Bankers said the only other institutions planning delayed payouts were small operators, such as boutique merger and acquisitions advisory firms.
Microsoft's salvo brings sunshine to an otherwise gloomy merger and acquisitions market.
With this year's merger and acquisitions rates just off all-time highs of 1999 and 2000, owners who never planned to sell their companies are getting pulled in.
Private equity and merger and acquisitions have stormed the business.
In the last decade, Goldman, like other Wall Street banks, has built up its trading and private equity groups alongside its more traditional asset management and merger and acquisitions advisory units.
Weisel's firm helped oversee 79 stock underwritings and 14 merger-and-acquisitions deals last year.
Cavendish Corporate Finance, a British merger-and-acquisitions boutique, hopes that something similar is true in the business world.
In our diversified micro cap GAMCO Westwood Mighty Mites Fund (WEMMX), merger and acquisition activity has also been robust, with six announced acquisitions of holdings in the September quarter joining the seven announced in the first half of the year.
Ellison had insisted he wouldn't buy his way into applications, saying acquisitions were disastrous, given the technical challenges and the fact that engineers often flee after a merger.
Maybe we are all tiring of banks making acquisitions of other banks at four times book value, and maybe we don't believe the merger savings are all they're cracked up to be.
What does not help is the sometimes murky relationship between the government and some of the country's biggest firms which can make the targets of such acquisitions or potential merger partners nervous about doing deals with the Chinese.
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