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Mergers & Acquisitions - August, 2012

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• $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.