June 2008

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• Lehman, Aladin Capital raising billions for emergi
• Second-quarter dealmaking stats are sure to be ugl
• SABMiller stays mum on Modelo
• Report: Ford held Volvo sale talks with Renault
• Bonuses fueling layoffs on Wall Street?
• Beer Brawl: Will InBev go hostile?
• What did Jeffrey Epstein have to do with Bear Stea
• Will bankruptcy clouds settle over GM?
• WaMu looks for new retail bank chief as new time b
• Former Mets slugger Mo Vaughn swinging for Starret
• CME dumps NYSE for Nasdaq
• Citigroup's Pandit and the new old-time religion
• Wall Street firms mauled by bears
• Hedge funds shop for change at Syms
• Investors drive down UBS stock
• Hicks' SPAC and Blackstone in $3.2B Graham Packagi
• Two days in March: Fed notes on Bear Stearns
• Deal jobs update: Who is hiring?
• Prince Charles starts $2B eco-friendly property fu
• Bankruptcy Update: Driggs, Delphi, Kitty Hawk and
• PE firms near exit on Somerfield supermarket chain
• France Telecom drops $41B TeliaSonera bid
• Del Monte sells StarKist to Dongwon for $363M
• BCE buyout: One year and waiting
• The Deal Calendar: June 30-July 4, 2008
• Haven Eldercare sale bedeviled by trouble
• UBS may sacrifice the old Paine Webber
• Private Equity exit activity: June 20-27
• Clear Channel debt sale hits snag
• Citi no longer can afford to own Indian back-offic
• The sky is falling on Lehman, Merrill, Citi and bi
• Family to take Clarins private
• Anheuser-Busch announces restructuring to up the a
• Icahn blogs again, sort of
• Celtics owner on a road trip
• Dealmakers honor Jimmy Lee at the library
• SK Telecom's Helio flames out
• The current crisis: The Fed cozies up to private e
• Will someone swallow Bristol-Myers?
• Bankruptcy Update: Goen Technologies, American Hal
• InBev moves to oust Anheuser-Busch board
• Navios Maritime SPAC floats on NYSE
• BofA-Countywide merger to eliminate 7,500
• Anheuser-Busch rejection letter to InBev
• DOJ busts air freight cartel
• Making Canadian antitrust more like its neighbor's
• Does Carlyle have the will to invest in banks?
• Progressive Moulded typifies troubles of auto part
• Chrysler denies bankruptcy rumors
• When will Canadian banks head south?
• RBC Capital hires Bear Stearns execs
• Zell seeks options on Tribune buildings
• Chemtura ends sale talks
• Barclays, Citigroup and how long is long enough
• Expro scores a victory in PE takeover
• A Ford-GM merger, a match made in...
• Out of fear of Big Brother, banks take big losses
• Subprime crisis presents M&A opportunities for Can
• Bankruptcy Update: Progressive, Death Row, Midwest
• Anheuser-Busch to reject InBev's offer
• Blackstone fields $2.2B bids for Groupe Vitalia
• Deal Stocks applaud Fed's rate freeze
• CSX proxy fight still rolls despite vote
• LBO rumors send shares of Continental AG higher
• Is Scott Ford telling all about Alltel?
• Labor group worried that MBIA's troubles could hur
• No time to waste for bankrupt JHT
• House approves carried interest tax
• Is the third time a charm for InBev?
• Warren Buffett comments on porn and PE
• Schwartz to join KKR?
• Pier 1 withdraws proposal to buy Cost Plus
• New York City enters private equity tax debate
• Report: UBS taps Lazard
• More shareholders sign on for delay in Expro buyou
• Bidders interested in Circuit City?
• Bankruptcy Update: Whitehall Jewelers, TVT Records
• Sovereign wealth funds return to financial service
• Barclays to raise $8.9B
• Delta, Northwest pilots strike deal
• Deal rumors have opposite effects
• Sen. Kohl prods DOJ on beef deal
• Activist seeks new Select Comfort chief
• SABMiller, InBev play games with Modelo?
• BofA predicts GM could burn through $14B by the en
• Roll Call: Will someone hire this man?
• HRJ Capital's Duran Curis on distressed investing
• HarbourVest's Kevin Delbridge on the state of priv
• Six Flags may have to raise white flag
• Who really knows how many bankers are unemployed?
