Mergers & Acquisitions Archive » January, 2010

Mergers & Acquisitions - January, 2010

214 articles

• Lehman Buy Was Aboveboard: Barclays
• Vivendi To Appeal Verdict That It Misled Investors
• Warburg Pincus Acquires Survitec For $456M
• Negotiating Break-Up Fees In A Stalking Horse Bid
• IMS Health Settles Shareholder Suits Over Merger
• Merger Effects Guidelines Will Help Cos. With Reviews
• BHP To Snag Athabasca Potash For $320M
• Comcast, NBC Vow Deal Won't Curb Competition
• Autoliv Buys Delphi's Asian Assets
• Macquarie To Sell Parking Unit For $111M Via Ch. 11
• Investors Alarmed As Rule 2019 Uncertainty Persists
• Reed Smith Adds 2 Corporate Partners In NYC
• Printer Quad/Graphics To Acquire Former Quebecor
• Judge OKs $1.2B Pilot Travel Centers, Flying J Deal
• Equal Maker Settles Sweetener Distribution Spat
• Q&A With Lowenstein Sandler's Peter Ehrenberg
• Greenberg Snags Wollmuth Maher Securities Partner
• Icahn Picks Up Fontainebleau Las Vegas For $150M
• Mayer Brown Grows Energy Group With New Partner
• FTC OKs $650M Danaher-MDS Deal With Conditions
• McClatchy To Offer $875M In Senior Notes
• KKR To Buy Pets At Home For $1.5B
• HSR Premerger Notification In The Insurance Industry
• Vale Adds Bunge Brazilian Fertilizer Mines For $3.8B
• Q&A With Hughes Hubbard's Kenneth Lefkowitz
• Merger Guidelines Gaps Should Be Fixed: Varney
• GM Pins Down Spyker To Buy Ailing Saab
• TXCO Ch. 11 Plan Gets Verbal Approval
• TARP Inspector General Reveals AIG Bailout Probe
• In-House Counsel Name Favorite Corporate, M&A Attys
• Shareholder Suit Over Cadbury-Kraft Deal Dismissed
• Tullow Close To Completing Uganda Oil Purchase
• DOJ Seeks More Info On $130M Churchill Downs Deal
• Case Study: NACCO Industries V. Applica
• Reader's Digest Wins Approval Of $555M Note Issue
• Reed Smith Snaps Up Howrey Securities Partner
• Q&A With Sills Cummis & Gross' Max Crane
• EU Signs Off On $5B Liberty-Unitymedia Merger
• Ex-McGuireWoods Atty Hit With Corruption Charges
• DOJ, State AGs OK $2.5B Ticketmaster-Live Nation Deal
• Porsche Hit With $1B Suit Over VW Takeover Bid
• HSBC Banks $350M On Electric Car-Charging Startup
• French Railway Unit Wins EU Approval To Buy Ermewa
• Pfizer Wants Wyeth Merger Case Thrown Out For Good
• EU Opens Probe Into Rio Tinto, BHP Joint Venture
• Lehman Fires Back In Metavante Swap Dispute
• Liberty Global Sells Japan Cable Stake For $4B
• Ex-EMC VP To Pay Fine For Insider Trading
• BioScrip Snags Critical Homecare For $343M
• Medtronic Puts $350M Down For Invatec
• Q&A With Verrill Dana's Alan D. MacEwan
• Tousa Creditors' $60M Suit Over Failed Deal Gets OK
• Greenberg Nabs McDermott Will, Goodwin Procter Attys
• Lawyers Try To Pierce CFIUS Veil
• DC Bank Execs To Pay Atty Fees In Proxy Battle Feud
• Citi Wants To Boot Terra Firma Fraud Suit Over Merger
• Q&A With Hanson Bridgett's Teresa Pahl
• Sidley Lures MoFo Atty To New Silicon Valley Office
• Pork Producers Settle DOJ 'Gun-Jumping' Claims
• Abbott Offers EU Antitrust Remedies On Solvay Deal
• Rulings Underscore Need For E-Discovery Expertise
• EU Approves Agilent-Varian Merger With Divestitures
• Citigroup Proposes $7.3B Debt Buyback
• Cedar Fair Investor Sues Over $2.4B Sale To Apollo
• NYBOT, ICE Off Hook In Member's Securities Suit
• No Extra Severance For Ex-Mueller Group GC: 1st Circ.
