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Dell and Xerox deals have healthcare angles (from Corporate Dealmaker)

When someone says "healthcare M&A", the first thing that comes to mind might be the current round of pharma and biotech deals, which   Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) kicked off in January with its $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE). But the sector is so huge -- and for many, still so...

Posted on October 13, 2009 2:55 PM

Perot Systems acquires BearingPoint China (from Corporate Dealmaker)

The services roll-up continues. IT services company Perot Systems Corp. (NYSE:PER), in the midst of being acquired by Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) for $3.9 billion, is itself acquiring BearingPoint Management Consulting (Shanghai) Ltd, a management and technology consulting company with offices in Shanghai and Beijing. Financial terms were not disclosed.Established in...

Posted on October 12, 2009 12:40 PM

Xerox and Dell, heavy lifting ahead (from Corporate Dealmaker)

We've written plenty about Xerox Corp.'s (NYSE:XRX) $8.4 billion bid for Affiliated Computer Services Inc. (NYSE:ACS) and Dell Inc.'s (NASDAQ:DELL) $3.9 billion deal to buy Perot Systems Corp. (NYSE:PER). Olaf de Senerpont Domis expands on some of that coverage in the current issue of The Deal magazine. In Service, please,...

Posted on October 6, 2009 9:11 AM

EDS, now H.P. Enterprise Services, no model for Dell (from Corporate Dealmaker)

On Tuesday, a bit more than a year after Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) bought Electronic Data Systems for $13.9 billion -- and just one day after rival Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) bought another services firm founded by Ross Perot -- The New York Times published a timely examination of HP's integration of...

Posted on September 23, 2009 4:49 PM

Dell's M&A strategy team may still be taking shape (from Corporate Dealmaker)

In a conference call Monday on Dell Inc.'s (NASDAQ:DELL) acquisition of Perot Systems Corp. (NYSE:PER) for about $3.9 billion, CEO Michael Dell said something that took us by surprise, and also reminded us of a couple of lessons we never seem to tire of relearning.The surprise was that David Johnson,...

Posted on September 22, 2009 12:33 PM

Dell deal takes it into services (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Note: This is a corrected version of a post published on the morning of Sept. 21 that assumed the involvement of David Johnson, Dell's recently hired svp for strategy, in the transaction. In a conference call later on Monday, CEO Michael Dell indicated that assumption was wrong. See below,...

Posted on September 21, 2009 9:08 AM