Successful growth through acquisitions

Acquisitions can be a great strategy for firms interested in growing their operations ... to grow significantly with acquisitions.  Many A/E industry CEO’s, however, are hesitant when it comes to making acquisitions.  Some of them made one or two acquisitions that didn’t work [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 11:19:02

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Weak Points of Sun Deal Come Out in Europe

The European Union’s competition commission is busy reviewing Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems and has said it may not rule until Jan. 19. Sun is not doing well in the meantime, and this week it announced it would lay off up to 3,000 workers. Sun’s stock price is also rapidly imploding in light of the failure of progress in the Oracle acquisition and from Sun’s own difficulties. This is a time when the regulatory covenants section of an acquisition agreement matter. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-22 13:00:50

Corporate Acquisition Group Issues Valuation Refund

Over the past two months I have made some posts talking about Ty Tymkovich and Corporate Acquisitions Group. Corporate Acquisitions Group finds investors for businesses and I listed one of my companies with him just over a year ago. Corporate Acquisitions Group has a simple service guarantee: If they don [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 18:00:07

Omnicom's new unit focused on digital dealmaking

Advertising agency Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE:OMC) has fallen behind rivals WPP plc (NASDAQ:WPPGY) and Publicis Group SA when it comes to digital acquisitions over the last couple of years. But now Omnicom is trying to catch up, naming Jonathan Nelson as CEO of Omnicom Digital, a newly formed unit that will be responsible for digital acquisitions. "We haven't been the acquisition machine some of our peers have been," Nelson told Advertising Week. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-01 17:18:06

Deals of the Day: What’s in a Name? BofA says Goodbye to ‘Countrywide’

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... they’re used to take control of certain lenders? WSJ Mergers & Acquisitions Barclays Global ... : China is signaling greater willingness to use its wealth for acquisitions abroad, a shift that could [more...]

Date: 2009-02-19 14:34:46

Market Freak-Out Hits Pending M&A Deals

It isn’t you, it’s me. That is the message Mr. Market has been sending to companies with pending mergers and acquisitions. But the falling stock prices of acquisition targets — sometimes well below the acquisition price ... stopped lending to each other Tuesday. And any pending merger, anywhere, that required financing [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 13:50:26

Liveblogging OnDC ‘09: Mergers and Acquisitions Panel

Moderator: Bob Kipps, Managing Director Kipps DeSanto & Co. Panelists: Chris Hagan, Goodwin Procter; Frank Finelli, The Carlyle Group; Wes Husted, CFO Abraxas Corporation Wes. About two years ago there was a steady flow of acquisition candidates, then it shut down completely. It has started up again in the last few months. Bob. There is potential regulation of private equity, as well as funding challenges. How will that affect small and medium sized technology companies? Chris. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-21 18:48:07

US CREDIT-Cisco acquisitions won’t harm credit profile

By Karen Brettell NEW YORK, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O ) mayturn to the debt markets to fund further acquisitions after itspurchase of Starent Networks Corp (STAR.O ), though thecompany's strong credit profile is not expected to suffer. Cisco on Tuesday said it would buy the wireless equipmentmaker for $2.9 billion, its second major acquisition thismonth. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-14 12:58:35

Amazon and the Art of the Private Deal

Amazon.com’s recently announced $850 million acquisition of Zappos.com — the largest in Amazon’s history — highlights the differences between private and public transactions. It also illustrates, once again, the somersaults that investment banks go through to try to apply traditional valuation analysis in acquisitions of privately held technology start-ups, even those as established as Zappos. And Zappos is not even really a tech start-up; it is just an online shoe store. Steven M. [more...]

