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The other Bear Stearns: M&A adviser

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BearStearns.jpgWhile Bear Stearns Cos. spiraled toward collapse, the bank's M&A advisory team kept busy. The bank's most prominent current advisory role, of course, is CEO Alan Schwartz's involvement with Microsoft Corp. in its $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo! Inc. But the firm recently has worked on several other significant transactions.

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The following are some of the companies Bear bankers have been advising over the last six months, as reported by The Daily Deal and TheDeal.com. Individuals are noted in parentheses where known:

  • Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., a target of a $1.9 billion hostile bid from Electronic Arts Inc. (Alex Berkett, Eric Rutkoske and Mark Van Lith);

  • Unisys Corp., under pressure from hedge fund MMI Investments, in an examination of strategic options;

  • Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. in the possible sale of its animal medicine division;

  • DLI Holding Corp., parent of Del Laboratories, in its $800 million sale from Kelso & Co. to Coty Inc.;

  • Gyrus Group plc in its $1.9 billion sale to Olympus Corp. (Paul Abecassis and Stuart Rankine);

  • Commerce Group Inc. in its $2.6 billion sale to Spanish insurer Mapfre SA (Jay Bullock, Jim Ferency and Karl Lau);

  • Harman International Industries Inc. in its aborted $7.8 billion sale to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. (Charles Edelman and Alan Schwartz);
  • Oxygen Media LLC in its $875 million sale to NBC Universal Inc.

- The editors

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