• Roll Call: Anne Hathaway's ex tries to impress, is
• Carnac says Wachovia and J.P. Morgan
• Whitehall an example of a roll-up gone bad
• Ratings Review: S&P equity downgrades airline sect
• Hilfiger hangs IPO in closet again
• NYSE Euronext sees money in Middle East as U.S. ma
• Buffet with Buffett: A charity lunch
• Capital Dynamics' Janusz Heath on LP/GP dynamics
• SEC change probably won't hurt ratings agencies
• Roll Call: Bear Stearns' criminal collectables on
• M&A chronicles: Wolfe gets apocalyptic, Berman goe
• Bear Stearns executives score new jobs
• Babson's Michael Hermsen's concern about general p
• NYSE buys into Qatar bourse
• Bankruptcy Update: Modern Continental, Gemini, Dee
• Analyst: SunTrust 'worth more dead than alive'
• Whitehall files for Ch. 11
• If at Citi you can't succeed, try, try a hedge
• GM hires Citi to assist in Hummer review
• SPAC watchers get a glimmer of hope
• Just In: Advisers in Bunge's acquisition of Corn P
• Short sellers target U.K. banks
• Lloyds in talks to buy Dresdner?
• Roll Call: Portraits crafted from the FT popular w
• PricewaterhouseCoopers midyear M&A forecast
• Oil and agribusiness sectors doing deals with mark
• CME sweetens Nymex bid for shareholders
• Busch family divisions show in light of InBev offe
• The Journal and the passivity of Christopher Cox
• Huntsman fires back at Apollo
• BCE finale set for August
• Citigroup, Goldman Sachs to issue pink slips
• Roll Call: Resign from Yahoo! seamlessly
• Carlyle's annual report outlines post-credit crunc
• Bankruptcy Update: Plastech, Aerospace and MW John
• Expro defends Halliburton rebuttal
• Bunge buying Corn Products International for $4.2B
• J.P. Morgan reportedly chasing Wachovia as markets
• BCE buyers score legal victory
• DOJ gets judge's nod for its sole antitrust case
• TCI: Winning the battle but losing the war?
• PE-backed Midwest Airlines to ground one-third of
• Big Three's engines stall on possible S&P downgrad
• The Deal Calendar: June 23-27, 2008
• Private Equity exit activity: June 13-20
• Discounter Sun Country to ask state for assistance
• Moody's downgrades MBIA, Ambac, but is Ackman sati
• UBS sues Tank & Rast over LBO debt syndication
• Financial Deal Stock's weakness dampens market
• SABMiller a target?
• Credit Suisse expects more layoffs
• What do price increases say about Hexion-Huntsman?
• Modelo CEO resigns from Anheuser board
• Bain in $445M deal for D&M
• Barclays taps Sumitomo Mitsui for capital
• Bankruptcy Update: Aloha, Gemini, Dormia and more
• D-Day arrives for the BCE buyout
• Apria gets shot in the arm as markets recuperate
• Roll Call: Pirate turns to Private Equity
• Paulson tries to prod Congress to act on finance r
• Amida v. Cerberus, a commentary
• Biogen shareholders snub Icahn
• Is David Geffen playing the media to drum up deman
• Amazing Grace: In bankruptcy for seven years, and
• Ambac to Fitch Ratings: You're fired!
• Anheuser-Busch board to meet
• Canada's top court to rule on BCE
• The Icahn Report offers tips to nascent activists
• Providence, Carlyle emerge as mystery bidders for
• Jana retreats from Cnet campaign
• Frank to media: Dodd's VIP Countrywide treatment i
• Former Bush antitrust official endorses Obama
• Goldman banker latest to go Ivory Tower
• Blackstone to take Apria private for $1.6B
• Kerkorian may support Ford turnaround with more ca
• HBOS spooks investors over housing gloom
• Report: Wachovia hires Goldman
• Two Bear Stearns hedge fund executives arrested
• Bankruptcy Update: Ziff Davis, Parmalat, Wild West
• Huawei plans $4B auction of handset unit to buyout
• Arbitrage firm sues Cerberus over failed URI deal
• Hexion sues to break Huntsman deal
• Street hits a 3-month low and Deal Stocks follow
• Schumer may propose bill concerning CSX ruling
• Morgan Stanley's divestments feed uncertain future
• Analyst: Redstone should take Viacom private
• Taking bankruptcy on the lam gains momentum
• Food for thought: Will improved results lead to IB
• Dealmakers' purchase of the Celtics finally pays o
• Banks selling Clear Channel debt at a discount
• Bankruptcy Watch: Whitehall Jewelers
• Markets drown on continued credit fears
• Staples gets OK to acquire Corporate Express
• Pink slips at J.P. Morgan
• Remembering Dennis Weatherstone
• Fifth Third slashes dividend, plans to raise $2B
• Spielberg's DreamWorks near deal?
