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A directory of business enterprises specializing in management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions activity in all parts of the world is presented. Details of company focus and services are included.

A tiny group of investment advisers is getting the biggest merger and acquisition deals, with only three firms accounting for 73% of all European transactions involving advisers from Jan-Sep 1997. During the nine-month period, Morgan Stanley clinched $77 billion of announced deals to garner first place. Goldman Sachs was at second place with $55 billion, followed by the Lazard houses with $51 billion. The fourth and fifth ranks went to SBC Warburg Dillon Read and JP Morgan. One of Morgan Stanley's biggest deals is the planned BT takeover of MCI Communications, while second placer Goldman Sachs advised GTE on its all-cash offer to MCI., This year's jumbo AA&A deals have gone to an elite few advisers. Peter Shearlock looks at the biggest deals and the bulge bracket firms which have bagged them Will 1997 [...]

Boutique banks offer independent merger and acquisition (MA) advisory services to a variety of clients outside the City. Companies such as MA consultancy Livingstone Guarantee are popular with clients because they are discrete. A list of independent corporate finance firms is provided. Banking professionals enjoy working at boutique banks because they have less bureaucracy than non-independent establishments.

The tremendous influence that investment banks have gained over mergers and acquisitions over the years is coming under increasing criticism. The large amounts of money that banks earn from these transactions and the high failure rate of new acquisitions are casting doubt on the role of these financial institutions as intermediaries and advisors. In fact, many are being blamed for providing unreliable advice and are being sued. Four solutions are suggested for minimizing the agency problems between investment banks and their corporate clients.

Wall Street firms dominate an M&A market with more ups and downs than a Coney Island roller-coaster. From 1988 to 1992, Goldman, Sachs & Co. led the pack of mergers [...]

JP Morgan is one commercial bank that has been aggressive in investment couselling services to such leading European firms as Nestle, Cadbury and Cheltenham and Gloucester, and Hoechst. The bank was instrumental in many high-profile corporate mergers as are its competitors among which include Goldman Sachs, Salomon and France-based Paribas. The popularity of mergers has made investment banking a lucrative enterprise., JP Morgan handled the largest cross-border deal of 1994 and it looks like doing the same in 1995. As if to confirm that last year's sixth place among top cross-border [...]

Account managers involved in workout situations will be especially interested in this article on business valuations. The author is a manager within KPMG Peat Marwick Thorne's corporate finance practice. He [...]

Hugh L. McColl Jr., who built Bank of America Corp. through dozens of acquisitions in the 1980s and 1990s, now wants to use his expertise to advise other banks looking [...]

Option One Mortgage Corp. here has created its Acquisitions Division, which will buy closed subprime loans in mini-bulk portfolios on a servicing-released basis. Lynn Halstead has joined Option One to [...]

By Joseph Rosenbloom So, you quit your job and started your own company. Maybe -- a big maybe -- you'll be able to sell the business when it comes time [...]

Navigant International's M&A S.W.A.T. team approach has enabled it to successfully acquire some three dozen companies in the past four years. (Editor's Note. For a different kind of M&A perspective, [...]

In the wake of a strong bear market, mergers and acquisitions have slowed down almost to a walking pace. Peter Shearlock examines the situation Dealmakers and commentators have speculated for [...]

Bingham Dana LLP recently launched its third non-legal business, Bingham Strategic Advisors LLC, to help companies wend their way through mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and business restructurings. John 'Jack' [...]

Although M&A volume broke the record last year, activity began to slow in the US and Deals of the year analysts are loath to forecast another bumper year ahead M&A [...]

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS LAW RANKED BY NUMBER OF ATTORNEYS Firm Rank Address 1. Ruskin, Moscou, Evans & Faltischek 170 Old Country Road, Mineola, NY 11501 2. Cullen and Dykman 100 [...]

Several acquisitions of financial firms this year have involved correspondent clearing divisions, and depending how the acquiring firm views those operations fitting into its business, correspondents may find their clearing [...]

Mergers and acquisitions typically hinge on one-on-one interaction, but Emerge Corp. is betting on the Web to change that. In launching Emerge.com, an online exchange for small and midsize businesses […]

Plimsoll Publishing has launched an acquisition service at www.whichcompany.net, designed to provide an in-depth analysis of companies with the best acquisition prospects in a given market. Retail Chemist is one [...]

