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Editor's Note

Editor's letter: Nov. 16, 2009

Beneath the veneer of Wall Streeters beats the same heart, stirred by the same determinants of behavior.


Regulatory

Of politics and pay

How to fix executive compensation rules without breaking the companies.


Industry Insight

Before the honeymoon ends

Thinking differently about conflict resolution.


Judgment Call

The price of R&D

FAS 141(R): A new source of shareholder litigation against innovation-driven companies?



Entries tagged "Oracle"

Risk arbitrage: Nov. 2, 2009

A look at Sun Microsystems-Oracle, Sprint Nextel iPCS and Verenex-Libyan Investment Authority.


Scenes from the slowdown

M&A activity may have stalled during the first half of the year, but deal lawyers still had plenty to talk about.


Risk arbitrage: Aug. 10, 2009

Oracle's proposed $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun is on track for summer close; Addax Petroleum's $8.5 billion purchase by Sinopec also nears close and more.


The new normal

With $33 billion in cash and equivalents and a track record of 133 acquisitions since it snapped up its first company in 1993, it's no stretch to say Cisco wrote the book on tech M&A.


Antitrust 2.0

The return of tech dealmaking brings with it a revived threat of scrutiny.


Proper arrangements

Revenue recognition rules can affect accounting and pricing strategies. See Oracle-Sun.


Open and shut

Sun Micro's purchase of database provider MySQL shows the challenges involved in acquiring open-source software.


Route 128 revisited

Despite a recession and the vagaries of science and technology, Boston's high-tech corridor continues to thrive. Not that there aren't concerns and anxieties.


Larry Ellison has a picnic

Oracle buys Sun, keeping rivals away and getting some of the world's most important software.


Deals that defined an era

It begins with AOL-Time Warner and ends with the demise of Bear Stearns.


Unclear diagnosis

The $19 billion healthcare stimulus plan helps create a rising tide, but will it buoy technology companies?


And the winners are ...

In our Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers survey, readers pick Cisco Systems, Abbott Laboratories and General Electric.


Manifest destiny

New York law firms have become a force to be reckoned with in once-impenetrable Silicon Valley.


Beyond flux

Market chaos has effectively stifled most M&A activities. But investment bankers already look ahead to when a kind of dealmaking normalcy prevails.


Friends in right places

Jed Sherwindt kept in touch with Eduardo Mestre after he left Citigroup. It helped him land a new gig at Evercore.


Brockman goes to Blackstone

Ivan Brockman moves to Blackstone with plans to open its new Silicon Valley office.



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