Whose heading to the @ICSC #DealMaking event in the Windy City next month?Would love to see you there http://bit.ly/2x5gdJn #RoyalService

Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem
#Trump’s Mentality for #Dealmaking
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… All of this confirms what lies in the mentality of Trump that is looking for dealmaking. In return for the US protection of the Gulf States from the Iranian threat, the Gulf States will have to pay the cost of such protection, i.e. to put its money more broadly at the disposal of #America in order to maintain their chairs of governance. America is treating these rulers as juveniles. There are many evidences that prove the Mafia mentality that the Trump administration have, and President Trump is not the only one in the US that adopts an international royalties approach, the US Congress adopted #JUSTA law in 2016 under the Obama administration, which as result it became possible to withhold funds of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States because of " #terrorist " acts.

America is experiencing a real economic crisis that forced it to reduce its general budget, and with its huge debts, and the rise of #China economically, they are always looking for big solutions, as the Bush Jr #administration considered the economic solution to be the occupation of Iraq and to invest its oil, but the resistance in Iraq prevented him from this, he was forced to spend $3 trillion for the #Iraq disaster. #Obama tried to hit the British tax havens to attract big money back from remote islands to America, then the JUSTA law followed to make money out of tax and penalise for "terrorism", and now Trump wants the world’s wealthy countries to pay international royalties to receive protection as a way to resolve the dilemma of the #US_economy, Trump ventured with his promise to solve the US debt (20 trillion dollars) in eight years!

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A boom in European deal-making activity - a sign better growth prospects are boosting confidence in European corporate boardrooms - is helping support stock market valuations which, on some measures, appear stretched. A brighter outlook for the global and regional economy, buoyant stock markets and low borrowing costs have underpinned #mergerandacquisition (M&A) activity in #Europe, which is enjoying its best 3-month period since 2007, according to Reuters calculations. Moreover, rising share prices of both acquirer and target companies when deals are announced suggest shareholders are willing to back mergers, a shift from recent years when they preferred dividends and cautious spending.


#Mergers #DealMaking #Takeovers #Acquisitions #MergersandAcquisitions
'Sweet spot' in European M&A puts floor under valuations
http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-markets-stocks-m-a-idUKKBN16O1UH

From a seller's perspective, Chinese #dealmaking is placing a larger focus on #deal certainty and price. #Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-26/what-chinese-regulations-mean-for-deal-making-video #MnA #PEDeals #PrivateEquity #Mergers #Acquisitions #ChineseRegulations #Dealmaking

#Microsoft is acquiring the #Chalkup classroom collaboration platform and hiring its founder to work on Microsoft's Teams product. Chalkup officials said they would be bringing elements of Chalkup into the Microsoft Teams for #Education service, citing as an example Chalkup's criteria-based grading rubrics. Chalkup will shut down on June 30, 2018. Existing customers will be able to continue to run their Chalkup courses until the school year ends and will have the ability to export their course information to Microsoft Teams.


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Microsoft to integrate Chalkup's classroom collaboration tech into Teams
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-integrate-chalkups-classroom-collaboration-tech-into-teams/

#Microsoft is beefing up its Slack-like collaboration software, Microsoft Teams, with the technology-know how and the founder from collaboration software #startup #Chalkup. Following the hire, Microsoft says it will bring some of the features Chalkup had built to the Microsoft Teams for #Education product experience. Chalkup was founded in 2013 by CEO Justin Chando, who’s joining Microsoft as a result of this deal, and CTO Tim Costa, who left Chalkup in 2015.

Moving forward, Chalkup says some of its best-loved features will be integrated into Microsoft Teams. However, the companies so far have only disclosed one that’s definitely making the transition: Chalkup’s criteria-based grading rubrics that let teachers give students feedback on their work. Chalkup itself was not a large company – one founder had left, and it had only raised a small seed round, according to Crunchbase. But Chalkup remained online all these years by being very capital efficient, and had built software that was in demand in the classroom, and as an acquisition target.


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Microsoft hires classroom collaboration startup Chalkup founder to expand Microsoft Teams
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/microsoft-acquires-classroom-collaboration-startup-chalkup-to-expand-microsoft-teams/

#Book #attempts to #demystify #Trump's #dealmaking #policies #socialnews

New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) There has been a substantial shift in the bilateral, regional and multilateral foreign trade policy of the United States post Trump taking over as the President. Author Amiya Chandra’s latest book “Indian Foreign Trade: Trumped…

Insights on recent #dealmaking developments, proposed regulations and its impact on #MnA to be discussed on #ACG's Webinar with our own +Alvarez & Marsal #Taxand Managing Director Dan Rahill and #SmithAmundsenLLC. https://www.acg.org/events/webinar-developments-dealmaking-and-proposed-regulation-and-impact-ma +Stephanie DeYoung +Mira Ilieva Leonard #TaxInsights #AMTaxand #Mergers #Acquisitions #PrivateEquity #SmithAmundsen #ACGGlobal #AlvarezandMarsal

Learn more about A&M Taxand: https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/expertise/tax

#Trump may be the #dealmaking president in more ways than one. U.S. #mergerandacquisition transactions totalled $1.2tn since President Trump was elected, according to Thomson Reuters data. That's from nearly 12,700 deals stretching from Nov. 6, 2016 to Nov. 2, 2017. In terms of dollar amount and number of transactions, that is the most for the first year of all modern presidents.

While the dollar amount was down from the previous year, the number of deals rose overall. Volume has increased steadily since 2011. Thirteen of the deals in the past year were over $10bn, also the most of a modern president's first year since election. There were 10 such deals in President Obama's first year and 8 under George W. Bush.


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Trump era ushered in wave of M&A on hope for deregulation and tax reform
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/trump-era-ushered-in-wave-of-ma-on-hope-for-deregulation-and-tax-reform.html