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...Daiwa said: “We will continue to consider M&A in the US if we have the opportunity, and we are considering various projects.”...
...JPMorgan’s vice-chair of investment banking Andy Lipsky and co-head of strategic investor group M&A Haidee Lee are leaving the bank, according to a person familiar with the matter....
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...“The need to execute on cross-border M&A is here. It’s for many companies an existential reality. Their supply chains have been disrupted by two major global conflicts,” Pick said....
...Evercore was initially set up like Blackstone, to advise on M&A and execute private equity buyouts. The LBO investing business was an expensive bust. But the M&A group proved more promising....
...KPMG has been fined £1.46mn by the UK accounting regulator for “serious failings” in its audit of M&C Saatchi, the advertising agency that was hit by an accounting scandal in 2019.The Financial Reporting...
...Even if Machin succeeds in lifting M&S’s market share by 1 percentage point, it will still have under 5 per cent of the UK grocer market. That is not to say a spruced-up app is a dud....
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...The overall value of global M&A climbed 30 per cent to $690bn, the data showed, even as the total number of deals announced fell 31 per cent.The rebound in dealmaking comes after M&A activity plunged to...
...Investment manager M&G has reported a 28 per cent rise in profits for 2023, in the first annual results for chief executive Andrea Rossi, who has pledged to transform the company....
...The annual boondoggle in the Crescent City is the perennial opportunity to take the pulse of M&A activity....
...Just 1 per cent of UK primary schoolteachers believe the majority of their pupils possess an “adequate” level of financial literacy, according to a study that will add to pressures on the government to ensure...
...Among the failings on the M&C Saatchi audit, the FRC said KPMG did not apply sufficient professional scepticism over a client payment that increased revenues by £1.2mn....
...That’s been the rule of M&A since forever, though in the past couple of years the trend has broken down a bit. Chart from Barclays: Why? Debt....
...$1.5bn to c.$1.2bn....
...US megadeals are slowly bringing M&A action back If a UK paper and packaging company is at the centre of a bidding war, then M&A must be back....
...The group is split into an active asset management arm, a life insurance and pensions business and a financial advice business. M&G’s share price rose by about 2 per cent in morning trading....
...The shift to T+1 will involve quite a lot of work for US market participants....
...Blackstone’s distributable earnings — a metric considered a proxy for cash flows — rose 1 per cent in the first quarter to $1.3bn, slightly beating analyst estimates....
...But the NOL strategy the company is pursuing can be thought of as a free call option on an M&A punt. It still might be an easier task than selling trinkets on the internet....
...This is in order to concentrate on larger, sector-focused M&A activity. As a consequence, we are proposing to close some parts of that business.”...
...In the final quarter of 2023 there were an estimated 142 completed inward M&A transactions involving a change in majority share ownership....
...Here’s more on the regions driving a nascent recovery in the M&A market....
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