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Sara Lee avoids a fight with an activist

ValueAct Capital's Jeffrey Ubben will bring his hybrid background of value investing, activism and private equity to the board of Sara Lee Corp. -- but don't expect ValueAct to launch a proxy contest or offer to buy any assets of the Downers Grove, Ill.-based foods and household products company. ...



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REIT IPO deja vu

By Edward Schneidman, Michael Blair and David Malinger, Mayer Brown

Real estate sponsors that might wish to undertake an IPO will need to consider a wide variety of issues and begin to take action long before the first filing with the SEC.


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Loan-to-buy

By Steven Miller, Standard & Poor's

Paulson's proposal to purchase an equity stake in Yellow Pages publisher Idearc is the second time in recent months an investor group has used its prepetition debt position to execute a bargain price 'exit LBO.'


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Managing your shareholder base

By Bradford P. Weirick and Joelle Khoury, Gibson Dunn

Growth companies and their PE sponsors should be wary of the pitfalls that arise when they layer on tiers of preferred stock.



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