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CF Industries gains steam with antitrust nod (from Corporate Dealmaker)

As it expected, CF Industries Holdings Inc. (NYSE:CF) said the Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger waiting period for its hostile $3.7 billion (The Deal questions that value) offer for Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE:TRA) has expired. Terra's board said it will consider CF's latest proposal at a meeting to be held prior to the...

Posted on August 6, 2009 9:14 AM

Smaller firms feed off cleantech investment (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Giant corporates and VC firms are the driving force behind cleantech sector investing, and smaller companies are growing as a result. New York biodiesel refinery Innovation Fuels Inc. is riding their coattails, recently hiring Karen Johnson as vice president of business development. Just under a year ago, Innovation got...

Posted on July 17, 2009 9:54 AM

Waste Management tries to block $6B Republic-Allied deal (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Big banks may be toppling under weight of the credit crunch, but strategics are in full force. The big news Monday was Anheuser-Busch Cos. agreement to be acquired by InBev SA for $52 billion, creating an $80 billion beer company. Other merger Monday news centered on Republic Services Inc. They deal with beer bottles, too - empty ones. Waste Management...

Posted on July 14, 2008 12:12 PM

Intel Corp. adds to recent wave of technology spinouts (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Intel announced on Monday that it had spun off its solar energy technology into an independent company called SpectraWatt to manufacture and supply photovoltaic cells to solar module makers. Intel Capital invested $50 million in the startup. Cogentrix Energy, LLC, a subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., PCG Clean...

Posted on June 16, 2008 4:39 PM

Hard-won wisdom (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Before he became the CFO working to fix Cott, Juan Figuereo did nearly a career's worth of emerging market work for PepsiCo and Wal-Mart. He learned much about deals along the way...

Posted on March 12, 2008 2:27 PM

I-bankers' new realities (from Corporate Dealmaker)

It's 2004. Do you know where your M&A banker is? It's not such an easy question to answer these days. Investment banking executives, long known for business units that boom and bust along with markets, have outdone themselves in recent years. M&A specialists were among the hardest hit in the...

Posted on February 15, 2004 5:04 PM

Fresco the banker (from Corporate Dealmaker)

If there were a corporate dealmaker hall of fame, Paolo Fresco would surely be in it. As chairman of Fiat SpA from 1998 to last year, he led a string of transactions, including the purchase of U.S. farm and construction equipment group Case Corp. for $4.3 billion and the...

Posted on February 15, 2004 4:19 PM