Features
By Michael Rudnick
With the biggest banks busily digesting massive acquisitions and bumping up against deposit caps, midtier acquirers are gobbling up FDIC-seized banks. Haven't we seen this before?
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• Too big to flail
• Buyout blackball?
• Coyote ugly
Dealwatch
On Sept. 7, Kraft Foods Inc. made a surprise bid for Cadbury plc, which was quickly rejected.
Deal Video
Jeffrey Schmidt
Linklaters |
Rodgin Cohen
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Bankruptcy
By Matt Miller |
A Russian billionaire, a Chinese femme fatale and lot of distressed U.K. auto assets make for one spicy brew.
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Regulatory
By Bill McConnell |
Government wants the power to seize and wind down nonbank institutions. Just how that would work is still very much up in the air.
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Private Equity
By David Carey |
The New York Times took a critical look at the succession of private equity shops that owned Simmons Bedding, But it turns out they didn't so terribly.
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Regulatory
By Andrew Bulkeley |
Neelie Kroes will not go gently into the night as she aggressively clears the decks as EC competition commissioner only two months before the end of her term.
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Backstory
By Richard Morgan |
The mogul of IAC/InterActive continues to shuffle the deck in search of a winning hand. Content, anyone?
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