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Reuters
EU mergers and takeovers (May 25)
BRUSSELS, May 25 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under
review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU
merger process:
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Telegraph
Anthony Parsons exits Deutsche Bank in wake of failed G4S bid
Anthony Parsons - one of the City's most famous financiers has left Deutsche Bank after almost a decade as UK chairman of mergers and acquisitions.
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TechCrunch
Google’s David Lawee: One-Third Of Google’s Acquisitions Are Failures (And Slide Is “Definitely” One Of Them)
David Lawee, Google’s VP of Corporate Development, sat down for an informative chat with MG Siegler at Disrupt NYC this morning, and it wasn’t long before the conversation turned to Google’s track record with mergers and acquisitions.
“We've done 120 acquisitions since 2003, maybe one in 2002,” Lawee said. "And two-thirds of them have been successful."
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politico
The thing about the pro-Bain Dems
The number of semi-prominent Democrats criticizing the Obama camp's messaging on Bain Capital continues to grow one by one; former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell became the latest Dem to step up and defend private equity, calling Obama's Bain attacks "disappointing."
The big caveat with Rendell is that he currently works for a law firm, Ballard Spahr, that has a big. mergers-and-acquisitions prac...
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Wired
Google Finally Closes Its $12.5 Billion Takeover of Motorola Mobility
Google's purchase of Motorola Mobility officially closes. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha is history, and the new CEO is Dennis Woodside, a mergers and acquisitions lawyer who has been with Goodle since 2003.
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China Daily
Official urges to close rural school prudently
China's education authorities have said to take measures to stop hasty school closures and mergers in rural areas.
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Irish Times
Rabbitte bid to fast-track media mergers Bill fails
MINISTER FOR Communications Pat Rabbitte has failed to convince his Cabinet colleagues that a new law on media mergers should be put through the Dáil before the summer recess.
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WSJ
Drew Survived Multiple Mergers
In the wake of J.P. Morgan's disclosure last week of $2 billion in trading losses, Ina Drew and two others are expected to leave the bank this week.
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Washington Post
The fracturing of Big Law
As recently as December, Dewey & LeBoeuf had more than 1,000 lawyers in 26 offices around the world, annual revenue close to $800 million, and attorneys who had a hand in some of the biggest headline-making deals of the last decade.¶ Now the law firm, the product of one of the largest legal industry mergers in history, is rapidly unraveling. Employees have been warned the firm could shut do...
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Huffington Post
American Airlines Agrees To Consider Merger Options
DALLAS -- American Airlines says it is agreeing with creditors to consider potential mergers while it is still under bankruptcy protection.American parent AMR Corp. says that the company and its bankruptcy creditors agreed to develop "potential consolidation scenarios," but that didn't mean it would pursue a deal with any particular party.Read More...More on Airlines
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Los Angeles Times
Congress to hold hearings on Universal-EMI merger
Sen. Herb Kohl, chairman of the Judiciary Committee's antitrust panel, is planning to hold hearings on Universal Music Group's proposed merger with EMI Music, a union that would give Universal roughly 40% of the U.S. market for recorded music.
No date has been set, according to Kohl's spokeswoman, Dawn Schueller.
Kohl, a Democrat from Wisconsin, was outspoken against AT&T's proposed $39-bi...
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AP
American Airlines agrees to study merger idea
DALLAS (AP) -- American Airlines says it is agreeing with creditors to consider potential mergers while it is still under bankruptcy protection....
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AllThingsDigital
MetroPCS and T-Mobile: Oh My, What an Ugly Baby
Combing two wireless weaklings just leaves you with a bigger weakling.
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China Daily
Investors' M&A appetite lackluster
Chinese investor sentiment toward mergers and acquisitions has cooled further amid concerns of slowing economic growth.
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New York Times
DealBook: More Top Lawyers Leave Dewey & LeBoeuf
Richard Climan, a leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer in Silicon Valley, and Berge Setrakian, a corporate lawyer in New York with a large international practice, are leaving for rival firms.
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Reuters
EU mergers and takeovers (May 7)
BRUSSELS, May 7 (Reuters) - The following are mergers under
review by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EU
merger process:
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Reuters
Key partner at law firm Dewey defects to rival
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A key mergers and acquisitions partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf said on Thursday he was leaving to join a rival firm, adding to the imperiled law firm's woes.
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FT
Goldman banker in new Galleon probe
US prosecutors are investigating whether a former Galleon manager was tipped off about pharmaceutical mergers by Matthew Korenberg
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Irish Times
Action on media mergers legislation required now
OPINION:DENIS O’BRIEN, the Irish billionaire stalking Independent News Media (INM), “plans to buy the company”. So Britain’s Observer newspaper reported four years ago, in March 2008. And reports like this prompted the Irish government to act on Ireland’s outdated media mergers law.
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THE AUSTRALIAN
Takeover surge predicted
A SHARP rebound in confidence among Australia's biggest businesses could cause a spike in mergers and acquisitions.
