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		<title>Strategic investments and innovation to help beat the odds</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/05/strategic-investments-and-innovation-to-help-beat-the-odds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/05/strategic-investments-and-innovation-to-help-beat-the-odds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 06:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Van Dyck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sustainability]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the economy continues to move toward recovery, leading private-company owners and management are focused on strategic investments and innovation, while keeping an eye on improvements that will enable them to better manage risk within the evolving business and economic landscape. The goal is building a resilient yet agile organization that will be well equipped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chemicals CEOs are juggling international expansion, rising R&amp;D expenditure and infrastructure upgrades with cost-cutting initiatives</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/03/chemicals-ceos-are-juggling-international-expansion-rising-rd-expenditure-and-infrastructure-upgrades-with-cost-cutting-initiatives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/03/chemicals-ceos-are-juggling-international-expansion-rising-rd-expenditure-and-infrastructure-upgrades-with-cost-cutting-initiatives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Van Dyck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cross-border]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[


The number of chemicals companies engaging in cross-border mergers and acquisitions is substantially higher than it is in other sectors, as the figure above shows. Thirty-three percent of chemicals CEOs have completed at least one such deal within the past 12 months and 46 percent plan to do so within the next 12 months.
Looking to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt Market update</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/02/debt-market-update/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/02/debt-market-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastien Gabay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[banking market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leveraged finance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The final quarter of 2009 saw encouraging signs of confidence returning across a broad spectrum of bank lending. The mild softening in pricing and the lengthening of tenors in the corporate market, a cluster of new leveraged buyouts at the end of 2009 and the re-entry of banks into the commercial property market (on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Depressed European IPO markets show an upturn in last quarter, laying foundations for recovery in first half of 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/01/depressed-european-ipo-markets-show-an-upturn-in-last-quarter-laying-foundations-for-recovery-in-first-half-of-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2010/01/depressed-european-ipo-markets-show-an-upturn-in-last-quarter-laying-foundations-for-recovery-in-first-half-of-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Ujvari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IPO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock exchange]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/?p=523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On 8 January 2010, PwC has published the Q4 2009 IPO Watch Europe report. The IPO Watch Europe surveys all new primary market equity IPOs on Europe’s principal stock markets and market segments (including exchanges in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK).
Europe’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit where credit&#8217;s due?</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/11/credit-where-credits-due/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/11/credit-where-credits-due/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sebastien Gabay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leveraged finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multiples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restructuring]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whilst credit markets have improved since the beginning of the year, borrowers continue to find raising or extending existing credit lines challenging. One of the big stories of the year has been the bond market.
Banks remain cautious and often reluctant to advance loans to new customers. However, during the third quarter, upward pricing pressure on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Global Transportation and Logistics M&amp;A transaction analysis 2009: positive contribution of Russia and China to deal volume and value</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/09/global-transportation-and-logistics-ma-transaction-analysis-2009-positive-contribution-of-russia-and-china-to-deal-volume-and-value/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/09/global-transportation-and-logistics-ma-transaction-analysis-2009-positive-contribution-of-russia-and-china-to-deal-volume-and-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Van Dyck</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deal value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deal volume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&A]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transactions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transport & Logistics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/?p=361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The economic downturn continues to negatively impact deal activity and deal value in the first half of 2009. Global deal volume in the transportation and logistics (T&#38;L) sector was down 45% in the second quarter of 2009, compared to the prior quarter, and overall deal value dropped 55% over the same time period.

Far behind the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maximising success with Emerging Market acquirers</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/06/maximising-success-with-emerging-market-acquirers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/06/maximising-success-with-emerging-market-acquirers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Didier De Smet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[distress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[emerging markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-growth markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M&A]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/?p=223</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the last six years (2003-2008), Emerging Market entities made some 844 acquisitions or investments in Western Europe with a combined value of nearly € 120 billion (of which some 3% in Belgium).
 
As a result of the ‘credit crunch’ and the global economic slowdown, 2008 has been a week year for global M&#38;A activity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investments in the automotive industry ?</title>
		<link>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/03/investments-in-the-automotive-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/2009/03/investments-in-the-automotive-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Didier De Smet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Automotive Supplier Industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Private Equity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pwcblogs.be/transactions/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our German practice issued a new publication on the Private Equity Investments in the Automotive Supplier Industry. 
 
It describes how the automotive industry has been hit hard in 2008 with a decline in global GDP growth leading to a decline in its business prospects, uncertainty about the direction the industry will take and the drying up [...]]]></description>
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