June 2006

Posted on June 29, 2006 at 2:05 PM
Filed under: Corporate Strategy

Gerald Adolph, Senior Vice President and head of the Restructuring & Integration group at Booz Allen Hamilton, wrote a story recently in Corporate Dealmaker discussing the importance of merger communications to successful transactions. He’s now expanded on this with a podcast interview on Mergercast by Booz Allen Hamilton. Adolph...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 29, 2006 at 1:00 PM
Filed under: Movers & Shakers

Former Oracle Corp. and Siebel Systems Inc. executive Scott Creighton joined Bozeman, Mont.-based RightNow Technologies Inc., which specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). As vice president of business development, Creighton will lead growth and management of RightNow's global alliances and partnerships. Creighton came to Siebel from On Target Inc.,...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 28, 2006 at 1:20 PM
Filed under: Trends

Can you believe the twists, turns and surprising end to the Univision auction? As Richard Morgan notes, Grupo Televisa SA—owner of a stake in the target and supplier of much of its programming—had a deal that was its to lose, and managed to lose it to a consortium of...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 27, 2006 at 1:30 PM
Filed under: CD Community

Yesterday's Convergence 2.0 conference, hosted by Corporate Dealmaker's sister pub Tech Confidential at the Museum of Television and Radio here in New York, was heavy on big name dealmakers from the likes of NBC Universal, Time Warner, Microsoft, AT&T, Vonage and Sirius Satellite Radio. Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin got the...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 23, 2006 at 4:00 PM
Filed under: Trends

Are CEOs worth 262 times more than the nice guy in shipping? The headline of this EETimes article "CEOs earn 262 times the pay of workers," says so. Before anyone claims I am socialist liberal who doesn't value the wisdom and leadership that chief executives offer to their companies...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 23, 2006 at 1:25 PM
Filed under: Trends

That's what Paul Saffo says he listens for. A fellow at the Institute for the Future, a non-profit, Palo Alto based research group that counts a number of corporate strategists and biz dev folks among its members, Saffo recently told the San Jose Mercury News that those whispers are...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 21, 2006 at 2:56 PM
Filed under: Movers & Shakers

Mountain View-Calif.-based MIPS Technologies Inc. named Mark Tyndall as vice president, business development and corporate relations, reporting to president and CEO John Bourgoin. Tyndall will direct M&A activities and expand the firm's relationships with the financial community. Tyndall joined MIPS Technologies, which provides industry-standard processor architectures and cores for...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 20, 2006 at 1:02 PM
Filed under: CD Community

Last Friday, Brian Breheny, chief of the Office of Mergers and Acquisitions at the Securities and Exchange Commission's corporate finance division, was the guest speaker at a meeting of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York Special Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests....  Continue reading

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Posted on June 19, 2006 at 1:57 PM
Filed under: Law

Writing in The Deal, David Marcus sums up State Supreme Court Justice Jack Jacobs' June 8 opinion in the Walt Disney Co. shareholder litigation this way: It showed that the ferment in the state's corporate law following the 2002 passage of Sarbanes-Oxley has abated in favor of Delaware's historic...  Continue reading

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Posted on June 16, 2006 at 11:20 AM
Filed under: Trends

Deals often come up short on delivering anticipated revenues, expected cost savings and successful integration of information technology. Then why is it that the pace of M&A is accelerating? And even more intriguing, why are there more cross-border acquisitions—seemingly more difficult to execute—taking place? Global management consulting and technology...  Continue reading

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