• Congress revisiting carried interest tax hike
• Bankruptcy Update: Plastech, Cheyne, SCO and more
• Goldman bearer of bad news for banks, stocks slide
• Mr. Brito goes to Washington
• InBev's campaign to win over Missouri
• Report: Harbinger to spread its branches, while pe
• Smaller airlines struggling to stay aloft
• Freedom Tower could find new owner
• Canada's top court hears BCE case
• GSO Partners and Monarch Capital raising new PE fu
• Tagg Romney goes back out fundraising
• Chanos on why rumors are ugly
• Mentor deals with hostilities while markets divide
• The Fuld call: Don't worry, it's my responsibility
• Pier 1 Imports to go hostile?
• More political maneuvering involving Sirius-XM mer
• Sorkin and why Anheuser-Busch needs to surrender n
• The Deal Newsweekly's new site
• Barclays Private Equity bids for Germany's Compute
• Legal surprise in Asarco case gives Grupo Mexico n
• Bankruptcy Update: Asarco, Pacific Lumber, Cedar F
• Deal Stocks up as oil settles from record high
• Ramius pushes Agilysis to sell
• Maguire Properties may sell its California dream
• More Wall Street layoffs at Goldman Sachs
• Yeary trades Citi tower for ivory tower
• Daimler not driving toward a big deal
• PE firms head to second round in the auction for C
• M&A Monday fueled by garbage union, Landry sale
• The Deal, issue of June 16, 2008
• Cost Plus rejects Pier 1 offer
• Stoli hits the block
• Will the crisis bring retail back to Wall Street?
• InBev warns Anheuser off Modelo
• AIG ousts Sullivan, names Willumstad CEO
• SPAC Polaris in $700M deal for Apollo's Hughes Tel
• ING shopping for PE firm in India
• Bankruptcy Update: Goody's, Silverjet, Plastech an
• Quadrangle Group to buy Greenfield Online for $426
• Roll Call: Entreprenuer Media gets scooped up
• Sing or we take the house
• The Deal Calendar: June 16 - 20, 2008
• M&A volume triples in India
• In Asarco, setting the record straight translates
• InBev to Modelo: Make up your mind
• Hedge fund calls out Icahn over XO
• The latest brattle about Inbev's Bud buy
• Goldman Sach's William Anderson on shareholder act
• UBS completes $15B rights issue
• Breaking: Time Warner withdraws Weather Channel bi
• Ranbaxy still in play?
• Colony Capital serenades Michael Jackson
• PE group pushes its Expro bid
• RBS sells Angel Trains for $6.8B
• Cerberus raising international distressed fund
• The deal markets: Despite the gloom, signs of life
• Activists may try to use CRA to thwart Bud deal
• A case against Verizon's Alltel deal
• Yahoo, shmahoo... Icahn's got other fish to fry
• The Lehman crisis: Fuld makes it to Friday
• Distressed opportunities in Asia may soar in secon
• Bankruptcy Update: ATA Airlines, Hancock Fabrics,
• Foster's is Australian for beer, but maybe not win
• Microsoft gets Googled as markets inch forward
• US Airways the latest to announce deep cuts
• Thain: Sale of Bloomberg, BlackRock stakes a possi
• A bankruptcy without the Luxury of consensus
• Anheuser-Busch reportedly in talks with Grupo Mode
• Dealwatch: Brewers
• Lehman may be for sale
• J.P. Morgan's Lee: Debt markets the problem for PE
• Rabble Babble: This Bud's for InBev?
