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Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) for the straight year took home the Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker award in the pharma-biotech category. The pharmaceutical firm has executed $30 billion in transactions in the past decade, $10 billion of that coming ...

Warren Buffett's $34 billion investment in Burlington Northern Sante Fe shouldn't come as a surprise. Buffett already owned a 22% stake in the rail operator through his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. His big bet also reflects the attractiveness of the rail ...

The wave of bankruptcy filings may have receded, but that doesn't mean overall distress has declined. Andrew Horrocks, a managing director at Moelis & Co., says there is a significant pool of corporations for which the ability to restructure debt in 2010 ...

General Motors Co. hasn't said whether the collapse (The Deal Pipeline subscription required) of its sale of the SAAB brand to Koenigsegg Automotive AB will derail it from paying back its taxpayer-backed loan. The automaker announced on Nov. 16 it was on ...

IBM Corp.'s massive strategic shift into IT services got underway more than a decade ago. Now an impressive list of technology heavyweights is driving harder for a share of that lucrative market. In the past two months, Xerox Corp., Dell Inc. and ...

Streambank LLC's Gabe Fried says valuing intellectual property for companies like American Ironhorse Motorcycle Co., Whitehall Jewelers Holdings Inc. and KB Toys Inc. can be a challenge. However, IPs are mistakenly overlooked during the liquidation ...

What do Steve Young, Earvin (Magic) Johnson, Drew Bledsoe, David Robinson and Ronnie Lott have in common? They're all professional athletes turned private equity investors. In The Deal's video conversation, former NFL quarterback Young talks about the ...

General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE) has spent more time in 2009 divesting businesses than buying them. Whether the trend continues in 2010 depends on stability of the broader economy and the health of its lending arm GE Capital. According to Duncan O'Brien, ...

AlixPartners managing director Steve Deedy says the holiday season will be a do or die period for many retailers and that bankruptcies and restructuring will increase throughout 2010.

General Electric Co.'s (NYSE:GE) Duncan O'Brien says it may be several quarters before a sense of normalcy returns to the lending environment. As a result, the company's lending arm GE Capital has become more selective in its lending and will continue to ...

IBM Corp. has the in-house deal expertise to handle acquisitions without an investment banker, and over hundreds of deals, it has chosen to go without an outside financial adviser. That could be changing, according to Elias Mendoza, vice president of ...

Jim Rosenthal, managing director and head of technology & operations for Morgan Stanley spoke at The Deal Economy 2010 Conference. Rosenthal says that the Smith Barney integration is proceeding as planned.

Cisco Systems Inc.'s chief strategy officer Ned Hooper on why Cisco raised it's tender offer for Norwegian video-conferencing-equipment maker Tandberg ASA.

Cisco's chief strategy officer Ned Hooper was a runner up for the annual Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards. In this video he talks about Cisco's success in making strategic acquisitions during hard times.

Avaya Inc.'s Mohamad Ali had little time to settle in after becoming senior vice president for corporate development in July. Four days after the former IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) dealmaker started, Avaya made a $475 million stalking-horse bid for a unit of ...

John Eydenberg, head of the financial sponsor group at Deutsche Bank, says more private equity firms may in 2010 seek public market exits for portfolio companies. Historically, IPOs account for about a quarter of private equity exits. Eydenberg expects ...

Richard Bove of Rochdale Securities, who spoke at The Deal Economy 2010 Conference says that 200-300 more banks will fail in a year or a year and a half due to commercial and residential real estate loans. In this video Bove also adds that financial ...

Harvey Miller of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP spoke to The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn at The Deal Economy 2010 Conference about the use of Resolution Authority. Resolution Authority is the proposal that would allow the government the power to unwind ...

Harvey Miller of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP told The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn at The Deal Economy 2010 Conference that if the government had made an arrangement for an orderly unwinding of Lehman Brothers Inc. the results would have been different. - ...