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Mergers & Acquisitions - November, 2009

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• Pilots Seek DOJ Probe Of US Airways-Delta Deal
• Saab Future Uncertain As EU Probes $600M Loan
• Dubai World Restructuring Won't Spark Exodus: Experts
• Starent Settles Shareholder Suit Over Sale To Cisco
• Henry Schein To Create Distribution Co. In $55M Merger
• Stryker To Buy Medical Device Reprocessor For $525M
• Q&A With Barnes & Thornburg's David Millard
• Beal Positions For Trump Casinos Bid
• France Telecom, TDC Merge Swiss Units In $2.3B Deal
• Q&A With Covington & Burling's John Gourary
• Sprint Cleared For $831M Acquisition Of IPCS
• The Complications Of Successorship Decisions
• Extended Stay Chair Appeals Remand Of BofA Suit
• Capmark Mortgage Business Sale For $515M Approved
• EU Extends Review Of $2B Amcor Deal For Alcan
• Questex Nears End Of Ch. 11 With Asset Sale
• EU OKs Cargill-Nutreco €40M Animal Feed Unit Sale
• Ericsson Adds Nortel's GSM Unit For $70M
• Buyer Backs Out Of Deal With GM For Saab Brand
• FTC Clears Panasonic's $9B Acquisition Of Sanyo
• Sens. Prod EU To End Oracle-Sun Probe
• Windstream To Buy Iowa Telecom For $1.1B
• ProtoStar Satellite Asset Distribution Challenged
• BMO Financial Buys Diners Club From Citigroup
• Energy XXI Buys Mitsui Gulf Energy Assets For $283M
• NY High Court Affirms Dismissal Of Media Giants' Suit
• McKesson Can Pursue Suit V. Iran Over Dairy Plant
• Q&A With Seward & Kissel's Jim Abbott
• Deal Lawyers Prod Clients For Regular Payments
• Reliance Cash Bid Adds Intrigue To Lyondell Ch. 11
• Ex-Atty's Sentencing Delayed In Insider Trading Case
• KPN, IBasis Settle Dispute Over Tender Offer
• First Quantum Buys British Mining Co. For $260M
• NRG Energy Snatches Up Plant Project From First Solar
• Eni To Buy Ugandan Oil Interests For $1.35B
• Ciena To Pay $769M For Nortel Optical, Ethernet Assets
• Xerox, ACS Shareholders' Pact Alters Merger's Details
• Bi-Lo, Creditors Offer Dueling Reorganization Plans
• Venture Capital Pro Rejoins Pillsbury From Howard Rice
• Cliffs Natural Offers $104M For Freewest Chromite
• Concho Pays $225M For Permian Basin Assets
• People's United Buys Financial Federal For $738M
• Q&A With Bond Schoeneck's Patrick Pedro
• A Shifting Tide For Secured Lenders
• Swap Auction Sets CIT Bond Value At 68%
• EU Extends Deadline For Oracle-Sun Merger Review
• GSI Group Files For Ch. 11, Preplanned Reorganization
• Retalix Downs Investor Suit, Closes $33M Equity Deal
• MTV Eyes RealNetworks' Majority Stake In Rhapsody
• Q&A With Gibbons' Frank Cannone
• Semtech To Buy Sierra Monolithics For $180M In Cash
• Japanese Chemical Firms Announce $2B Merger
• Industry, Consumer Groups Decry Ticketmaster Deal
• JPMorgan To Pay $1.7B For Cazenove Stake In UK Outfit
• Blackstone's Pinnacle To Buy Birds Eye For $1.3B
• GGP To Restructure $8.9B Debts; Rival Mulls Bid
• SanDisk Accused Of Spoliation In Earnout Suit
• Will Your IP License Survive A Restructuring?