John Wepler has a chart above his desk with a list of the top 100 insurance agencies in the United States and their locations. If a bank owns one, a [...]

Enactment of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on Nov. 12, 1999, opened the door to the creation of 'financial supermarkets,' or single companies offering the full range of financial services products from [...]

Remember when there was Hospital Trust National Bank, Industrial National Bank friendly tellers anxious to help you with deposits and withdrawals, and bank employees opening checking and savings accounts? Well [...]

Four of the Big Five find little things can mean a lot of profit When Sunbury Holdings wanted to buy a generating station from Pennsylvania's PPL Resources Inc., the Wisconsin [...]

Ever wonder who wins when one auto parts-maker snaps up another? Well, usually, it is the lawyers who capture vast billable hours and big fees. Ever wonder who loses? It [...]

Rothschild, Lazard and Drueker & Co have pushed themselves up the Thomson Financial advisory league tables for the first half of 2003, over-taking some of their larger rivals such as [...]

Weisser, Johnson & Co. is a leading investment banking advisor to oil and gas companies and other energy companies on private equity and mezzanine financing, and assists in property sales [...]

ON JAN. 28, Steve Kaiser, president of Kaiser Time Inc., a consulting firm focusing on the jewelry industry, and Jack Hendler, managing director of Friedman Corp. Consultants LLC, an affiliate [...]

Come spring, JWGenesis Financial Corp. hopes to announce a new series of underwritings of initial public offerings for South Florida companies. Marshall Leeds, chairman and CEO of the Boca Raton-based [...]

The merger frenzy sweeping Corporate America is proving to be highly beneficial to brand identity consultants. One estimate indicates that approximately half of their business comes from companies that are about to undergo a merger or spin off a unit that want the right names, logos, communications materials and signs for their new organizations. The work of these consulting firms may be as brief as four weeks but may also last for two years although merger-related work projects tend to be short. Brand identity consultants usually discuss issues with senior managers, regulators, consumer focus groups, employees and other stakeholders to identify the needs of their clients. Meeting with these people may take place during or after and, most typically, before a merger is announced. Their work tends to be top secret and are only revealed when the merger has been finalized.

The hospital mergers of the last two-years have spurred a wave of fees for lawyers specializing in health care, but few local law firms have been able to ride it. [...]

Mergers, acquisitions and buy-outs. It's enough to make an accounting firm seem sexy. Just like banks and law firms in the earlier part of the decade, accounting firms are being [...]

Merger and acquisitions (MA) expert Barrie Pearson is a restaurant inspector in his spare time. His successful MA firm, Livingstone Guarantee, was launched in 1976 from Pearson's home. Since then Pearson has worked on numerous acquisitions including the purchase of do-it-yourself store chain Do It All on behalf of retailer chain WH Smith. Pearson and the company's other directors like to retain business independence.

Poised to prosper from mergers as Wall Street banks seek advisers Wall Street's biggest merger-and-acquisition departments could find themselves on the outside looking in when the next wave of consolidation [...]

Philadelphia really does have its own merger-and-acquisition specialists. Really, it does. But you'd never notice it from the headlines. When QVC Network Inc., in West Chester, needed an adviser in [...]

The marriage makers of Montgomery Street have been busy lately. Merger and acquisition departments at Bay Area investment banking firms are reporting a sharp increase in activity as a growing [...]

When Barnes-Jewish Inc. and Christian Health Services initiated their merger talks, both health care giants used out-of-town legal counsel. Christian hired a law firm from San Francisco and Jewish-Barnes used [...]

Direct marketing mergers and acquisitions have become big business and the new partnership of Vos, Gruppo & Capell, is hoping to cash in on the trend. The firm teams Claire [...]

J.P. Morgan & Co and Bankers Trust New York have developed thriving bank-merger advisory businesses, becoming significant competitors to traditional advisory firms. Morgan is attempting to carve a market niche among banks with which it has long done business. Bankers Trust is promoting itself as a specialist in complex acquisition situations. Morgan participated in five deals in 1991 and has participated in eight so far in 1992., Two of the nation's biggest commercial banks are helping to consolidate their own industry. J.P. Morgan & Co. and Bankers Trust New York Corp. have quietly emerged as strong competitors [...]