As Buyouts Falter, New Tactics Aim to Lock in Deals
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After a series of failed buyout deals, companies and their lawyers are likely to focus on strengthening the language in takeover contracts to help ensure that transactions are completed.
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It's not necessarily time to sell when a company rolls out the pink slips.
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Deal is delayed as private equity group has trouble finding financing.
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After years of supersize private equity deals, investors have begun to push back at several prominent transactions.
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If a company is losing more money, you may still want to invest.
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Business & money: Â· Buyers renegotiate deal in face of tighter creditÂ· Housing sales fall for five successive months.
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Like eager holiday shoppers trying to lock up deals, corporations are making the biggest year-end merger and acquisition push since the heady days of 1999.
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Perks have been gradually disappearing for investors.
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A flurry of year-end dealmaking hit the tech sector as companies maneuvered to get out of low-margin businesses, fill holes in their product lines and take financial advantage of the recent run-up in share prices.
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Investors may want to shop elsewhere for inexpensive retail stocks.
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A new acquisition may lead to differentiation.
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Not so long ago, highly leveraged companies could get loans to bail themselves out. Now they canât.
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Investors look for deals following Friday's sell-off.
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Everybody's seemingly for sale these days, but some companies may be trying to compensate for a lost ability to innovate.
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With the company's reserves running dry, investors might want to dip into a different well.
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The spinoff, that old ploy for companies keen to unlock value, is back in vogue. The trend is due partly to increased pressure on chief executives to boost shareholder returns as activist investors prowl for undervalued companies and leveraged buyout firms itch to put their billions to work.
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Many European groups that staged high-profile share listings on Wall Street in the 1990s are now slipping out the back door, giving up a fleeting status that turned out to be expensive and restrictive.