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Mergers & Acquisitions - August, 2012
301 articles
- $12B Nestle-Pfizer Deal Could Impact Formula Market: Regulator
- Brazil Bars 2 Hospital Deals Due To Buyers' Ties
- Hospital Says Baxter Unit Can't Dodge Drug Pump Royalties
- Shareholder Sues Over $3.7B M&T Takeover Of Hudson City
- 4 Firms Feared Most By In-House Counsel
- Countrywide Investor Can't Nix Standing Rule, Court Says
- Taro's PE Backers Balk At Sun Pharma's $600M Buyout
- Builder Redrow's Chairman Proposes PE Takeover
- Energy Cos. Ask FERC To Deny $32M Gulf Gas Facilities Sale
- AMR, US Airways Confirm Deal Talks Under Way
- Fund Wants Xstrata Board Shake-Up If Glencore Deal Fails
- Paul Hastings Reps Shandong Heavy In $930M Kion Stake Buy
- Sunovion To Lay Down Up To $430M For Elevation Pharma
- Golfsmith Gets $150M Credit Line To Facilitate Merger
- Qatar Holding Poised To Block $31B Glencore-Xstrata Merger
- SC City Appeals $26B Duke-Progress Merger Approval
- Case Study: In Re RLD
- Hawker Gets More Time For Ch. 11 Plan Amid Superior Talks
- Flagging Gleacher & Co. Puts Itself On The Market
- Latham Aids Carlyle In $4.9B DuPont Unit Deal
- Skadden Reps Validus In $623M Cash, Stock Deal For Reinsurer
- Ryanair In For A Bumpy Ride As EU Eyes €694M Merger
- Ariba Shareholders Sign Off On SAP's $4.3B Takeover
- Clearview Jumps On Crescent's Improved $254M Buyout Offer
- Weil Helps CCMP Take Stake In Ollie's Bargain Outlet
- Schiff Hardin Aids PE Firm IOP In Buy Of Metal Caster
- Inner City Media Wants More Time To File Ch. 11 Plan
- B&N Balks At $11M Attys' Fees In Suit Over Riggio Deal
- Petronas' $6B Takeover Of Progress Gets Shareholders' OK
- Syngenta To Pay $125M For DuPont Pest Control Unit
- Spotlight On PE Trends In Israel
- KKR Reportedly Leading $2.5B Bailout Of Chip Maker Renesas
- Goldman Denies Conflict In $5B Amerigroup-WellPoint Deal
- Medex Can't Take Back 347 Emails From Discovery In $7M Suit
- As Big Tech Buys Up, PE Scrambles For Good Cloud Deals
- Shareholder Slams PE Firms' $850M TPC Take-Private Bid
- AC Maker Daikin Spends $3.8B To Snap Up Goodman Global
- PE Firm Scoops Up Top Snack Co., Brings In Ex-Sara Lee CEO
- Highmark, UPMC Extend Contract Amid Antitrust Feud
- CFTC Must Close Global Swaps Loopholes, Reformers Say
- Avon Within Its Right To Reject $10B Coty Offer, Atty Says
- Sidley Lands Latham Partner To Head Tech M&A Group
- FTC Gains Support In Opposing Ga. Hospital Merger
- Injunction Lifted In Fight Over Afghan Contractor Deal
- ThaiBev Ups F&N Stake By $252M In Bid To Block Heineken
- $324M Casino Tie-Up Draws UK Antitrust Scrutiny
- Piedmont REIT Gets Investor Suit Shut Down
- Debevoise Reps Clayton Dubilier In $1B David's Bridal Deal
- Year-End Tax Hikes Light A Fire Under PE Portfolio Sales
- Judge Guts Challenge To $29B Express Scripts-Medco Merger
- Facebook Fiasco Has SEC Rethinking IPO Gag Rules
- Greenberg Traurig Corporate Finance Pro Heads To Dykema
- Del. High Court Affirms $2B Grupo Mexico Judgment
- PE Firms Strike $850M Deal To Take TPC Group Private
- Hertz To Pay $2.3B For Thrifty After Lengthy Chase
- CFTC Adopts Swaps Record-Keeping, Registration Rules
- Sundance Board OKs Reduced $1.5B Bid From Hanlong
- Best Buy Agrees To Due Diligence In Founder's Buyout Bid
- Regulators Mull Delay In Stress Tests For Midsize Banks
- KKR Sells Unisteel To Swiss Parts Maker SFS
- Weil Gotshal Helps IAC Nail Down $300M About.com Buy
- West Penn Says Antitrust Suit Aims To Shield UPMC Monopoly
- Cravath Guides IBM On $1.3B Social Business Consultant Buy
- Wachtell Guides M&T Bank In $3.7B Hudson City Deal
- Kirkland Reps Thoma Bravo In $1B Buy Of Software Co. Deltek
- Duke To Cover Costs Incurred By Customers In Progress Deal
- Omnicare Settles FCA Kickback Suit Over $25M Acquisition
- Glencore Stands Firm On $25B Xstrata Bid As Deadline Passes
- Olympus To Get $670M In Mobile Telecom Unit Sale
- Oaktree Re-Enters Toy Maker Takeover Fray With New Offer
- Mining Magnate Shelves $5.5B Buyout Bid For Aussie Coal Co.
