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Keeping it real in strategic M&A (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Strategic acquirers were expected to be more active than financial ones during the credit crunch. But this much more active? For the first seven months of 2008, Dealogic reports, global dollar volume for strategic deals was off only 15%, compared with a 74% drop for financial deals. And the number...

Posted on August 13, 2008 9:23 AM

Deals by Dow, HP, Mars all call for integration by injection (from Corporate Dealmaker)

At one end of the integration spectrum is the consolidation approach. Recent example:  the proposed acquisition of Allied Waste Industries Inc. of Phoenix by Republic Services Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., which will produce a bigger waste management company based in Phoenix and operating under the Allied name. At the...

Posted on July 11, 2008 4:58 PM

Deal Team: Dow Chemical buys Rohm and Haas (from Corporate Dealmaker)

Executing a deal such as Dow Chemical Co.'s $18.8 billion cash purchase of Rohm and Haas Co., announced Thursday morning, involves a big cast of characters. At the top of the list, of course, are the two CEOs: Dow's Andrew Liveris  and Rohm and Haas'  Raj L. Gupta. But two...

Posted on July 10, 2008 10:35 AM