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Last updated: December 3, 2012 7:12 pm
See global technology, media and telecommunicatons sector deals and scroll down to hear leading dealmakers discuss M&A in emerging markets
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: The year in dealmaking
Despite low volumes, 2012 has been a fascinating year for dealmaking. Controversial deals, such as the long-running battle by Glencore, the commodity trader, to take over Xstrata, have dominated headlines. New frontiers, including Chinese international mergers and acquisitions, have emerged. Anousha Sakoui, the FT's M&A correspondent, is joined by Jan Skarbek, head of investment banking, UK, at Citi, Charles Jacobs, a partner at Linklaters and Piers Pritchard Jones, a corporate partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the law firms, to review the year in dealmaking and to look ahead at trends for 2013.
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: Technology, media and communications M&A
Companies in this sector have been far from reticent this year with dealmaking despite difficult market conditions. Anousha Sakoui, the FT's M&A correspondent, travels to San Francisco to find out how the fallout from this year's Facebook initial public offering is affecting US dealmaking. She talks to Anthony Armstrong, co-head of Americas M&A at Credit Suisse and is joined in the studio back in London by Jonathan Stankler, head of European technology M&A at KPMG.
Audio Deals & Dealmakers: China's overseas buying spree
Despite a chaotic year for M&A, fascinating trends have emerged, including growth in international bids by Chinese companies. By the end of September, outbound M&A by Chinese groups was at a record high. But Beijing's record has been controversial, so what is different thistime? To discuss the drivers behind these bids, Anousha Sakoui, the FT's mergers and acquisitions correspondent, is joined by Andy Cox, global head of energy at KPMG, and William Downs, global leader of corporate and corporate finance practice at law firm Squire Sanders.
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: Emerging markets M&A
During turbulent times in the world economy, western dealmakers may be hunting growth in the emerging markets, but nowhere is immune from the global turmoil – and M&A traffic increasingly goes in both directions. To discuss the state of dealmaking in the emerging markets, Anousha Sakoui, the FT's mergers and acquisitions correspondent, is joined by two top advisers: Hernan Cristerna, JP Morgan's head of M&A for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Edward Braham, global head of corporate at Freshfields.
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: the M&A outlook
With 2012 on track to be one of the worst years for dealmaking in a decade, are companies now focusing on 2013, or are there still deals to be done? Anousha Sakoui, the FT’s mergers and acquisitions correspondent, takes the pulse of the industry with Jacques Brand, head of investment banking coverage & advisory at Deutsche Bank and Gilberto Pozzi, global head of retail and consumer advisory business at Goldman Sachs.
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: John Studzinski
In the second of a two-part Deals & Dealmakers series in which big names in M&A explore the fundamental changes in their industry, Anousha Sakoui, the FT’s mergers and acquisitions correspondent, talks to John Studzinski, global head of Blackstone Advisory Partners.
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: Ken Moelis
In the first podcast of a two-part series, veteran investment banker and founder of Moelis & Company Ken Moelis talks to Anousha Sakoui, the FT’s mergers and acquisitions correspondent, about the M&A cycle, the challenges of global expansion and why it is a mistake to chase yesterday’s economy. Hear part two, with Blackstone's John Studzinski, on June 13.
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: what rules changes have meant for M&A
In the UK, the world’s second-biggest market for M&A after the US, the Takeover Panel last year reformed the rules regulating dealmaking. What impact are the changes having eight months on?Anousha Sakoui, the FT’s mergers and acquisitions correspondent, looks at the issues with studio guests James Palmer, global head of law firm Herbert Smith’s corporate business and Jonathan Rowley, co-head of European M&A at investment bank UBS.
AudioDeals & Dealmakers: The outlook for M&A
In the first podcast in the FT’s Deals & Dealmakers series, mergers and acquisitions correspondent Anousha Sakoui talks to industry analysts about the outlook for the year. With studio guests Jonathan Stubbs, head of European equity strategy at Citigroup in London, and Jon Clark, who heads the UK oil and gas transactions team at Ernst & Young.
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