Mergers & Acquisitions Blog 
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Five Merger & Acquisition Trends to Watch
Jean Stack of Houlihan Lokey: reports there are 5 M&A trends in the government contracting trend:
1. The re-emergence of big deals.
2. Private [financial buyer] equity as a formidable competitor to strategic buyers.
3. Fewer organizational conflict of interest related corporate divestitures. [This seems to run against what I am reading?]
4. New growth markets [intelligence, cyber and command\control arenas].
5. Continued public-company transactions.
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David C. Seitter
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Final Word on SBA's HUBZone Program
The final rule that amends the Federal Acquisiton Regulation (FAR) to implement revisions to the Small Business
Administration’s HUBZone Program is in place. In order to be awarded a HUBZone contract, the contractor must be a HUBZone small business both at the time of the initial offer and the award of the contract. This rule also requires that in general construction or for special trade contractors, the HUBZone contractor must spend at least 50% of the contract performance employee cost on its own employees or subcontract employees of other HUBZone contractors.
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David C. Seitter
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
Thursday, October 07, 2010
What's Hot! Hot! Hot? - Mergers & Acquisitions in Government
Washington Technology reports M&A continues to be hot in one area...government! But read the
article close as valuation multiples are down and there is caution throughout the industry given the concern government is seeking to scale back defense expenditures.
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David C. Seitter
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Why This is a Great Time to Buy a Business
A provision of the bill states:
"Non-corporate taxpayers may exclude 50 percent of the gain from the sale of certain small business stock acquired at original issue and held for more than five years. For stock acquired after February 17, 2009 and before January 1, 2011, the exclusion is increased to 75 percent. The bill would temporarily further increase the amount of the exclusion to 100 percent of the gain from the sale of qualifying small business stock that is acquired after the date of enactment in 2010 and held for more than five years.
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David C. Seitter
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
How Well Do You Think the DOD Communicates?
The Department of Defense issued new acquisition process regulations on September 14, 2010. From what it looks like, the 23 point memo could be interpreted as the DOD's effort to try to find new ways to communicate needs and expectations.
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David C. Seitter
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Monday, September 20, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Is the National Infrastructure Bank the Missing Link?
Have you been following the developments on the National Infrastructure Bank announced by President Obama over the Labor Day holiday? They seem to support the P3 notion for most of us that private and state money will be needed to re-invigorate our economy. But P3 has been going on for some time, so do we need to do to energize this devise? Is the National Infrastructure Bank the missing link?
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David C. Seitter
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Monday, September 13, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Are You Moving Forward with Opportunities?
Another interesting article today from Washington suggests M&A activities are slowed by pickier buyers. Ya Think!. Given the relative lack of significant competitive players or an urgency to avoid "letting one get away" this could be a true statement. But when will folks choose not to participate in the recession and move forward with opportunities?
Stay tuned.
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David C. Seitter
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Could This Proposed Rule Reshape the Real Estate Industry?
An interesting speculation was raised by David Hubler of
WashingtonTechnology.com suggesting
Northrop Grumman's decision to buy a building in the D.C. area FOR CASH is based upon a proposed accounting rule from
FASB and IASB that will change the way leases can be accounted for on corporate financial statements. Companies may be required to account for leases as a right of use (ROU) and the lease payments as a liability! Could this reshape the real estate industry and drive development?
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David C. Seitter
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Isn't It All About Profits and Value?
"Companies advance myriad strategies for creating value with acquisitions - buy only a handful are likely to do so." and then indicates the five types of successful acquisitions are generated through "...improving the performance of the target company, removing excess capacity from an industry, creating market access for products, acquiring skills or technologies more quickly or at lower cost than they could be built in-house, and picking winners early and helping them develop their businesses."
Mike Nall of AMAA points out these facts but at the end of the day....isn't it all about profits and value?
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David C. Seitter
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010