During
an earnings call, truckmaker Navistar International Corp. confirmed it's in
talks to buy General Motors Corp.'s medium truck business. Rumors of a deal
between the two surfaced in May in The Flint (Mich.) Journal, which noted that
Navistar officials were seen at the GM facility that produce GMC Kodiak and
Chevrolette TopKick commercial trucks. However, the story was overshadowed by
Cerberus Capital Management LP's purchase of the Chrysler Group, pushing the
rumors to the back pages of the few papers to follow up on the Flint Journal
story. — Matthew Wurtzel
By Edward Schneidman, Michael Blair and David Malinger, Mayer Brown
Real estate sponsors that might wish to undertake an IPO will need to consider a wide variety of issues and begin to take action long before the first filing with the SEC.
Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'