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ING in talks with Singapore bank for possible saleSingapore's Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) said Tuesday it was in talks with Dutch lender ING for a possible acquisition.
CA investors turn to Israel's clean tech sector"The Pope was in Israel earlier this month, bringing with him thousands of Catholic pilgrims.
Stock Prices Should Not Stop Deals, M.&A. Lawyer Argues - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.comLook to relative prices (exchange ratios) rather than absolute prices in public "stock for stock" deals. These should be more and more common given the credit market.
The impact of mega mergers on stock performanceDespite the fact that ever-increasing stock prices have helped to create mega mergers, the converse is not always the case.
Bharti pulls out of MTN talksWhat could have made one of the largest telecom operator in developing countries over 100 million subscribers turned out to be failed attempt. Bharati telecom has a reputation of becoming a telecom giant from scratch within a decade with over 60 million subscribers.
Running a winning M&A shopPicking up the pace of M&A requires big changes in a company's processes and organization—even if the deals are smaller.
Tata: Master of the Gentle ApproachTata: the company of real gentlemen. A conglomerate owned by charitable trust keeps the devil out of the businessman's mind. Is it the best answer to crony capitalism?
Key shareholders angered over Hapag-Lloyd plansWhen European style 'comfy corporatism' confronts American style shareholder return requirements, the results are never going to be pleasant.
Goldman Sachs narrowly beats Morgan Stanley as top M&A adviser 2007Goldman Sachs de-empahszied M&A activity in 2007 slightly, as more emphasis was put into its trading activities, but it still managed to end the year on top.
Facebook Buys WebOS Startup Parakey Facebook, itself the speculation of a lot of M&A, has done its first small one: it has bought Parakey, a still-in-stelth startup run by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, co-founders of Mozilla Firefox.
Increased Competition and Technological Advances Mean Businesses Have to Change Just to SurviveSeven steps to successful transformation
Goldman Sachs leads M&A Advisors in record first halfA great M&A 6 months has only gone some of the way to making up for the decidedly second rate performance GS has put in with regards to funds management.
NewsVisual - BHP Billiton's Reach into Alcan is Weaker than Alcoa'sBHP Billiton has emerged as a new bidder for Alcan. IntellectSpace's Knowledge Map illustrating BHP's reach into Alcan shows that it is a significant bidder, as its network has a direct reach into Alcan's leadership team.
Internet Business Rating Index Reveals 18 Percent IncreaseInternet Business Rating Index Reveals 18 Percent Increase iMerge Advisors Points to Continued Growth in Internet Business Merger & Acquisition Activity Through 2008
Paladin raises takeover bid for SummitAs soon as the Areva deal was announced, Paladin upped its bid to 1.67 Summit shares for a Paladin share. Summit is considering the revised offer, but it likely will fall short of what Summit diretcors consider a fair price, especially now with the possible Areva alliance.
Royal Bank in bid to thwart Barclays mergerThe Royal Bank of Scotland is poised to enter the fray for ABN-Amro, but there is still a possibility that barclays may offer to throw it a bone to placate it away from a full scale competing bid.
Takeover candidates: The world according to Goldman SachsPrivate equity...sounds a lot more saleable than leveraged buyout, doesn't it? Goldman Sachs takes a bit of an in depth look at this sector and describes what makes a successful LBO and candidate for the same.
Goldman clears way for ABN Amro bid battleEven by global M&A standards, this one is going to be a beauty: ABN-AMRO is the prize, Barclays is the suitor...and Goldman Sachs is frantically workign behind the scenes to see if it can launch a counter proposal in time.
Fancy another merger, mate?Australia's business landscape is now in what can fairly be described as takeover/merger mania. Thanks to the agressive activities of Macquarie Bank and other key players, M&A actibity is now attracting worldwide attention.
Visual Map: CVS/Caremark Discussions Led by LeadershipAt the helm of the CVS and Caremark discussions were the Chairmen of these two companies.
MVD Communications Acquires Lenoco TechnologiesWiil MVD move into providing services to create more monthly recurring revenue (MRR)? Has anything else recently happened in the Indianapolis datacom world?
Akamai to Acquire NetliAkamai uses pricey common stock to buy applications acclerator for $182 million.
Maersk takeover of Tui unlikely - but it's a mad, mad world...A little like the man who married an annoying wife, is finding married life tough enough and now wishes to take an even more annoying mistress.
New costs warning to BAA predatorNot just Ferrovial, but Macquarie Bank, Babcock & Brown, Goldman Sachs and other players better pay close attention to this statement and rethink some of the prices that are being paid for transport infrastructure assets of late.
Macquarie no longer bidding for PatrickMacBank may have run out of time or its partners may have been scared off by the aggressive defensive (read offensive) tactics of Toll. Either way, its last minute "bid that never really was a bid" is over. But this may not be the end of the matter.
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