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Lina Saigol has been a business journalist for almost 12 years and has worked for both The Guardian and Sunday Business.
She moved to the Financial Times in 2000 and has spent the last seven years writing on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including breaking news of deals as well as analysis. - -
Old M&A heroes can’t get no satisfaction
Ask any chief executive of a large global company to name Wall Street’s top dealmakers and they will start to stutter. The days when M&A advisers took centre stage are gone
A painful prognosis for big drugmakers
The world’s leading pharmaceuticals companies are under threat from a slowdown in new product development, tighter generic competition and expiring patents
How to get the magic circle turning again
Get a bank to lend you money to buy back a loan that it has been forced to sell because you borrowed it from them at such a cheap rate in the first place
Bankers forget there’s life after death
Investment banks must stop mourning subprime losses and start looking forward. The world’s biggest banks have spent more than eight months attending their own funerals and have neglected to think about how to resurrect revenue streams
Case of déjà vu on risky debts
Banks are counting on the fees from restructuring companies to counter the fall in traditional investment banking revenues such as M&A. But do the numbers stack up?
Best time to act is before your rivals do
If Royal Bank of Scotland is forced into a £12bn ($23.6bn) rights issue to boost its capital ratios and repair its damaged balance sheet, it should move sooner rather than later.
Diamond wedding for stricken UBS?
UBS needs to be rescued, and who better to do it than Bob Diamond, the president of Barclays, asks Lina Saigol
UBS does not have much time before it splits
The joke across global trading floors is that UBS will soon stand for U’ve Been Split, writes Lina Saigol
Citigroup sticks its neck out
Need to raise some M&A finance? Give Citigroup a call.As other banks decline to dance with clients, the US bank is doing the rhumba
Banks have done badly but their input is still of worth
When the credit crunch ends, Lina Saigol asks whether investment banks should go back to financing private equity deals as well as advising on them