• Willis Nets Needed Cash In $700M Gras Savoye LBO
• EU Signs Off On Avaya-Nortel Deal
• Conseco To Offer $230M In Stock To Pay Down Debt
• Manulife Financial To Sell $2.37B In Stock
• Q&A With Stoel Rives' Henry Hewitt
• Grocery Co. Penn Traffic To Seek Sale Under Ch. 11
• Orbis Balks At Canon's €730M Bid For Oce
• House Committee OKs Breakup Of Too-Big-To-Fail Cos.
• Bracewell Snags Private Fund Expert From Skadden
• IPCS Settles With Shareholders Over Sprint Deal
• Bracewell Nabs McGuireWoods Energy Finance Guru
• American Express To Buy Revolution Money For $300M
• Mitsubishi UFJ Aims To Raise $11.2B In Stock Offer
• LDK Solar To Sell Stake In Chinese Plant For $220M
• $6.4B Xerox-ACS Merger Inches Forward
• Cameron Settles With US Over NATCO Merger
• Q&A With Ice Miller's Steven Humke
• TTM To Buy Meadville Circuit Board Unit For $521M
• Hyundai Heavy Wins $750M, Right To Buy IPIC Stake
• Time Warner Ends Disastrous Marriage With AOL
• DeCode Files For Ch. 11 With Plan To Sell Assets
• IPCS Shareholder Blasts Planned $831M Sale To Sprint
• Penn Bids $50M For Unfinished Fontainebleau Project
• Plaintiffs In BofA Securities Suit Get Access To Docs
• Goodrich Adds Guidance System Maker For $375M
• Autoliv To Buy Delphi Passenger Safety Assets
• Stanford Receiver Looks To Sell Sinking Investments
• Lehman Suit Seeks Return Of $5B To $7B From Barclays
• $201M Offer For Silicon Storage Falls Short: Investor
• Winston & Strawn Opens 2 China Offices
• Tax Pro Rejoins Chapman & Cutler After Treasury Job
• Ex-Mintz Levin, Choate Hall Partners Form New Firm
• BofA Officers Defend Merrill Deal, Counsel Shakeup
• Fed Paid Too Much In AIG Bailout: Report
• Applied Materials Plans To Buy Semitool For $364M
• PPR Plans €1B IPO For African Unit
• ProtoStar Exec Incentive Plan Hits Turbulence
• Q&A With Gunster's Howard Burnston
• First Bank To Sell Franchise To FirstMerit For $42M
• IberiaBank Buys Up 2 Failed Banks With FDIC's Help
• FTC's Carilion Clinic Breakup — Outlier Or Omen?
• Hitachi Plans To Raise $4.6B In Securities Offerings
• Bristol-Myers To Divest Mead Johnson Stake
• Verizon Retirees File ERISA Action Over Idearc Plans
• Devon To Unload Gulf Of Mexico, International Assets
• Motorola To Buy Video-On-Demand Co. BitBand
• Canon Plans To Snap Up Print Maker Oce For $1.1B
• Simmons Enters Prepack Ch. 11 With Serta Owners
• Q&A With Eckert Seamans' Gregory Weingart
• MetLife To Pay $50M To Resolve Policyholder Suits
• Sanctions Against Syntax-Brillian Asset Buyer Halted
• Liberty Global To Buy German Cable Co. For $5.2B
• Shareholders Fire Off Suit Over Berkshire, BNSF Deal
• 3Com Hit With Shareholder Suit Over $2.7B HP Deal
• Prophet Equity To Buy Silicon Storage For $201M
• Md. High Court Ruling Allows Direct Shareholder Suits
• British Airways, Iberia To Merge Into $7.5B Airline Giant
• Visteon Gets Green Light For DIP Cash, Asset Sale
• ProtoStar Files New Plan After $210M Sale OK'd
• Pentair, Wis. Energy End Merger Warranty Dispute
• GPX Reaches $10M Deal To Sell Off Solid Tire Assets
• Murky View For Q3 Industrial, Chemical, Metals Deals
• Q&A With Dorsey & Whitney's Christopher Bellini
• Canada's New Merger Review May Increase Burdens
• Judge Hands Craigslist Evidence Win In EBay Suit
• Ion Ch. 11 Plan Prevails Against Creditor DIP Coup
• Creditors Object To TXCO Asset Sale To Newfield
• Abbott Gains Pain-Relief Drug In $190M Deal
• Nortel's Escrow Agreement With JPMorgan Approved
• TeliaSonera-Alfa To Launch Joint Cell Phone Outfit
• EU Approves EDF-Segebel Deal With Divestitures
• Managing Credit Bids When Secured Creditors Clash
• United Technologies Buys GE's Security Unit For $1.8B
• Dutch Maritime, Dredging Cos. To Merge In €1.1B Deal
• Dow Jones To Sell Stake In Stoxx For €206.1M
• Q&A With McCarter & English's Alan Fox
• Aussie Regulator Pressures Mining Giants Over Deal
• Quest Unveils $750M Notes Offering To Buy Back Debt
• Chrysler Debtor Sells Closed Plant To University Of Del.