- ConocoPhillips Loses $2.3M Trans-Alaska Pipeline Tax Refund
- What's Making Attorneys Flee Their Firms?
- Permira Inks $1B Deal To Take Japanese Sushi Chain Global
- Vinson & Elkins Reps QEP In $1.4B Buy Of Shale Assets
- Duke Investors Seek Stay Of Copycat Suit Over CEO's Ouster
- Polycom Sues Sun Capital Over $114M Wireless Handset Deal
- Emerging Markets M&A Slumped In First Half, KPMG Says
- Antitrust Review Extended For WellPoint's $5B Amerigroup Buy
- Economics Professors Back FTC In Phoebe Merger Case
- Verizon's $3.9B Spectrum Buy Wins FCC Approval
- Codelco Pays $2.8B For Copper Mine Stake To Settle Dispute
- Morgan Stanley Takes Control Of Pipeline Co. With GE Stake
- Pensioners Push To Revive Halliburton Benefit Suit
- Alcoa Can't Dodge $10M Tax Suit Over Packaging Biz Spinoff
- $152M Freed For Lehman Creditors In 2 Deals
- Jones Day Guides USI's Buy Of TD Bank Insurance Unit
- Antitrust Risks Of Health Care Consolidation
- Simpson Thacher Aids Rockwood On $732M Lithium Co. Buy
- Trados Directors Can't Escape Shareholder Class Action
- FTC Greenlights Facebook's $1B Instagram Buy
- Icahn Yanks Offer To Acquire Last 18% Of CVR Energy
- Sirius Investor Sues To Stop Liberty's 'Creeping Takeover'
- FSI Investor Challenges $252M Tokyo Electron Deal
- Oracle Investor Suit Over Purchase Of CEO's Co. Survives
- Heineken Drops $289M For Another Slice Of Asian Brewery
- Jones Day Adds Oil, Gas Dealmaker In Houston
- Conoco Stands To Reap $400M In Sale Of Lukoil JV Stake
- 'DisHarmonix' — Dispute Resolution For Deal Provisions
- Health Care REIT Inks $2B Deal For Sunrise Senior Living
- Kraft Selling Stake In Back To Nature To PE Firm Before Split
- Treasury Aims To Promote Fair Hiring Among Contractors
- Wells, Prudential Caused Bankruptcy Over $150M Loan: Suit
- EIG Says Joint Venture Precludes TCW Sale To Carlyle Group
- $2B Collective Brands Sale Gets Nod From Shareholders
- M&A Vet Leaves Warner Bros., Returns To O'Melveny In LA
- Excellere Takes Majority Stake In Energy Services Co.
