JD Supra: Mergers

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

China's State Council recently published new merger control notification thresholds doubling the previous China revenue thresholds in an amended Regulation on Notification Thresholds for Concentrations of Business Operators (the "Regulation"), the first time since the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") came into effect in 2008. By: Jones Day

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Applied StemCell, founded in 2008 and based in Milpitas, Calif., QHP Capital has announced it has acquired Applied StemCell. develops gene editing and stem cell technology platforms designed to help advance broader cell therapy manufacturing. By: McGuireWoods LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Amended Thresholds took effect upon release and mark the first major revision to the State Administration for Market Regulation's (SAMR’s) notification thresholds since 2008. By: Latham & Watkins LLP

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

AUGUST 14, 2024

All-cash offer would dwarf 2008 takeover of Wrigley by Mars but could face scrutiny from watchdogs Mars, the chocolate to pet food group, has reportedly struck a $30bn (£23.4bn) deal to buy Kellanova, the maker of Pringles and Pop-Tarts. Continue reading.

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JD Supra: Mergers

APRIL 24, 2024

the 2008–2010 recession) or other external factors like the current increase in interest rates coupled with tight credit markets. The pace of earnouts accelerates in M&A transactions whenever market conditions create a value gap between seller price expectations and buyer confidence levels.

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JD Supra: Mergers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The supermarket chain alleged that EMMC, its individual mushroom farmer members, and certain downstream distributors conspired to fix the price of common white and brown mushrooms between 2001 and 2008. The Third Circuit held that the district court properly applied the rule of reason, rather than the quick look test, By: Troutman Pepper

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Global Banking & Finance

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

billion) worth of its own shares from Britain’s government, the bank said on Monday, as it continues its exit from state ownership following its bailout in the 2008 financial crisis. LONDON (Reuters) – NatWest has bought back 1 billion pounds ($1.29

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PE Hub

JANUARY 9, 2024

River Glen was founded by Matt Busick in 2008. The post PE-backed Mercer Advisors buys wealth management firm River Glen appeared first on PE Hub.

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Global Banking & Finance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Here in the United States, lending markets have tightened due to federal regulations, hoping to avoid the crisis of 2008. The global financial markets have changed in the last 15 years. Now, small to mid-sized banks are stricter with their lending […]

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CNBC: Investing

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Looking at a 20-year chart you'll see the stock has rallied around 200% over the past 18 months, breaching a major bearish trendline that started in 2007-2008.

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The New York Times: Banking

JULY 18, 2023

He built Countrywide Financial into the country’s largest mortgage lender, but its increasingly risky loans helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis.

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The New York Times: Banking

AUGUST 14, 2023

The settlement closes the chapter on the last investigation by a Justice Department task force on the role financial firms played in the collapse of the housing market in 2008.

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Financial Times - Banking

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The bank’s underperforming share price can be traced back to disastrous decisions made during and after the 2008 crisis

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

MARCH 19, 2023

Banks race to finish takeover to calm fears of new global financial crisis Millions paid in bonuses to UK SVB staff days after £1 rescue Bank runs, bailouts, rescues: are the ghosts of 2008 rising again?

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The TRADE

MAY 16, 2024

He joins Bankhaus Metzler after 16 years with DWS Group, having originally joined back in 2008 as a senior equity trader covering Europe and emerging markets. After more than 16 years at DWS Group, I have decided to leave the company.

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The TRADE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The new offering builds upon Euronext’s launch of daily options on the AEX index in 2008. In 2008, Euronext launched daily options on the AEX index becoming the first stock exchange in Europe to offer a full range of maturities, from one day to five years,” said Anthony Attia, global head of derivatives and post-trade at Euronext.

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

MAY 31, 2024

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had opened the first stage of its merger process to look at whether the deal – one of the largest transactions in the banking sector since the 2008 financial crisis – would lead to substantial lessening of competition. Continue reading.

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Global Banking & Finance

JANUARY 31, 2024

Five ways the BoE could signal a change in rates stance By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England is expected to offer a first hint on Thursday that it is tentatively moving towards cutting interest rates, having raised them to their highest since 2008 over the past couple of years. Governor Andrew […]

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We wanted to get close to the origins of chocolate,” he said in a company video in 2008. “It The book inspired Thirlwell in 2006 to buy the 101-hectare (250-acre) cocoa estate in St Lucia. “We It just made sense to do the opposite of everyone in the industry.” Continue reading.

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Global Banking & Finance

JULY 27, 2023

billion) in 2023 and make HSBC the biggest payer for the first time since 2008. Banks to fuel boom in UK Plc regular dividend payouts MILAN (Reuters) – A recovery in bank payouts is set to lift UK regular dividends by 6.1% billion pounds ($114.8 The estimate from financial services company Computershare is […]

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Global Banking & Finance

MAY 13, 2024

In the Market: Financiers fret over ‘leverage on leverage’ in private credit By Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) -To some elite financiers who gathered in Los Angeles for the Milken Institute conference, a debt binge in private markets is reminding them of the go-go days of risk-taking before the 2008 financial crisis.

