Acquisitions Videos

Blair Effron, partner and co-founder of Centerview Partner tells The Deal's Yvette Kantrow at The Deal Economy 2010 Conference about his expectations for deal activity in 2010.

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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 Hewlett-Packard Co. have announced significant transactions that expand their IT services businesses. How have those deals affected the strategy of sector leader IBM? The company's vice president of corporate development Elias Mendoza says IBM is on track to meet its acquisition targets, but the increased competition for deals has it looking farther into the future as it maps its own strategic moves. - Suzanne Stevens

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

Robert C. Hagerty, CEO of Polycom, discusses why he thinks videoconferencing and telepresence (essentially very high-quality videoconferencing) will spark invention and new business partnerships

Robert Kindler, global head of M&A at Morgan Stanley says it was obvious that that the market was overheated running up to the crash, but it was also an opportune time for go private transactions.

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What happens when a distressed buyout transaction goes bust? Thomas Califano of DLA Piper US LLP and Mark Thomas of Winston & Strawn LLP explains some of the more recent cases where strategics have attempted to walk away from distressed deals at the TMA/The Deal's Distressed Investing Conference in January.

What could an Obama administration may bring to the merger-clearance environment? In this edition of Inside The Deal, Michael Cohen, a partner at Paul Hastings explains to The Deal's Suzanne Stevens that there may be more strategic combinations than in prior years due to antitrust regulation. He also also explores the implications on the Federal Trade Commission's battle of Whole Foods Market Inc. and Wild Oats Markets Inc. integration.

While overall deal volume may have fallen of a cliff, transactions are getting done. In this edition of Inside the Deal, Dominick DeChiara, chair of the private equity practice at Nixon Peabody LLP, says some PE firms are using alternative deal structures in the absence of credit. He tells The Deal

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In this video podcast excerpted from a presentation at a recent NAPL Top Management Conference, John Hyde, NAPL Vice President and Senior Consultant, describes the different strategic issues that arise when printing companies consider mergers and acquisitions.

Doug Kehring, Oracle's Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, talks with Fred about why the enterprise software industry has been consolidating, Oracle's own acquisition and integration strategy, and the role that technology can play in improving merger and acquisition success.