Kenneth Moelis has a unique talent for translating his 25-year career on Wall Street into the kind of information that financial specialists from the Street and beyond need the most. In this keynote podcast, Moelis puts the current Wall Street [See the full post…]

“None of us smart enough to call the bottom in financials or any other industry,” says Gary W. Parr, vice chairman at independent investment bank Lazard. Noting the value to investors of structuring deals for a few years of protection [See the full post…]

When times get tough, investors need to answer a few key questions: which industries are most attractive for investment? What deal structures are investors choosing? Where are sellers’ expectations? In this podcast, although there was some consensus around the prediction [See the full post…]

Whether you call it a credit crunch or a credit squeeze, there’s evidence to be found that the chilled climate for deals has spread from the realm of the mega-deal into the middle market. To discuss the new economic realities [See the full post…]

The private capital markets are in an intriguing position. The economy is sluggish after last year’s sub-prime mess and major buyout firms have not seen a lot of action. That was expected. But the middle markets have only dropped off [See the full post…]

Deals in health care M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of health care M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. [See the full post…]

From the panel, Private Equity and the Healthcare M&A Market: What’s on the Radar? comes this podcast featuring the panelists Benjamin Edmands, managing director, CCMP Capital; Jonathan Korngold, managing director, global head of healthcare, General Atlantic; Todd Richter, managing director, [See the full post…]

Charles Ditkoff is managing director and co-head of the global healthcare services group with Banc of America Securities. In this podcast, from the Healthcare Dealmaking Symposium hosted by The Deal in New York City, Ditkoff speaks with PodTech’s Jason Lopez [See the full post…]

In 2007 deals in the health care M&A marketplace soared. Siemens’s $7 billion purchase of Dade Behring, Medtronic’s purchase of Kyphon and Carlyle Group’s purchase of Manor Care are just a few of the deals that contributed to a trend-setting [See the full post…]

Deals in healthcare M&A have soared over the past two years, continuing to attract capital and drive activity in the sector. Industry insiders are monitoring the current pace of healthcare M&A deals and developing an outlook for 2008. On Wednesday, [See the full post…]

M&A deals in energy, real estate, and health care are some examples of sectors that still show lots opportunity, with some caution. Jason Lopez spoke with experts in each of these sectors at The Deal’s “M&A Outlook 2008.” In this [See the full post…]

Cross border investments have helped keep deal flow robust through 2007, despite the credit crisis. Private equity investors are looking for good deals across the board and companies are beginning to find smaller firms in other parts of the world [See the full post…]

There was a shift in the audience at the M&A Outlook 2008 when David Rubenstein — co-founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group — was sighted in the room. The crowd got quiet. The same happened when Wilbur Ross, [See the full post…]

Can the good times roll in the M&A world from 2006 through 2008? Were those good times at all? At The Deal’s “M&A Outlook 2008” in New York, investment experts picked apart the market to explore which deals worked and [See the full post…]

Mergers and acquisitions are hot… you just have to know where to look. John Morris, assistant managing editor of The Deal, says a few of the industries that have heated up are real estate and energy. Morris will emcee some [See the full post…]

Investors such as Jay MacDonald and Bill Detwiler are bullish on web-based advertising. MacDonald says advertisers have always wanted to know exactly who listened to their ads on radio or saw them in magazines. You cannot click on a newspaper [See the full post…]

Where is the value in web media? Some say it is in the cost effectiveness of production. Cameras have become quite cheap. Others say it is in the efficiencies of the distribution of quality media products. After the lively panel [See the full post…]

Competition is coming for broadband providers SBC and Comcast. So say the investors in emerging service such as WiMax and BPL. In this podcast, PodTech’s Jason Lopez talks with Patrick Campbell – Partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, [See the full post…]

In his morning keynote address at Convergence 2.0, Leo Hindery spelled it out: new media would go nowhere as long as companies could not deliver consistent top line growth, could not enlist quality management, and did not enjoy a barrier [See the full post…]

Convergence 2.0, The Deal’s September 17, 2007 conference being held in New York City is looking like a sell-out event. Richard Morgan, Assistant Managing Editor of The Deal, talks with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the gathering of private equity, venture [See the full post…]

Josh Jaffe is the senior writer for THE DEAL magazine and the organizer of the Technology Summit for VCs, acquirers, and other investors. He spoke with Podtech’s Michael Johnson about analyzing market trends from an investor’s point of view.

Fox owns MySpace, and it’s watching how it’s being used. Mike Lang is executive vice president of business development and strategy at Fox Networks. He spoke with PodTech’s Michael Johnson at “THE DEAL” Technology Summit in Mountain View, Calif., about [See the full post…]

Jennifer Jones of PodTech and Cole Bader discuss how private companies which are seeking an exit need to market their company. Badar offers insights into the exit process. Packaging a company as a market leader by thinking small and owning [See the full post…]