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Mergers & Acquisitions - October, 2012
313 articles
- MSCI To Pay $125M For UK Real Estate Market Research Firm
- Ex-Dragon Execs' Contract Suit Against Goldman Left Intact
- MoFo Survey Finds US Economic Doubts Stifling Tech M&A
- PE Firm TowerBrook Takes Control Of Peer Adviser Vistage
- Barnes & Thornburg Nabs Ex-Stoel Rives Financing Partner
- FTC To OK Corning's $730M Labware Buy, With Conditions
- Eckert Seamans Adds M&A Partner From Pietragallo
- Judge OKs $500M Indy Downs Sale To Rival Centaur
- Bankrupt Vertis Blasts Creditors For 'Hold-Up' Tactics
- Wendel Invests $125M In African Cell Tower Operator
- Haynes And Boone Adds 1st Silicon Valley Corporate Partner
- Inspiration Biopharmaceuticals Files For Ch. 11, Seeks Buyer
- Spain Fines VeriFone For Finalizing $485M Merger Before OK
- Wachtell Guides PVH's $2.9B Buy Of Warnaco Group
- Noble, Posco Drop Bid For Arrium After $1.2B Offer Rejected
- Glencore Offers Fixes To Win EU's OK Of $36B Xstrata Deal
- News Corp. Lands Approval For $2B Australian Pay-TV Deal
- Disney To Pay $4B For 'Star Wars' Maker Lucasfilm
- Australia's AMP Lands Major Stake In UK Airport
- In Search Of Google's Red Herrings
- Italy To Probe Kraft's Sale Of Preserved Meat Unit
- Wells Fargo, PNC Object To ResCap Business, Loan Sales
- EMC Drops Up To $400M On Web Security Startup Silver Tail
- Heinz's Baby Food Co. Buy Faces Aussie Antitrust Probe
- Carlyle Picks Up Japanese Unit Of Food Packager Sealed Air
- Sullivan Steers Bayer's $1.2B Schiff Nutrition Buy
- Obama Has Authority To Halt Chinese Co. Wind Farm Buy: DOJ
- Artemis Cleared In Calif.'s $4B Executive Life Fraud Suit
- NY Court Boots PE Investor's $100M Suit Over Failed JV
- Watson Sheds Rugby OTC Drug Line In $117M Deal
- King & Spalding Adds Corporate Ace In Silicon Valley
- Ill. Firm Faces Malpractice Suit Over LA Sparks Buy Loan Talks
- Pa. AG Aims To Halt Highmark-West Penn Merger Dispute
- UK Competition Regulator Probes Eurotunnel's €65M Ferry Buy
- CFIUS Shows New Aggressiveness In Ordering Divestiture
- Nonprofit Health Systems Ride The Merger Wave
- Penguin, Random House Link Up Amid News Corp. Bid Rumors
- A Shield For Accounting Firm Docs Under PCAOB Inspection
- First Place Financial Files Ch. 11 To Aid $45M Bank Sale
- PTT Shareholders OK $3B Share Sale To Cover $2B Cove Buy
- Synthes-is: Answers On Controlling Stockholder Liquidity
- Weil Gotshal, Wilson Sonsini Rep Riverbed In $1B Opnet Buy
- Davis Malm Guides Clean Harbors In $1.25B Safety-Kleen Buy
- Jet Parts Co. Wins $13M For Dinsmore's Fraud During Merger
- Verizon, US Bank Wrap First Phase Of Idearc Spinoff Trial
- Gene Sequencer Says Ex-Partner's $138M Deal Broke Promises
- Ancestry.com Hit With Shareholder Suit Over $1.6B Buyout
- How They Won It: Labaton's Hustle Shakes Up $21B El Paso Buy
- Canadian Pension Fund Picks Up 39% Stake In MotoGP Co.
