Where to find recent deals

How can one find out recent deals that were executed in a regional BB office?

Most announcements will tell you what banks advised on the deal, but they dont say XX's SF office or XX's NYoffice.

Any input on how to find that out?

Thanks.

 

thedeal.com

edit: nvm, just realized OP asked for specific offices....

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If you're in their office you can always ask about tombstones that have recent dates... Another way to approach this is to ask about them in an informational interview, ex what was your favorite deal over the last few years. You can then take that info home and do research on that deal.

 

for thomson reuters deal intelligence, you can only get it registered for free if you are using a company email am i right? because when i tried it, i cant seem to register it unless I have a valid company email address.

 

Thomson One or Bloomberg are great for this if you have access to them through school or something. Other than that you can try googling specific deals you're interested in, like: "Verizon Vodafone advised by" or something along those lines.

 

So far my experience has been that every bank/m&a house/pe firm has a website and lays out all of its deals that it has done and a few that are currently in the pipeline

 

So I found this link I pasted at the bottom (looks like you referenced it) but it doesn't give me specific names of deals - it looks like just a quantitative report on how BB firms are doing in terms of different metrics. Which is useful, but not exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you though I'll try to browse my school databases, that was a smart suggestion

Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/content/uploads/sites/2/2014/04/B…

 

Best way to check is via Thomson Reuters or Mergemetrics.

If you don't have access you might want take a peek through their SEC filings - usually advisors are listed there as well.

 

If you have access to some sort of deal screen resource (Deallogic, CapIQ, Thomson, etc.) you can screen for recent deals and then view by which banks you want. This will obvisouly pull only deals that are publically disclosed or that the banks submitted to the data source. If not then only website.

Dont ask about a deal that is an industrials deal to a tech banker. It is really annoying when answering questions.

 

Google "Firm Name"+"recent transactions"

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Usually, transaction overviews will provide you the size of the deal and what type of issuance happened. Check out the SEC filings and they'll usually have something regarding the IPO, LBO, Acquisition, Refinancing. It's nice to know what kind of deal took place and what method they used in financing that deal. So during your interview, you could say, "Wow, I was really interested in XYZ company's acquisition of ___. I saw it was financed by issuing abc senior notes, how come they didn't use loans instead etc etc."

Just seem interested and make it known that you did more than just read the headline "XYZ acquires ABC for GHJKmm"

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you can check out mergermarket, I think they are more referring to checking out things like dealbreaker.com, dealbook.com, wsj.com etc.

See what deals are going on in the market. If you read the articles in full, they will usually list what banks participated in the deal towards the end. For example if you check out this article http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/capital-one-to-buy-hsbcs-u-s-car… you can see MS, Centerview, and Kessler group were working on the deal.

 

I'm interested in this as well. I don't have access to Cap IQ or Bloomberg (if they even have this data there?) so I've been trying to find it as well.

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I personally like businesswire. it gives you a thorough breakdown of the deal and gives a more in-depth overview than dealbook does.

For example, search Goldman Sachs and you can see the recent deal that they did on Saks and if other firms were involved:

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130729005512/en/Hudson%E2%80%99…

ex- "Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Securities acted as financial advisors..."

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This is exactly what I was hoping for. Thanks so much!

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this is a great idea. here's my contribution

Some Chinese company -Largest IPO ever -Announced some time this year; may or may not be completed yet -Price = $17B or something like that. Plus or minus $10B to take error into account

 
prospie:
this is a great idea. here's my contribution

Some Chinese company -Largest IPO ever -Announced some time this year; may or may not be completed yet -Price = $17B or something like that. Plus or minus $10B to take error into account

wow, that may be the most useless contribution ever.

interviewer: "tell me about a recent/pending deal."

"Uh ok..well there's some chinese company that's going public. wait, maybe it already did go public. im not too sure. i think its going for around $17b, or maybe $27b or maybe $7b..im not too sure. but yeah, i read about that bad boy in the WSJ."

 

Hi guys, new to this forum.

To search M&A deals, go in Bloomberg (the terminal) and type the "MA" command. You can filter by country, industry, deal value, advisor, etc. Great tool for learning about deals the bank / group you are interviewing with has completed recently.

 

Considering the fundamentals behind HCA, 7.8x ebitda is not modest. BofA has its work cut out for it trying to move the paper. This phase is by no means complete. If you want to be an expert on HCA, the sponsors filed their slides (all 150 of them) with the SEC, just go to EDGAR and pull them down.

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Get an online subscription to WSJ (it's cheap and you can pay monthly), and just search for a big universal firm that does a lot of deals (like Citigroup). You'll be able to find a bunch of deals that way. In my interviews, I was never asked to talk about a specific recent deal, I was always just asked to talk about "a recent deal" that I'd read about. After finding a few deals that interest you, just google the deals for even more info (you will never need to talk extremely extensively about a deal - the interviewer just wants to see that you're reading the financial press and know what's going on somewhat in the industry).

 

Free Scale Semiconductor LBO by TPG, Permira funds, Carlyle.

Anardarko's acquisition of Kerr-Mcgee/Western Gas.

Kinder Morgan's Leveraged Buyout.

Hertz post-LBO IPO.

You can research the deal structures via google.

 

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