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Cravath partner Jim Woolery on the next M&A wave (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Global deal activity managed to hold its own for the first nine months of the year, but as Vipal Monga reports in the current issue of The Deal newsweekly, everything changed after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. crashed. Deal volume slowed to a crawl as tight credit sunk some transactions and...

Posted on October 20, 2008 8:30 AM

Mile-high maneuvers (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Midwest Air Group CEO Timothy E. Hoeksema deflected aggressor AirTran at every turn, instead accepting a bid from buyout firm TPG and Northwest Airlines. In the end, though, his company may still find itself owned by another airline.

Posted on December 15, 2007 12:22 PM

Unsolicited, but welcome (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Back in the 1980s, any unsolicited takeover bid could be expected to lead to contentious litigation, which in turn would often determine the outcome of the bid. No more. Today, while an unsolicited offer can still lead to the courtroom (witness the suit filed by Mirant Corp. in support...

Posted on August 15, 2006 1:16 PM

Put on your thinking CAPs (from Corporate Dealmaker)

M&A practitioners watched closely as Oracle Corp.'s recent hostile acquisition of PeopleSoft Inc. raised, but didn't fully answer, a fascinating tactical question. Did PeopleSoft's "customer assurance programs" - contracts that would pay customers significant amounts if an acquirer stopped supporting the PeopleSoft products - constitute appropriate business protections or...

Posted on June 15, 2005 6:20 PM