Posted on November 6, 2009 at 2:27 PM
Filed under: Corporate Strategy | Deal International | Divesting and Restructuring
Tagged: american airlines inc. , Delta Air Lines , japan airlines

The courtship of Japan Airlines Corp. has apparently gone into overdrive, with officials from AMR Corp.'s (NYSE:AMR) American Airlines Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE:DAL) each lobbying Japanese government officials about the benefits JAL could reap from forging closer ties to each of their rival alliances.JAL has been a...  Continue reading

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Posted on November 5, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Filed under: Careers | Divesting and Restructuring | Middle market | Movers & Shakers | People | Trends
Tagged: Don Dodge , job cuts , Johnson & Johnson , layoffs , Microsoft Corp. , Nokia Siemens

Corporate layoffs are churning this earnings season, with companies trying to cut costs while growing their core businesses. We've gathered a list of pink slippers from the past couple weeks. Of course, aggressively cutting costs is only one side of recent corporate strategy. Downsizing while acquiring has been a frequent...  Continue reading

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Posted on November 4, 2009 at 12:42 PM
Filed under: Divesting and Restructuring | Middle market | People
Tagged: Chapter 11 , FTI Capital Advisors , Halcyon Holding , Joss Whedon , Sony Pictures , Terminator

The auction isn't slated to happen until later this month (reportedly), but the multimillion dollar "Terminator" movie franchise has its first formal bidder ... sort of. It's not a major film studio such as Sony Pictures or an investment fund; it's filmmaker and writer Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon. He made...  Continue reading

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Posted on November 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Careers | Corporate Strategy | Divesting and Restructuring | Movers & Shakers | People
Tagged: earnings , job cuts , Johnson & Johnson , M&A , William Weldon

Two weeks after Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) reported mixed earnings, which tugged stocks downward, the world's biggest healthcare company is looking to cut costs. Those cuts include 7,000 to 8,000 layoffs, mostly overseas.J&J chief executive William Weldon (pictured) said in a statement, "These types of changes are difficult under any...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Corporate Strategy | Divesting and Restructuring
Tagged: procter & gamble , Robert McDonald

Moving the growth needle at Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG) isn't easy. Not only is the company an $80 billion-in-sales behemoth, but it is after all in the consumer products business. And in the developed world at least, growing sales of shampoo and diapers faster than GDP is tough. Mostly,...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 28, 2009 at 2:18 PM
Filed under: Deal International | Divesting and Restructuring | Intellectual property

On Wednesday, when Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F) named a group led by Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd. as the preferred bidder for its Volvo Car Corp. division, there remained a big hurdle for any deal to overcome: how to safeguard Ford's intellectual property rights. The Deal Pipeline...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 28, 2009 at 10:24 AM
Filed under: Careers | Divesting and Restructuring | Law | People
Tagged: Anheuser-Busch InBev , Francine Katz , John E. Jacob

The former most powerful woman at Anheuser-Busch InBev SA (NYSE:BUD) has a beef with the brewing giant. Francine Katz, former vice president of communications and consumer affairs, is suing Anheuser, claiming it promotes a "locker room" and "frat-party" atmosphere, and pays women less in salaries and bonuses than men for...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 26, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Filed under: Careers | Corporate Strategy | Divesting and Restructuring | Growth Strategy | Joint Ventures and Alliances | Movers & Shakers | People
Tagged: Carl Icahn , Carol Bartz , earnings , GeoCities , Google , Jerry Yang , Microsoft , Roy Bostock , Yahoo!

Icahn has bid adieu to Yahoo!. Months after publicly battling management to sell the company to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT), billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn quietly announced his resignation from Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) board on Friday. The Deal Pipeline (subscription required) has more details on the Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal and earnings.Yahoo!...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 22, 2009 at 8:00 AM
Filed under: Divesting and Restructuring
Tagged: divestiture , PricewaterhouseCoopers

Finance executives believe that corporations will over the next 12 months begin spinning off or selling businesses with increasing frequency. That was one of the findings of a survey title "Divestitures in Difficult Times" from PricewaterhouseCoopers Transactions Services. Sixty-nine percent of the 215 private and public company executives surveyed in August...  Continue reading

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Posted on October 19, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Filed under: Acquisitions | Best Practices | Corporate Strategy | Divesting and Restructuring | Middle market
Tagged: Eli Lilly , ImClone Systems , John Johnson , John Lechleiter , Monsanto , NYSE:LLY , Zyprexa

A restructuring Eli Lilly and Co. (NYSE:LLY), which faces patent losses on 80% of its key drugs by 2013, will report third-quarter earnings on Wednesday. A live Webcast of the conference call will be held from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Of first note, Lilly will take a 23...  Continue reading

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