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GE Security sale: Must be some lessons there (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Looks like the Financial Times has confirmed Bloomberg's Wednesday report that General Electric Co. (NYSE:GE) has put its security unit up for sale. Pipeline subscribers can read Lou Whiteman's account here, and Lou expects to have more on the story later. Meanwhile, a few quick thoughts.Especially after 9/11, security gear--for...

Posted on August 27, 2009 11:15 AM

Inside The Deal: Debevoise & Plimpton's Paul Bird on MAC clauses (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Material adverse change clauses are nothing new, but with the credit and stock markets in turmoil, it seems like they are showing up in more and more deals. This year, claims of material adverse change have forced the renegotiation of Home Depot Inc.'s sale of its HD Supply business and...

Posted on November 19, 2008 4:21 PM

More on the ascendancy of the strategic buyer (from Corporate Dealmaker)

For further proof that the competitive advantage in M&A has shifted from financial to strategic buyers, give Vipal Monga's piece, Blackballed, in this issue of The Deal newsweekly a read. In it, Monga reports that some corporate sellers are excluding private equity groups from auctions, even when those firms have...

Posted on June 11, 2008 10:18 AM

Deliver and you get paid (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Nothing reinforces more the view that corporate chieftains are overpaid than the sums awarded CEOs given the boot. Early this year, Robert Nardelli's $210 million severance package, after he'd presided over a steep drop in Home Depot Inc.'s market value, made headlines for its extravagance. But Nardelli's isn't the...

Posted on August 15, 2007 6:03 PM

Integrate or exit? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Home Depot CEO Frank Blake must decide: follow through on a deal-driven expansion into contractor supply or concentrate on fixing the core retail business.

Posted on June 15, 2007 5:25 PM

Disney finds the open door in China (from Corporate Dealmaker)

What does a media giant do when regulations limit its ability to distribute movies and TV shows? Emphasize retail sales of consumer products.

Posted on February 15, 2007 12:55 AM