{"id":12322,"date":"2009-10-05T07:52:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12322"},"modified":"2009-10-05T07:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T11:52:11","slug":"silicon-valley-sees-surge-in-deal-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2009\/silicon-valley-sees-surge-in-deal-making.html","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley sees surge in deal-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"mn_Global\"><span id=\"mn_Article\">Mecury News &#8211; September brought a sharp uptick in M&amp;A activity, according to the 451 Group, a firm that analyzes the tech industry. The month began with the $2 billion &#8220;carve out&#8221; deal for Skype, in which eBay sold 65 percent of the company to a consortium led by the Menlo Park-based private equity group Silver Lake Partners, with participation by venture firms Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Analyst Brenon Daly predicted that the September &#8220;acceleration&#8221; suggests that t<span id=\"mn_Global\"><span id=\"mn_Article\">he climate is right for more deal-making in the months ahead.David W. Healey, co-chairman of M&amp;A for law firm Fenwick &amp; West, said the recent deals have largely advanced strategic interests of the companies involved, &#8220;which is healthy,&#8221; as opposed to deals based more on &#8220;financial engineering&#8221; involving private equity and hedge funds that characterized much of the M&amp;A earlier this decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/ci_13473328?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mecury News &#8211; September brought a sharp uptick in M&amp;A activity, according to the 451 Group, a firm that analyzes the tech industry. The month began with the $2 billion &#8220;carve out&#8221; deal for Skype, in which eBay sold 65 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11708,8517,2916,15916],"class_list":["post-12322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-hedge-funds","tag-private-equity-group","tag-silicon-valley","tag-venture-firms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12322"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12324,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12322\/revisions\/12324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}