Cherie Smith Homa, Group Head of KPMG Corporate Finance's Investment Banking Team Quoted in Buyouts

January 08, 2007

In the January 08, 2007 issue of Buyouts, KPMG Corporate Finance had an opportunity to provide commentary to Ari Nathanson's article, 2006: Year of the Mega-Buyout.  Nathanson's article addressed previous predictions of financing trends, LBOs, company quality and was open to any additional feedback KPMG Corporate Finance had to offer relative to these trends in 2007. 

Cherie Smith Homa, Group Head and Managing Director of KPMG Corporate Finance's Investment Banking Team, was quoted with respect to these trends in a growing space, the on-line media sector.

According to Smith Homa, "Online media is a popular industry now -- companies that compete in the same space as Google and Yahoo, but on a much smaller scale,"  Smith Homa adds, "People have recognized that consumers and individuals spend more time looking at things online -- whether its content, advertising or whatever -- and we've seen a number of transactions in the space led by both financial and strategic buyers."

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