On this week’s Business Monitor Podcast we talk with the Editor of Corporate Finance Week Richard Benson on the issue of English Premier League sales and acquisitions. In particular, we address the questions of whether a bubble is building in the English Premier League, what the football market can tell us about wider UK corporate… [Read more]
The M&A market is continuing to roar. And with Q3 2010 M&A preliminary figures now out, the evidence is more than anecdotal: according to Thomson Reuters data, global dealmaking is up 21%, which constitutes the strongest quarter for M&A since Q3 2008. Indeed, Q3 2010 activity totalled US$599bn, the third consecutive quarter of growth, up… [Read more]
Most people are well aware that the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) countries are big recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI). But they are also big sources of FDI. In 2009, for the first time, emerging market outbound mergers and acquisitions (M&A) flows outpaced inbound M&A flows, reaching US$131.8bn, according to Dealogic. Most of these… [Read more]
Having spoken to some of my colleagues at Corporate Financing Week, I’ve been struck by the volume and size of resource deals emanating from China, and I think we could be on the brink of a major programme of asset acquisitions of real concern to – among others – Australia’s policymakers. During his recent visit… [Read more]