- Exponent Buys UK Tool Supplier HSS Hire From Hedge Funds
- Costa Rican Brewer Drops $388M On US Labatt Distributor
- Trucking Co. Oshkosh Roundly Rejects $3B Icahn Takeover Bid
- Boeing Buys PE-Backed Defense Contractor To Boost Global Biz
- No HSR Filing Doesn't Mean No Antitrust Concern
- Artemis Owes $4B For Executive Life Fraud, Calif. Jury Told
- NY Appeals Court Revives Suit Over $900M Superior Buyout
- Aegean-Olympic Air Deal May See Clearer Skies This Time
- Ex-Verizon CFO Testifies $9.9B Idearc Spinoff Was Not 'Sneaky'
- Pearson, Bertelsmann Mull Merger Of Penguin, Random House
- GenOn Settles Investor Suits Over $1.7B NRG Merger
- One-Stop Debt Is Smoother, But Untested In Bankruptcy Court
- Glaser Weil Guides OpenGate's Purchase Of Thermo Fisher Unit
- Shell Pays $525M For Hess' Stake In 12 North Sea Fields
- Xstrata Plans Nov. 20 Investor Vote On $36B Glencore Deal
- Simpson Thacher Aids McKesson In $2.1B Medical Supplier Buy
- Year-End Tax Planning Steps For Private Equity
- PE Firm Wants Out Of Class Deal To Sue Celera Over Buyout
- Japanese Social Media Giant Gree Pays $174M For Game Co.
- Sealing The Deal: Akin Offers Choice In Zombie Fund Buyout
- Archer Daniels Plans Gruma Sale In Wake Of GrainCorp Bid
- KDDI, Sumitomo Lob Joint $2.7B Bid At Japanese Cable Firm
- Nike To Unload Umbro Brand In $225M Sale To Iconix
- Article 9 Foreclosure Sales: A Win-Win In Calif.
- Jones Day Guides PolyOne In $393M Plastics Co. Purchase
- Amerigroup Investors OK Contested $5B Wellpoint Merger
- Sellers In $175M Iron Data Deal Say Buyers Still Owe $10M
- KBR Gets Nod To Arbitrate $257M Halliburton Tax Fight
- Lightyear Lands Major Stake In Insurance Broker Cooper Gay
- Analysts Say Idearc Was Strong Enough For $9B Debt
- Duke Energy Must Unveil Emails Tied To Progress CEO Firing
- West Penn Blasts UPMC Antitrust Claims In Hospital Feud
- Sealing The Deal: Jones Day Guides Vivint In $2B Buyout
- After Snub, Cathay's $850M Bid For Aussie Miner Goes Hostile
- Cerberus Vying For Multibillion-Dollar Supervalu Buyout
- Wheeled-Shoe Co. Heelys Goes Private With Sale To PE Firm
- Target Sells $5.9B Credit Card Business To TD Bank
- RBC Will Pay Up To $4.1B For Ally's Canadian Auto Loan Biz
- Experian Spends $1.5B To Boost Stake In Brazil Unit
- PepsiCo, Suntory Joining Forces In Vietnam Bottling Biz
- Petronas, Progress To Seek Canada's OK In Blocked $6B Merger
- Rep. Says JPMorgan Shouldn't Pay For Bear Stearns MBS Fraud
- Triton Sells €702M Chemical Co. To Indian Petro Coke Firm
- $36B Glencore-Xstrata Deal Gets Initial OK From South Africa
- Sealing The Deal: Willkie Serves Up $3.2B Sunrise Megadeal
- Starwood Pays $735M To Pick Up InTown Suites From Kimco
- Wary M&A Buyers Up Use Of Performance-Based MAC Clauses
- UIG Says Rival Insurance Co. Stole Workers, Trade Secrets
- Leonard Green, Ares Snap Up Health Care Staffing Firm
- Biz Groups Target SEC's Conflict Minerals Rule In DC Circ.
