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Rivals eye Herringbone as sale begins
Business Spectator- 07 January 2009
Upmarket suit and shirt retailer Herringbone, which collapsed last month, has been put up for sale, reported The... (source)
Losses are too much to bear for high fliers in the financial crisis
Stephen Foley - The Independent- 07 January 2009
Value of Scottish deals plunges by nearly half
Jane Bradley - Scotsman- 07 January 2009
Corporate dealmaking in Scotland in 2008 collapsed to almost half the level of the previous year as the impact of... (source)
Investors braced for private equity losses
Henny Sender - Financial Times- 07 January 2009
Private equity firms will in the next few weeks send their investors grim letters telling them just how much -... (source)
Packaging, trucking cos could struggle in 2009
Chelsea Emery - Reuters- 07 January 2009
Corporate bankruptcies could increase in 2009, with companies in packaging, trucking and media most at risk if they do not... (source)
Strong getting stronger as weak go to the wall
Elizabeth Rigby & Tom Braithwaite - Financial Times- 07 January 2009
The dramatic December markdowns on offer across the high street, coupled with a succession of retail failures before and since... (source)
Dud Japanese M&A
Financial Times- 07 January 2009
Japan Inc ramped up overseas mergers and acquisitions in 2008, a year $30,000bn was wiped off world stock... (source)
ABC corpse lures vultures
Michael Pascoe - Sydney Morning Herald- 07 January 2009
While the corpse of the ABC Learning business continues to be picked over, someone believes there's a big premium to... (source)
New Look ponders more store openings
The Herald- 07 January 2009
The contrasting fortunes of UK retailers were shown by rising sales at fashion chain New Look, which is now considering... (source)
Apollo among Lyondell's creditors- Bloomberg
Reuters- 07 January 2009
Private equity firm Apollo Management LP is among the largest creditors of Lyondell Chemical Co., Bloomberg reported, citing a person... (source)
HG boosted by Oriscom sale
Martin Arnold - Financial Times- 06 January 2009
MasterCard, the US credit card operator, yesterday acquired Orbiscom, an Irish payment technology company, in a $100m (£68.5m) deal that... (source)
Sequoia top India investor in slow market
Deepti Chaudhary - Livemint- 06 January 2009
Private equity asset prices slide-survey
Megan Davies - Reuters- 06 January 2009
Prices of private equity assets sold in the secondary market have slumped to the lowest level recorded in three years... (source)
Fortress share fall could result in delisting
Henny Sender - Financial Times- 06 January 2009
Shares in Fortress Investment Group, the first private equity and hedge fund firm to list nearly two years ago, rose... (source)
China all alone in Asian M&A growth
Zhou Yan - China Daily- 06 January 2009
China's mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity remained resilient in 2008 despite the global financial meltdown, making it the best performer... (source)
Morgan Stanley loses ground in M&A to Moelis, Perella boutiques
Poppy Trowbridge & Serena Saitto - Bloomberg- 06 January 2009
Bigger fish to fry
Michael Feller - Business Spectator- 06 January 2009
Barramundi producer Australis Aquaculture has retained private equity and corporate advisory firm Wakabayashi to provide capital raising and investor relations... (source)
GSR Ventures raises $383 mln for new China fund
Reuters- 06 January 2009
GSR Ventures, a China partner of U.S. venture capital specialist Mayfield Fund, said on Tuesday that it had raised $383... (source)
8,000 Waterford pensions under threat from collapse
Dominic Coyle - Irish Times- 06 January 2009
The pensions of Waterford Wedgwood's 8,000 workers may be under threat following the collapse of the company yesterday with debts... (source)
Infinity acquires stake in Goldshield
Kevin Feddy - Manchester Evening News- 06 January 2009
Manchester based private equity outfit Infinity Asset Management has splashed out for a majority stake in an electronic security and... (source)
Private equity is thrust unwillingly back into limelight
Marcus Leroux - Times Online- 05 January 2009
Private equity giant targets Clifford
Miriam Steffens - The Age- 05 January 2009
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US private equity firm that owns half of Channel Seven and the mining services provider BIS... (source)
Hard times put pressure on private equity trade
John Keefe - Financial Times- 05 January 2009
