers and acquisitions between companies decreased by 53%.
- Argentina, Apr 16, 2001 The recession which has been affecting Argentina for almost three years affected the investment in mergers and acquisitions, which registered a drop of 53.5% last year in relation to 1999. In 2000, 274 acquisition and merger operations were announced involving...
- Research articles 2001-04-20
- Kuwaiti investment bank in default
- Global Investment House, the biggest investment bank in Kuwait, said Thursday it had defaulted on most of its debt. It was the first of several expected casualties among Kuwaiti financial companies because of the global credit crunch, just months after the government rescued one of the country's biggest banks. The news is...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Boston Investment-Banking Firm to Eliminate 20 Jobs.
- By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 4--The Boston investment banking firm Adams, Harkness & Hill said it plans to cut its staff by nearly 10 percent, as the market for public stock offerings and mergers remains slow. ...
- Research articles 2001-10-04
- Kuwait for it. (Kuwait Investment Office holds 21.7% stake in BP)
- AROUND the end of August, one of the most ticklish reports undertaken by Britain's Monopolies and Mergers Commission will drop into the lap of Lord Young, the trade and industry minister. It will contain the commission's recommendations on the fate o AROUND the end of August,...
- Research articles 1988-08-13
- The urge to merge: mergers and acquisitions are on the upswing for Florida companies.(Florida Companies)
- After several years of lying low, Florida companies are making deals again. Geopolitical concerns persist, but rising profits and capital spending have provided ample signs that business confidence has returned--and mergers and acquisitions have followed. "You're seeing a lot of activity," says Jim Cassel,...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Thomas Weisel Partners LLC and Near Earth LLC Announce Satellite Investment Banking Alliance
- Thomas Weisel Partners LLC TWP, an investment bank focused on the growth sectors of the U.S. economy, and Near Earth LLC, an investment bank specialized in satellite-related industries, have announced a new alliance. Near Earth will work with Thomas Weisel Partners to provide investment banking services, including private placements, public...
- Research articles 2005-07-05
- Advest targets investment banking
- MONY Group is building a real estate investment banking team through its Advest Group unit. MONY, which is set to complete its $1.5 billion merger with AXA Financial next month, recently hired industry veteran Steven Snyder to head the New York-based team. Snyder was previously a managing director of...
- Research articles 2004-06-16
- The global gorillas.(top global wholesale and investment banks in 1998)
- Global wholesale and investment banking institutions posted record numbers in 1998, led by Goldman Sachs which emerged as the leading player in a field of 25. Statistics provided by Securities Data Corp show that activity in the international capital markets has risen to an all-time high, including underwriting and private...
- Research articles 1999-04-01
- Merrill Lynch named top investment bank
- MERRILL LYNCH HAS BEEN named the world's "Best Investment Bank," the top award bestowed by Euromoney magazine to investment banks annually. The group was also named "Best Equity-Linked House" for its outstanding performance in structuring, underwriting and trading equity-linked securities worldwide. Additionally, the firm won thirteen major regional...
- Research articles 2001-07-31
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