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VeriSign sells JV stake, continues refocusing (from Corporate Dealmaker)

One of our Most Admired Corporate Dealmaker candidates is streamlining its business. Internet infrastructure provider VeriSign Inc. sold its 49% stake in a joint venture with News Corp. for $200 million. The JV, Jamba, with headquarters in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Berlin, began as the world's largest creator and...

Posted on October 8, 2008 4:31 PM

Good governance, good deals (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Yes, corporate directors are more focused on M&A. But Sarbanes-Oxley is only part of the reason why.

Posted on June 15, 2005 7:50 PM

VeriSign's eco-explorer (from Corporate Dealmaker)

For a time, Bob Korzeniewski admits, VeriSign Inc. did corporate development by the seat of its pants. Like when the company offered $19 billion in stock to buy Network Solutions Inc. on a Thursday in March 2000 and signed the deal later that weekend. But even though that price...

Posted on August 15, 2004 3:44 PM

Mapping the deal community (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Michael Frankel may be only 35, but he's seen dealmaking from just about every vantage: as a lawyer at Skadden Arps, as an i-banker at Merrill Lynch and as a corporate development vice president and then general manager at VeriSign Inc. Those experiences - combined with a knack for...

Posted on February 15, 2004 4:49 PM