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Category Archives: M&A
Cash Offers vs Stock Offers
Even people who prefer cash, it
turns out, are still more likely than not to hold onto shares if that’s
what they’re given
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Ford’s Emotional Breakup With Jaguar
How emotional is Ford, now that it’s selling Jaguar and Land Rover?
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Whole Foods – Wild Oats: Has the FTC Been at the Nutmeg?
Why does the FTC want to block this merger?
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Is Google-DoubleClick a Monopoly?
The key monopoly here is the one on information about users’ web-browsing habits: what they search for, what sites they visit, what ads they click on.
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The RBS Consortium’s Huge Financing Line
The huge cash component of the RBS consortium’s bid for ABN Amro means that they have a lot of work to do in both the debt and equity markets.
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ABN’s Brazilian Gambit
ABN Amro and Barclays have just unveiled their latest weapon in the war against
the RBS-Fortis-Santander consortium which also wants to buy ABN. And it’s quite
a clever one.
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Is Chrysler worth -$30 billion?
The Wall Street Journal, it seems, can read my mind. No sooner do I ask
why Chrysler is going to be borrowing as much as $65 billion in new debt, than
Serena
Ng and Jason Singer do their best at answering.
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When a $7 Billion Deal is a $70 Billion Deal
Does anybody have a clue what kind of numbers are involved in the Chrysler-Cerberus
deal?
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Thomson-Reuters vs NewsCorp-Dow Jones
Murdoch’s overall approach to his media properties is undoubtedly much more interventionist than the Bancrofts would ever be, which makes his proposed acquisition much more problematic than the relatively easy tie-up between Thomson and Reuters.
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Unions Cheer Private Equity Takeover of Chrysler
What’s with this new-found love affair between the auto unions and private
equity? The main auto unions in the US, Germany and Canada all can’t seem to
say enough good things about the $7.4 billion deal wherein Cerberus
is buying Chrysler.
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Microsoft-Yahoo: Move Along, Nothing Here
That Microsoft-Yahoo merger everybody cared so much about on Friday? By Sunday, it was already a non-story.
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Envisioning a Canadian Reuters
Reuters is already a little boring: What difference would it make if it were Canadian, to boot?
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News Corp-Dow Jones: Hope Yet For Rupert
The unions hate
it. The owners are going to vote
against it. The New York Observer says that it’s sunk.
So is there any hope for Rupert Murdoch in his bid to buy Dow
Jones?
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Murdoch bids for Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is the kind of property that newspapermen spend entire lifetimes dreaming about owning.
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