- Under Obama, Agencies Fight Mergers With Sharpened Teeth
- $55B Deal Gives Rosneft Full Control Of BP Russian Oil JV
- In ADHD Play, Pfizer Inks $700M Deal For NextWave Pharma
- White & Case Guides Toyota's $759M Truck Parts Co. Buy
- Jones Day Adds Ex-Allen & Overy M&A Partner In Hong Kong
- Archer Daniels Offers $2.8B For Aussie Rival GrainCorp
- Blocking Ore. Wind Farms: Overstepping Authority?
- Legal Industry Trends: Lawyer Salaries And Job Growth
- Linchpins Of A Successful Special Committee
- Hutchison Offers More Concessions In €1.3B Orange Austria Buy
- Fried Frank, Clifford Aid Permira-Led $1.6B Ancestry.com Buy
- Ryanair Suggests EU Antitrust Fixes In €694M Aer Lingus Buy
- Halcon Inks $1.45B Deal For Oil Assets In ND
- Powerful House, Senate Panels Set For Election Year Shake-Up
- Stanley B&D Sues InfoLogix Brass Over $4.3M Merger Fees
- Verizon Can't End US Bank Trial Over $9.9B Idearc Spinoff
- SEC Counts 1,500 Fund Advisers Registered Under Dodd-Frank
- Shaw Investor Challenges $2B Sale To Chicago Bridge
- Union Drilling Shareholder Sues To Block $242M Deal
- Creditor Questions Mervyn's $166M Settlement With PE Firms
- Flagging WebMD Extends Poison Pill For 2 More Years
- DLA Piper Helps Arbor Investments Acquire Deli Meat Co.
- Carrefour Aims For Growth In $2.6B Colombian Biz Sale
- India Scrutinizes Wal-Mart Deal With Local Retailer
- ING Gets $2.1B Payout In Asian Insurance Biz Sale
- Champ Snags Majority Stake In Aussie Shipper Sea Swift
- A View From Inside The Litigation Finance Market
- Mediware Investor Sues Over $195M Thoma Bravo Tie-Up
- Verizon Official May Be Called To Court For US Bank Trial
- Shareholders Sue Fidelity Execs Over $71M Sale
- Troutman Says Ex-Partner's $20M Fee Suit Too Late
- Chinese Firm Renews Pursuit Of Bankrupt Battery Co. A123
- Shearman Aids Indian Hotels Co. On $1.4B Bermuda Hotel Bid
- White & Case Steers Harvest Partners' Industrial Co. Buy
- Watchdog Bars $3.4B BCE-Astral Merger Over Antitrust Fears
- Middle-Market M&A Volume Down, Speed Up, Report Says
- Homebuilder Redrow Abandons PE Takeover Talks
- Cooley Closes 2nd Life Sciences Deal In 2 Days
- Blackstone Boss Calls LBO Collusion Suit 'Bunch Of Malarkey'
- FTC Gets Extension In Probe Of Hertz's $2.3B Thrifty Buy
- MSR Creditor Seeks New Sale In Light Of Anti-Competition Pact
- Flagging Grocery Giant Supervalu Courts Several Buyout Suitors
- Hawker To Emerge As Stand-Alone Co. After Failed $1.8B Sale
- ACE Puts Up $865M For ABA Seguros To Boost Mexican Biz
- Catholic Health Systems Eye Nationwide Network With Merger
- Sprint Pays $100M To Raise Clearwire Stake Over 50%
- Gene Sequencer's Investors Say $118M Deal Chilled Other Offers
- Sealy Board, KKR Again Sued Over $1.3B Tempur-Pedic Deal
- Distributor WESCO Pays $1B For Canadian Electrical Supplier
- US Bank Expert Slams Verizon's Data In $9.9B Idearc Deal
- Squire Sanders Launches Sydney Office
- Brazil Praised For Quick Merger Review, But It's Early Days Yet
- Spending For Securities Counsel Will Grow In 2013, GCs Say
- GCs To Send More Cash M&A Attorneys' Way In 2013
- West Penn Says Highmark Breached Terms Of $475M Merger
- SEC's Pricey Swaps Rule Sets Up Wall Street Showdown
- Oaktree, Apollo OK $3B Debt-For-Equity Swap In Aussie TV Co.
