There is some good economic news for 2011: merger and acquisition activity will rock.
For example, I can remember when I was leading a major merger and acquisition process.
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The branch is attaching increasing importance to the loan business for Chinese companies during their overseas merger and acquisition activities.
We, at Teton Advisors, believe we are on the cusp of a multiyear wave in merger and acquisition activity.
In small-cap tech land, in particular, there have been a flurry of merger and acquisition activity to kick off the week.
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And now, five years after Enron's collapse, merger and acquisition activity in the electric power industry is really picking up steam.
As has been the case elsewhere in Europe, the approach of the licence sale has prompted merger and acquisition activity among prospective bidders.
Meanwhile, last year saw 330 merger and acquisition transactions involving venture-backed companies, about even with the year earlier and up from 317 in 2000.
The charts display the fact that almost all of Nomura's equity underwriting business and merger and acquisition adviser fees come from clients in Japan.
The energy sector continues to see merger and acquisition activity (See a previous discussion in Case Study: Buyouts Crystallize Value in the Market).
For Chase, the acquisition adds an equity-underwriting capacity in the fastest-growing part of the economy, which also accounts for much merger and acquisition activity.
But the merger and acquisition teams at Microsoft and Yahoo!
Bill Wiberg, general partner for clean-tech investor Advanced Technology Ventures, thinks that an increase in merger and acquisition and offering opportunities will also fuel investor optimism and new investments.
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Another way investors stand to benefit from industry consolidation is through the publicly traded small to mid sized investment banking boutiques with merger and acquisition and capital raising capability.
The pile-up of cash must touch off a merger and acquisition binge by the fat cats with mounds of cash and no place to reinvest it in their own business.
The Court of Appeals questioned whether divestiture or breakup is ever appropriate for a company, like Microsoft, that gained its monopoly through internal growth, rather than through merger and acquisition.
The general pattern of their conduct during this period wasthat KLUGER obtained Inside Information regarding certain planned merger and acquisition activities of public companies through his work on the corporate deals.
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In our diversified micro cap GAMCO Westwood Mighty Mites Fund (WEMMX), merger and acquisition activity has also been robust, with six announced acquisitions of holdings in the September quarter joining the seven announced in the first half of the year.
What this means is that investors stand the best chance of participating in this renewed merger and acquisition cycle by investing in small to midsize companies, or micro, small-cap and mid-cap mutual funds run by investment managers with a value approach.
Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, calculates a potential hit of 28% to Bear Stearns' 2008 earnings per share if income from fixed-income trading falls 20%, financial sponsor merger and acquisition dries up and it sees a 35% reduction in below-investment grade loans.
Merrill's individual investors business, the Private Client Services division, won't hold back its stock price when investment banking firms like Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and other institutional broker-dealers snapback amid a pickup in capital markets and merger and acquisition activity.
In stocks, more investment banks were out with improved earnings results, including Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), which posted better earnings off of strength in its bond business and more merger-and-acquisition deals, while Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people ) also came in with better profits on fixed income.
Even one of the fiercest critics of CEO compensation, Harvard Law School's Lucian Bebchuk, reports in recent research with Alma Cohen and Charles Wang that golden parachutes do motivate CEOs to find merger-and-acquisition opportunities and, as a result, to extract more takeover premiums for shareholders.
But the board-member's bank tends to win merger-and-acquisition business from the firm.
Now that the company has brought the project to operating status, Detour will continue to focus on organic growth, rather than exploring any merger-and-acquisition possibilities.
He received financing to back the deal, the largest merger-and-acquisition transaction introduced in Asia last year, from a group of banks including United Overseas Bank Ltd.
South Korea is likely to see a pickup in merger-and-acquisition activity this year, as its cash-rich companies shop for overseas assets and as the government is expected to renew efforts to unload state-held stakes now that December's presidential election is over.
These questions are by no means exhaustive and will depend on the jurisdiction, industry, and proposed merger or acquisition, among other factors.
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Given that Mozilla is a global non-profit and that the agreement is a commercial agreement and not a formal merger or acquisition, Hart Scott Rodino antitrust rules may or may not apply here.
Brands, the acquisition of Tropicana and the merger with Quaker Oats.
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