MAGAZINE
August 2012 Issue
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COVER STORY
Structuring deals in the government contractor sector
FEATURES
Technology sub-sectors poised to fuel M&A and drive economic recovery
Microsoft to buy enterprise social network Yammer for $1.1bn
Walgreens pays £4bn for Alliance Boots stake
The evolving role of today’s CFO
Libor scandal rocks banking industry
ROUNDTABLE
Risks facing directors and officers
THE MODERATOR: Carolyn Snow, Risk Management Society (RIMS). THE PANELLISTS: Carol A.N. Zacharias, Ace North America; Joanna M. Page, Allen & Overy LLP; Matthew A. Shulman, Arch Insurance Group; Tony Galban, Chubb Group of Insurance Companies; and Vivian Robinson, McGuire Woods.
SPECIAL REPORT
Private equity
FORUM: Creating value through private equity in today’s market
THE PANELLISTS: Antonio Cabral, The Riverside Company; Craig E. Marcus, Ropes & Gray LLP; and Kevin Kester, Siguler Guff & Company, LP.
Outlooks may dim, but the sun never sets on venture investing
Mark Heesen, National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
Expansion PE in Australia – an engine for growth
Dr Katherine Woodthorpe, Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Ltd (AVCAL)
A framework for a global private equity industry
Jennifer Choi and Holly Freedman, Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA)
Private equity activity in Latin America
Cate Ambrose, Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA)
Non-EU private equity managers and the AIFMD
Donnacha O’Connor, Dillon Eustace
Private equity in Germany: a promising outlook for 2013
Peter Memminger, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP
Luxembourg legislative changes to approach AIFMD compliance
Johan Terblanche, Loyens & Loeff
Private equity in India: still an emerging story
Himanshu Narayan and Amarta Roy, Dua Associates
Planning for the recovery
Julian Elms, Catlin Insurance Company
DEALfront
mergers & acquisitions
A-B InBev buys control of Grupo Modelo for $20.1bn
Volkswagen agrees to buy the rest of Porsche for $5.6bn
private equity & venture capital
PE deals and exits rebound in Q2 2012
One Equity acquires M*Modal for $1.1bn
bankruptcy & corporate restructuring
Dynegy Inc files for bankruptcy
Ailing Elpida sells for $2.5bn
PROFESSIONALinsight
Finance & investment
Protect your overseas investments from political risk using bilateral investment treaties
Robert Volterra and Stephen Fietta, Volterra Fietta
Alternate assets in India: the new order
Bijal Ajinkya and Siddharth Ajinkya, Nishith Desai Associates
Life settlements: becoming a viable alternative asset investment for institutional investors
Brian T. Casey, Locke Lord
Risk management
Risk management in the financial sector
Anthony Rawlins and Robert Noye-Allen, Moore Stephens LLP
What are your website risks?
Neil Gurnhill, Safeonline
LEGAL®ulatory
Litigation & dispute resolution
The use of financial experts in arbitration
Michael Hammes, PwC
Enforcement of foreign awards in the UAE: latest developments
Gordon Blanke and Soraya Corm-Bakhos, Habib Al Mulla & Co.
Corporate tax
The eurozone crisis – what are the tax and transfer pricing risks?
Ágata Uceda and Jian-Cheng Ku, DLA Piper Netherlands
Canadian federal budget targets Canadian subsidiaries of foreign multinationals
Doug Frost and Jamie Mitchell, PwC Canada
Transfer pricing implications on intellectual property – an Indian perspective
Rohan K Phatarphekar, KPMG India
CONTRIBUTORS
Ace North America
Allen & Overy LLP
Arch Insurance Group
Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Ltd (AVCAL)
Catlin Insurance Company
Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
Dillon Eustace
DLA Piper Netherlands
Dua Associates
Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA)
Habib Al Mulla & Co.
KPMG India
Latin American Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (LAVCA)
Locke Lord
Loyens & Loeff
McGuire Woods
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy LLP
Moore Stephens LLP
National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
Nishith Desai Associates
PwC
Risk Management Society (RIMS)
Ropes & Gray LLP
Safeonline
Siguler Guff & Company, LP
The Riverside Company
Volterra Fietta