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Deal Economy 2010: Avaya's Ali on digesting Nortel

2009-11-20T19:47:21Z

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 bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp. The enterprise communications provider was the victor in a heated auction with a bid nearly double its original price. Even as a complex integration is underway, Ali continues to scan the landscape for Avaya's next target. - Suzanne Stevens

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Deal Economy 2010: Eydenberg on PE IPOs

2009-11-20T18:35:50Z

John Eydenberg, head of the financial sponsor group at Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB), 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 that to increase to about a third next year. He also predicts an uptick in multibillion dollar LBOs in 2010. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Suzanne Stevens

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Deal Economy 2010: Weil's Miller on resolution authority

2009-11-20T17:00:45Z

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 systemically important financial institutions and give them a framework for doing so. Even if the government had used resolution authority in the case of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., he said, it would not have made a difference. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Maria Woehr

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Deal Economy 2010: Bove on bank failures, financial reform

2009-11-20T12:00:48Z

Richard Bove of Rochdale Securities, who spoke at The Deal Economy 2010 conference, says that 200 to 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 reform is headed in the wrong direction. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Maria Woehr

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Deal Economy 2010: Weil's Miller on unwinding Lehman Bros.

2009-11-19T22:44:16Z

At The Deal Economy 2010 conference, Harvey Miller of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP told The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn that if the government had made an arrangement for an orderly unwinding of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. the results would have been different. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Maria Woehr

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Deal Economy 2010: Centerview's Effron on large deals

2009-11-19T20:00:18Z

Centerview Partners' partner and co-founder Blair Effron spoke at The Deal Economy 2010 in New York on Wednesday. In this video Effron says that he expects larger deals will come back, but the environment won't be the same as it was in 2007. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Maria Woehr

Also see our video interview with Citigroup's Leon Kalvaria on megadeals, interviews with Rochdale Securities Richard Bove on BofA CEO possibilities and Goldman Sachs $500 million donation, our video interview with Novartis' Marvelle Sullivan on cross-border dealmaking, PwC's Ross on divestments and the rest of the coverage from the conference.

Deal Economy 2010: Bove on Goldman's $500M donation

2009-11-19T19:00:05Z

Richard Bove of Rochdale Securities says Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s (NYSE:GS) decision to spend $500 million with Warren Buffett to help small businesses is part of the bank's campaign to dilute anger against Wall Street. See the video below or download it at iTunes.- Maria Woehr

Also see our video interview with Citigroup's Leon Kalvaria on megadeals, another interview with Bove on BofA CEO possibilities, our video interview with Novartis' Marvelle Sullivan on cross-border dealmaking, PwC's Ross on divestments and the rest of the coverage from the conference.

Bove's top two candidates for BofA CEO

2009-11-19T01:47:27Z

Richard Bove, financial strategist at Rochdale Securities spoke at The Deal Economy 2010 Conference. In this video Bove names his top two candidates to replace Ken Lewis as Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) CEO. - Maria Woehr

Also see our video interview with Citigroup's Leon Kalvaria on megadeals, our video interview with Novartis' Marvelle Sullivan on cross-border dealmaking, PwC's Ross on divestments and the rest of the coverage from the conference.

PwC's Ross on divestments

2009-11-19T00:47:24Z

PricewaterhouseCoopers' partner Mark Ross spoke about divestitures at The Deal Economy 2010 Conference in New York on Wednesday. In this video Ross says several factors are driving divestments at the moment. He predicts that strategic divestitures are likely to increase over the next year. - Maria Woehr

Also see our video interview with Citigroup's Leon Kalvaria on megadeals, our video interview with Novartis' Marvelle Sullivan on cross-border dealmaking and the rest of the coverage from the conference.

Novartis' Sullivan on cross-border dealmaking

2009-11-18T21:46:47Z

Marvelle Sullivan, the head of corporate legal M&A at Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS), spoke at The Deal Economy 2010 conference on Wednesday in New York City. In this video, she explains several challenges confronting companies working on cross-border deals, including due diligence, corporate culture, valuation and regulation. - Maria Woehr

Citigroup's Kalvaria on the return of the megadeal

2009-11-18T20:35:49Z

Leon Kalvaria, vice chairman of the institutional clients group of Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), was at The Deal Economy 2010 conference on Wednesday in New York. In this video, Kalvaria, who is an adviser for Kraft Inc. (NYSE:KFT) in its bid for Cadbury plc (NYSE:CBY), told The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn that the megadeal is making a comeback. - Maria Woehr

Canaccord Adams' Brown on cleantech IPOs

2009-11-17T19:46:51Z

Jamie Brown, president of Canaccord Adams Inc., says that several cleantech companies are ripe to go public in The Deal's ongoing series about IPOs with Mary Kathleen Flynn, shot on location at the NYSE Euronext. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Maria Woehr

For previous episodes of The Deal's IPO video series, shot on location at the New York Stock Exchange, click here for our conversation with Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC's Todd Mason on how M&A is impacting valuations. Click here for our conversation with Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP's Victor Boyajian about what it will take for the IPO market to open up for venture capital-backed company. Click here for our conversation with the NYSE Euronext's (NYSE:NYX) Scott Cutler on Hyatt Hotels Corp.'s (NYSE:H) successful debut. Click here for our chat with Jim Robinson, co-founder of RRE Ventures, an investor in disk storage provider Nexsan Technologies Inc., one of only 14 venture capital-backed companies registered to go public with the SEC; and here for our talk with Deborah Farrington, partner, StarVest Partners, which backed NetSuite Inc. (NYSE:N).

Sullivan & Cromwell's Aquila on conflict resolution

2009-11-17T15:13:39Z

Frank Aquila of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP says dealmakers should have a conflict resolution plan in his Deal magazine column, Before the honeymoon ends. In this episode of Inside The Deal, he tells Suzanne Stevens that conflicts in deals can potentially lead to costly mistakes such as arbitration or litigation. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Maria Woehr

Jones Day's Cornell on regulating exec comp

2009-11-16T18:37:31Z

The federal government has every right to weigh in on executive compensation at financial institutions that received taxpayer bailouts. So says Jones Day partner John Cornell, who specializes in benefits and compensation issues of restructuring organizations. Extending compensation control to non-TARP banks, however, is wrong, says Cornell, who adds that past government regulation has resulted in increased risk-taking by banks. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Suzanne Stevens

Loeb & Loeb's Nussbaum on IPOs in China

2009-11-16T17:01:52Z

Loeb & Loeb LLP's Mitchell Nussbaum says there are pros and cons to the new Chinese Nasdaq-type stock exchange, ChiNext, which launched earlier this month and is the topic of Matt Miller's cover story for The Deal magazine, The kids are all right. Nussbaum says the new market gives private equity firms and investors another exit, but there is some uncertainty revolving around the regulation of the market. See the video below or download it at iTunes. - Maria Woehr