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TheDomains
xBiz: Mawin Owner of Youporn.com Plans To Merge with Reality Kings
According to a post on xBiz.com tonight, two of the largest adult companies in the world, are planning to merger.
Manwin who owns and operates many popular adult sites, including Youporn.com, filed a merger notification with Austria’s Federal Competition Authority, an agency that probes mergers and acquisitions to merge with Miami-based RK Netmedia Inc.
RK Netmedia, Inc most well known adult br...
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China Daily
Lower wind, solar prices to usher speedier adoption
Rapid recent solar and wind price falls are likely to bring new markets and mass adoption a step closer over the next decade and raise the prospects of mergers.
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BBC
Uni mergers 'conspiracy' concern
The vice chancellor of the University of Wales Newport tells BBC Wales he thinks there is a conspiracy to force it to merge with others.
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Times of India
Vodafone notice to govt on tax law
Telecom giant Vodafone stepped up its offensive against Indian authorities on the Rs 11,000 crore tax dispute and threatened to launch arbitration proceedings against the proposal to tax all international mergers by amending the law retrospectively.
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circleID
What Ever Happened to the Closed Local Internet Registries?
Since the establishment of the RIPE NCC, 5,000 Local Internet Registries (LIRs) have closed (see: From 80 to 8,000 - The Growth of the RIPE NCC). We wanted to find out why. Many of them were probably victims of the burst of the dotcom bubble. But how many? And which countries were mostly affected? How many closures were the results of mergers? We've got answers below.
How man...
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physorg
New KIPAC tool gives scientists a closer look at merging galaxies
(Phys.org) -- Scientists at SLACs Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) have created sophisticated computer simulations that show galaxy mergers in much more detail than ever before.
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Huffington Post
Robert Teitelman: Facebook, Instagram and the Disciplines of Mergers and Acquisitions
Facebook is famously paying a cool billion dollars for the two-year-old app-based photo service. Instagram has 13 employees, 30 million users and no revenues. But Mark Zuckerberg decided the social media giant absolutely had to have the startup.
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Reuters
Swiss Life CEO says M&A tough at moment: paper
ZURICH (Reuters) - The head of Swiss Life believes mergers and acquisitions are difficult at the moment, with little opportunities in the Swiss market, a newspaper quoted him as saying on Saturday.
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Hindustan Times
UK raises Vodafone issue with Mukherjee
Britain on Monday raised the Rs 11,000-crore Vodafone tax issue with the government which is proposing to amend the Income Tax Act to bring into net overseas mergers and acquisitions involving domestic assets.
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MarketWatch
MarketWatch First Take: Investment banks tanked in quarter
As investors watch banks tout their big assignments to advise on mergers or underwrite IPOs like Facebook, those deals are anomalies. Underneath the headlines, there’s nothing there.
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Nikkei
FSA Gives Blessing To 2 Bank Mergers |
Daily Telegraph
Businesses firming up their future
VICTORIAN businesses are looking to strengthen their share of the marketplace with a series of mergers and acquisitions.
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omg
Environment ripe for U.S. TV station deals
(Reuters) - A confluence of factors ranging from a robust advertising market to the growing importance of retransmission fees and more funding for deals, is setting the stage for a new wave of television station mergers over the next 12-24 months. Newport Television, a group of 56 stations owned by buyout shop Providence Equity Partners, is the latest company to hit the auction block. Citing so...
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WSJ
Regulators Seek to Cool Hospital-Deal Fever
After years of failing to block hospital mergers, the U.S. government is stepping up its challenges, emboldened by studies that show that hospitals in markets with few competitors can charge higher prices.
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NEWS.au.com
Almost 800 jobs to go in electricity mergers
ALMOST 800 jobs will be axed as the New South Wales Government merges three state-owned electricity distribution companies.
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WSJ
India Proposes New Tax on Foreign Mergers
In a move that would likely sit very badly with foreign companies, India proposed legislation that would let it retroactively tax certain overseas mergers.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Competition Bureau's mergers list panned
Watchdog's drive for transparency breaks the rules, lawyers say
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New York Times
Hospital Groups Will Get Bigger, Moody’s Report Says
Hospitals are expected to become larger through mergers to cope with lower reimbursements from Medicare and insurers.
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WSJ
Foreign Deals Pricier, But Japan's Still Buying
The slide in the yen is unlikely to curtail Japan's ambitions for overseas mergers and acquisitions.
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New York Times
Editorial: Women’s Health Care at Risk
A wave of mergers between Roman Catholic and secular hospitals is threatening to deprive women access to important reproductive services.
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Times of India
'Tax offshore deals if 50% assets in India'
Mergers like the Vodafone-Hutchison, which are inked outside the country, will be subject to tax liability only if more than 50% of the assets involved are located in India, Parliament's standing committee on finance is expected to recommend in its report on the Direct Tax Code Bill.
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USA Today
Cities merge police agencies in light of budget realities
Some communities have reaped both financial savings and operational efficiencies after consolidations or mergers of their police functions.
