March 2006

Posted on March 31, 2006 at 1:52 PM
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And we expect to hear more of them. So should you, now that we've started Corporate Dealmaker Forum, a stupefyingly logical extension of the magazine we've been publishing for more than two years now. Maybe you'll even feel like chiming in yourself. The logic goes like this: When our...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 31, 2006 at 1:50 PM
Filed under: Intellectual property

Could the Supreme Court push Congress to step up with legislation of its own around patent reform? Several observers believe that may be the case as the nine justices hear a patent case against eBay Inc. calling for a permanent injunction against its Buy it Now Feature filed by...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 31, 2006 at 12:54 PM
Filed under: Integration

A few months back at a business development conference in New York, I attended a discussion on post-merger integration. On the dais were a moderator and two panelists—a corporate development executive for a global outsourcing service provider and a consultant from a well-known company. Talk turned to the need...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 27, 2006 at 6:00 PM
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You've noticed the Web acquisitions News Corp. has made in the last year (see, for example, the November-December 2005 Corporate Dealmaker, which you can access by going to "past issues" at www.corporatedealmaker.com. And you may have seen the news accounts of the expansive speech chairman Rupert Murdoch delivered in...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 27, 2006 at 4:31 PM
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A report in today's New York Times and International Herald Tribune tells us that the turbulence at Sony BMG Music Entertainment joint venture is likely to get worse before it gets better. Having sucessfully pushed to replace the Sony exec who had been leading the venture with a Bertelsmann...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 23, 2006 at 3:42 PM
Filed under: Research and development

The world really is getting smaller. No sooner had I filed a story on the growing popularity of Russia as a destination for complex R&D projects, then along comes Leonard Y Liu telling the same story about China. Liu dropped by Corporate Dealmaker’s offices recently to do a little...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 23, 2006 at 10:41 AM
Filed under: Corporate Strategy

"What's good for General Motors is good for America, and vice versa." You know the line; GM chairman Charles Wilson said it in a Senate hearing in 1955. It comes off as arrogant and myopic, especially in retrospect, and yet it had plenty of truth to it. Vast and...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 22, 2006 at 12:35 PM
Filed under: Integration

No word on whether Tom and Kate Chappell, owners of Tom's of Maine, checked in with Ben Cohen or Jerry Greenfield before they sold an 84% stake in their business to Colgate-Palmolive in a $100 million cash deal announced last week. But it’s a reasonable guess that Colgate saw the...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 20, 2006 at 4:30 PM
Filed under: Movers & Shakers

  A consultant mentioned to me during a recent interview that one of his pharmaceutical company clients had been trying unsuccessfully for months to fill an executive-level corporate development position—this despite a steady stream of talented candidates. The problem? The company hadn't yet found anyone with the right combination of...  Continue reading

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Posted on March 10, 2006 at 4:36 PM
Filed under: Law

Yesterday, we flagged a few recent items from The Deal on M&A, PE and VC action in Asia. Today, we draw your attention to a few more letters dealmakers should focus on when the subject is Asia: IP and .CN This week, CNNMoney.com ran a piece on the necessity of...  Continue reading

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