- Lloyds Dodges Investor Suit Over HBOS Acquisition
- Arch Chemicals Faces Age-Bias Suit Over Post-Merger Layoffs
- Skadden Guides ASML In $2.5B Microchip Tech Co. Buy
- Paul Weiss Guides HCP In $1.7B Senior Housing Portfolio Deal
- SEC Floats Dodd-Frank Capital Rules For $650T Swaps Market
- Exxon Boosts Gas Holdings In $3.1B Celtic Exploration Buy
- Emails Aren't Quite Smoking Gun In PE Buyout Antitrust Row
- Verizon Exec Defends Idearc Spinoff In US Bank Trial
- InterOil Offers PNG Gas Stakes To Ease Gov't Impasse: Report
- Morgan Lewis Aids Pearson In $650M Online Learning Co. Buy
- Car Battery Co. Files Ch. 11 To Ease $125M Sale To JCI
- $550M American Greetings Go-Private Bid Spurs Investor Suit
- Altus Capital Picks Up Energy, Mining Servicer
- Murphy Oil Shifts Toward Exploration In US Unit Spinoff
- Safran Pays $404M For United's Goodrich Electric Unit
- Skadden Helps Hillenbrand Acquire $530M Equipment Co.
- Sealing The Deal: Weil Races To Finish In $2.6B Medicis Sale
- Watson Gets FTC Nod For $5.5B Actavis Buy, With Concessions
- US Bank Opens Trial Over Verizon's $9.9B Yellow Pages Split
- Sinopec, ENN Eye China Gas Venture After Failed $2B Buy
- Ramtron Investor Challenges $110M Cypress Buyout
- Chinese Plant Feed Maker Draws $334M Buyout Offer
- Jones Day Adds Two Ex-Paul Hastings M&A Partners In Atlanta
- West Penn Rips Antitrust Suit In Wake Of Nixed Highmark Deal
- Virgin, JC Flowers Eye RBS Branches In Failed Santander Deal
- Foley Reps Schwab In $85M ThomasPartners Buy
- Pedersoli Helps PAI Take Over Eyewear Co. In $268M Deal
- Weil Helps Advent Acquire $748M Danish IT Co.
- How To Manage Physician Resistance To Hospital M&A
- German Retailer's Founders Join Advent In $2B Takeover Bid
- Fiat Merger Proposal Nixed By Equipment Unit CNH
- Clifford Chance Guides Cinven's $589M Pharma Co. Buy
- MoFo Steers Softbank In $20B Deal For Sprint Majority Stake
- Vertis Locks In $150M DIP Package Ahead Of Planned Sale
- Quest Rips Attys' $2.8M Fee Bid In Shareholders' Buyout Suit
- Highmark, West Penn Look To Rekindle Merger Talks
- Deutsche Drops BofA, Others From Tribune LBO MDL
- ACA-Prompted Hospital Mergers Can't Escape Antitrust Scrutiny
- Banco Santander Ditches $2.6B Deal For RBS Branches
- Latham, Bennett Rep Gibson In $445M Energy Services Co. Buy
- MoFo Adds Tech-Focused Corporate Partner From Cameron
- US Airways Post-Merger Union Deal Gets Judge's Tentative Nod
- Kirkland Aids Bain's $1.3B Telefonica Call Biz Buy
- 3M, Ceradyne Hit With Investor Suit Over $860M Merger
- French Panel Nixes Canal Plus' Appeal Of Antitrust Conditions
- Ecolab Swallows Up Chemical Co. In $2B Cash-And-Stock Deal
- Due Diligence Hurts Billabong As TPG Yanks $713M Offer
- Bridge Financings: Traps For Unwary PE Sponsors
- UK Again Stretches Carlyle Deadline For Chemring Bid
- MetroPCS Shareholder Sues To Block T-Mobile Merger
- Akin Gump Lands Corporate Aces From Haynes And Boone
- Ohio Court Revisits Ruling On Noncompetes' Post-Merger Fate
- Indy Downs Creditors Say $500M Sale Isn't In Good Faith
- Sprint Shareholders Lose Bid For KPMG Docs In Merger Suit
- McGuireWoods Adds Energy Pros To Houston Office
- Hospital Groups Back Phoebe Merger In High Court Fight
- Aussie Regulator Rejects Merger Between TV Giants
- Nationwide Enters $26M Settlement Over Harleysville Merger
- Dodd-Frank Foes View SEC Strife As Courtroom Ammo
- Proskauer Aids Ares Management In $975M Smart & Final Buy
- With Remedies Agreed, We Can Close Our Deal, Right?