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Global Banking & Finance

MARCH 27, 2024

UK homeowners and businesses resilient to high interest rates, BoE says LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – British mortgage holders and businesses are generally coping well with high interest rates and problem debt levels are well below those seen after the 2008 financial crisis, the Bank of England said on Wednesday.

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Lake Country Advisors

JULY 24, 2023

Joe Braier, President at Lake Country Advisors, was featured in the ‘2023 Top 100 People in Finance’ Joe was one of the first team members starting in 2008 and was mentored by the founder, Tim Bullard who founded the firm in 2007. Our team has an average of 9 years experience working at Lake Country Advisors.

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Global Banking & Finance

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Private market firms struggle to balance growth and operational spend By Drake Paulson, VP of Strategic Partnerships, Anduin From 2008 to 2022, private funds enjoyed turbocharged growth when their assets under management (AUM) soared five-fold to reach $13 trillion.

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

MAY 1, 2023

US banking titan to buy ‘all deposits and substantially all assets’ of failed bank in deal brokered by regulators JP Morgan is to acquire most of the failed California bank First Republic, in a takeover brokered by regulators as the US races to contain a series of banking failures that has echoes of the 2008 global financial crisis.

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World Finance

MARCH 25, 2020

Trading is experiencing a frenzy unseen since the 2008 financial crisis, with investment banks expected to increase market revenues as a result

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The TRADE

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

He re-joined Janus Henderson in 2008 and, as they say, the rest is history. After a five year stint at the firm in a senior equity and foreign exchange trading role he left for a brief interlude at Artisan Partners where he spent just under two years as director of global equity trading and operations.

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Peak Frameworks

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

since 2008). Our investment banking target school list is a complete rank of 60 schools and analyzed >60k LinkedIn profiles of professionals who worked in investment banking between 2008 and 2023. In contrast, we note that Williams has virtually no presence at the elite boutiques (our data revealed only 1 hire at Allen & Co.

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Benchmark International

APRIL 27, 2023

history, following Washington Mutual's collapse in 2008. The bank's customers included tech startups, venture capital firms, and wealthy technology players. It was the second-largest bank failure in U.S. At the time of failure, it has $209 billion in assets.

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Peak Frameworks

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Example: During the 2008 Financial Crisis, many financial models based on parametric VaR underpredicted potential losses, causing significant challenges. As a Regulatory Tool: After the 2008 crisis, regulatory bodies in both the U.S. Parametric VaR Uses statistical techniques based on the normal distribution of returns.

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IBG

MARCH 21, 2023

Established in Carthage, Missouri, in 2008 by Rick and Chris Kennedy, Kennedy Insulation Group is known nationally for its exclusive VerSola TM multi-layer reflective bubble insulation product, which FiFoil CEO Bill Lippy hailed as “highly complementary to the existing Fi-Foil product line.” Fi-Foil Company, Inc.,

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The Deal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Aryani graduated from law school in 2008, a very challenging time to begin practicing, and she did a mix of work at Chadbourne & Parke LLP, her first firm, before focusing on Latin American capital markets and M&A work. Aryani originally wanted to do public interest work, but she didn’t enjoy litigation.

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Peak Frameworks

JULY 20, 2023

When the bubble burst in 2008, it triggered a severe financial crisis. Analyzing past stock market crashes, such as the 1987 Black Monday crash, the dot-com bubble, and the 2008 financial crisis, can provide valuable lessons and identify common warning signs.

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Lake Country Advisors

MAY 10, 2022

2008-2009 The great recession, representing the greatest retraction since the Great Depression. There were a total of 12 recessions in the 20th Century alone. 2020 In April 2020 the US economy lost an astonishing 20.8 million jobs, sending unemployment skyrocketing to 14.7%. We still haven’t made up for previous losses.

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European Investment Bank

MAY 15, 2023

The impact assessment encompasses loans provided to 96,830 businesses between 2008 and 2017, the largest sample of EIB beneficiaries analysed to date.

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Bronte Capital

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Greensill is a story straight from the 2008 playbook. It is the same illusion is familiar from the 2008 playbook. But it actually happened in 2016 to 2020. Yeah bad loans were made. Yes the bankers - or in the case the shadow bankers - liked to fly around the world in Gulfstream 650s.

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Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Following the 2008 financial crisis, regulations have intensified , pushing banks to allocate more resources to ensure compliance. Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Introduced after the 2008 crisis, this U.S. The subprime mortgage crisis that led to the 2008 financial crash is a prime example.

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