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Porsche CEO Wiedeking to banks: More, please (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Porsche SE CEO Wendelin Wiedeking likes to present himself as the bad boy of Germany's corporate culture. And the country's clubby financial types have been happy to let him do what he wants -- because it's always made them money.But now they're getting nervous -- if not annoyed --...

Posted on March 3, 2009 11:01 AM

Nomura's Lehman integration headache (from Corporate Dealmaker)

D'oh! I hate integration problems like that!According to a publication called Operations Management, Nomura Holdings Inc. is facing a frustrating snag its acquisition of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s Asia, India and European operations. Seems they got the software for Lehman's prime brokerage system, but not the U.S.-based hardware, which went...

Posted on February 3, 2009 10:39 AM

Will Ford need Fed help? Is Renault back in Volvo talks? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Ford Motor Co., intent on avoiding a federal bailout, was reported last week to have received interest from Chinese buyers for its money-losing Swiss unit, Volvo. Now it looks like France's Renault SA may be in talks with Ford about buying Volvo. A Renault-Volvo combination proposed 16 years ago was...

Posted on February 2, 2009 5:15 PM

Barclays' Paul Parker: Weak M&A in 2009, but reasons for optimism (from Corporate Dealmaker)

There's a nice post up on our sister blog Dealscape on the keynote delivered by Barclays Capital's Paul Parker Tuesday at The Deal's M&A Outlook 2009 conference in New York. But there are a few additional points worth highlighting here as well. Parker, who is chairman and head of global...

Posted on November 11, 2008 4:42 PM