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Mergers & Acquisitions - May, 2012
300 articles
- Judge Won't Stay West Penn Antitrust Suit Pending Merger
- Paul Hastings Nabs Dewey DOJ Vet As 4 Others Exit Broke Firm
- Brazil Merger Filings To Drop As Gov't Raises Thresholds
- High Court Seeks More Info On FTC, Ga. Hospital Merger Fight
- Europe's New Venture Capital Rules Draw Mixed Reviews
- Graco Must Sell ITW Unit Before $650M Buy, FTC Says
- Volcker Rule Should Build Hedging Firewall: Ex-FDIC Head
- Pay Practices Could Define Market Making Under Dodd-Frank
- Jones Day Helps Flowers Foods Gobble Lepage In $370M Buy
- Liberty Ramps Up Sirius Takeover Bid With Stock Conversion
- Gibson Aids Marriott In $210M Buy Of Gaylord Hotel Rights
- Del. High Court Keeps Martin Marietta's $5B Vulcan Bid Frozen
- Fraser Guides National Oilwell's $233M Gas Supply Co. Buy
- Prudential Shells Out $621M For Swiss Re's US Life Arm
- Nike To Unload Cole Haan, Umbro Brands
- CGI To Drop $2.6B On Logica To Spawn Global IT Powerhouse
- Human Genome's Poison Pill Survives As GSK Eyes Coup
- Top 10 Things To Know About Mediation
- Winston & Strawn Aids Sycamore In $369M Talbots Buyout
- Facebook's $1B Instagram Buy Gets Closer Look By FTC
- Sirius Stamps Out Shareholder Suit Over XM Merger
- Whole Foods Escapes Wild Oats Consumer Antitrust Suit
- Simpson Thacher Nabs FTC Antitrust Atty
- Nomura Pays $266M For Olympus' Minority Stake In UBIC
- Eni To Sell Snam Stake For $4.4B Under Orders From Italy
- News Corp. OK'd Silence On Deal With Murdoch Daughter's Co.
- JPMorgan Sued Over $180M Liquidation Of Bear-Held Assets
- Fiat Proposes Merger With Equipment Unit CNH
- Judge Tosses Investor Suit Over $3B Atheros-Qualcomm Merger
- Caterpillar Nabs $115M For Bucyrus African Mining Business
- KPN Rejects America Movil's $3.2B Tender Offer
- $1B Pep Boys Buyout Sunk By Soft Sales
- Del. Decisions: Data Points, Not Doctrine
- Edgar Online Investor Says $70M Buyout Deal Out Of Line
- Canada Watchdog Wins Divestiture In CCS Merger Challenge
- Brazil Finalizes Merger Rules With Reduced Info Demands
- MoFo Lures Chadbourne Partner To Head PE Practice In NY
- DuPont Unit's Pannar Buy Gets OK From S. African Court
- Colfax Takes Control Of $235M Peruvian Welding Supplier
- Bingham Ramps Up Tech Ranks With Ex-DLA Piper Partner
- China's State Grid Inks $1B Deal For Brazilian Power Assets
- Emmis, Preferred Investors Spar Over CEO's Stock Buy
- Thomas H. Lee To Pay $400M For Fogo De Chao Chain
- Unserved Summons Lets VC Firm Off Hook In Derivative Suit
- Human Genome's Resistance To $2.6B GSK Offer Draws Fire
- Teledyne Plans $291M LeCroy Corp. Takeover
- Marubeni's $3.6B Gavilon Buy Grows Grain, Oil Network
- The Art Of Acquiring Distressed Natural Gas Assets
- Dewey & LeBoeuf Files For Bankruptcy
- Uncertainty Reigns On Eve Of Brazil's Antitrust Overhaul
- FCC General Counsel Schlick To Step Down
- Pelican Refining Seeks $76M From Sigma In Failed Deal
- Morgan Lewis Advises Pearson in $90M GlobalEnglish Buy
- Benihana Investor Sues To Nix $296M Angelo Gordon Buyout
- RG Steel Wins Arbitration Order In $125M Severstal Dispute
- Bazaarvoice Pays $152M For PowerReviews
- Shell Keeps $2B Offer Open In Bidding War For Cove Energy
- The Importance Of Hall V. United States
- DS Smith's $2.1B SCA Packaging Buy OK'd After Concessions
- Weil Reps Lehman On $1.6B Archstone Stake Buy
- Sycamore Partners Shelves $215M Talbots Purchase Offer
- Facebook's Instagram Deal: Why Is The FTC Involved?
