Two years ago, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch firm born from the merger of British Steel and Hoogovens, found itself, uneasily, with a new big shareholder, Alisher Usmanov, another of the steel oligarchs.
The firm was created from the merger of NTL and Telewest, and Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile.
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Tuesday also brought a deal, with Glencore International agreeing to a long-anticipated merger with mining firm Xstrata.
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The tiny firm, formed by a merger last year, seems to have gotten its hands into many of the most exciting areas of new antibiotic development.
And the firm partially blamed the proposed merger for its demise, saying that it had delayed selling underperforming business units that it had previously planned to ditch.
Walter Hewlett, the dissident board member who has tried to stop the merger of the firm his father helped to found, has not given up the fight.
In a merger, a firm might wind up with two HR apps and decided to keep the better one but add a few great features from the app that is being retired.
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His seven-year-old firm, Voxiva (a merger of the Latin words for "voice" and "life"), is gaining ground in the largely underserved field of helping global aid groups and government agencies communicate quickly with diverse constituencies.
In accompanying filings it said the firm created by the 2007 merger of Dewey Ballantine and LeBouef, Lamb Greene and MacCrae was once one of the largest law firms on earth, with 1, 300 attorneys in 12 nations and more than 5, 000 clients.
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In a reverse merger, the private firm merges with a public shell company.
Middle-market firm Oclaro was formed by a merger between competitors, and has recently merged again with Opnext, looking for a better balance between supply and demand.
In 1984, he was picked to run Houston Natural Gas and engineered a merger with a rival firm in Nebraska to create Enron, which owned the first coast-to-coast pipeline network.
ABB, the company that arose from the 1988 merger of the Swedish firm ASEA and the Swiss one Brown Boveri, is hoping to get a lot more business like that.
Indeed, such a merger might even create a firm better able to compete with Microsoft.
European food ingredient companies saw their stocks gain after Danisco's approval of the DuPont merger, including fellow Danish firm Novozymes.
In April Gardner bought Airia, a French firm half its size, in a merger brokered by Airbus, Gardner's main customer.
His earlier two attempts to pull off a mega-merger with South African telecom firm MTN collapsed after months of negotiations.
Earlier this week, Ergen announced that if the merger is approved, his firm would offer local TV channels via satellite to every part of the country.
What the public is getting is a boutique merger advisory and investment management firm whose success--and presumably, value--rises and falls with the skills and sales ability of its senior bankers.
The firm said it tried to find a merger partner earlier this year as its own partners fled (and unnamed former employees sicced the Manhattan District Attorney on former Chairman Steven Davis for alleged criminal wrongdoing).
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Weisel's firm helped oversee 79 stock underwritings and 14 merger-and-acquisitions deals last year.
Mr Thain might see a merger between Merrill and his old firm or another large bank as his crowning achievement before entering public service (he is believed to harbour political ambitions).
But it remains unlikely that Washington would regard the failure of a corporate merger - even one involving a firm as large and well-known as GE - as serious enough to warrant souring international relations.
When the Chinese do a reverse merger, the auditor of the Chinese firm typically becomes the auditor of the reconstituted public company.
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This will account for a fifth of Lockheed Martin's sales after the merger with Northrop Grumman, and the firm expects the market to grow by 10% a year.
Last month CADE threatened to undo the 2009 merger that formed Brasil Foods, the leading firm in Brazil's processed-food market.
But the board-member's bank tends to win merger-and-acquisition business from the firm.
Burger King was taken private in 2010 by 3G Capital, a New York-based investment firm, and will soon become publicly traded through a merger with a shell company.
France and Germany must reduce their stakes in defence firm EADS if the UK is to allow a proposed merger with BAE Systems to go ahead, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has said.
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