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Irish Times
Dealmaker could end up drawing himself out of the picture
BELFAST BRIEFING: IT IS not often you find a mergers and acquisitions lawyer keen to talk himself out of a job – particularly one referred to in certain circles in Belfast as the “dealmaker”.
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Daily Mail
LISA BUCKINGHAM: Glencore boss may have as much sense as money
Any number of good-looking mergers have fallen apart because boardrooms didn’t want to give way. So we must listen a bit more seriously to the merger plans of Glencore and Xstrata.
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news.com.au
Zuckerberg keeps iron grip on Facebook
MARK Zuckerberg will have final say over directors, mergers, consolidation and asset sales even after Facebook goes public.
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Reuters
Rising regulatory risk squashing M&A deals, say advisers
(Reuters) - Competition watchdogs are stifling those companies still braving economic uncertainty to attempt mergers and acquisitions, say bankers and lawyers who claim the burden of bureaucracy has intensified with the financial crisis.
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Daily Mail
American Airlines to cut 13,000 jobs as rivaling US Airways and Delta eye 'potential mergers'
The job cuts detailed by executives in a meeting with labor groups on Wednesday would be part of an overall effort to reduce operating expenses by more than $2 billion annually.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Watchdogs requests seen as warning sign for mergers
Some lawyers caution that new guidelines show bureau is willing to apply tough scrutiny on deals
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Barrons
DAVOS: Global CEOs Shying Away From Cross-Border Deals
DAVOS, Switzerland–Investors hoping to make a quick buck from a spate of mergers and acquisitions in 2012 will be sorely disappointed. Despite some attractive valuations, company bosses signaled they are less likely to make cross-border acquisitions in the next 12 months than they were a year ago, according to the findings of PricewaterhouseCoopers 15th annual [...]
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Scientific American
Catching a Gravity Wave: Canceled Laser Space Antenna May Still Fly
Ripples in the fabric of spacetime regularly zip across the universe from titanic cosmic events, such as the mergers of supermassive black holes millions to billions of times the mass of the sun. These so-called gravitational waves ought to be ubiquitous but faint, and no experiment has yet registered the disturbance caused by a passing wave. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna was suppose...
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Foreign Policy
A case study on the mismatch between reporters and experts
I'm at a stage in my career when reporters will occasionally call or e-mail me for an "expert" opinion on something. I've gotten better at refusing those requests when I'm not really an expert but just a snarky blogger. Still, even when I can claim expertise, I don't always do that great of a job.
To see what I mean, consider this New York Times front-pager by Mark Landler and A...
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Barrons
CTEK Complains of Nasdaq Bias Against China Reverse Mergers
Over the transom today comes a rather fascinating bit of litigation from the new service China Connection. The firm relates that CleanTech Innovations (CTEK), a renewable energy developer based in Maoshan Industrial Park in Liaoning Province, China, has filed suit against Nasdaq over its de-listing a year ago, claiming racial bias. The Nasdaq’s victory in [...]
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BnAmericas
Info. Technology - Brazil - ICT segment's M&A seen cooling in 2012
Mergers and acquisitions in Brazil's IT and telecoms segment are expected to cool slightly in 2012 compared to the heated market seen in 2011, according to analysts quoted by news source Agência Estad...
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USA Today
Merger of U.S., Chinese firms is cautionary tale
Chinese firms such Huiheng Medical enter the North American securities markets in reverse mergers. Investors find some to be disappointing.
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FT
Elpida / Nanya: memory loss
Deeply troubled DRAM industry is in need of alliances or full mergers
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Reuters
Japan aims to bolster M&A disclosure after Olympus scandal
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has signaled plans to strengthen disclosure rules on mergers and acquisitions after a $1.7 billion accounting fraud at Olympus Corp, one of the nation's worst corporate scandals, which involved a series of shady deals.
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Deutscher Bundestag
Öffentliche Sitzung der Enquete-Kommission Internet und digitale Gesellschaft
Tagesordnung:
1. Öffentliche Anhörung zu dem Thema: „Veränderungsprozesse in der digitalen Wirtschafts- und Arbeitswelt“
Die Liste der Sachverständigen:
Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck, Mathematiker, Publizist
Holger Eggerichs, lubeca e.V. projekt WOLKE
Frederic Hanika, Senior Vice President Head of Mergers & Acquisitions
Dr. Tom Kirschbaum , Mit-Gründer und CFO Penelope Venture...
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New York Times
Political Ad Spending Spurs Local TV Mergers
The election cycle of 2012 is expected to be very lucrative for some stations, which will also benefit from charging cable and satellite distributors for the rights to retransmit their signals.
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DnJournal
Oversee.net Cuts 13% of Staff & The Deck is Reshuffled at DomainAdvertising.com
The one constant you can always count on in the domain industry is change. This summer we've seen the decline of some companies, the birth of new ones, management changes & mergers at others, etc. Today Oversee.net announced a 13% staff reduction. There have also been some big changes at DomainAdvertising.com.
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