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Researching Deals and Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2018

Ian Hunter
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Abstract

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A), leveraged finance and capital markets are important markets for professional advisory firms such as investment banks, financial sector law firms and the ‘Big 4’ consultancies. While market totals are widely published in free sources, finding both sub-totals and lists of deals is more difficult and usually requires access to paid-for sources. In this article Ian Hunter considers the best paid-for and free sources and looks at the caveats in relying on them. In essence, he asks ‘why don't the sources agree?’ and provides a ‘jargon buster’ and a critique of sources in M&A, leveraged finance and capital markets.

Keywords

mergers and acquisitionsleveraged financedebt capital marketsequity capital marketsfinancial marketsbusiness development researchbusiness information sources
Type
Selection of Papers from the Biall Conference 2017
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 17 , Issue 4 , December 2017 , pp. 229 - 232
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnote

1 Weinberg & Blank on Takeovers and Mergers (Rabinowitz, Laurence ed). 5th ed. Sweet & Maxwell, Release April 2017, 1001–1Google Scholar