- Goodwin Procter Hires Wilson Sonsini Tech M&A Pro
- AXA Appeals Paul Weiss Docs Ruling In $1.5B ING Suit
- Exelon Sells 5 Calif. Power Plants To Japanese Co. IHI
- Kirkland Guides Dex One In All-Stock SuperMedia Deal
- Willkie Farr Fires Back In $100M Extended Stay Penalty Suit
- Vertrue Gets OK For $39M Neverblue Sale To GWM
- Kirkland Adds PE, M&A Partner From Latham In New York
- Inside The FTC-DOJ Annual HSR Report
- Church & Dwight Swallows Gummy Vitamin Maker For $650M
- 11th Circ.'s $195M Hospital Merger Case 'Flawed,' FTC Says
- DZ Bank, WGZ Bank Merge Private Equity Businesses
- DHX Media Gets Kids' TV Co. In $112M Deal
- Ryanair Again Fails To Stop UK's Aer Lingus Antitrust Probe
- Judge Kills Shareholder Suit Over J&J's $20B Synthes Buyout
- Kinder Morgan Plans $2B Asset Sale To Quell Antitrust Worries
- MSR Inks $1.5B Stalking Horse Deal With Singapore Fund
- BAA Consents To Sell Stansted Airport After Lengthy Appeals
- Chevron, Shell Swap Aussie Gas Stakes, $450M Cash
- Davis Polk Advises Aetna In $7.3B Coventry Acquisition
- PE-Backed Co. Won't Match $1.5B Bid For Aussie Pipeline Biz
- Foreign Acquisitions Merit CFIUS Analysis: An Overview
- Orkla Builds Food Biz With $1B Rieber & Son Buy
- Vinson & Elkins Guides Boardwalk In $625M Pipeline Co. Buy
- Carlyle Sniffing Around UK Defense Contractor Chemring
- Upstream Cos. Petroceltic, Melrose Ink £165M Merger Deal
- Cinven To Pay HgCapital £465 Million For Drugmaker Mercury
- Amerigroup Investors Sue Over $4.9B WellPoint Deal
- $1.5B Bid Intensifies Battle For Aussie Pipeline Co.
- Ferrovial To Reap $750M In Sale Of BAA Stake
- Case Study: In Re Answers Corp. Shareholders Litigation
- Wellspring Accused Of Hiding Tax Breaks From Cleaver Merger
- Arcapita Gets Green Light For Warehouse Asset IPO
- Alpha's $7.1B Massey Merger Draws Securities Class Claim
- Qatar Telecom Offers $2.2B For Unowned Kuwaiti Co. Stake
- PE Firm MBK Buys $965M Slice Of Woongjin Water Filter Co.
- Land O' Lakes Cleanup Suit Not Time-Barred, 8th Circ. Hears
- Best Buy Founder Requests Data In $8.8B Takeover Push
- Andrews Kurth Picks Up M&A Partner In NY
- Baker Donelson Adds Corporate, Real Estate Expert In Atlanta
- ResCap Examiner Wins Subpoena Power In Prebankruptcy Probe
- ITW To Reap $1B By Trading Wilsonart Control To PE Firm
- DOJ OKs $4B Verizon Spectrum Sale But Limits Side Deals
- Sheppard Mullin Hires Yuan Debt Specialist In Beijing
- Red Flags For Mass. Real Estate Transactions
- Int'l Investment In DOE Grant Winner Provokes Ire From Sens.
- PE-Backed Group Ups Offer To $1.3B For Aussie Pipeline Co.
- Investor, Ex-Troutman Atty Trade Final Barbs Over $100M Loan
- Ga. Payment Processor Makes $413M Buy Of Utah Co.
- News Corp. Adopts Ethics Program Ahead Of Split
- Carlyle Snaps Up Getty For $3.3B From Hellman
- GSK Keeps Slimming Down With $270M Sale Of Aussie Drugs
- Swander Pace To Take Cosmetics Co. Private In $65M Deal
- How HR 1905 Further Hobbles Business With Iran
- Cabinet Co. Investors Sue Over $94M Home Depot Merger
- Telus Says $3.4B Bell-Astral Merger Is Bad For Consumers
- Consumer Groups Urge Scrutiny Of Google's Frommer's Deal
- RE Investor Never Funded $100M Loan, Expert Testifies
- Heineken's Singapore Brewer Buy Hits Snags
- ESCO Pays $325M To Pick Up Drill Bit Maker From Intervale
- Spotlight On Brazil's New Merger Control Rules
- Emerging Markets See Drop In Private Equity Deals: Report
- Wal-Mart's Chinese E-Commerce Buy Gets OK, With Caveats
- Agrium Vows To Fight Hedge Fund Jana's Spinoff Push
- Metal Co. Chalco To Spend $318M On Ningxia Electric Stake
- FTC's New Rule Zeroes In On More Pharma Patent Deals
- Google Picks Up Frommer's Brand From John Wiley & Sons
- Eagle Rock To Fund $228M BP Plant Buy With Share Sale
- KBR Says Halliburton Skipping Step In $257M Tax Pact Row
- Focus Media Eyes $3.5B Buyout Offer From PE Firms, CEO
- Longtime OCC Chief Counsel Williams To Step Down
- Pillsbury Steers Tesoro In $2.5B Purchase Of BP SoCal Units
- Investor Group Fights Micron's $2.5B Bid For Bankrupt Elpida
- PE-Backed Energy Co. Drops $650M On Midwest Shale Tracts
- Milbank Adds Mayer Brown M&A Finance Partner In London
- Court Reverses $1M In Attys' Fees In Centex-Pulte Merger Deal
- EQT Partners To Pay $271M For IT Automation Co. UC4
- Tokyo Electron To Put Up $252M For FSI International
- Julius Baer To Pay BofA $885M For Overseas Merrill Unit
- Shearman Reps Sun Pharma In Long-Sought $600M Taro Buyout
- Steel Cos. BlueScope, Nippon To Form $1.4B JV In Singapore
- $780M Deal Will Sever Software Co. Verint From Comverse
- Irish Drugmaker Elan To Spin Off R&D Business
- Callisto Investor Challenges Proposed Synergy Merger
- Refining The Adviser Disclosure Dance In Del.
