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Mergers & Acquisitions - October, 2012

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• 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