Date: 2009-07-28 18:22:14

Xerox to buy Affiliated Computer Services – Health IT Business Intelligence and Outsourcing

Mergers and acquisitions continue in healthcare, especially in the Health IT area.  Xerox is making a stake with the acquisition of ACS in Dallas.  The company offers all types of healthcare solutions to payers, physicians, and covers e-prescribing, IPA consulting, and so on.  Business Intelligence data solutions has never seen such interest as it has the last few months.   They have a suite of modeling, profiling, benchmarking, reporting and health risk prediction tools available.  Don’t miss [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 01:53:00

Western Digital enters SSD market with SiliconSystems acquisition

March 30th, 2009 Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 9:34 amCategories:StorageTags:Acquisition, Western Digital Corp., SiliconSystems Inc., WD, Mergers & Acquisitions, Supply Chain, Corporate Law, Storage, Investment, FinanceStorage vendor Western Digitalannounced today that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition [more...]

Date: 2009-03-30 16:34:56

Deals of the Day: Wall Street’s Reward

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... employees fell by 44% in 2008, hitting income-tax revenue hard. WSJ Mergers & Acquisitions Defending Dow ... presage more acquisitions in the industry. WSJ Astellas Pharma: The japanese pharmaceutical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-28 14:34:38

Section 7 is focused on competition, not price. A comment on Leary’s discussion of the Ovation case.

In a recent Antitrust Magazine article (login required), Thomas Leary explores the implications of Commissioner Rosch’s concurring statement in the Ovation matter, in which Rosch explained why he would have challenged not only Ovation’s acquisition of Neoprofen but also its prior acquisition of Indocin from Merck. Leary sees Rosch’s opinion as an extension of the analysis of post merger incentives. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-19 23:00:38

Credit Markets Recover, but Proceed With Caution

Companies have been issuing bonds in record amounts for two months in a row, indicating that the corporate credit markets are working again ... t complete its $15.3 billion acquisition of Rohm & Haas until it can finds enough financing to replace ... . Pfizer secured a $22.5 billion bridge loan from several investment banks for its acquisition of Wyeth [more...]

Date: 2009-02-27 13:32:00

Thermo Fisher Acquires Brahms AG – Analyst Blog

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. ( TMO ) recently completed the acquisition of Brahms AG for roughly $470 million (€330 million). Brahms AG is a leading provider of specialty in vitro diagnostic tests based on patented biomarkers for cardiovascular, sepsis and pulmonary diseases. The company also provides intensive care treatments and prenatal screening and is widely recognized for its flagship test, Procalcitonin (PCT).  The acquisition is expected to be accretive to Thermo Fisher’s earnings in 2010. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-06 17:56:20

For J.P. Morgan, Bankers All Over Chinalco Deal

In a slow merger market like this one, investment banks stake a lot on a single merger, which can mean the difference between work and unemployment ... would mark the biggest foreign merger or acquisition by a Chinese company in history. Until today ... of maturing debt related to its 2007 acquisition of Alcan. According to Dealogic, the combined $19.5 [more...]

Date: 2009-02-12 13:53:00

First-Quarter M&A: Drugs, Utilities and Financials

Liam Vaughan , of Financial News, reports in with this early look at the first quarter of the year in mergers and acquisitions: In the U.S ... Holding’s $46 billion acquisition of the 44% of Genentech it doesn’t already own; and Merck’s $41.1 billion acquisition of Schering-Plough. In Europe, there has been 487 deals with a total value [more...]

Date: 2009-03-20 17:15:45

Spring drama with Sun and the big Blue yonder

Now the deal may have turned sour . If due diligence rather than just price slowed the IBM acquisition talks with Sun Microsystems, ... merger, and said the research was expected to take “a number of days.” Weeks later, speculation on both ... , would need to carefully dissect this agreement and others before continuing with acquisition, even [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 17:28:00

Spring drama with Sun and the big Blue yonder

Now the deal may have turned sour . If due diligence rather than just price slowed the IBM acquisition talks with Sun Microsystems, ... merger, and said the research was expected to take “a number of days.” Weeks later, speculation on both ... , would need to carefully dissect this agreement and others before continuing with acquisition, even [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 10:28:00

