Latest Valuation and Transaction-Structuring Trends in Today’s M&A Market

Latest Valuation and Transaction-Structuring Trends in Today’s M&A Market
For corporate deal professionals, M&A bankers, lawyers, consultants and both buy-side and sell-side analysts involved in the M&A market who are looking to stay abreast of topical developments.
No fee is required to participate in this interactive event for Global Finance readers around the world. Please join the hour-long exchange and invite colleagues to do the same.

WHEN

Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 11 a.m. The webcast will remain available online after the live event, which is held at a studio in Midtown Manhattan. A playback link will be sent to all those who register.

WHAT THE DISCUSSION WILL COVER
• The sectors and subsectors currently hot on the M&A scene and what tools are being used to value assets by dealmakers and would-be buyers.
• Conversely, what types of properties are being shunned at the moment by corporate and private equity buyers and why.
• Deal-structuring trends and developments and if those advances have staying power.
• M&A trends whichhave fallen out of favor with dealmakers and the reasons why.
• What the fourth quarter holds for the deal world and market predictions about next year.
THE PANEL OF EXPERTS

Chris Ruggeri, a Principal at Deloitte

Carlo Bronzini Vender, a Senior Partner at Soneshine

Randal Stephenson, a Managing Director and the head of the Energy, Mining and Metals and
Infrastructure Investment Banking practice at Duff & Phelps

Stay tuned for more information on the panel. We are in the process of assembling a panel of M&A experts that will help you navigate the challenges of today's M&A market as well as provide insights, ideas, and resources.
OVERVIEW

For dealmakers, rocky economic times are certainly happening now and are predicted for the foreseeable future. The focus of this webcast will be on the turbulent macroeconomic forces and what they mean to the banker and advisor as they work to secure clients and service the needs of those companies involved in M&A. .

Along with a look at various industries yielding M&A activity, the discussion will analyze a particularly relevant valuation topic—social media assets.

Actual and projected market valuations of Internet behemoths LinkedIn Corp. and Facebook generate considerable buzz, and dealmakers are assessing how to realize the M&A potential of other Internet and technology companies. LinkedIn, for example, which debuted on May 19 at $45 each, has remained firmly north of $100 since, even hitting as high as $122.70. And when Facebook completes its much-anticipated IPO, most market observers predict a valuation as high as $100 billion.

Market excitement—in whatever form—bodes well for the M&A world. Even though overvalued Internet stocks may evoke uncomfortable reminders of the dotcom bubble, there are decided differences in today’s Internet properties that have resulted in an increased number of M&A transactions.
Global Finance is proud to bring together an informed mix of dealmakers to share in a lively discussion of current M&A trends. The guest panelists are high-level deal advisors with many years of transactional experience. They have lived through market fluctuations and provide invaluable and nuanced insights about the current M&A market.
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