[Posted on June 30, 2006 at 1:50 PM]
The M&A market so far has exploded like fireworks on the 4th of July. According to Dealogic, deal volume for the first half of 2006 has jumped to $1.93 trillion
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[Posted on June 23, 2006 at 11:28 AM]
Pfizer, the Pac-Man of the pharmaceutical industry, has ended its partnership with San Diego biotech Neurocrine to develop and market the smaller company's insomnia treatment Indiplon. The news comes only
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[Posted on June 22, 2006 at 4:11 PM]
Some people have compared Rolling Rock with gasoline, so it should come as little surprise to those folks that the old Latrobe Brewing Co.'s lone brewery in Western Pennsylvania could
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[Posted on June 21, 2006 at 1:45 PM]
First it was AstraZeneca plc that was rumored to be in play; now it is Sepracor that big pharma — namely Pfizer Inc. — reportedly is coveting. To oblige business
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[Posted on June 21, 2006 at 9:58 AM]
Looking to compete with the world's largest network equipment maker market leader—LM Ericsson—Nokia and Siemens announced Monday, June 19 they would merge their mobile and fixed-line networking equipment businesses in
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[Posted on June 15, 2006 at 3:15 PM]
Ever since the nation's fourth largest bank bought Golden West Financial for $25.5 billion last month, Wachovia Corp. executives have sworn that the bank is done with dealmaking for a
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[Posted on June 15, 2006 at 8:14 AM]
If the story of Canadian bank mergers were a novel, it would never find a publisher. Since four of the five big Canadian banks proposed a pair of mega-mergers nine
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[Posted on June 15, 2006 at 6:47 AM]
The deal to win Associated British Ports Holdings plc was still at sea Thursday, June 15, as a Goldman Sachs-led bidding consortium raised its offer for the UK-based operator from
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[Posted on June 14, 2006 at 11:49 AM]
As German drug makers Bayer AG and Merck KGaA agreed to end their battle for rival Schering AG, pharmaceutical investors turn their attention to the next big target: AstraZeneca plc.
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[Posted on June 13, 2006 at 3:29 PM]
In his introductory interview with the former Knight Ridder paper he just bought, David Black told the Akron Beacon Journal that “Knight Ridder probably did need a shake-up.” A quick
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[Posted on June 7, 2006 at 9:45 AM]
McClatchy Co. said June 7 it has agreed to sell five midwestern newspapers to different bidders for roughly $450 million and days later, the last one on the block went
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[Posted on June 7, 2006 at 9:25 AM]
British airports operator BAA plc lost Tuesday, June 6, to a $19 billion takeover by a group led by hostile bidder Spanish construction company Grupo Ferrovial SA that will likely
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[Posted on June 5, 2006 at 2:51 PM]
An intergovernmental agency that reviews foreign acquisitions of U.S. assets for national security concerns approved a $5.4 billion bid by Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. for Westinghouse Electric Co., according
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