• Prosperity To Buy 3 US Bank Branches In Texas
• Martek To Buy Supplement Maker Amerifit For $200M
• EU Backs $7.4B Sun-Oracle Deal Without Conditions
• Spansion To Sell Italian Operations, Retain IP Rights
• Q&A With Curtis' Peter Stewart
• Exxon, XTO Say Fracking Regs Would Threaten Merger
• Aurelius, Icahn Gain Entry To Fontainebleau Dispute
• Hart-Scott-Rodino Threshold Drops For 1st Time
• Magistrate Takes KPMG, PwC Off Hook In Collins Suit
• Cozen O'Connor Nabs TARP Official
• CMD Resolves Shareholder Suits Over Sale To ON
• Hydro-Quebec, NB Power Finish Smaller, $3B Deal
• General Dynamics' Lead Lawyer Returns To Jenner
• Q&A With Gray Plant Mooty's John Brower
• Negotiating Financeable Alternative Energy PPAs
• Champion Reaches $130M Asset Sale Deal
• EU Clears $6B Xerox-ACS Merger
• Gulfport Wins Dismissal Of Suit Over Rights Offering
• Williams Cos. Restructures, Launches $3B Buyback Bid
• Tyco Locks Down Broadview Security In $2B Deal
• New $19B Kraft Offer Wins Cadbury Support For Merger
• Canadian Competition Law: What To Expect In 2010
• BlackRock Snaps Up Helix Financial
• Travelport Launches $2B IPO To Slash Debt
• Molina Healthcare Buys Unisys Unit For $135M
• Supreme Court Declines To Hear QSI Payout Case
• EU Sets Deadline For Review Of Microsoft-Yahoo Deal
• Q&A With Nossaman's Yuliya Oryol
• Argentine Court Suspends Telecom Sale Timetable
• SEC, EWealth President Settle $7M IPO Fraud Suit
• Kelson Won't Get $15M Breakup Fee: 3rd Circ.
• Lyondell Creditors Seek Probe Over Reliance Bid
• K&L Gates Nabs Energy Partners For Texas Offices
• Reader's Digest Sells Digital Learning Co. For $32M
• Shiseido To Buy Bare Escentuals For $1.7B
• General Growth Counsel Returns To DLA Piper
• Gibson Dunn Malpractice Suit Sent To Arbitration
• Q&A With Becker & Poliakoff's Victor DiGioia
• Review Of 2009 Antitrust Case Law
• Talbots Hit With Shareholder Suit Over Aeon Deal
• Revived Economy Means More Challenges For CFIUS
• Court Lets Philly News Ditch Acquisition Leftovers
• Station Casinos Creditors' Fraud Claims Trigger Protest
• Hexion Says $700M Note Offering Will Help Offset Debt
• Apache To Buy 51% Stake In Canadian Gas Terminal
• Ranch's Amended Plan For Fremont Calls For Merger
• Latham Boosts Corporate Practice With London Partner
• FTC Seeks More Info On Coffee Cos.' $290M Merger
• Effect Of Product-Line Successor Liability Exception
• GTL Infra Snaps Up Aircel Telecom Towers For $1.9B
• Antitrust Group Calls For Probe Of ES&S-Diebold Deal
• Panel Calls For Clearer TARP Wind-Down Strategy
• Mayer Brown Finance Partner Heads To Jones Day
• Switch & Data Fires Back At Shareholder Complaint
• Obama Issues Plan To Pay Taxpayers Back For TARP
• Bill Proposes Hefty Tax For TARP Firm Bonuses
• Q&A With Leonard Street's Steve Quinlivan
• Barrick Says New Gold Unlawfully Blocked El Morro Bid
• Trading Ring Scheme Defendants Must Face Trial
• Judge Axes Shareholder Action Over $5B DRS Merger
• Squire Sanders Nabs Sonnenschein Corporate Atty
• US Fights DeCode Asset Sale Due To Security Risks
• VMware Snaps Up Yahoo E-Mail Unit Zimbra
• ECC Pins Firms For Malpractice In Bear Stearns Deal
• Law360 Corporate Finance Editorial Advisory Board
• Judgments Finalized In M&A Stock Tip Scheme
• Q&A With Jeffer Mangels' Bill Capps
• 2nd Circ. Remands Love Funding Champerty Suit
• Newfield, Anadarko To Split TXCO Assets For $310M
• Shareholder Suit Over Dow, Rohm & Haas Deal Tossed
• BofA Hid Merrill Losses Prior To Merger: SEC
• Salesforce.com Proposes $500M Note Offering
• MoFo Snags Deals Vet From Sonnenschein
• China To Draft Insurance Merger Rules: Report