- KKR, Blackstone, Others Used Email In LBO Collusion: Suit
- Oshkosh Priced At $3B In Icahn Takeover Bid
- ING To Reap $1.7B In Malaysian Insurance Unit Sale To AIA
- Sprint Valued At $13B In Softbank Purchase Talks
- Goldman OKs $1B Debt-For-Equity Swap In Aussie TV Co.
- Burger King Deal Structure Still Has Sizzle
- Vertis' 3rd Trip Through Ch. 11 To End In $259M Sale
- Vector Blasts Tech Co. In 2nd Circ. Over $307M Citi Sale
- Singapore's F&N Ignores $1.1B Offer For Hospitality Unit
- Grant Thornton Adds New Head Of US M&A Advisory Group
- Talks On $45B EADS-BAE Merger Fail Ahead Of Deadline
- Kirkland Aids Bain In $1.6B Deal For Danaher, Cooper JV
- Toshiba To Spend $1.6B For Shaw's 20% Stake In Westinghouse
- 5 Tips For Coaching Clients To A Successful Saudi Debut
- US Seeks More Info On NOV's $2.5B Robbins & Myers Offer
- Revlon To Pay $9.2M To End Investor Suit Over Tender Offer
- Simpson, Posse Aid CorpBanca's $1.3B Colombian Bank Buy
- Russian Oil Consortium Follows BP In Selling TNK-BP Stakes
- Spectrum Puts Up $1.4B For Stanley Black & Decker Unit
- Advent Spends $1B On Cytec Resins As Industrial Buys Roll
- El Paso Escapes Partners' Suit Over $21B Kinder Morgan Deal
- Mervyn's Creditors Land $166M Deal In PE Buyout Suit
- Principal Inks $1.5B Deal To Buy Chilean Pension Fund Manager
- Apollo CEO Scoops Up Art Book Publisher Phaidon Press
- UnitedHealth To Pay $4.9B For Leading Brazilian Insurer
- Advice For Controlling Stockholder In 3rd-Party Merger
- Mack-Cali Pays $135M For Roseland's Multifamily Assets
- KBC To Shed Units, Amp Up Cross-Border Sharing
- Innospec's $720M Offer For TPC Group Bests Earlier PE Bid
- Indy Downs CEO Gets OK To Examine Winning Bidder's Docs
- Apollo Floats Merger Of 'American Idol,' 'Big Brother' Makers
- GOP Urges Geithner To Clarify Looming Dodd-Frank Rules
- PE Group Wingate Partners Picks Up Specialty Paper Co.