• Ratings Review: Anheuser-InBev deal would likely t
• J.P. Morgan's Lee: Strategics are the buyers with
• International lawyers discuss hostile bids
• Lawyers discuss protectionism, sovereign wealth fu
• Roll Call: No one listens to E.F. Hutton anymore
• Dealwatch: Clear Channel
• Report: AIG holders seek board and management chan
• Lehman's Parker: Dealmaking to drop almost 50%
• Lehman's Parker: 'Strategics are driving the M&A m
• Citigroup to shutter Old Lane
• Lehman shakes up management
• Invitrogen in $6.7B deal for Applied Bio
• Court hands hedge fund TCI a loss
• Bankruptcy Update: Main Knitting, Goody's, LandSou
• Critics accuse Sirius' Karmazin of deception
• InBev's letter to Anheuser-Busch
• Monoline troubles beat up bank stocks
• Breaking: Anheuser-Busch finally receives InBev bi
• FT: Trio of banks could face write-downs on monoli
• Tips on dealing with Carl Icahn
• Middle Eastern fund could scoop up Chrysler Buildi
• Take-Two Interactive tries to dodge the FTC
• Boston Ventures drives away with NASCAR team
• LandSource bankruptcy leads CalPERS to rethink lan
• When Icahn speaks everyone listens, and few are sa
• Staples nails Corporate Express as markets worry a
• Landmark puts Dominion on the block
• The case against unleveraging
• China's Safe invests $2.5B in TPG fund
• Dealwatch: Airlines and bankruptcy
• Bankruptcy Update: Fedders, Uni-Marts, Reliant and
• Daiichi buys majority stake in Ranbaxy in deal wor
• China's pension fund puts nearly $500M into privat
• Dealwatch: Basketball
• Staples in $4.8B deal for Corporate Express
• CIC to set up multiple fixed-income funds
• Just In: Advisers in XTO Energy's acquisition of H
• The Fed, various crises and why globalization is r
• Hedge funds dodge Democratic tax increase
• That scoundrel Spitzer may become a vulture
• In bankruptcy reporting, stating the obvious preva
• Cubs auction starts as Wrigley Field sale goes fou
• Dubai to buy Wal-Mart unit
• New $500M Islamic PE fund receives commitments
• Dealwatch: PE and VC fundraising
• Blackstone Group snatches Laurence Tosi from Merri
• $4.2B XTO-Hunt deal marks end of Texas oil dynasty
• Dealwatch: Baseball
• Dealwatch: Buyouts gone bust
• Bankruptcy Update: Goody's, Pacific Lumber, Wild W
• Lehman leads to mixed results for financial Deal S
• Pier 1 adds Cost Plus, but deal equals trouble
• Contentious hearing on tap for Asarco this week
• CFIUS to take on British activist hedge fund?
• Goody's Family Clothing files for Ch. 11
• Ratings Review: Lehman loses street cred with Fitc
• Icahn blasts Yahoo! chairman
• Dealwatch: Yahoo!
• JetBlue's LiveTV dials in Airfone
• RBS sells $22.9B worth of stock
• Dealwatch: PE-backed bankruptcies
• Willis and Honeywell heat up as markets go separat
• KKR takes Unisteel private for $578M
• Press questions leadership of Fed
• Losses pile up at Lehman Brothers
• Dealwatch: Reed Elsevier, Reed Business Informatio
• Soapbox: Proactive
• Primerica prepares to be taken off Citi's map
• Anheuser-Busch investor sues over offer InBev hasn
• Weather Channel in direct talks with bidders
• The Deal newsweekly, week of June 9
• Dealwatch: NBC Universal
• Just In: Advisers in the Verizon Wireless-Alltel d
• Dealwatch: Take-Two
• Should the FTC's Intel case have passed go?
• Dealwatch: Tribune
• Dealwatch: XM-Sirius
• Concho gushes on market turmoil
• Dealwatch: SPAC attack
• Will Martin's itinerary delay XM-Sirius?
• Indians interested in GM's Hummer
• Weather Channel auction enters latest round
• Zagat scraps auction
• Soapbox: Riding in the side car
• Mrs. Fields warns bankruptcy may be near
• Media Maneuvers: Curses!
