Jeffrey Goldfarb

New York

Global Corporate Finance Editor at Breakingviews

Reuters Breakingviews. Long-suffering Philadelphia sports fan. M&A nerd. Old school.

Articles

Biotech nears cure for Chinese corporate epidemic

1 week ago | breakingviews.com | Jeffrey Goldfarb

NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Just as Covid lingers, so too does a protracted corporate battle over more than $10 billion earned trying to protect people from the deadly virus. A ruthless clash for control of Sinovac Bioscience, whose vaccine became one of the world’s biggest sellers, has left its stock untradeable on Nasdaq for more than six years.
Private equity’s nightmare on Main Street: podcast

2 weeks ago | reuters.com | Jeffrey Goldfarb

Follow on Apple or Spotify. Listen on the Reuters app. A spate of books chronicling the industry’s harmful economic effects are exacerbating its financial quandaries. In this episode of The Big View podcast, ‘Bad Company’ author Megan Greenwell discusses how buyout shops dash the American dream, and ways to thwart them from doing so. (The host is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist.
Private equity’s nightmare on Main Street: podcast

2 weeks ago | breakingviews.com | Jeffrey Goldfarb

A spate of books chronicling the industry’s harmful economic effects are exacerbating its financial quandaries. In this episode of The Big View podcast, ‘Bad Company’ author Megan Greenwell discusses how buyout shops dash the American dream, and ways to thwart them from doing so. Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. , opens new tabJeffrey is Breakingviews' Global Corporate Finance Editor, based in New York.
Mega-deal truce augurs gentler trustbuster norm

1 month ago | today.westlaw.com | Jeffrey Goldfarb |Pranav Kiran

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - New competition cops are making their presence known. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday blessed the $35...
Las SPAC provocan un grave caso de amnesia en Wall Street

1 month ago | cincodias.elpais.com | Jeffrey Goldfarb

Tragedia más tiempo es la fórmula de la comedia, pero en Wall Street equivale a oportunidad. Espera un poco y hasta los más caros fracasos resurgirán. No hay más que fijarse en el fenómeno de las sociedades fantasma repletas de efectivo diseñadas para encontrar objetivos de adquisición, que están regresando de forma inesperada solo unos años después de una fatídica farsa. Los inversores suscribieron libremente estas empresas cheque en blanco en 2020 y 2021.
SPACs trigger bad case of Wall Street amnesia

1 month ago | reuters.com | Jeffrey Goldfarb

NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Tragedy plus time is the formula for comedy, but on Wall Street it equals opportunity. Wait a while and even the costliest failures will be resurrected. Look no further than the phenomenon of cash-stuffed shells designed to find takeover targets, which are making an unlikely return just a few years after a fateful farce. Investors freely underwrote such blank-check firms in 2020 and 2021.
SPACs trigger bad case of Wall Street amnesia

1 month ago | breakingviews.com | Jeffrey Goldfarb

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Charter deal runs valuable $35 billion extension cord

1 month ago | today.westlaw.com | Jennifer Saba |Maya Nandhini |Jeffrey Goldfarb

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Charter Communications is building a different sort of bundle. The U.S. cable operator agreed to acquire smaller rival Cox Communications in a $35 billion deal, including net debt. Hefty cost savings would come in...
UnitedHealth faces a long and painful recovery

1 month ago | today.westlaw.com | Maya Nandhini |Jeffrey Goldfarb

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Even UnitedHealth will struggle to overcome parasitic medical costs that Warren Buffett once called a tapeworm eating away at U.S. economic competitiveness. The $300 billion healthcare conglomerate reinstalled...
HP spawn inherits pugnacious M&A gene

1 month ago | today.westlaw.com | Jonathan Guilford |Maya Nandhini |Jeffrey Goldfarb

NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Tinkering in a garage created Hewlett Packard 86 years ago, but fraught financial fiddling complicated matters. The technology pioneer's cloud networking offshoot, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is now battling a...