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| 06.01.2012 |
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Private Equity in a Post-ECA World: Where Does it Stand?
Private equity firms have long been a source of funding for ambitious satellite companies. However, with testing economic times as well as new modes of financing being used, their role in the sector going forward is open to debate. Private equity firms have a...
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| 06.01.2012 |
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Satellite Finance: Jobs Act Eases Capital Raising
The “Jumpstart Our Business Startups” (JOBS) Act, enacted on April 5, 2012, is the first significant liberalization of the U.S. capital markets regulatory regime since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 clamped down on securities offerings in the wake...
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| 01.01.2011 |
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Satellite Financing: New Avenues Open Market to More Players
In times of economic gloom, investment banks, export credit agencies and private equity companies look to find safe investments in companies that provide few risks. Over the past year, the satellite sector has proven itself as a representative of these solid...
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| 10.01.2010 |
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The Regulatory Pendulum
For years now, legal, finance and government intelligentsia have propounded a purely competition-based theory of regulation, in which, as long as markets were competitive and transparent, industry-specific types of regulation would become substantially...
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| 09.07.2010 |
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Bankers Pitch for New Satellite Business at Euroconsult 
[Satellite News 09-07-10] For satellite operators, new or old, now is potentially a great time to get new financing, according to Euroconsult World Satellite Business Week panelists. The forum, “Commercial and Investment Banking...
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| 08.01.2010 |
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Wall Street Reform and the Satellite Sector
President Obama was expected to sign into law in July the Dodd-Frank Act, the most extensive reform of financial services regulation since the Great Depression. The reforms look to be far more extensive than what Wall Street hoped for, including a substantial...
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| 05.01.2010 |
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Investors: Finding Safety in Satellite Again
After helping to reshape the FSS landscape, investors took a step back from satellite during the economic downturn. Now old and new investors are being lured back by promising opportunities. An influx of private equity into the satellite communications sector...
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| 05.01.2009 |
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‘Too Big to Fail’ and ‘Creative Destruction’
In March, we took a break from financial issues affecting the satellite sector specifically to discuss general economic conditions and the Obama Administration’s fiscal stimulus package. We also examined those phrases we have all learned —...
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| 02.01.2009 |
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The New CFIUS Regime and Sovereign Wealth Funds
The New CFIUS Regime and Sovereign Wealth Funds This column previously has reported on the impact of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) on the satellite industry. In November, the...
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| 12.01.2008 |
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Looking Ahead To 2009
2008 closes with a potential bottom of the financial institutions/credit crisis that began in the summer of 2007 and spread from the subprime mortgage market to the entire financial services industry in the second and third quarters of 2008. This crisis has...
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| 10.15.2008 |
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Financial Crisis Looms Over Satellite Investment Symposium
[Satellite News 10-15-08] The discussion between financial analysts and satellite executives at the ISIS Satellite Investment Symposium was dominated by talk of the recent financial crisis on Wall Street. Craig Moffett, managing director of...
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| 10.01.2008 |
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Hedge Funds and the Satellite Industry (Part II)
Last month, we reviewed the preliminary "Master Contribution and Support" agreement by hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, which has invested broadly in the mobile satellite service (MSS) sector to acquire leading MSS operator Inmarsat. Harbinger...
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| 09.01.2008 |
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Hedge Funds and the Satellite Industry (Part I)
In 2003 and 2004, the satellite industry was abuzz with speculation about the entry of private equity firms into the fixed satellite service sector, and we analyzed many potential positive and negative impacts...
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| 02.01.2008 |
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Mergers And Acquisitions: Material Adverse Change
The recent turmoil in credit markets has caused acquirers and their lenders in several high-profile pending merger and acquisition transactions to seek ways to withdraw from or renegotiate signed deals, because the expected financing either is not available...
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| 01.01.2008 |
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Reverse Mergers: Going Public Without Underwriting
The use of so-called “reverse mergers” in the United States has blossomed in recent years. What formerly was an “on-the-cheap” method of attaining public company status — employed by sometimes shady promoters — has...
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| 07.01.2007 |
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Rejection Of AsiaSat Deal Highlights Commercial Impact Of Export Control
In April, the U.S. State Department used the American technology export regulatory regime to bar the $295 million acquisition of AsiaSat by its principal shareholders, GE Capital Equity Investments and Citic Group of China. The deal would have taken AsiaSat...
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| 06.01.2007 |
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Intelsat: In Play Again
The Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) sector, which has shown signs of settling into a period of operational growth after three years of financial engineering and consolidation, was thrown back into turmoil in April when reports surfaced that private equity firm...
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| 04.01.2007 |
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The Public Company Regulatory Burden and Privatization of the U.S. Economy
This column has analyzed both the probable impact of private equity investment in the satellite sector and the regulatory burdens imposed on publicly listed companies in the United States in the wake of the Arthur Andersen, WorldCom and Enron accounting...
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| 03.05.2007 |
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Loral Space & Communications Completes MHR Financing Deal Over Objections From Other Investors
Loral Space & Communications completed a sale of $300 million of stock to MHR Fund Management LLC, Loral's largest shareholder, Loral announced Feb. 27. The deal was announced in October and was delayed after other shareholders raised opposition...
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| 01.01.2007 |
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New Year’s Deals
The resurgence of Mobile Satellite Services (MSS), an industry and Wall Street pariah after the bankruptcies of Iridium, Globalstar and ICO in the late 1990s, was one of the major themes of the satellite industry in 2006. Inmarsat’s successful initial...
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