March Top 5

March 28, 2008

MergersUnleashed's top 5 most viewed stories during the month of March:

1. Swift River's Ben James Speaks
March 19, 2008
Avram Davis questions Swift River Investments' Benjamin Davis on the virtues of the small-cap market, and the relationship with his brother Hamilton "Tony" James, a large-cap heavyweight.

2. Sizing Up the Candidates
March 2008
Christopher O'Leary looks at what a new president could mean to the M&A community, and finds changes could come in antitrust law, cross-border deals, taxes and corporate governance.

3. Open Source M&A Takes Shape
March 10, 2008
Jerry Abejo finds not only is open source forcing changes in the way software companies do business, they're forcing dealmakers to look at valuations in a whole new way too.

4. American Education Group Finds Add-on
March 6, 2008
Avram Davis explains the synergies behind private school company American Education Group's acquisition of Little Sprouts, a pre-kindergarten educator.

5. Thomas Weisel CFO Makes Jump to Vector
March 10, 2008
Avram Davis breaks news of David Baylor's leap from investment banking to private equity, joining San Francisco tech PE firm Vector Capital.