September 2010
9 Sep 2010
Including no fewer than nine mezzanine finance agreements, Harrah’s Entertainment has filed a 3,500-page restructuring document more dizzying than a roulette wheel…
9 Sep 2010
Amid the ongoing spate of PRC green capital raising, the nation’s largest non-state owned wind turbine maker has filed for an IPO in New York…
9 Sep 2010
Student loan financier Sallie Mae is still fighting a tight asset-backed securities market. The student loan giant recently issued $760 million in student loan backed notes…
9 Sep 2010
Online gambling lurks in the murky fringe between legal and illegal in Canada. With British Columbia leading the way, it appears…
8 Sep 2010
Continuing a string of healthcare M&A deals, Healthspring Inc recently announced it has entered into a $545 million merger agreement to acquire all the...
7 Sep 2010
Matching rights are coloring bidding wars and instigating courtroom fights. For proof, look no further than the recent flurry of bids from Dell and Hewlett-Packard and...
7 Sep 2010
The designation of Morgan Stanley and China Investment Corp. as bank holding companies is complicating the regulatory approval process for the duo’s investment agreement…
7 Sep 2010
Cancer treatment and its underlying technology just took a noteworthy step forward, via a JV between Accuray, the U.S. radiosurgery company, and Siemens, the German engineering group. The deal is notable...
6 Sep 2010
Betting big on the Bighorn, Vancouver-based Fronteer Gold has entered a $281 million acquisition of Nevada’s AuEx Ventures, through a hybrid M&A structure much en vogue...
6 Sep 2010
Corporate governance practices in China have caused brows to furrow among China-based businesses, with companies from China National Offshore Oil to China Mobile and…
6 Sep 2010
While bankruptcies have moved off of the front pages, they are still proceeding. U.S. chemical concern Tronox, Inc., has filed a plan to exit Chapter 11 by the end of November...
5 Sep 2010
The U.S. is even more of a global capital market than many realize. Not only do foreign companies list on U.S. exchanges but scratch beneath the surface and even ostensibly American companies may be...
5 Sep 2010
Beverages are being mixed throughout Asia with the recent pickup in beverage M&A in the Asia Pacific region. Most recently, Japan’s Kirin Holdings Company announced that it had acquired liquor company…
3 Sep 2010
While clawbacks are a top focus for U.S. regulators, Canadian players are taking a decidedly mixed approach...
3 Sep 2010
Dodd-Frank's near disdain for credit ratings agencies has created new confusion, this time around in the money market...
3 Sep 2010
Its economy is predicted to grow by 4 per cent next year, it has one of the lowest deficit forecasts in the EU and bond markets are alive with its issues. No it’s not Germany but…
3 Sep 2010
A pair of financial services companies are banking on the public markets. These companies have extremely different client bases and business models, but the same aspirations...
3 Sep 2010
With a multi-jurisdictional placing almost as smart as its name, Masawara is hoping that investors will see the potential for growth in Zimbabwe as the southern African country stands poised for political change…
2 Sep 2010
Dodd-Frank is yanking trust preferred securities out of Tier 1 capital, and some banks are feeling more pain than others. Those that have relied on the magical elixir of TruPS range from…
2 Sep 2010
TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. entered into a $30 million credit agreement with Standard Bank PLC to fund a pair of acquisitions. Earlier this summer the aptly named TransAtlantic agreed to...
2 Sep 2010
Land use rights have been on the tip of tongues in China lately as business owners take care to avoid ending up like BYD. The Buffet-backed auto maker is currently under investigation…
2 Sep 2010
The shaky global economy has elevated dividend-paying stocks from dowdy has-beens to stalwart soldiers. Yet the legal issues associated with dividends can prove a tangled web…
2 Sep 2010
Dual listings can tie up secondary offerings, especially where disclosures differ between exchanges. U.S. filer Ampal-American Israel Corp. found this to its chagrin…
1 Sep 2010
Proxy access is here, and corporations will soon need to make more room on their ballots. And as the icing on the proxy access cake, the new rules will be here in just sixty short days…
1 Sep 2010
Unfazed by the summer heat in the northern hemisphere, the global energy M&A binge is gaining momentum. Asia-Pacific companies in particular have demonstrated an ongoing appetite for assets outside Asia…
1 Sep 2010
American industrial giant 3M has proposed a billion-dollar acquisition of biometric identification solutions provider Cogent, Inc…
1 Sep 2010
In March 2009, Kinross Gold helped Harry Winston Diamond Corp bolster its balance sheet, by investing $150 million in the company. But less than a year and a half later that deal has been dismantled…
1 Sep 2010
Leading automated retail solution provider Coinstar, Inc is looking forward to counting the coins from the $41.5 million sale of its money transfer business...