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Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Barclays Capital are staving off writedowns by propping up European companies with plummeting loan values.
Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- A push by the richest U.S. universities to unload their stakes in private-equity funds is flooding the market, driving down prices for the world’s best- known buyout firms.
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NEW YORK----CTPartners, the performance-driven executive search firm, today released its 14th annual list of hot executive jobs. The 2009 report reflects a shift from volume hiring to strategic hiring against the backdrop of stark economic data emerging from the credit crisis still gripping world markets.
Bell Canada, the largest phone company in Canada, said the economic slump might prevent its takeover from closing on time, signaling the buyout might collapse.
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Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- BCE Inc. bonds rose and credit risk declined on expectations a C$52 billion ($42 billion) takeover by a Canadian pension fund will fail, meaning the country’s biggest phone company won’t be saddled with more debt.
BCE has been hit by a preliminary opinion from KPMG that "…based on current market conditions, its analysis to date and the amount of indebtedness involved in the LBO financing", KPMG would be unable to deliver an opinion on the scheduled closing date of 11 December 2008 that BCE would be able to meet the solvency...
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The C$52 billion ($42 billion) purchase of BCE Inc. by private-equity firms may collapse, erasing the last vestiges of a leveraged-buyout boom that ground to a halt almost 18 months ago.
The $52-billion takeover deal for BCE Inc., Canada's biggest telecommunications company, is in jeopardy after an independent adviser said yesterday that volatile market conditions and the mountain of debt involved in financing the country's largest-ever corporate buyout would put the company's solvency at risk.
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