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Booze deal dissolves

Southern Wine & Spirits and Glazer's Distributors decide that bigger is not better.


Sullivan's Aquila on joint venture due diligence

Sullivan & Cromwell's Frank Aquila discusses the challenges of due diligence.


Citi's gain is Morgan Stanley's pain

The Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture may have been a boon to Citigroup investors, but what will it mean for Morgan Stanley?


NYSE & DTCC team on swaps clearing house

NYSE Euronext and Depository Trust & Clearing pool their resources to form New York Portfolio Clearing, a derivatives clearing house.


Disney buys into Hulu, scares cable

Disney joins NBC Universal and News Corp. as a stakeholder in online video service Hulu, which has the potential of stealing customers from cable companies.


Bank Watch: Morgan Stanley gains as JV deal nears

Stocks sunk Monday. The Dow fell 98.85 points to 8,500.33, the S&P 500 dropped 15.99 points to 874.36, and the Nasdaq decreased by 27.43 points to 1,544.16. Financial stocks were mostly in the negative....


Citi, Morgan Stanley and the persistence of the financial supermarket

The much-speculated joint venture deal between Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Inc. has stirred up commentary that feels like Christmas dinner leftovers from about three years ago. Oh God, not again! Citi chairman Win Bischoff is again about to be canned, CEO Vikram Pandit is either under pressure or has the board's confidence, and the man with a thousand lives, board chairman Richard Parsons, floats behind every story like the ghost in the machine. When did Parsons develop this reputation for omnicompetence? At Time Warner Inc.? ...


Possible Siemens-Fujitsu fallout follows industry trend

The writing has been on the wall for years. Computer makers are suffering from waning profits as their products have become a low-cost commodity, forcing industry players to rethink their participation in the sector. IBM Corp. left the industry in 2004 with the sale of its computer business to China's Lenovo Group Ltd. while Hewlett-Packard Co. acquired rival Compaq Computer Corp. in 2001, and Gateway Computer Corp. was acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007. ...


Just In: Advisers in GE-Mubadala JV

We have the names of the advisers who worked on the $8 billion joint venture between General Electric Co. and the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Co. For the full list, see the story on TheDeal.com. ...


SABMiller, InBev play games with Modelo?

There are now rumors that SABMiller plc held talks to explore merger options with Grupo Modelo SAB de CV and InBev SA, according to Reuters. The discussions have included the possibility of SABMiller acquiring part or all of Modelo, if InBev succeeds in its proposed $46.3 billion takeover of Anheuser-Busch Cos....


Spielberg's DreamWorks near deal?

Dealmakers for Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks SKG are reportedly in talks with India's Reliance ADA Group Ltd. on a deal that could help fund the studio's exit from Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures this year.   ...


RBS looks far and wide for cash

The fundraising effort by Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc continues to strike out in new directions. It now emerges the bank is ready to agree to sell out to Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco plc its 50% share in their retail banking joint venture Tesco Personal Finance. ...



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