- Dental Center Manager Gets Green Light For Sale To Lenders
- Takeda Puts Up $247M For Brazilian Drugmaker Multilab
- Mergers Can Start Noncompete Clocks, Ohio Court Says
- Judge Tosses Investor Suit Over $1.6B Blackboard Acquisition
- Tronox Atty Grills Kerr-McGee Adviser On Spinoff Plans
- $4B Takeover Bid Casts Shadow On Cloud Co.'s Success: Suit
- Evergreen Trustee Says Ex-Director Doomed Company
- DLA Piper Plucks Latham Tech M&A Ace For Silicon Valley
- Shareholder Says $890M Lane Bryant Sale A Lousy Fit
- Ryanair Loses Bid To Stop Probe Into Aer Lingus Stake Buy
- Stericycle Must Shed Recently Bought Rival, UK Regulator Says
- Sony Exits Sharp LCD Partnership To Stem TV Biz Losses
- General Mills To Pay $857M For Brazilian Food Co.
- Cost Plus Investor Blasts Bed Bath & Beyond's $494M Bid
- Weil Aids Silver Lake, Partners' $1.25B Travel Co. Buy
- Cox Guides CalSTRS In $800M LCOR, Lehman Real Estate Deal
- UK Competition Watchdog Wary About Akzo's Metcal Buy
- High Court Asked To Nix FTC Protest To Ga. Hospital Merger
- UK Bill Outlines Plan To Ease Prosecution Of Cartel Cases
- Ferrara Pan, Farley's & Sather To Unite As Sweets Leader
- West Penn Fights Buyer's Vow To Drop UPMC Antitrust Suit
- 3M, Cogent Resolve Investors' Challenge To $943M Merger
- Lathrop & Gage Snags 2 Abbott Labs Attys For IP Practice
- Why Draft A Standstill Provision When 'Between' is Enough?
- 5th Circ. Cans Challenge To Coke's 41-Year-Old Root Beer Buy
- RailAmerica Weighs Possible $1.3B Sale Amid Buffett Rumors
- Cove Energy Board Accepts PTT's $2B Takeover Bid
- Jones Day Reps SAP In $4.3B Deal For Cloud Firm Ariba
- Investor Trumps Ex-Troutman Atty In $100M Loan Contract Suit
- Beware Obstruction Of Justice In Merger Investigations
- Latham Adds 2 Vinson M&A Partners To Energy Group
- Best Practices For Corporate Social Responsibility
- Manatt Adds Latham Leveraged Finance Atty In LA
- Vista Picks Up Silverchair's Senior Care E-Learning Unit
- GeoResources Shareholders Sue To Nix $1B Sale to Halcon
- Glencore Takes $480M Majority Stake In Congo Mine
- Accor Checks Out Of Motel 6 With $2B Sale To Blackstone
- Kirkland Helps Angelo Gordon With $296M Benihana Buy
- EU To Probe Finnish Steel Co.'s $3.4B ThyssenKrupp Unit Buy
- Goldman Execs' Evals Off-Limits In Buyout Price-Fixing Row
- Paul Hastings Picks Up O'Melveny M&A Ace In Shanghai
- General Cable To Pay $185M For Rio Tinto's Wire Biz
- Del. High Court Rejects RAA Suit Over Due Diligence Costs
- Chemical Co. Lubrizol Hit With Antitrust Suit Over Rival Buy
- China OKs Google's $12.5B Motorola Buy After Android Deal
- Cadwalader Adds 3 Jones Day Markets Experts In Hong Kong
- Simpson Thacher Guides Eaton's $12B Cooper Acquisition
- Baker Hostetler Plucks Antitrust Guru From Mayer Brown
- Wick Phillips Launches Austin Office Led By Tech M&A Guru
- Investor Challenges $1.1B PF Chang's-Centerbridge Deal
- SMSC Shareholders Seek To Scuttle $939M Takeover
- Icahn Seizes Control Of CVR Energy Board With 80% Stake
- Cove Pushes Shell's $1.8B Offer As Deadline Nears
- Davis Polk Helps Chinese Co. With $2.6B Buy Of AMC
- DaVita Pays $4B For Health Network To Bolster Medicare Rolls
- NGL Energy Partners Bulks Up In $693M High Sierra Buy
- Man Group To Drop Up To $144M On FRM Holdings
- Buyers Beware: Avoidance Risk Travels With Debt Purchases
- Alibaba Will Spend $7B To Buy Back Yahoo's Stake
- Kabel Deutschland Pays $787M For Struggling Cable Rival
- El Paso Unit Spends $635M For Cheyenne, Colo. Interstate
- Conyers Targets Health Insurance Antitrust Shield Again
- Sellers Prepare: Health Care Due Diligence
- North Street Charts $322M Course For RV Maker Winnebago
- Nucor Adds Distributor For $605M As Arcelor Slims Down
- The UMG-EMI Merger And The Substitutability Of Sound
- Royal DSM Forks Over $534M For Fish Oil Extract Co.
