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George Soros commits $1B to cleantech (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Legendary hedge funder George Soros, who has given billions of dollars to various causes over the past several decades, is jumping into the cleantech pool, pledging $1 billion worth of investments in the sector. Soros announced the plan at a Project Syndicate editors' forum in Copenhagen on Saturday.He will also...

Posted on October 14, 2009 7:30 AM

A123 IPO carries weight of cleantech world (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Two weeks ago, we asked if lithium-ion battery maker A123Systems Inc. was worth $1 billion. The money-losing startup, backed with both private investments and government money, answered "No," raising the estimated price range of its IPO to $10 to $11.50 per share. On the high end, that would put the...

Posted on September 22, 2009 1:15 PM

U.S.-bound BYD plans Shenzhen float (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Hong Kong-listed BYD Co. Ltd., 10% owned by Warren Buffett affiliate MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., received shareholder approval to list its shares on the Shenzhen stock exchange next year, Wang Jianjun told China Daily. Jianjun is deputy general manager of BYD Auto Sales Co. Ltd., which is based in Shenzhen....

Posted on September 11, 2009 3:11 PM

A123Systems worth $1B? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Figuring out valuations for any company is a tricky business, but it seems especially hard for A123Systems Inc., the lithium-ion battery maker that finally set its IPO terms on Sept. 9. On one hand, oil prices are on the mend, the Watertown, Mass., company is riding a wave of...

Posted on September 10, 2009 3:16 PM

New AOL CFO has spinoff, deal experience (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Mergers and acquisitions, financial planning and internal audit are some of the things Arthur Minson will be handling as the new EVP and chief financial officer of AOL LLC. What's more important to AOL is Minson's past experience with AOL -- he held a corporate development/finance role -- and the...

Posted on August 28, 2009 2:22 PM

Who is buying old GM stock? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

OK, if you're a day trader and see MTLQQ.PK, don't buy it. The government and folks at General Motors Co. have warned investors not to buy old GM stock, but the price is jumping and falling by 50 cents and more on some days. Apparently, people think they are getting...

Posted on August 20, 2009 4:31 PM

More on the divestiture wave (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Building on our previous post on divestitures, we spoke with Andy Wilson, Deloitte's & Touche's national managing partner for divestitures services, and Jefferey Weirens, national managing director of Deloitte's carve-out and merger integration practice. By Deloitte's reckoning, in 2007 the number of corporate sales of units worth $1 billion or...

Posted on May 8, 2008 2:02 PM

LinkedIn has new dealmaker, IPO in '08? (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn Corp. made advisory board member Ellen Levy VP of corporate development and strategy. Levy is familiar to the tech deal world from her work as a managing director at NeoCarta Ventures and at Softbank Venture Capital. She also worked at startups Softbook Press Inc. when...

Posted on April 24, 2008 4:22 PM

Study: Midmarket M&A to keep pace in '08 (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Dealmakers at middle-market companies are generally optimistic about the current and future deal climate, according to the results of a recent survey. CFO Research Services and CIT Group Inc. surveyed 529 senior-level finance decision makers at...

Posted on February 26, 2008 5:13 PM

Rock-Tenn, Southern: How to buy (and sell) a family-owned firm (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Nearly two years after announcing a half billion dollar deal, Norcross, G.A.-based Rock-Tenn Co. last night announced another bolt-on acquisition. The maker of packaging and merchandising displays will acquire the stock of Southern Container Corp., a privately-held containerboard manufacturing and corrugated packaging business, for $851 million in cash. The...

Posted on January 11, 2008 12:18 PM

China's changing deal climate (from Corporate Dealmaker)

China tends to give bureaucrats lots of room to interpret its loosely worded laws, so it's still early to tell how the changes made in September 2006 to its acquisition rules will play out. But there are some signs of a backlash against foreign investment. In November, for example,...

Posted on April 15, 2007 8:24 AM

The upside of tension (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The age-old tension between financial and strategic VCs continues to simmer. But with limited IPO opportunities, VCs are becoming less wary of deals that include corporate investors. DuPont Ventures, the strategic venture arm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., makes investments of $1 to $3 million,...

Posted on April 15, 2007 6:56 AM