The Envelope, Please…

by | April 9, 2004 | Articles, Leadership | 1 comment

The American Lawyer has published its "Corporate Scorecard
2003" ranking the top firms in a broad range of transactional categories
from IPO’s (you guessed it—dead) to bankruptcy (also counter-intuitively
quiet) to municipal bond issuance ("who are these guys?").  They
provide a narrative summary as well as the full rankings.

Common wisdom has it that the small uptick of M&A deals at the end of
the year is precursor to far more robust activity in 2004.  While
I’m generally averse to forecasting major trends from minor data points,
I actually am optimistic that this is the correct point of view.  Why?

Primarily because most of corporate America will have cleared out its Sarbanes-Oxley
underbrush and will be able to look outward and ahead rather than inward
and back.

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  1. Patently Obvious
    Patently Obvious on April 10, 2004 at 4:53 pm

    Weekly Thank You

    Its time for my weekly thank you for those who have helped with the weblog this week. Israel Encinosa helped with editing; Chan Stroman provided a listing of UChicago weblogs; Paul Goyette provided a listing of chicago weblogs; Adam Charnes,

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