Pursuing a merger or acquisition too often wastes too many resources all allocated the wrong way.
There is some good economic news for 2011: merger and acquisition activity will rock.
For example, I can remember when I was leading a major merger and acquisition process.
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Antitrust regulators are typically influenced in their decisions by the perceived impact of a merger or acquisition.
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For competitive purposes, does this deal have the same competitive or anticompetitive effect of a merger or acquisition?
The branch is attaching increasing importance to the loan business for Chinese companies during their overseas merger and acquisition activities.
We, at Teton Advisors, believe we are on the cusp of a multiyear wave in merger and acquisition activity.
In small-cap tech land, in particular, there have been a flurry of merger and acquisition activity to kick off the week.
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And now, five years after Enron's collapse, merger and acquisition activity in the electric power industry is really picking up steam.
These questions are by no means exhaustive and will depend on the jurisdiction, industry, and proposed merger or acquisition, among other factors.
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As has been the case elsewhere in Europe, the approach of the licence sale has prompted merger and acquisition activity among prospective bidders.
Meanwhile, last year saw 330 merger and acquisition transactions involving venture-backed companies, about even with the year earlier and up from 317 in 2000.
The charts display the fact that almost all of Nomura's equity underwriting business and merger and acquisition adviser fees come from clients in Japan.
The energy sector continues to see merger and acquisition activity (See a previous discussion in Case Study: Buyouts Crystallize Value in the Market).
For Chase, the acquisition adds an equity-underwriting capacity in the fastest-growing part of the economy, which also accounts for much merger and acquisition activity.
But the merger and acquisition teams at Microsoft and Yahoo!
Bill Wiberg, general partner for clean-tech investor Advanced Technology Ventures, thinks that an increase in merger and acquisition and offering opportunities will also fuel investor optimism and new investments.
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Another way investors stand to benefit from industry consolidation is through the publicly traded small to mid sized investment banking boutiques with merger and acquisition and capital raising capability.
Even worse, according to Barrie James, an industry consultant, no merger or acquisition in the drug industry over the past 30 years has increased the combined firms' market share.
The pile-up of cash must touch off a merger and acquisition binge by the fat cats with mounds of cash and no place to reinvest it in their own business.
The Court of Appeals questioned whether divestiture or breakup is ever appropriate for a company, like Microsoft, that gained its monopoly through internal growth, rather than through merger and acquisition.
The general pattern of their conduct during this period wasthat KLUGER obtained Inside Information regarding certain planned merger and acquisition activities of public companies through his work on the corporate deals.
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For small-business owners, the merger or acquisition of a major customer can either pose a threat or be one of the best opportunities for future growth, depending on the steps you take.
Given that Mozilla is a global non-profit and that the agreement is a commercial agreement and not a formal merger or acquisition, Hart Scott Rodino antitrust rules may or may not apply here.
In our diversified micro cap GAMCO Westwood Mighty Mites Fund (WEMMX), merger and acquisition activity has also been robust, with six announced acquisitions of holdings in the September quarter joining the seven announced in the first half of the year.
"Irregular and highly suspicious options trading immediately in front of a merger or acquisition announcement is a serious red flag that traders may be improperly acting on confidential non-public information" said the SEC's head of the Market Abuse Unit, Daniel Hawke.
What this means is that investors stand the best chance of participating in this renewed merger and acquisition cycle by investing in small to midsize companies, or micro, small-cap and mid-cap mutual funds run by investment managers with a value approach.
Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, calculates a potential hit of 28% to Bear Stearns' 2008 earnings per share if income from fixed-income trading falls 20%, financial sponsor merger and acquisition dries up and it sees a 35% reduction in below-investment grade loans.
That is, a written clause in the bond indenture that says, if a control change occurs (i.e. merger, acquisition or LBO) then bondholders have the right to put their bonds back to the company at a predetermined price when a sale of substantially all the assets occurs.
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