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Merger Market
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Deals to explode--or fizzle?
We've seen a lot of deal activity lately--Intel's $7.7 billion takeover of McAfee, BHP Billiton's nearly $40 billion hostile play for Potash, and of course the dueling by Hewlett-Packard and Dell for 3Par. We're well on our way to the best quarter for deals since the financial crisis set in, w
What to make of the merger market
There have been signs of life in the merger market as of late. The big drug and technology deals have people talking about the rise of strategic deals--just in time to save the market. But that could be wishful thinking. Bloomberg says the merger market in 2009 may be "the slowest since 2003."
The return of relationship banking
Here's another silver lining in the great investment banking implosion of 2008: Dealmaking may well return to some of its gentler traditions, notably the return of the "relationship banker." According to Fortune , "the relationship banker is a more patrician and less pushy version of the league