• Q&A With Seyfarth Shaw's Steve Ferrer
• 3rd Ave's MBIA Fraud Suit Belongs In NY: Del. Court
• Hewlett-Packard To Buy 3Com For $2.7B
• Judge Signs Off On Graphics Properties' Ch. 11 Plan
• Antitrust Regulators Greenlight Avaya-Nortel Deal
• Vonage IPO MDL Plaintiffs Seek Approval Of $3.6M Deal
• RIM Buying Back $1.2B Worth Of Shares
• IESI-BFC To Pick Up Waste Services For $370M
• TXCO Sues Horizontal Over Interest In Texas Land
• Logitech To Purchase LifeSize For $405M
• Landry's Faces Shareholder Action Over $238M Deal
• Witness Says Huntsman's Tronox Bid Historically Low
• Rise In Section 363 Sales Not Confined To Ch. 11
• Philly Inquirer Owner Wins Appeal To Block Credit Bids
• Cisco Unveils $5B Debt Offering
• Clearwire Sells $1.5B In Equity To Back WiMax Growth
• Buffett Dumping Rival Railroads For BNSF Deal
• Deal Maker Rossiter Moves To Baker & McKenzie
• Oil Developer Expands Suit Over Kazakhstan Fields
• Swift Reveals $200M Offering In Debt-Staving Maneuver
• EU Deals Setback To $7.4B Oracle-Sun Merger
• Threshold Settles Shareholder Action For $10M
• Asarco To Sell Polluted NJ Property For $1
• Q&A With Stroock's Martin Neidell
• Majority Rules: Impact of Bankruptcy 'Credit Bid' Rulings
• Google To Pick Up Mobile Ad Startup For $750M
• Fried Frank Snags Allen & Overy Finance Partner
• Comcast, NBC Deal Could Face Regulatory Battle
• YRC Worldwide To Enter Ch. 11 If Debt Exchange Fails
• Both Sides Claim Win In $72M Mega Brands Settlement
• AXA To Buy 100% Of Its Asian Unit In Net €1.1B Deal
• Wilson Sonsini Brings On Merrill M&A Director
• 6th Circ. Nixes Plastics Co.'s Antitrust Defense Bid
• Sonova Snaps Up Advanced Bionics For $489M
• Newfield To Pay $223M For TXCO Assets
• East West Bank Adds Failed United Commercial Bank
• Investor Actions Roll In Over BNSF, Berkshire Deal
• EA Reels In Social Gaming Co. Playfish For $275M
• Q&A With Bass Berry's John Good
• Northrop To Sell TASC Unit To Investors For $1.7B
• South Korea Moves To Legalize Poison Pills
• Cadbury Rejects Kraft's 'Derisory' $16B Takeover Bid
• Jefferies Fund Manager Charged With Insider Trading
• Antitrust Concerns Revived As CVS Reveals FTC Probe
• Bankrupt Constar Off Hook In Securities Class Action
• Merix Securities Plaintiffs Win Class Certification
• BofA Shareholders Get Green Light To Query Firms
• Transmission Infrastructure By Public-Private Model
• Amaranth Tort Claims Against JPMorgan Revived
• China Investment Strikes $1.6B Deal For Stake In AES
• Skype Founders, EBay Resolve Dispute Over Sale
• Q&A With Adams and Reese's David Bowsher
• FCC Clears Way For $944M AT&T, Centennial Deal
• Blackstone Makes $320M Mall Deal With Glimcher
• Citigroup Spins Off Primerica In IPO
• GPX Hits Former Employees With Trade Secrets Suit
• Michael Best Adds IP, Venture Capital Attorneys In Wis.
