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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
LBO Head-to-Head: Blackstone v. KKR	Kohlberg Kravis Roberts vs. Blackstone Group. As rivalries go, it may not be New York Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox or Ohio State vs. Michigan. Still, it certainly seems as though two buyout giants measure themselves against one another–or at least that everyone else measures them against each other. They seemed — even if they weren’t — to be battling it out for title of biggest buyout of the recently ended boom. KKR won that round. Its $32 billion acquisition of TXU Corp. ...	July 28, 2008
How the Anheuser-Busch Breakup Fee Measures Up	Anyone hoping InBev and Anheuser-Busch will somehow balk at going through with their big $52 billion deal–like Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill–is going to have to be prepared for disappointment. The deal has a $1.25 billion breakup fee, which is 2.47% of the total deal value if you exclude the debt involved. Newscom That sounds pretty big–and it is meant to be. In fact, InBev wanted Anheuser-Busch to promise 3% of the deal’s value as a breakup fee to make sure ...	July 17, 2008
Wall Street Rumors - May 29, 2008	Daily rumors covering the global markets. Subscribe to the update feed here. Futures Tilt Lower After GDP Data Stock futures declined after the government revised its intial reading on first-quarter economic growth higher, as investors digested rising interest rates and corporate updates showing the impact of higher commodity prices. Oil Exporters Are Unable To Keep Up With Demand The world’s top oil producers are proving unable to put more barrels on thirsty world markets despite s...	May 29, 2008
KKR: Livin’ in the ‘Illiquidity Phase’ — And Lovin’ It	What a difference a year makes. A year ago, KKR honcho Henry Kravis could have had his pick of juicy topics to talk about on a conference call for KKR Private Equity Investors, the Amsterdam-listed public company that invests in KKR funds. The firm had announced $90 billion — $90 billion!– worth of leveraged buyouts during the first few months of 2007, and every deal cried out for an exclamation point: TXU ($31.8 billion!), First Data ($26.4 billion!) and Dollar General ($6.9 billio...	May 07, 2008
American Airlines: Preparing for a Sale?	In the old playground taunt, the line was “first comes love, then comes marriage…” In the world of deal making, it is often: first come divestitures, then come mergers. Consider AMR, parent of American Airlines. It is selling 90% of its American Beacon Advisors unit–the asset-management business you probably didn’t know it had–for $480 million to Lighthouse Holdings, co-owned by Pharos Capital Group and TPG Capital. American also is preparing to divest Americ...	April 16, 2008
Dell's corporate headquarters now powered by green energy	Filed under: Good news, Competitive strategy, Google (GOOG), Dell (DELL), Wal-Mart (WMT)Dell, Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has announced that its entire corporate headquarters is now running on "green energy," as the computer maker continues to become one of the most ecologically-conscious companies on the planet. It has competition in the retail sector, though, from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) and internet search king Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG).All 2.1 million square feet of Dell's Round Rock, Te...	April 09, 2008
Hellman & Friedman: The Deal Journal PE Firm of the Quarter	The first quarter of 2008 has come to a close. Good riddance. In buyout land, as the Dealogic chart at left makes perfectly clear, there wasn’t much doing. A year ago, during the go-go first quarter of 2007, deal makers did 17 buyouts in the U.S. greater than $1 billion for a total of $85 billion. If we had bestowed a buyout firm with a Deal Journal Private Equity Firm of the Quarter award in the first quarter of 2007, it would have had to go to KKR, which announced buyouts of TXU ($31.8 ...	March 31, 2008
Private Equity: The List of the Fallen	A lot rides on the word of a private equity firm, and that includes going through with deals to which they commit. But as the credit crunch is now revealing, a deal is not a deal until it’s a deal. Deal Journal looked at the dead-deal records of the Top 10 buyout firms listed on Fortune’s 2007 Private Equity Power List. Of the 10, half have had deals fall apart over the last 18 months. That leaves TPG, Warburg Pincus, Apollo Advisors, T.H. Lee and Providence Equity Partners as the on...	March 27, 2008
How Bad Is It? Loan Prices Hover at 87 to 90 Cents	How Bad Is It? is a recurring Deal Journal feature, devoted to confirming or debunking the worst fears about the severity of the credit crunch. Goldman Sachs Group private-equity chief Richard Friedman wasn’t too far off when he said “80 is the new par.” It was actually around 87 in February. Standard & Poor’s Leveraged Commentary & Data has this sobering observation: “Most players believe that the market has now established a new trading range, in the high...	March 05, 2008
Watching the equity market leadership groups	Each bull market has its own singular leadership stocks or sectors: in the 1980's and 1990's it was technology, financial services and healthcare for sure, particularly large-cap pharma within healthcare during the 1980's and 1990's, but since March of 2000, or rather since March, 2003, the energy, basic materials, telecom and utility sectors have been the market leadership groups, and of those 4 groups, energy, basic materials and utilities have led the way.With this morning's weak August jobs ...	September 07, 2007

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