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01/17/12   Strategic Acquisitions Financed With Cash Begin to Resemble Private-Equity Deals (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist
12/16/11   U.S. Water Industry May See Greater Deal Activity as Hydro-Fracking Demand GrowsNew Industry Norm (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6) 
11/07/11   Statoil's Above-Average Bid for Brigham Shouldn't Be Considered New Industry Norm (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
09/27/11   Coal Miners Make Likely Acquisition Targets After Shares Decline on Profit Warnings (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 11)
09/09/11   Capital One’s Proposed ING Direct Deal Marks Important Test for ‘Too Big to Fail’ Rules (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
08/11/11   BHP Billiton's Bid for Petrohawk Reprices Value of U.S. Natural Gas Reserves (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
07/13/11
  Private-Equity Transactions Have Higher Equity Commitments Than During LBO Boom (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
07/07/11
  Bucyrus Purchase of Terex Unit Was Favorable to Shareholders After Caterpillar Deal (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
06/06/11
  Delaware Litigation May Result in Improved Merger Consideration (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
06/03/11
  Marathon Purchase Puts Premium on Domestic Energy Reserves (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 7)
05/16/11
  Justice Department Puts Antitrust Risk Back Into Merger Reviews (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 5)
03/29/11
  Deal Disclosures have Treasure Trove of industry analysis, insights (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
03/24/11
  Western Digital purchase to Test obama’s antitrust enforcement (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 5)
03/22/11
  Natural gas companies could gain From Nuclear power’s Woes  (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 6)
03/03/11
  FTc boosted granting of early Termination requests, annual report Shows (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 5)
02/14/11
  California law May Prolong tender/exchange deals (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 5)
01/27/11
  Chevron to Pay Premium for atlas assets that exceeds Past range (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 7)
01/07/11
  Private-equity Firms Put more ‘Skin in game’ than During last lBo Boom  (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 8)
12/29/10
  M&A poised to grow in 2011 (MarketWatch : Tom Burnett interview)
12/23/10
  Energy Companies with Proven reserves may Be takeover targets (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 8) 
12/17/10
  Medical-Device Deals Trigger Search for value among possible Targets (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 10) 
12/03/10
  Storage firms Could Still Be targets after Seagate's Canceled Buyout (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist & Daniel Daniel, contributor Page 8
11/24/10
  Cost Savings make big Difference in Determining Successful mergers  (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 11) 
11/12/10
  U.S Coal Producers Become Focus of Takeover Speculation (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 3) 
10/29/10
  ARB ANALYSIS: Gymboree Buyout Points to Potential Takeover Targets Among Retailers (Bloomberg BRIEF - Tom Burnett, Guest Columnist Page 3) 
10/26/10
  CREDIT MARKETS: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Tap Debt Markets For Combined $2.8Bln (The Wall Street Journal Online)
10/12/10
  Amidst concerns about the world economy, the transparency and understanding of finance and indeed with a desire... (The Gathering Storm) 
08/30/10    Corporations Build Their Cash Coffers|Nighly Business Report ... Merger expert Tom Burnett says buying other companies makes perfect sense in a weak economy. BURNETT: In our view, in this kind ... (PBS
08/23/10
  Big deals on Wall Street: A wave of merger and acquisition activity has grabbed Wall Street's attention and could signal a change in the economic climate (Reuters
08/20/10
  Takeover Targets?: Why it's a prime time for M&A, with Tom Burnett, Wall Street Access, and Frank Aquila, Sullivan & Cromwell  (CNBC)
08/13/10     Dynegy's Sale to Blackstone Ends Slide by Company That Tried to Buy Enron( Bloomberg )
08/10/10
  U.S. Corporate Credit Risk Index Rises on Inventory Increase( Bloomberg )
06/30/10    CREDIT MARKETS: High-Grade Issuers Active Ahead Of Second Half(Dow Jones
06/30/10    Concerns Boost Treasury Prices(The Wall Street Journal)
06/29/10    Paucity Of High-Grade Corporate Bonds Helps Support Prices(Dow Jones
06/08/10   Credit Markets: Europe Continues To Cloud Credit Markets (Dow Jones) 
06/03/10    TREASURIES-Bonds dip as traders brace for robust job data (Reuters)
05/27/10    CREDIT MARKETS: DriveTime Sells First Junk Deal In A Week (Dow Jones) 
05/12/10   Caution Back in Vogue (The Wall Street Journal) 
05/11/10    Enterprise Products Sells $2B Of Debt In Three Parts (Dow Jones)
05/06/10    US CORP BONDS-Spreads spike wider on Greek contagion fears (Reuters)
05/04/10    Corporate Bonds Hammered By Fears About Greece, Oil, Rules (Dow Jones) 
04/20/10    CREDIT MARKETS: Freddie Mac Sells $1 Billion Reference Notes (Dow Jones Newswires) 
04/14/10    US CORP BONDS-Spreads tighten on robust bank earnings (Reuters)
03/26/10   Wal-Mart, Anheuser-Busch Sell Debt as Spreads Shrink (Bloomberg)
03/23/10    US CORP BONDS-Spreads widen as stocks sell off(Reuters)
03/04/10       CREDIT MARKETS: Corporate Credit Maintains Range (Dow Jones Newswire)
03/02/10    US CORP BONDS-Spreads tighter as Greece worries fade (Reuters)
02/18/10   US CORP BONDS-Spreads steady with Greece in focus (Reuters)
02/18/10   TREASURIES-Bonds down on strong data, record auction schedule (Reuters)
02/11/10   Is Tyco the Pete Rose or the Mark McGuire of the Deal-Making World? (The Wall Street Journal)





































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