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French corporate finance and private equity firms are more often involved with smaller sized deals due to lack of sufficient funds to finance the larger mergers and acquisitions. Investment banks and equity firms from the US and UK focus on the larger deals. Accountancy firms, based in the UK, have opened franchises in France, such as KPMG and PwC. Some $40.1 billion worth of cross-border deals, which included a target company in France, were carried out in 1998. During the first three months of 1999 some $63.1 billion worth of deals had been undertaken in France.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1999
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Benson stubbed out as Colloids' new ally tops league
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Investment bank Schroders became house adviser at Allied Colloids during 1997 when it replaced Dresdner Klienwort Benson (DKB). Schroders tops the league table of financial advisers on UK public takeovers between January and March 1998 with 6 deals valued at 4,292 million pounds sterling. Second place on the table is Deutsche Morgan Grenfell with 6 deals valued at 2,741 million pounds sterling for the first quarter of 1998. DKB lost the Somerfield account to advise on its bid for Kwik Save, valued at 602 pounds sterling.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1998
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Great expectations: Along with banking, insurance is a sector where levels of M&A activity still have a long way to go
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Norwich Union's sale of its subsidiary The Maritime Insurance Company provides evidence of the need to divest non-core subsidiaries and to redefine traditional insurance as an overall investment management discipline. The insurance industry is still some way from selling a single product at a single price throughout markets, but the major continental companies are preparing for the Euro zone.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1998
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