Word: kpmg
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Nathan Shields, 27, KPMG consultant at Morgan Stanley...
...Liberia - and the Isle of Man. This triggered much indignant huffing and puffing from the island, which maintained it had no reason to be on the list and that other inquiries had put it in the top division for good practices. Says Gregory Jones, tax partner at accountants KPMG: "We genuinely believed we weren't the sort of jurisdiction at which the OECD was aiming its initiative...
According to the Centre for Management Buyout Research at the University of Nottingham, there were 45 public-to-private deals in Britain in 1999 worth $6.83 billion, up from 27 worth $3.98 billion in '98. And KPMG Corporate Finance says the growth is continuing; deals during the second quarter of 2000 were worth $8.7 billion, a 334% increase over the first quarter. In Continental Western Europe, the trend is even steeper: 27 deals worth $3.84 billion last year, up from three deals worth $224.3 million in 1998. Significant transactions include KKR's $940.5 million acquisition of British conglomerate Wassall, whose...
...that it may be a little early for Europe to support a true e-tailer. "The online market in Europe, in terms of the number of computers and ISPs and people's general comfort level with the Web, may not be mature enough yet," he says. But e-liquidator KPMG says it's already gotten 30 offers for disposing of boo.com's lifeless husk and will probably make a sale by next week. If the new owners watch their money a little more closely and get the trains running on time, boo.com may yet come back to haunt...