EBay is auctioning off the business card and X-mas card of former Bear Stearns Cos. hedge fund managers Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi, who were arrested last week on securities fraud charges. Dealbreaker turned us onto the auction. Bidding on the X-mas card is now at $76.00, and the business card is going for $22.00. - Maria Woehr
By Chelsea A. Grayson and Mary C. Warner, Jones Day
Terms and structures now used to get deals done are post-closing purchase price payments, earnouts, simultaneous acquisitions, rollups, payments in kind and joint ventures.