Deadline Hollywood Daily Acquisition Rumors Spark More Hollywood Catfighting

The hilarious fallout continues today over Monday's revelation that it was a botched attempt by Variety to purchase Nikki Finke's blog, ... specify what those assumptions were. Interestingly enough, Finke hasn't yet responded to Business ... in funding to use, in part, on "select, focused acquisitions" — may be in talks to buy DHD. Might [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 21:15:50

Impressive Advertising and Digital World Portfolio

Being the Managing Director of Spacedog, I bring to you a high profit outcome - find out how I, Dustin Callif, ... , media planning and buying, acquisition campaigns, driving website traffic and customer relationship ... . Including a 53 percent opt in rate for an acquisition campaign, over $30 million in airline ticket sales [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 06:04:43

Equinix Drops Bombshell, to Buy Switch and Data

In a surprising M&A move, Equinix (EQIX: chart, news) is planning to buy its smaller rival Switch & Data (SDXC: chart, news) for $689M, or $19.06 per share.  That is a solid 32% premium above today’s market close of $14.40.  The acquisition will add 34 datacenters in 22 North American markets totaling more than 1 million square feet to Equinix’s already huge footprint.  16 of those markets will be new, as Equinix’s own footprint is focused heavily on the largest markets.  This acquisition will [more...]

Date: 2009-10-21 22:34:49

Insider Trading: Now Brought to You by Masters of the Universe

Not since Bud Fox whispered “Blue Horseshoe loves Anacot Steel” in Wall Street has the world of mergers and acquisitions been so overtaken by prominent accusations of insider trading. A scandal quietly hit the world of mergers and acquisitions yesterday: an investment banker at Blackstone Group was alleged to have illegally shared [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 15:04:09

Insider Trading: Now Brought to You by Masters of the Universe

Not since Bud Fox whispered “Blue Horseshoe loves Anacot Steel” in Wall Street has the world of mergers and acquisitions been so overtaken by prominent accusations of insider trading. A scandal quietly hit the world of mergers and acquisitions yesterday: an investment banker at Blackstone Group was alleged to have illegally shared [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 16:37:43

Antitrust OKs AT&T-CYCL Merger – Analyst Blog

AT&T; Inc’s ( T ) much anticipated acquisition of regional wireless and wireline service provider Centennial Communications Corp ( CYCL ), has progressed a step further as the US wireless giant has reportedly received a conditional approval of the US Department of Justice (“DOJ").  The acquisition is now subject to the approval of the US telecom regulator Federal Communications Commission. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-15 16:15:00

Deals of The Day: Saving the World’s Financial System

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... : Japan has been ahead of the curve on this compensation thing. FT.com Mergers & Acquisitions How ... who isn’t happy: Obama hammered Wall Street firms for “shameful” bonuses, saying it is the “height [more...]

Date: 2009-01-30 17:09:53

Deals of The Day: Saving the World’s Financial System

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... : Japan has been ahead of the curve on this compensation thing. FT.com Mergers & Acquisitions How ... who isn’t happy: Obama hammered Wall Street firms for “shameful” bonuses, saying it is the “height [more...]

Date: 2009-01-30 17:17:00

The Dark Horse Race for Yahoo’s CEO: Sarin Emerges, but Who Else Fits the Bill?

Earlier this week, in a piece about Yahoo layoffs, BoomTown reiterated the notion that Yahoo would pick its next CEO to replace its current leader ... expertise. And mergers and acquisitions experience. Also strategic skills.” The 54-year-old Sarin fits ... central leader–Sarin did do a lot of turnaround work and has been involved in big acquisitions and [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 12:39:38

Dow Chemical: Banks Lost 50% of Market Value

Both Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas have been preparing their public arguments in the run up to this morning’s earnings announcement from Dow Chemical ... is legally obligated to close its $15.3 billion acquisition of Rohm & Haas. The Midland, Mich., chemicals ... that an acquisition “forced” to completion by the court now would destroy tens of thousands [more...]

