December 2007

Banks to dump assets, soap too

Citigroup Inc. and HSBC Holdings plc are among banks reportedly considering sales of everything from branches to entire units in the new year, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing analysts... Continue reading

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• Waving goodbye in 2007: Topps Meat, Levitz and mor
• Natural Tea could join Coca Cola
• Marmon is Buffett's kind of company
• Chrysler still running in reverse with cash crunch
• Atlantic Bridge Ventures exits GloNav investment
• Greenspun unveiled as Zell's right-hand man
• Merrill may tap Temasek for $5B
• Study: Rosy outlook for midmarket deals in 2008
• Hedge Connection looks to set up investors with fu
• Southwest Airlines flying toward more deals
• BofA thinks strategy in midst of write-downs
• Tata could drive home with Jaguar by Friday
• Strategic Turnaround Equity pushes for change at C
• Freedom prices on the low end
• CTW Investment pushes for Kellwood sale
• Credit downgrade of ACA Financial likely to cause
• Morgan Stanley CEO sacrifices bonus
• Edge Petroleum hires Merrill to explore a possible
• Target delaying sale of credit card business
• Slower growth for China's economy?
• Morgan Stanley makes its yearly MD elections
• GM divulges more restructuring details
• Is McClatchy a PE target?
• GM succeeds with Daewoo purchase
• Waste Industries goes private for $544M
• Despite activist, Sprint taps old face for CEO
• Maguire CEO finds backers for take-private
• Nike in talks with Umbro dissident holder
• M&A to decline in 2008
• Dykstra shoulders new magazine, The Player's Club
• PDL drug deal may alleviate activist
• Lorillard spinoff another Loews exit
• Merrill Lynch bonuses to buy smaller holiday trimm
• Shareholder opposes N.J. bank merger
• Value City close to a sale
• Ambac gets Moody's approval
• Metavante dampens M&I's loan troubles
• PE Pipeline: Fall highlights: Alltel, Clear Channe
• Media Maneuvers: Stein way
• Ghosn may finally get his American partner
• Ramius battles with Federal Signal
• Atlas Mining to explore activist's suggestions
• JetBlue may not be harbinger of consolidation
• ICE to quiet NYBOT floor
• JetBlue deal launches renewed Delta-UAL talk
• Deal rumors at Deloitte Oil & Gas conference
• Lufthansa buys a boarding pass on JetBlue
• PDL attracts another activist
• Clinton parts with Yucaipa
• Blackstone raises $1.3B to turn lemons into lemona
• Columbia Sussex forced to sell N.J. casino
• Blogger wages shareholder activist campaign
• Activist offers to work with Brink's
• Orchid farmer serious about Trans World offer
• Northwest sues to keep new pension
• Hiro Properties puts Big Apple building on the blo
• BAE marches on Australia's Tenix
• Cerberus drops out of Northern Rock auction
• WaMu-J.P. Morgan deal, not likely
• Costa Brava wins Telos case
• Real estate, video games dominate deals of the wee
• Farallon may oppose Linktone stake sale
• Citi update: Pandit is CEO, Bischoff is chairman
• Ford: No deal until 2008
• Buyout firm fetches Waggin' Train
• Group opposes Amaranth prosecution
• Inverness Medical purchases BBI
• Citi update: No coronation for Pandit yet
• Warburg Pincus' MBIA bet may counter Ackman's
• Activist sets sites on Emageon
• Black to give up pinstripes for prison orange
• Citigroup's troubles make it a buyer or a target?
• Warburg Pincus may profit on turmoil with MBIA dea
• TSC swallows Bourse de Montreal
• Carlos Slim to close CompUSA
• Pandit likely to take Citi's vacant corner office
• This date in deal history: Iacocca becomes more th
• Cadbury confirms Peltz move
• PE wins one battle, but loses anonymity in the pro
• Ron Perelman seeks a blank check
• Edwards Lifesciences trims heart line for $140M
• Chrysalis auction could rock
• Luby's, Ramius continue to spar
• Dimon: Turmoil will lead to a wave of mergers
• Dealwatch: ArcelorMittal
• Activist investor Ramius hounds A. Schulman
• Carlos Slim may close CompUSA
• Tiki Barber teams up for real estate venture
• Dealmaker Doctoroff joins Bloomberg
• Could a firing put CNET in play?
• TH Lee closes $8.1B fund
• Citi looks further afield for CEO
• Genzyme to resist Icahn
• This date in deal history: Chicago Merc's IPO led
• Jones Soda looks for new pop with CEO change
• Washington Post: Not just a media company
• Tata stays ahead in race for Jaguar, Land Rover
• Citigroup sending search party for cash
• Deutsche's Ackermann told Citi's Rubin: Nein
• Ticketmaster could be set free by Liberty Media
• SuttonBrook takes an interest in United Rentals
• Columbia Sussex faces troubles in New Jersey
• Dow Chemical likely plans to stay solo
• Dealmakers revitalizing Lord & Taylor
• Darden gets slimmer after Smokey Bones sale
• North American PE may take it on the chin
• DreamWorks could phone home
• Thain taps Chai as Merrill CFO
• Swatch shops at Tiffany's
• Costa Brava's revenge against Telos
• Dealwatch: Ford Motor Co.
• Murdoch's plans for MarketWatch
• Only two bids for Claiborne brands
• J.P. Morgan Chase puts $200M in show business
• PE Pipeline: Nuveen, DJO successful debt sales pre
• PE Pipeline: Myers, Sequa head toward close
• PE Pipeline: Cerberus, URI swap law suits, Apollo
• PE Pipeline: Alltel, Chrysler debt sales founder i
• Vivendi plays an M&A game with Activision

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