• Bankruptcy Update: Solar Cosmetic, ImageKing and m
• A new equilibrium
• A who's who of financial sponsor groups
• Blackballed
• Risk arb update: Penn National; Bronco Drilling
• Capital Calls: Cerberus hits turbulence
• Deal Life: Cosmic Joker by a nose
• Busch league
• Follow the Money: Is it a Pru put?
• Dealwatch: Airline consolidation
• Verizon megadeal helps spur market stampede
• Cubs books to go out next week
• Prince of Wall Street predicts private equity shak
• Mass. pension fund continues to bet on private equ
• Another day, another ratings move against the mono
• Meet the father of activist investors: Richard Bre
• Tropicana case hinges on a Yung presence
• Dealwatch: J.P. Morgan-Bear Stearns merger
• Icahn fires new shot at Biogen Idec
• Cash-flush Vornado shopping for right NYC retail d
• Shareholders say InBev bid 'reasonable'
• Does Dimon covet Citi's overseas jewels?
• Bankruptcy Update: Frontier, Go Fig, Innovative Co
• Verizon Wireless acquires Alltel
• Is the Wall Street firm at risk?
• Evercore hires Bear restructuring head
• BSMB officially declares independence
• TeliaSonera rebuffs France Télécom's $42B bid
• Vodafone confirms Verizon Wireless-Alltel talks
• Moody's downgrade warnings put monoline shareholde
• Spitzer goes from Client No. 9 to real estate deal
• SPACs look at gaining shareholder approval
• Dealwatch: Activist investors' retail campaigns
• How SPAC managers navigate potential conflict-of-i
• Just In: Advisers in Smucker's acquisition of Folg
• Ratings Review: MBIA, Ambac may get Moody's downgr
• Verizon Wireless to buy Alltel?
• Robert Toll asks for congressional help
• FCC's media ownership case moves forward
• Bennigan's may face bankruptcy
• Have SPACs jumped the shark?
• SEIU to take PE protests international ahead of U.
• Can Lehman make its case?
• Report: Corporate Express to open books to Staples
• P&G, Smucker in $3B Folgers deal
• Novartis to acquire VC-backed Protez
• Borders slashes work force
• Bankruptcy Update: Frontier, Torrent, Dorado and m
• Banks take a beating on credit concerns
• Altman, Hindery line up for Obama
• Cerberus' nuanced reponse to Chrysler, GMAC report
• Dealwatch: BCE
• Airline industry bracing for new cuts by United, o
• Roll Call: Grizzly Adams on the auction block
• Brooklyn's Starrett City up for sale with conditio
• Delta: No second thoughts about Northwest deal
• Don't be surprised if NY Crane follows the asbesto
• Apollo's Josh Harris plans to buy companies nontra
• Could GM's Hummer end up like Oldsmobile?
• Reed staples finance to sale
• Thirsty financials head back to the well
• Markets tippytoe to green despite worries in the f
• Apax's Martin Halusa charts a contrarian course
• Roll Call: Lehman to potentially raise capital
• GMAC's ResCap faces liquidity crunch
• Proxy firms back Restoration buyout
• Bankruptcy Update: Tropicana, Bombay, Orrex Medica
• Staples boosts Corporate Express bid to $2.6B
• Survey: Germany gains favor among VCs in life scie
• Canadian Supreme Court to hear BCE case
• Bud books bankers?
• Financials' shake up, oil uptick combine to batter
• Dow Chemical suit scandal settled
• Could shareholders force Harris' hand?
• CtW wins some, loses some, but wants more from WaM
• Sites oppose rumored InBev-Anheuser deal
• LG denies plan to team with Electrolux on bid for
• Tata completes deal for Jaguar, Land Rover
• Ratings Review: S&P downgrades Lehman, Merrill and
• Ratings Review: RGA likely to see Fitch downgrade
• Soapbox: Power struggle
• Are banks holding up InBev offer?
• Deal developments heat up as markets cool
• Dealwatch: Middle market
• Paulson open to sovereign wealth funds as Congress
• Schwartz having second thoughts about J.P. Morgan
• Is Semel eyeing Forstmann's IMG?
• Bankruptcy Update: Sharper Image, Silverjet, Delph
• Wachovia board ousts CEO
• Harris declares independence
• NBC and buyout firms in lead for Weather Channel w
• RBS looks far and wide for cash

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