- Reversal Gives Title Insurers Win In $450M Failed Merger Suit
- Deutsche Bank Says Icahn's CVR Owes $18.5M In Fees
- Viacom Ordered To Pay $300M To Complete 'Guitar Hero' Deal
- Accounting Expert Vouches For RE Investor's $100M Loan
- Nossaman Adds Husband-Wife Real Estate Team In Sacramento
- Honda Agrees To Pay $326M To Buy Out Indian JV Partner
- Continental Shareholders OK $340M Oil Asset Purchase
- Merge Presses 7th Circ. For Fees In $3M Fight With Insurer
- WL Ross Drops $110M For Majority Stake In Gas Shipping Co.
- Dai-Ichi Pledges $2B To Janus After Buying 20% Stake
- Orrick, Simpson Advise $875M Merger Of Chinese IT Cos.
- Goldman To Rake In $636M With Sale Of Japanese Contractor
- Rio Tinto Curbs Licensing Controls To End Antitrust Probe
- Protecting Small Business Status In Letters Of Intent
- 4 Years Of China's Anti-Monopoly Law
- Exelon Sells PE Firm 3 Md. Plants For $400M To Fund Merger
- RE Investor Calls Ex-Troutman Atty's Claims 'Loony'
- Japan Seeks More Info On Hitachi's Seiko Nanotech Unit Buy
- Icahn Urges Oshkosh To Spin Off Construction Equipment Co.
- Tronox Healthy At Time Of IPO, Kerr-McGee Witness Says
- Simpson Thacher Steers Carlyle In TCW Acquisition
- Dechert Adds Hong Kong M&A Partner From Orrick
- Humana Buys Employee Services Firm Harris Rothenberg
- Unisys Owes $30M On Faulty Medicaid Pay System, Suit Says
- Fulbright Aids National Oilwell In $2.5B Buy Of Drill Parts Co.
- 'Fair Value' And Preferred Stock's Liquidation Preference
- Porsche Can't Ditch $1B Investor Suit Over VW Deal
- M*Modal Settles Shareholder Dispute Over $1B Buyout
- Anadarko Says Settlement Unlikely In Tronox Enviro Suit
- $5B Carlyle Offer Would Top PE Bids For DuPont Unit
- Ryanair Loses Bid To Halt UK Antitrust Probe
- RE Mogul Rips Ex-Troutman Atty's 'Absurd' $100M Loan Claim
- Senator Asks NFL For $50M Poison Pill To Protect Buffalo Bills
- Irex Rips Pa. High Court's Post-Merger Remedies Ruling
- NY Times In Talks For $270M Sale Of About.com
- AMR-US Airways Merger Troubling, Advocacy Groups Say
- Wanxiang To Pour $450M Into Battery Maker To Gain 80% Stake
- Big PE Deals Off To A Slow Start In 2012: Report
- $410M Deal For Titan Hinges On Liquidation Suit
- A Guide To Replacing Lost Stock Book Or Certificate
- Liberty Media To Spin Off Starz
- News Corp.'s €1B Dutch Soccer Buy Pumps Up Sports TV Biz
- Warner Chilcott To Pay $1B In Dividends Instead Of Sale
- UTC Sells Wind Power Unit To Finance $18.4B Goodrich Buy
- Canada's Antitrust Cop To Review BCE's $3.4B Astral Bid
- Verizon Can't Shake Fraudulent Transfer Claims Over Spinoff
- Kerr-McGee Expert Says Tronox Was Solvent At Spinoff
- Whirlpool Beats Maytag Retirees' ERISA Suit In 8th Circ.
- Chesapeake To Unload $7B Of Assets In 3rd Quarter
- VTB Capital, CCB To Pay $161M For Bulgarian Telecom Co.
