July 2006

Posted on July 31, 2006 at 1:15 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions

After a 10-month courtship, Boots and Alliance UniChem are expected to complete their merger on Tuesday. The British pharmacy and health care retailer Boots has struggled mightily against competition from U.K. supermarket chains that, in recent years, have added pharmacy and beauty products to their shelves. The company hopes the...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 27, 2006 at 10:26 AM
Filed under: Movers & Shakers

InterOP Technologies, a service provider of mobile data solutions, has named Steven Reeves the firm's new vice president for sales and business development. He comes to the Fort Meyers, Fla.-based company from the Boston Communications Group, where he was executive director of business development. Reeves joined BCGI in 1997...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 26, 2006 at 10:12 AM
Filed under: Intellectual property

PricewaterhouseCoopers is out with its 2006 Licensing Competitiveness Study, and the results don't paint a rosy picture for companies with smaller IP portfolios. Based on 151 telephone interviews with technology, biotech and entertainment and media execs, the study found that: -Companies with small portfolios struggled to keep pace with...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 21, 2006 at 11:50 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy

What's it like to field due diligence requests in a high-stakes, fast-moving auction for your own company? Ask Josh King, who as vice president for corporate development at AT&T Wireless fielded diligence requests in the 2004 auction of the company. He'll tell you it's exhausting, sometimes frustrating, but also a...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 19, 2006 at 12:36 PM
Filed under: Law

Anyone who has ever read the legal description of their property ("A tract of land at a point which bears North 87 o 34' West, 475.0 feet and North 1 o 11' East ..."), knows that this can be little more than gibberish to someone who isn't practiced in the...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 18, 2006 at 2:10 PM
Filed under: Outsourcing

Technology Partners International has released its year-to-date snapshot of global outsourcing trends. Here are a few highlights of the 2Q06 TPI Index —The business process outsourcing market has been sizzling so far in 2006, with a record number of deals, 92, being signed YTD. Financial services outsourcing was the most...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 14, 2006 at 2:19 PM
Filed under: Intellectual property | Law

There's encouraging news out of China on the intellectual property front, but the latest news from France isn't nearly as uplifting, at least not for those who believe existing copyright laws need protecting. Let's start with China. According to this report at Korea.net, the PRC has sentenced a Chinese man...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 13, 2006 at 4:00 PM
Filed under: Trends

According to a forecast by the transaction services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers, M&A activity remains at a six year high, buoyed by record cash levels at corporations and private equity firms, plentiful financing and historically low levels of troubled commercial debt. And they say it looks to continue booming through...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 13, 2006 at 1:29 PM
Filed under: Movers & Shakers

Larry Shupnick was named senior vice president of development and acquisitions at Arlington, Va.-based Interstate Hotels & Resorts Inc. Shupnick previously served as SVP of development and acquisitions for MeriStar Hospitality Corp., a real estate investment trust, which was recently acquired by Blackstone Group. Shupnick first joined Interstate in...  Continue reading

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Posted on July 12, 2006 at 2:45 PM
Filed under: Corporate Strategy

William Vigdor, a partner in the Washington office of Vinson & Elkins LLP and former deputy assistant director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition, discusses the right ingredients to solid starts in the world of M&A in his new book, Premerger Coordination: The Emerging Law of Gun...  Continue reading

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