• Sonnenschein Nabs Biotech Expert From Dickstein
• French, German Telecoms Seek EU Scrutiny For UK Deal
• Vinson & Elkins Opens Outpost In Silicon Valley
• A New Legal Framework For Nakheel, Limitless Claims
• Quidel Picks Up Diagnostic Hybrids For $130M
• Contract Suit Over $435M Sale Of Dental Biz Tossed
• Q&A With Ruden McClosky's Robert Brighton
• SEC Loses Bid To Add Loss Claims To BofA Suit
• Berry Pays $126M For Wolfberry Trend Assets
• Pension Fund Sues To Block Novartis, Alcon Deal
• Icahn Enterprises Issued Misleading Debt Offering: Suit
• Bankruptcy Likely For Japan Airlines Before Tie-Up
• Pharmacies Hone Claims In Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Suit
• V&E Adds 3 Energy Transaction Partners
• Metavante Seeks Reversal In Lehman Swap Dispute
• Georgia-Pacific To Snap Up Grant Facilities For $400M
• Heineken Eyes Latin Expansion With $5.5B Femsa Buy
• Casket Maker Hillenbrand Scoops Up K-Tron
• Q&A With Haynes and Boone's Scott Night
• Spansion Strikes Deals With Japanese Ex-Subsidiary
• Tops Markets To Buy Penn Traffic Stores For $85M
• ION Media: Second Lien Terms Enforced
• Greenberg Traurig Picks Up M&A Partner From Latham
• Lawson To Snap Up Healthvision For $160M
• Windstream Launches $1.1B Note Offering
• Qwest Aims To Raise $800M In Note Offering
• Q&A With Ungaretti & Harris' Gary Levenstein
• Industry Groups, Unions Blast Comcast-NBC Deal
• Italy Extends Intesa Antitrust Probe Into February
• Sutherland Nabs Dewey M&A Atty For Energy Practice
• Goldcorp To Acquire 70% Of El Morro Project
• Greenberg Adds Latham, Kirkland Attys In Chicago
• CDC Software Offers $105M For Chordiant
• Q&A With Neal Gerber's David Stone
• Debt-Laden Continental Plans €1.1B Rights Issue
• GM To Unload Steering Division Bought From Delphi
• Evergreen To Spin Off K-Fuel To Chinese Group
• TXCO Creditors Show Support For Anadarko Bid
• DOJ Seeks More Info On Equinix, Switch & Data Deal
• Shearman Nabs 2 O'Melveny M&A Attys For Hong Kong
• Courts OK Nortel, Genband $282M Stalking Horse Deal
• DOJ Amasses Trial Team For Ticketmaster Deal
• Energy Future To Hold $300M Offering To Raise Cash
• Jones Day Nabs M&A Partner From Baker McKenzie
• Constellation To Offer $400M Tender After EDF Deal
• Kraft Wins EU Approval For Cadbury Takeover
• DOJ To Tackle Antitrust Review of Comcast-NBC Deal
• DLA Piper Snags Business Duo From Goodwin Procter
• Anadarko Offers TXCO Up To $310M For Assets
• Simmons Aims To Put Ch. 11 Case To Bed
• Perot Investor To Disgorge $8.6M In Insider Trading Suit
• Q&A With Gardere's Richard Waggoner
• Prudential To Buy United Overseas Unit For $307M
• Glatfelter Strikes $235M Deal To Buy Concert
• Charter General Counsel Heads To Thompson Coburn
• CMD Shareholder Sues Over Acquisition Price Offer
• Inergy Unit Buys Liberty Propane For $223M
• Rules Of The Road: Buying Distressed Assets
• Noble Energy Nabs Suncor Reserves For $494M
• Novartis Snaps Up Corthera For $120M
• Latham Debuts New Office In Beijing
• Aviva To Expand US Reach With River Road Buy
• Kraft Sells Pizza Brands For $3.7B To Aid Cadbury Bid
• Q&A With Lathrop & Gage's Joseph Medved
• Ex-Morgan Lewis Chairman Joins Reed Smith
• XTO Energy Shareholder Sues Over $41B Exxon Deal
• Judge Approves Metaldyne Asset Sale On Appeal
• Total Buys Chesapeake Shale Assets For $2.25B
• Watson Wyatt Completes Tie-Up With Towers Perrin
• Novartis Snaps Up Nestle's Alcon Share For $28.1B
• Q&A With LeClairRyan's Michael Drzal
• Corporate Finance Legislation To Watch In 2010
• Deal Market Set For Modest Comeback In 2010
• Deal Lawyers' Wish List for 2010