Week in Review: Geithner, Dow, and Consultants

Happy Friday, all. The Dow closed above 16000 for the first time, but M&A activity is still lagging behind. Maybe US deal makers are still hesitant about the future — or perhaps they’re just getting an early start on Thanksgiving. This week, Tim Geithner moved into PE, Brookside Mezz backed Amias Berman, and Blue Point Capital recapped Trademark Global.

In honor of JFK, here is a little motivation from his graduation speech at Amherst: “I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”

Opinions:

• Eight important charts about the future of investment banking
• Despite the surging stock market, M&A activity is lagging
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• Want to do a reverse merger? Beware the tradeoffs
• Bank mergers of equals gaining popularity across US
• Acquired by private equity? Seven tips for keeping your job
• The winds are shifting for private equity energy investment
• A defense of Tim Geithner’s move into private equity

Transactions:

• Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan agrees to buy Burton’s Biscuit Company
• The Seaport Group buys Amias Berman
• Brookside Mezzanine Partners invests in PE-backed Stagnito
• Blue Point Capital Partners recaps Trademark Global
• Aurora Capital Group completes sale of Porex Corporation
• Kuraray buys DuPont’s glass laminating and vinyls business
• AMN Healthcare acquires ShiftWise

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