The media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips has come out with its annual deals review report (we covered other boutique banks’ reports here and here). Some interesting stats and this below on the tussle between two major players in the media M&A market:
“What about the lion-and-the-unicorn contest between financials and strategics in 2007? Measured by their participation in the top 15 deals of the year, the strategics maintained their ground, doing five of the top 15 deals this year, just as they did in 2006. Their 33% deal-count share, however, understates the strength of strategic buyers: the value of those five deals represented almost two-thirds (62%) of the total dollar value of the top fifteen deals. The interesting question is how did the ongoing turmoil in the credit markets affect the two rival camps in 2007
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