[Posted on May 15, 2008 at 2:15 PM]
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CBS Corp. on Thursday said it would pay $11.50 per share or nearly $1.8 billion for Cnet Networks Inc., news that caused the target's flagging share price to trade almost that high by midafternoon. Several advisers weighed in. Here are a few:

CBS didn't use outside bankers, but relied on a Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP team of Howard Chatzinoff and Raymond Gietz. Cnet tapped Morgan Stanley's Robert Kindler as well as Allen & Co. bankers and a Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP team that included Morton Pierce and Chang-Do Gong, among a host of other attorneys, for counsel. -- The editors

See the full list of advisers and the story on TheDeal.com
See Dealscape: Jana's Cnet win the latest in a series of hedge fund campaigns

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• advisers
• Allen & Co.
• CBS
• Cnet
• Gotshal
• Jana Partners
• Morgan Stanley
• Weil

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