Date: 2009-02-03 15:00:05

Pharma Merger Agreements: Why Pretend?

Why promise things you can’t deliver? That seems to be the new rule in the pharmaceutical sector to judge by recent pharmaceutical industry mergers and acquisitions. Roche Holding and Pfizer, for instance, aren’t making many allowances for the possibility that their giant acquisitions might fail to reach the finish line. This in what seems [more...]

Date: 2009-03-17 16:59:50

IBM and Sun - What Happened? (IBM, JAVA)

According to a Wall Street Journal report, merger talks between tech giants International Business Machines Corp. ( IBM ) ... , rumors of an IBM acquisition of Sun began circulating, with the deal reportedly being in the $10-to-$11 ... to negotiate exclusively with IBM, and that Sun’s board of directors rejected IBM’s formal acquisition [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 14:15:14

Q3 2009 TechCrunch Trends: Venture Funding Up 17.5%, M&A Rebounds Even More

Last quarter, based on funding and M&A data we collect in CrunchBase , we signaled that we were cautiously optimistic about the rebound of the tech sector. Q2 trends were no worse than Q1 09 : venture financings were up 20% and mergers & acquisitions held steady (excluding Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems) in comparison to Q1. With another quarter of data under our belts, we’re feeling even better about the health of technology startups. [more...]

Date: 2009-10-14 13:40:31

Dow Chemical’s Tale of Woe

Sometimes, it feels like the whole world is working against you. If Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris is thinking that, maybe he’s right. Suddenly his pending $15 billion acquisition of rival Rohm & Haas looks like an uphill battle ... Dow that it “entered into a definitive agreement on July 10, 2008 providing for the acquisition [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 12:53:00

Dow Chemical’s Tale of Woe

Sometimes, it feels like the whole world is working against you. If Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris is thinking that, maybe he’s right. Suddenly his pending $15 billion acquisition of rival Rohm & Haas looks like an uphill battle ... Dow that it “entered into a definitive agreement on July 10, 2008 providing for the acquisition [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 12:53:00

TIML Urges Patience On Absolute Radio Performance

Times Of India has defended its Virgin Radio UK acquisition, saying it will take time to make the renamed Absolute Radio a success in Britain ... purchase, according to the first Rajar returns since the deal, and Virgin Radio International ... US acquisitions: "We have scanned the US market for five years. But we said there's a great opportunity in the [more...]

Date: 2009-03-19 20:42:43

Roche Holding: One Investment Bank, Fewer Fees

A good loan is difficult to find in this market–but that can be a mixed blessing for acquiring companies ... when two other banks, J.P. Morgan Chase and Lehman Brothers, advised Roche on its 1990 acquisition ... to finance the acquisition. When companies need bank loans to finance a deal, they often include those [more...]

Date: 2009-03-13 12:12:02

Work for Schering Vaults Morgan Stanley Into Top League Table Spot

We alluded to it earlier in this post on Vikram Pandit’s memo , and now Liam Vaughan and Shanny Basar, of Financial News, ... place in the global mergers-and-acquisitions adviser rankings after landing a role in Monday’s $41.1 ... more from providing the financing. The deal is the sixth largest pharmaceutical acquisition [more...]

Date: 2009-03-10 15:08:30

Dell Determined To Enter Smartphone Market; Acquisitions Are An Option

Dell remains undeterred, even after carriers rejected its first attempts at making a smartphone on the basis of being dull ... : PALM ), to gain a presence in the business. In addition to confirming that Dell is still interested in the space, the company said acquisitions are an option, but that it is not part of their M&amp [more...]

