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Soapbox: Untangling the wires

[Posted on February 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM]

Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting's Anthony Treccapelli and Ronald Bisaccia weigh in on the difficulties of managing technology in a carve-out in a Feb. 25 Deal newsweekly column.  ...
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Soapbox: Forthright the first time

[Posted on February 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM]

James D. Rosener the partner-in-charge of Pepper Hamilton LLP's New York office, argues in a Feb. 25 Deal newsweekly column that in the wake of Delaware's URI decision, buyer-seller agreements
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Soapbox: Stuck in the middle

[Posted on February 21, 2008 at 12:27 PM]

James D'Aquila, a managing director with midmarket-focused boutique bank Mercanti Group, examines what lies ahead for M&A in 2008, particularly on the middle-market front, in a Deal column Thursday. ...
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Soapbox: Follow the rules

[Posted on February 16, 2008 at 10:00 AM]

Lloyd Harmetz, a capital markets partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP and Deal contributor, weighs in on the SEC changes to Rules 144 and 145--the key aspects and who benefits.
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Wall Street research: No wonder there's a market crisis

[Posted on February 14, 2008 at 1:13 PM]

We're putting up a column Thursday in our Soapbox section on the current state of Wall Street research. The piece, by John Merriman of Merriman Curhan Ford & Co.
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Soapbox: Codes of conducts

[Posted on February 13, 2008 at 4:40 PM]

Timothy Spangler, who heads Kaye Scholer LLP's investment funds group, writes for The Deal about the differing strategies to hedge fund and private equity regulation U.S. and British regulators are
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Soapbox: Global arbing

[Posted on February 10, 2008 at 12:30 PM]

Nicolas Ulmer, a Geneva-based international arbitration lawyer with Winston & Strawn LLP and a Deal contributor, writes about the new global playing field of arbitration, the playing field that has
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Soapbox: Lessons learned

[Posted on February 9, 2008 at 9:00 AM]

Patrick J. Dooley, an M&A partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP and a Deal contributor, looks at 2007 for hints about the M&A and private equity outlook
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Standing novation

[Posted on February 7, 2008 at 3:39 PM]

In a Daily Deal column Thursday, contributors Lucantino N. Salvi (left) and Marko W. Kipa of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP tackle issues government contractors need to weigh
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Inverness-Matria: Merger agreement gives new details

[Posted on February 7, 2008 at 12:12 PM]

The information contained in the press release describing the merger agreement entered into by Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc. and Matria Healthcare, Inc. was, as it turns out, incomplete. (See previous
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Qualifying a deal: Inverness-Matria

[Posted on February 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM]

In a recent column, Robert Willens, president of Robert Willens LLC and longtime contributor to The Deal, raised questions on the $1.18 million Inverness Medical Innovations Inc.-Matria Healthcare Inc. deal,
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MAC, U.K.-style

[Posted on February 3, 2008 at 7:00 AM]

Peter Hockless, a Debevoise & Plimpton LLP private equity partner, discusses the material adverse change clause in the U.K. ...
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Tapping Spacs

[Posted on February 2, 2008 at 7:00 AM]

Tina Pappas, a managing director with boutique investment bank Morgan Joseph & Co., weighs in on the opportunities for private equity investors interested in getting into the special purpose acquisition
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