• FDIC Seeks Control Of $4B In Disputed WaMu Funds
• Ropes & Gray Atty Charged In Insider Trading Probe
• Scripps Takes Charge Of Travel Channel Deal With Cox
• Q&A With Edwards Angell's Bruce Raphael
• TPG Capital, Pension Plan To Buy IMS Health For $5B
• Mittals To Buy German Fashion House Escada
• JDA Snaps Up I2 Technologies For $434M
• Agrium Ups Hostile Bid For CF Industries To $4.5B
• Pension Fund Sues Over Berkshire, BNSF Deal
• Minority Investments By Private Equity Funds
• Firms Say Industry Focuses Offer Edge In M&A Work
• Panasonic Announces $4.5B Tender Offer For Sanyo
• Unions Mixed On GM Decision To Retain Opel
• ProtoStar Creditors Fight $210M Sale To Intelsat
• Bayer CropScience Buys Athenix For $365M
• RehabCare To Acquire Triumph Healthcare For $570M
• MasTec Adds Precision Pipeline In $150M Deal
• 9th Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Vivendi Collusion Case
• CORRECTED: $70M Deal In Filene's Ch. 11 OKed After Talks
• Novartis Strikes $125M Deal For Chinese Vaccine Co.
• Wachovia, Underwriters Assail Investor Class Action
• Q&A With Drinker Biddle's Bob Juelke
• DLA Piper Nabs Baker & McKenzie Cross-Border Pro
• Lakeside Steel's Barzel Hopes Dashed By Chriscott
• Tender Offer Makes A Comeback
• Cooley Lures Pillsbury Venture Capital Guru
• Lightyear To Snap Up 3 ING Broker-Dealer Units
• Blank Rome Nabs Finance Guru From Allen & Overy
• SEC Drops Insider Trading Case Over J&J Deal
• FTC Extends Scrutiny Of MDS' $650M Sale To Danaher
• TPG Adds Gas Services Co. Valerus For $500M
• Windstream To Acquire NuVox For $643 Million
• RGA Pitches $300M In Senior Notes
• Fred Leighton Gets OK To Sell Business Ops For $26M
• Peet's Coffee To Buy Diedrich In $213M Deal
• Berkshire Hathaway All Aboard For $34B Burlington Buy
• Q&A With Miles & Stockbridge's Joe Runge
• Judge Approves $140M Phoenix Coyotes Sale To NHL
• Ramshorn Offers $1.5M For Pacific Energy Assets
• Deal Contract OK'd Attys' Fees: NJ High Court
• Metaldyne Creditors Want Sale Appeal Tossed
• Tool Giants Stanley, B&D Merge In $4.5B Deal
• Starwood Sells Bliss Spas To Steiner For $100M
• Antitrust Waiting Period Ends On Huntsman-Tronox Deal
• Winston Nabs Nixon Peabody Private Equity Team
• PerkinElmer Had Duty To Promote Printing Unit: 1st Circ.
• With Banks Circling, Philly Papers Seeks Cash Bidding
• Brown Rudnick Snags Sonnenschein Corporate Partner
• YRC Worldwide Plans $537M Debt Exchange
• Constellation, EDF Clear Last Hurdle In $4.5B Nuke Deal
• Australia Gives Delta, Virgin Blue Deal Preliminary OK
• Q&A With Lane Powell's Jeff Wolfstone
• Oil Co. Denbury To Shell Out $4.5B For Encore