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Recruitment Extra Dealing with a downturn: M&A when times are tougher
1:20pm Tuesday 31 March 2009 - Recruitment Extra

As this article is being written we have the news that global financial services giant, Lehman Brothers, has filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch has been sold to Bank of America with expected losses of US$15 billion and there are concerns over the viability of the insurance giant American Insurance Group. The media has had no shortage of gloomy stories out of the financial sector for some months now. But life and recruitment goes on; at least in Australia. Is this then a good time to sell a recruitment business or to buy?



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