The economic and market collapse that devastated institutions' traditional stock and bond holdings in 2008 also laid waste to many... (source)
Alam Maritim commissions new vessel
The Star Online- 05 January 2009
Alam Maritim Resources Bhd's associate under Alam-PE JV Co has successfully commissioned an anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel, MV... (source)
In Silicon Valley, venture capitalists turn cautious and focus on the short term
Claire Cain Miller - The New York Times- 05 January 2009
China alluring to foreign investors
Wang Lan - China Daily- 05 January 2009
China remains one of a few decent options for investment managers in New York, London and other financial centers, thanks... (source)
Macquarie aims to sell China property - sources
Reuters- 05 January 2009
A real estate investment arm of Australia's Macquarie Group Ltd is putting one of its top-end properties in China on... (source)
Satyam explores possible merger - paper
Reuters- 05 January 2009
Satyam Computer Services' management and some funds have approached two smaller rivals about a merger to fend off any possible... (source)
Cash drought for IT start-ups
Richard Waters - Financial Times- 05 January 2009
The US venture capital industry, an important source of capital for technology start-ups around the world, is facing a severe... (source)
New venture firm is aiming at game developers
Lilly Rockwell - Austin American-Statesman- 05 January 2009
Austinite Alan Kane is doing what very few investment firms have attempted: He's starting a venture firm just for game... (source)
Private equity takes a hit at debt-laden Debenhams
Richard Wachman - guardian.co.uk- 04 January 2009
The omens were there almost from the start: three profit warnings within 18 months of its stock market float in... (source)
Investment fears in venture capital shake-out
Richard Waters - Financial Times- 04 January 2009
The US venture capital industry, which has become an important source of capital for technology start-ups around the world, is... (source)
Equity firm launch is par for the course
Nathalie Thomas - Scotland on Sunday- 04 January 2009
A group of Scottish entrepreneurs is setting up a private equity firm in Edinburgh to take advantage of the depressed... (source)
Mnuchin leads private-equity funds to buy failed IndyMac bank
Zachary R Mider & Ian Katz - Bloomberg- 03 January 2009
... (source)
A pivotal tech year in which changes have finally hit home
John Collins - Irish Times- 02 January 2009
When the next history of the Irish technology industry is written, 2008 will be seen as a pivotal year in... (source)
Scottish firms in sights of eastern investors
Mark Williamson - The Herald- 02 January 2009
Mega rich investors from Asia and the Middle East are scouring Scotland for companies to buy in a development that... (source)
Bold move transforms Aberdeen once again
Kate Burgess & Peter Thal Larsen - Financial Times- 02 January 2009
Martin Gilbert, chief executive of Aberdeen Asset Management, bought the UK fund management arm of Deutsche Bank three and a... (source)
Scots going bankrupt at record rate with 500 a week expected this year
Jeff Salway - Scotsman- 02 January 2009
More than 25,000 Scots will be forced into bankruptcy this year, according to a grim economic forecast published... (source)
Bank of America, Wells Fargo end year by closing major buyout deals
William Patalon III - Money Morning- 02 January 2009
Two major U.S. banking deals were completed yesterday (Thursday), enabling the suitors to finalize the deals before 2008 came to... (source)
Back in business after scare
Pat Boyle - Independent.ie- 02 January 2009
What was looking like a difficult year for Irish food processors took on disastrous proportions late in the year when... (source)
Linklaters tops deal advisers as M&A volume plummets 38 percent
Lindsay Fortado - Bloomberg- 02 January 2009
VCs need to move beyond solar, biofuels and cars
Rob Day - Mass High Tech- 02 January 2009
According to Cleantech Group LLC, solar, biofuels and transportation accounted for 60 percent of the global venture dollars put into... (source)
Exit41 handles meal orders with $8.8M in VC
Galen Moore - Mass High Tech- 02 January 2009
Exit41 Inc., a maker of software to handle phone and drive-through orders for restaurants, is getting ready to announce a... (source)
Fannie: IndyMac has $1 bln in mortgage obligations-WSJ
Reuters- 02 January 2009
Jan 2 (Reuters) - Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. home funding company, believes that failed mortgage lender IndyMac has obligations... (source)

 
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