- TPG Unit To Fund Actian's $154M Pervasive Software Buy
- How To Determine Where 'Offer To Sell' Is Made
- World Bank Unit Invests $225M In Chilean Bank
- Universal Health Sells Hospital To Win FTC Nod On Ascend Buy
- Dealmakers Squeezed As CFIUS Emphasizes Geography
- ANI, BioSante To Merge In $95M Stock Deal
- EU OKs $5.2B Watson-Actavis Tie-Up
- Transocean Can't Duck Merger Suit Over Safety Record
- Sterling Group Sells Filtration Co. To Parker Hannifin
- 3 Ways To Make Your Next Deal Better, Faster, Cheaper
- Unilever Mulls Putting $300M Skippy Brand Up For Sale
- K&L Gates Adds Ex-Freshfields Finance Atty In Dubai
- BJ's Says Investor Claims Over $3B Buyout Fall Short
- Sunoco Shareholders Approve $5.3B ETP Merger
- Terra Firma Asks 2nd Circ. For New Trial In EMI Deal Suit
- BG Group Sells Stake In Indian Gas Co. For $470M
- Chinese PE Firm Cathay Drops $850M On Aussie Miner
- Billabong Says $711M TPG Bid Stands Despite 'Concerns'
- Conduct Remedies: A Major Change In DOJ Merger Cases
- Qantas, Emirates Nix Bid For Early Approval Of Alliance
- Winston & Strawn M&A Pros Decamp For Squire Sanders
- Economic Unease Killing Cash-Rich Companies' M&A Appetites
- Will Dodd-Frank End Up In Supreme Court?
- Mitsubishi Unit To Fork Over $1.3B For Aircraft Lease Co.
- Obama, Romney Clash Over Tax Plans, Deficit In 1st Debate
- PE Firm Says Sellers In $115M Plimus Deal Hid Problems
- Roetzel Adds 6 Finance Pros To Chicago Office
- Pax Loses Sanctions Bid In Afghan Contractor Fight
- 3M, Avery Dennison End $550M Deal Over Antitrust Threats
- UK Hits Same Snags As SEC With Reverse-Merger Rules
- US Bank Can't Limit Evidence In Verizon Spinoff Trial
- T-Mobile, MetroPCS Unite To Grow Deutsche Telekom US Biz
- Amerigroup Ends $5B Wellpoint Deal Suit By Delaying Vote
- Omega Creditors Get Nod To Solicit New Bidders For Assets
- Ocwen To Pay $750M To Acquire Mortgage Co. From WL Ross
- Simpson Thacher Ushers Carlyle Into Commodities Trading
- Large-Cap, Industrials Lead As US Deal Flow Ticks Up In Q3
- Highmark Sues West Penn After Collapse Of $475M Merger
- Sealy Board Faces Investor Suit Over $1.3B Tempur-Pedic Deal
- Morgan Lewis Adds Ex-Latham Partner In Germany
- Latham & Watkins Reps Platinum Equity In $1.2B BWAY Buy
- Phoebe Urges High Court Not To Raise Antitrust Immunity Bar
- Deutsche Telekom Eyes MetroPCS Deal To Bolster T-Mobile
- Ally Objects To ResCap's Proposed Deal With Nationstar
- John Wiley Offers $220M For Deltak To Bolster Education Biz
- 6 Tips For Closing A Multijurisdiction Cross-Border Deal
- Playboy, Hefner To Spend $5.25M To Settle Investors' Suit
- EU Antitrust Boss Again Doubts €1.3B Hutchison-Orange Deal
- Weil Gotshal, Clifford Chance Guide CVC's $1B Cunningham Buy
- Parlux Shareholder Awarded Fees In Perfumania Merger Row
- Hedge Fund Group Backs Lehman Trustee's Appeal Over Sale
- Justices Won't Hear Southwest Merger Sanctions Fight
- JC Flowers Injects $105M Into New UK Mortgage Lender
- WaMu Bondholders' Suit Over 'Fire Sale' To JPMorgan Pared
- UK Limits Ryanair's Control Over Aer Lingus Amid Probe
- Aussie Miner Arrium Spurns $1B Offer From Noble, Posco
- WellPoint Ducks Some Claims In Unfair Premium Hike Suit
- Softbank To Snag Rival Cellphone Co. In $2.6B Stock Deal
- $45B BAE-EADS Merger Faces Shareholder Criticism
- KKR Acquires Majority Stake In Oil Services Co. Acteon
- Integrys Energy Shells Out $440M For Wis. Power Generator
- Cleary Gottlieb Steers 3M In $860M Deal For Ceramics Co.
- Xstrata's Board OKs $36B Glencore Takeover Bid