Date: 2009-03-24 18:41:50

Secretary Gates Announcement Sends Defense Stocks Higher

              Defense Secretary Gates spoke today on the future direction of the Pentagon’s weapons programs and specifically how this change of ... : 1) A Home for the War-fighter 2) Conventional and Strategic Modernization 3) Acquisition ... , acquisition, and contracting You can read the  the full text of his speech  and learn [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 22:15:12

Get Venture Capital from Google

I would love to hear thoughts from others in the comments on how you feel about Google Ventures ... acquisitions of popular Internet properties like YouTube and Feedburner and also for acquisitions ... capital and clout to help almost any ORIGINAL idea grow into a successful company. (No Twitter copies [more...]

Date: 2009-04-05 14:14:26

Deals of the Day: Nationalizing Citigroup

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... to stay afloat. FT.com Mergers & Acquisitions Vattenfall: The European electricity producers ... in British corporate history. Times of London Related: RBS will this week unveil plans to shrink [more...]

Date: 2009-02-23 04:50:48

Sun Pulls a Yahoo and Rejects IBM’s $7 Billion Offer

On Friday, IBM and Sun Microsystems were rumored close to an acquisition deal. By Sunday, talks between the technology rivals appeared stalled ... and all its intellectual property. But according to The Wall Street Journal, merger negotiations between Big Blue and Sun have significantly deteriorated. Sun's board rejected IBM's formal acquisition off [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 15:32:59

Google slows acquisitions down to nothing

Filed under: Deals , Google (GOOG) Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG ) Has slowed down its acquisition juggernaut in the last six months. No small or medium companies have been purchased as the company hoards cash to add to its $16 ... has affected it but the company is not hurting. If anything, more restrictive ad dollars are flowing [more...]

Date: 2009-03-26 21:23:43

Deals of the Day: Former CEO Makes Millions on Collapse of AIG

By Heidi N. Moore and Stephen Grocer Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, ... the companies failed to convince lawmakers of the urgent need for a rescue. WSJ Mergers & Acquisitions Microhoo no more? Steve Ballmer squelched hopes that the software giant would renew efforts [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 12:45:42

Deals of the Day: Ergen to Karmazin — You Can Keep Your Job

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... ://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions Sirius Discussions: Sirius XM’s talks ... : The U.S. is entering a period likely to feature the most corporate-debt defaults, by dollar amount [more...]

Date: 2009-02-13 14:34:24

CVC Capital Rings Up Vodafone Veteran for Help with Telecom Investments

With 16 billion euros burning a hole in its pocket, European private-equity giant CVC Capital Partners is looking for someone to help spend it. [ ... in one of the worst markets in years for mergers and acquisitions and the heavy borrowing that generally ... to deals, having worked on acquisitions that built Vodafone into one of the world’s largest [more...]

Date: 2009-02-25 13:38:03

Deals of the Day: Is BCE the Next Busted Buyout?

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity ... to provide labor, parts, repairs, upgrades, improvements, service, software and equipment in a long-term contract. NY Post Mergers & Acquisitions Yesterday it was BHP-Rio, today could it be BCE [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 13:47:54

Twitter Wouldn’t Sell For $1 Billion, Says Source

Update to our post last night about Google/Twitter talks: New sources say that Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, ... be concerned with antitrust issues around any major search-related acquisition, we’ve heard (and others ... circumstances. The fact that Facebook acquisition discussions got so far last year suggests [more...]

Date: 2009-04-03 19:56:51

Sun Micro Needs IBM Not Visa Versa

News reports today are saying that talks between Sun Microsystems ( JAVA ) and IBM ( IBM ) have broken down, supposedly not over price ... acquisition offer from IBM and sent notice that they had terminated the exclusivity of talks only ... long and hard before it leaves a deal on the table that would pay a 100% premium to the pre acquisition [more...]

Date: 2009-04-06 21:26:28

Lehman Bankers Get Prominent Positions at Barclays Capital

This week, Barclays Capital promoted a group of former Lehman bankers to run various sections of the U.K ... background, having been an attorney specializing in corporate finance and acquisition transactions. Noteworthy Deals: Liberty Mutual’s $6.2 billion acquisition of SafeCo; Travelers’ $9 billion merger with St [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 10:55:00

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