Posted on July 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Filed under: Bankrupcy Insider | Corporate Dealmaker | Dealscape | Tech Confidential | The Deal Calendar
Tagged: bankruptcy , Barr , Bentley Pharmaceuticals Inc. , Electronic Data Systems , Hewlett Packard , IndyMac , M&A , proxy , Republic Services Inc. , Teva , Wachovia , Waste Management , Yahoo!

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The Deal's Mary Kathleen Flynn of TechConfidential and Suzanne Stevens of Corporate Dealmaker discuss the dealmaking events for the week of July 21, 2008.

Here are some key events and dates:

• Everyone's eyes will be on the regional banks this week with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s takeover of IndyMac Bancorp and the investigation into Wachovia Corp.'s auction-rate securities business.

• On July 22 Yahoo! Inc. will release earnings, which may sway Yahoo! shareholders votes at the proxy election on Aug. 1. The Deal has developed a slideshow for CEO Jerry Yang's board and Carl Icahn's proxy board and bios.

• On July 22 Bentley Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s shareholders will be voting on the $360 million acquisition by Israeli generic drugs maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. Teva also purchased its U.S. rival Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $8.9 billion on Friday, July 18.

• Republic Services Inc. rejected Waste Management Inc.'s $6.2 billion acquisition offer. Republic and Allied Waste management Inc., the No. 2 and No. 3 U.S. garbage companies, agreed to an all-stock merger June 23 to directly compete with Waste Management.

• July 25 is the EU's deadline for Hewlett-Packard Co.'s $13.9 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp.

• The Deal's bankruptcy league tables will come out in this edition of The Deal NewsWeekly.

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