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Pepsi sues over secret meeting (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Instead of raising its $6 billion cash-and-stock bid for its two biggest bottlers, PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE:PEP) filed suit in Delaware against Pepsi Bottling Group Inc. (NYSE:PBG) and certain of its directors. The suit claims the bottling group's board kept Pepsi in the dark about a meeting where it adopted...

Posted on May 11, 2009 11:47 AM

Take-Two plays hard to get, EA dealmaker reacts (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Two weeks ago, video game maker Electronic Arts Inc. launched a $2 billion cash bid for Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. Since then, EA made the offer hostile and had to find a new CFO, and Take-Two enacted a poison pill and just moved its annual shareholder meeting back to April...

Posted on March 28, 2008 9:51 AM

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