- Northern Rock Sale Could Cost Britain $3.2B, Auditor Says
- Advocat Sued By Shareholders For Spurning $51M Takeover
- Stagecoach Pays $134M For Part Of Bankrupt Coach America
- Fenwick, Simpson Thacher Teams Help Launch Facebook IPO
- Kohl Troubled By Verizon's Internet Bundling Plan
- Akin Gump Recruits 2 Jones Day Tech Attys For LA Office
- Human Genome Rejects GSK's $2.6B Bid With Poison Pill
- Robinson & Cole Adds PE, Employment Law Partners
- Baker Reps Ukraine Developer On $202M Kiev Projects Sale
- Tronox Says Ex-Kerr-McGee General Counsel Knew Of Fraud
- Stiefel Must Pay Sales Rep $1.5M In ERISA, Fraud Suit
- Buchanan Ingersoll Swallows Litigation Boutique
- Cetero Purchased By Creditors In $80M Stalking Horse Deal
- Berkshire Hathaway Pays $142M For 63 Media General Papers
- Judge Trims Suit Over $1M Unreported SourceGas Merger Cash
- Carrefour Antitrust Fine Upheld In Polish Court
- Agilent Says $2.2B Dako Buy Will Boost Life Sciences Biz
- Altering 4(C) Documents May Land You In Jail
- EU Approves Suedzucker, ED&F Man Deal With Sell-Off
- Boyd Gaming Antes Up $1.4B For Casino Co.
- DLA Piper Adds DC Corporate Vet From Arnold & Porter
- Hicks Trust Forms $675M Venture With Paper Co. Appleton
- Poland Plans Individual Antitrust Fines, Upped Leniency Program
- Linklaters Aids Investor Group In $4B E.ON Gas Network Buy
- $140M Certiport Buy Stretches Pearson's Assessment Arm
- India's Piramal Pays $635M For US Health Data Co.
- State Of The Tax Equity Market: Part 3
- K&L Gates Adds RE, Corporate Partners In Moscow
- GE Digs Into Underground Mining With 2 Equipment Cos.
- Freshfields Counsels Cerberus In German Apartment Co. Buy
- Ex-Partner Says Troutman Shafted Him Over $20M MetCap Fee
- ProMedica Knew Of FTC Merger Probe, Insurer Tells 6th Circ.
- Tronox Trial Opens With Tales Of Doomed-To-Fail Co.
- PE-Backed Group Bids $1.25B For Aussie Pipeline Co.
- Avon Stock Skids After Coty Yanks $10.6B Buyout Bid
- Paul Weiss Pilots KPS' ThyssenKrupp Foundry Buy
- Kelley Drye Grabs SEC Veteran For NY Corporate Practice
- Alston Adds Dorsey Investment, Corporate Atty In Calif.
- UPMC Says West Penn Merger Warrants Stay Of Antitrust Suit
- News Corp. Buys 20% Stake In Chinese Film Co.
- Unclaimed Property In M&A Deals: Unwelcome Surprises
- Platte River Deals Away Aerospace, Defense Unit
- Duane Morris Starts Europe PE Practice With Ex-Kirkland Atty
- Inergy Shunts NY Salt Manufacturer To Subsidiary For $193M
- High Court Won't Hear KKR Appeal In Noteholder Battle
- Towers Watson Pays $435M For Leading Medicare Exchange
- Martin Marietta's $5B Hostile Bid For Rival Remains Blocked
- Davis Graham Aids PDC With $331M Buy In Colo. Field
- Weil Steers Golf Town's $97M Buy Of Major US Golf Retailer
- BMC Rejects Elliott Sale Proposal With Poison Pill
- PE-Backed Driller Sells $1B In Assets After Axing IPO
- Polish Court Denies PGE's $2.3B Rival Energy Co. Buy
- Ally Puts ResCap Rumors To Rest With Prepack Ch. 11
- US Airways Greets AMR Merger Exploration With Open Arms
- Martin Marietta Asks To Resume $5.5B Vulcan Bid Amid Appeal
- Corporate M&A Partner Joins Armstrong Teasdale In St. Louis
- PE Firm Falfurrias Unloads Stake In Equipment Finance Co.
