Monthly M&A Insider: December20 December 2007

This is the definitive crib sheet to see what is happening in global M&A. This edition comprises of over 150 pages of comment, data and statistics on the key issues in key M&A territories.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. An overview of Italian M&A and the role of private equity

3. Will Delta take off with a United merger?

4. The ghosts of private equity past and future

5. North America

6. Asia-Pacific

7. Europe

8. UK

9. Germany

10. France

11. Italy

12. Benelux

13. Iberia

14. Nordic

15. CEE/CIS

November’s private equity comeback? As the credit crunch moves into its fifth month with no let-up in sight, investors remain nervous. Certainly, in both value and volume terms, November 2007 global M&A activity was down significantly on November 2006, from 212 deals worth $117bn to 133 worth $37bn. The somewhat gloomy November data, however, should not distract from a strong overall performance in the first eleven months of 2007, with $845bn of deal value registered globally compared to $709bn in 2006...

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