- Sycamore Seals $369M Talbots Buyout As Retail Stays Hot
- Bank Groups Seek OCC Lending Limit Rule Delay
- $800M Padres Sale Proposed, Golfer Mickelson Among Buyers
- BC Partners Puts Up €500M For German Drugmaker
- Cozen O'Connor Picks Up Loeb & Loeb M&A Chair
- Thai Co. Tops Heineken With $830M Bid For Asian Brewer
- Fed Fines MetLife Bank $3.2M Over 'Unsound' Foreclosures
- Baker & McKenzie Nabs Jones Day M&A, Energy Pro In Sydney
- Kinder Morgan Unit Pays Parent $6.2B For Pipeline Assets
- AXA Adds German Fashion Co. To Consumer Portfolio
- Ascension's Takeover Of 3 NJ Hospitals Falls Through
- RE Investor Must Fulfill $100M Takeover Loan, Witness Says
- Bristol-Myers Insider Trading Suit Is Compliance Gut Check
- Pemco Lender To Buy Assets After $50M Singapore Deal Jams
- PE-Backed French Broadcast Co. TDF Sheds Finnish Unit
- Pa. High Court Limits Minority Investors' Post-Merger Remedies
- Mining M&A Continues With Silver Lake-Integra $450M Tie-Up
- Weil Aids Advent With Stake In $3B Serta, Simmons Parent
- $3B Suit Says GM Forced Saab From China, Into Bankruptcy
- Arizona Tea Co-Founder Can't Muscle Way Into Management
- Opportunities For Chinese Bank Acquisitions Of US Banks
- Best Buy Founder Values Co. At Up To $8.8B In Buyout Bid
- Bristol-Myers Exec Dug Own Grave With Cover-Up Efforts
- Fortissimo Takes Comverse's Software Co. Stake For $80M
- Oil Execs Aim To Wrongly Profit Off $640M Affiliate Sale: Suit
- Ex-Troutman Atty Grilled Over $100M Loan Contract At Trial
- Paul Hastings Reps Pfingsten-Owned Co. In Car Parts Co. Buy
- Sens. Urge Antitrust Probe Of Universal-EMI Deal
- Sidley Aids Synopsys In $305M Taiwanese Tech Co. Buy
- DLA Piper Hires Cooley Private Equity, Tech Partner
- Skadden Pilots CF Industries' $916M Fertilizer Co. Buy
- Heineken's $4.1B Buyout Of Asian Brewery Stake Wins OK
- Investor Seeks To Derail Genesee's $1.4B RailAmerica Buy
- Real Estate Mogul Says Ex-Troutman Atty Skirting $120M Loans
- SAP To Pay $306M In Damages Over Oracle Copyright Suit
- Cox Smith Lures 2 K&L Gates Partners To Dallas
- HSBC To Sell Shipping Finance Business To Management
- New MGIC Biz In Limbo As Wis. Opposes Freddie Mac Rules
- Fried Frank Adds Hogan Lovells Energy Partner In DC
- JEMB Realty To Shell Out $43M For Daffy's Assets
- Imperiled Knight Capital Won't Find Savior In Bankruptcy
- Accel-KKR Picks Up Recruiting Outsource Biz Pinstripe
- Sullivan & Cromwell Guides AT&T In $600M NextWave Buy
- EU To Probe Ryanair's $843M Aer Lingus Takeover
- Duke Energy In Settlement Talks With NC Regulators
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Exec Accused of Insider Trading
- Recent Developments In German Competition Law
- 3i Takes Debt Management Biz To US With Joint Venture
- Hanlong's $1.8B Sundance Takeover On Verge Of Clearance
- SJ Berwin Guides AXA's Purchase Of Frozen Food Co.
- MGM Sells Channels, Buys Out Icahn Ahead Of IPO
- Comcast Data Caps Violate NBC Merger Deal, FCC Told
- Apple's $358M Bid For AuthenTec Not Enough, Investor Says
- Locke Lord Steers Torchmark's $219M Insurer Acquisition
- McDermott Boosts Life Sciences Practice With 2 Attys
- Arcapita, Gas Storage Co. To Mediate $120M Deal Dispute
- Judge Trims Suit Against Verizon Over Spinoff Transactions
- Maple Group Nails Down $3.8B Toronto Exchange Parent Buy
- Sumitomo To Pay $1.4B For Devon Energy's Texas Shale Stake
- Clothier Country Road To Pay $181M For Aussie Fashion Co.