- Investor Looks To Shelve $49M Books-A-Million Buyout Plan
- Spain's FCC Nets $175M For Baggage-Handling Branch
- HFBE Oversees $1B Merger Of 2 Residential Real Estate Cos.
- Vist Sale Price Too Low, Investor Suit Claims
- GE Must Aid Blowout Preventer Defense, Gas Co. Says
- Investor Seeks To Block DSM's $360M Kensey Nash Buyout
- Stradley Ramps Up Corporate Group With 2 New M&A Pros
- Cigna To Pay $295M For Senior-Focused AFG Insurance Unit
- Ace Stripped Reinsurance Unit Before $1B Sale, Suit Says
- Weathering Management Conflicts In Acquisitions
- Chem Rx Trustee Blames Bankruptcy On $162M LBO
- Plastics Co. Pact Gets OK To Buy Viscount, With Conditions
- HIG Ekes Out $49M Comverge Buy In Extended Tender Offer
- ITT Freed From Wyle's Suit Over $235M CAS Sale
- Latham Reels In Skadden Transactions Pro In LA
- Kodak Sells Off Special Effects Unit, Reignites Shutterfly Feud
- Spectrum, Allos Stretch Tender Offer After FTC Info Request
- Shell Closes In On $1.9B Cove Buy With Mozambique's Nod
- More Ex-Dewey Partners Land At Rival Firms
- Platinum Equity Grabs $750M Majority Stake In Caterpillar Unit
- FedEx Continues Euro Expansion With Tatex Buy
- Coty Boosts Avon Bid Past $10.6B, Sets Deadline
- Where Rubber Hits Road: Examples Of Alternative Fees
- Fed OKs First-Ever Chinese Bank Purchase Of US Bank
- Vinson PE Partner Joins Sidley Austin's Houston Office
- New Bidders Doom Challenge To Quest Buyout, Atty Says
- EasyLink Investor Cries Foul On $232M Buyout Deal
- GSK Bringing $2.6B Takeover Bid To Human Genome Investors
- HIG Extends $49M Comverge Offer After Failed Injunction Bid
- Squire Sanders Adds 4 Partners In China, Hong Kong
- Unison Snags Japanese Drugmaker From Fellow PE Funds
- Marathon Pays $750M For Texas Shale Player Paloma
- PacWest Goes Public With Spurned $212M Bid For First Calif.
- Wachtell Helps Hilltop With $520M PlainsCapital Buy
- State Of The Tax Equity Market: Part 2
- Bed Bath & Beyond To Pay $495M For World Market Parent
- Anadarko Released From Tronox Fraudulent Transfer Claim
- Delays Prompt Caris, MM Dillon To Drop Planned Merger
- FTC's Top Mergers Litigator To Leave Regulator
- Quarles & Brady Snags Skadden Litigator For Chicago Office
- K&L Gates Adds Ex-Foley Corporate Partner In Palo Alto
- Herrick Feinstein Nabs Katten Corporate Partner In NY
- CIMB Spends $290M For Stake In Philippine Bank
- Liberty Media Drops $650M To Grab 45% Stake In Sirius XM
- Asahi Pours Out $1.5B For Beverage Maker Calpis
- Consumers Ask 9th Circ. To Revive Airline Antitrust Suit
- Crosstex Energy To Pay $210M For Gas, Oil Co. Clearfield
- Energy Conversion Calls Off Ch. 11 Auction For Lack of Bids
- NewPage Creditors Seek Court Approval To Sue LBO Lenders
- Investor's China Gas Buyup Challenges $2B Sinopec Bid
- Penn National To Pay $610M For Caesars' St. Louis Casino
- $540M Debt Swap Gives Hedge Fund Majority Stake In Barneys
- Shareholder Tries To Stamp Out Shoe Giant's $2B Deal
- Dorsey Grabs Phillips Nizer Corporate Ace For NY Office
- MarkWest Drops $512M To Snap Up Keystone Midstream
- Asahi Stays Vague On Rumored $1.25B Beverage Co. Deal
- Schiff Hardin, DLA Piper Pick Up More Dewey Partners
