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Messier also advised Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity and the New York City-based private-equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in their $5 billion purchase of electrical equipment distributor Rexel, and he counseled computer-services company Unilog in its $1.1 billion sale to Britain's Logica. Other clients include French heavyweights Lagardère, PPR and Schneider Electric...
...Sierra Club (in return for a portion of sales). And to up its distribution, Clorox got Wal-Mart Stores to carry the entire line; so do a "very high percentage" of Clorox's other retailers. Cleaning is a $3.4 billion category, says Tom Vierhile, director of research firm Datamonitor's Productscan Online. "The natural market is still a little niche," he says, "but the bigger companies perceive a high-growth area...
Well, Larry, actually they don't. Alastair Dorward, CEO of Method Products, a San Francisco-based firm whose line of 150-plus household products grossed "well over $100 million" in 2007, says the presence of Clorox will prompt people "to start to question whether the products they currently use are good for families and the environment." He likes his odds...
Employee stock-purchase plans (ESPPs) are also thriving, and those cut out of options plans should consider agitating for an ESPP if their firm doesn't have one. An ESPP typically allows you to buy stock commission-free at a 5% discount from market...
...this amounts to, argues Frank Partnoy, a derivatives salesman turned University of San Diego law professor, who is one of the sharpest critics of the ratings status quo, is a "regulatory license" for the ratings agencies. It's certainly a license to print money. Moody's, the lone ratings firm for which data are available, made $702 million in after-tax profit last year, up from $289 million just five years before. Its operating profit margin was a stunning 50% of revenue. By comparison, Google...