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Equipped with stronger balance sheets, the banks were now ready to embark on the next cycle of dealmaking.

Staveley may be celebrated in the British media for her dealmaking prowess but I've heard more critical talk back in her adopted hometown.

Dealmaking in Dubai centres around The Gate, a cube-shaped structure at the heart of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC).

Late last year he began to turn United's sleepy headquarters into a hotbed of dealmaking, at least by the standards of suburban Georgia.

In the casino of dealmaking, a small bet on a potentially big return is often worth making.

And with interest rates down and technology shares trailing most sectors, dealmaking is one of the better options for using corporate cash.

Kindler did not signal whether Pfizer's pace of dealmaking would change following the Wyeth merger.

To overcome these big drawbacks Rio would have to exhibit a degree of dealmaking skill that has so far eluded it.

"Today, there has been a shift of dealmaking inbound into Europe from China, India and Brazil. "

The soaring valuations have led to a shift in investing strategies from growth capital to early venture dealmaking.

However, its unsavory dealmaking should not obscure that in betting, correctly, against the housing market, it helped mitigate the crash.

The position of China as an economic power is well established. But its presence as a force in global dealmaking is just becoming clear.

In all, BHP's smart dealmaking has made it not just the biggest but the most influential and the best-positioned of the big mining firms.

To date, Google has been a fast-acting, dealmaking machine.

The jump in debt and equity issuance compensated for the decline in income from dealmaking, which sank to its lowest since 2004.

He might even, if he can relearn the virtues of bipartisan dealmaking, bully a climate-change bill through Congress.

Investors are also concerned about Beijing's fast-changing media policy, making dealmaking more challenging than elsewhere.

But by normal standards of dealmaking megalomania (think of Sir Fred Goodwin, once of RBS) Mr Thiam is a model of courtesy and lucidity.

But the dealmaking baton was about to pass from strategic bidders to the new breed of private equity groups.

a business lunch where food is an afterthought to intense dealmaking and negotiation.

With difficult credit markets and an unclear future, talk of dealmaking has been at a minimum this year.

The end of the ABN saga does not herald a rush of dealmaking among banks.

Mr Paulson, by contrast, rose to the top of the firm through investment banking, which is largely about dealmaking.

First Quantum is mentioned as a potential takeover target amid the dealmaking in Africa.

Investors interpreted Mr Apotheker's burst of dealmaking, allied to the outlook, as evidence not of vision but of panic.

And smaller funds are disadvantaged by the changing geography of dealmaking.

Corporate dealmaking also gave investors hope the pace of the rebound will pick up.

The 31st floor of Lehman Brothers' Times Square headquarters was a haven of dealmaking, powerbroking and intrigue.

The country's business culture focuses more on dealmaking than on company-building.

Dealmaking and alliances came naturally as we had no resources.

Yet the downturn has profoundly affected the art of dealmaking.

A round of corporate dealmaking also gave a lift to stock futures.

AVIC's move to buy Cirrus comes amid a surge of dealmaking between U. S. small- and midsized businesses and cash-rich Chinese companies.

Google has stepped up its dealmaking this year, spending $1. 6 billion on more than 20 companies through September.

By the third quarter of 2000, however, worldwide dealmaking had started to slow down.

But today's frantic dealmaking means conglomerates such as GE find it harder to argue that they are worth more than the sum of their parts.

Yet there is wisdom, too, on dealmaking and management in the world's most populous nation.

Some observers wonder how long it will take for the Chinese to get their dealmaking right.

In the first quarter of this year dealmaking in Japan even exceeded that in China, with a total value of $30 billion.

Rupert Murdoch has won Dow Jones, demonstrating his dealmaking prowess

BHP Billiton's remarkable growth has been driven by luck, shrewd dealmaking and, above all, China's demand for steel