- Nassau Broadcasting's $48M Radio Station Sales Get Clearance
- Imperial Sugar Investor Sues To Block $78M Sale
- Brazil's TozziniFreire Adds China-Focused M&A Partner
- Allscripts Enacts Poison Pill Following Stock Value Drop
- Sycamore Bumps Offer To $215M For Struggling Talbots
- Icahn's $2.6B Offer For CVR Wins Shareholder Approval
- Paul Hastings Helps LIN TV In $330M New Vision Deal
- DigitalGlobe Nixes $792M GeoEye Offer, Wants To Be Buyer
- Martin Marietta's $5.5B Hostile Bid For Vulcan Put On Hold
- FCC Sinks Liberty Media's Sirius XM Takeover Bid
- Veritas Head, Ex-Partner Call Truce In Row Over Dyncorp IPO
- Novellus, Lam Settle Investor Suits Over $3B Merger Plan
- Westlake Ditches Attempts To Acquire Georgia Gulf
- VLP Law Adds Morrison Cohen Corporate Partner In NY
- BofA Investors Can't Halt $20M Merrill Settlement
- Gen-Probe Shareholder Aims To Block $3.7B Hologic Deal
- Cleary Gottlieb Snags Shearman M&A Ace For Beijing Post
- Law360 Names Top Female Trial Attorneys
- GeoEye Seeks $792M Buy Of Satellite Image Co. DigitalGlobe
- FTC Chief Lambastes 11th Circ. Decision On Hospital Merger
- Judge Won't Expedite Suit Over $1B Pep Boys Deal
- Investor Claims Allscripts Concealed Merger Woes
- Cooley Scores Latham Capital Markets Partner In SF
- Haemonetics To Pay $551M For Pall's Blood Business
- Genomma Abandons $834M Prestige Brands Bid
- Sale Doesn't End Energy Firm's Pension Duty, 2nd Circ. Says
- Clayton Dubilier-Owned Co. Drops $145M On Metal Panels Biz
- NHHI Unit Exec Cops Plea Over Altered Docs In Merger Probe
- Cleary Gottlieb Leads DSM In $360M Medical Device Co. Buy
- Bright Food Takes $2B Bite Of PE-Owned Cereal Co.
- Predictive Coding — Putting The Cart Before The Horse
- Energy Co. BG Group Eyes $1.8B Comgas Sale To Trim Assets
- Parlux Wants Internet-Recruited Shareholder Sanctioned
- Oracle Presses For $777M Damages In SAP Infringement Suit
- Troutman Says Ex-Atty's $520M Malpractice Suit Came Too Late
- Pillsbury Nabs China-US M&A Partner From DLA Piper
- Brazil Officials To Weigh Antitrust, Merger Rules Feedback
- J&J China Enters Medical Device Market With Bioseal Buy
- Bloomberg Wins FCC Fight Over Comcast Channel Grouping
- State Of The Tax Equity Market: Part 1
- Intact Ponies Up $536M For Westaim Insurance Unit
- Merge Healthcare Unit Wins $3M In Attys' Fees From Insurer
- DS Smith Offers Antitrust Fixes To €2B SCA Purchase
- SRS Labs Investor Sues To Block $148M DTS Deal
- Microchip Puts Up $939M For Standard Microsystems
- Dippin' Dots Sale Approved, Over Creditor Objections
- Proskauer Rose Aids Lane Bryant Buyer In $890M Deal
- After Divestitures, DOJ OKs $200M Bus Co. Merger
- Gores Group Wavers On $1B Pep Boys Buyout After Slump
- Saul Ewing Hires Schnader Attys For New Pittsburgh Office
- Mayer Brown Snags Thompson & Knight Partner In Houston
- Anglo, Lafarge Must Shed Assets To Proceed With Venture
- Clifford Chance Scoops Up Dewey Insurance M&A Ace
- McGrath Helps Louis Dreyfus Put Up $78M For Imperial Sugar
- Equinix Builds Asian Presence With $230M Asia Tone Buy
- Keds, Payless Parent Jumps At $2B Takeover Bid
- Weil Gotshal Aids PE Firm's $1.1B Takeover Of PF Chang's