Entries tagged "merger and acquisition"
In The Deal NewsWeekly Gerald Adolph and Goran Hagegard of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc lay out a 3-Year, 100-Day post-merger integration plan. Merging two organizations requires a vast amount of planning and attention to detail to create an entity that can perform in the near term and satisfy the overall strategic objectives of the partners. Yet it is all too natural to find oneself focusing mainly on the first 100 days after deal close. While this 100-day plan -- in practice a day one and short-term operating plan -- is critical to achieving the objectives of the transaction, focusing on...
Still no formal announcement, but if Staples Inc.'s plans to take its bid for Corporate Express NV hostile, the Framingham, Mass.-based stationary company must register an official bid for approval to the Dutch market regulator by May 13. So by next week we should have the formal announcement. There were supposedly more exploratory talks between the two companies, but it looks like Staples may go hostile. ...
Emerald Hilton Davis LLC acquired the carbon black dispersions business of Wolstenholme International Inc. from London private equity firm Rutland Partners for an undisclosed price. Emerald Hilton Davis hired Douglas Gessner, Jeremy Liss, Derek Vander Heide, Jocleyn Hirsch, John Glassgow and Michael Snow of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Wolstenholme International's law firm was Seyforth Shaw LLP. It used investment bankers Jean Cayanni and Paul Teuten of RSM EquicCo Capital Markets LLC....
Houston-based Rick's Cabaret International Inc., an operator of gentlemen's clubs, purchased The Executive Club for $9.5 million. Read more about the deal in the Dallas Business Journal. - Maria Woehr...
San Carlos, Calif.-based Natus Medical Inc. will acquire Massachusetts-based SonaMed Corp. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. For more, check out the San Jose Business Journal. - Maria Woehr...
Alan Schwartz, the CEO that finagled the sale of sinking investment bank Bear Stearns Cos., may have been invited to stay on at J.P. Morgan & Chase Co. as a vice chairman in the role of a senior dealmaker to advise J.P. Morgan's clients. Schwartz may not accept the role until the majority of the bank's 14,000 staff know if they still have jobs. ...
