Mergers & Acquisitions Archive » May, 2012

Mergers & Acquisitions - May, 2012

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• 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