Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says he is contemplating suits against brokers and insurers over bid-rigging and steering business to favored insurers against the interest of buyers.
Another stake in the protectionist palisade being erected around European steelmaker Arcelor, subject of a 18.6 billion euro hostile take over bid by Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal.
He or she spends five years focused on governing without handwringing over a bid for re-election.
They just wanted to make their enemies over-bid for them by seeming interested.
Now it has the NYSE Group reportedly consulting advisors as it chews over a bid for its London counterpart.
The public is being consulted by the Environment Agency over a bid for a waste permit for a multi-million-pound incinerator in North Yorkshire.
Despite the potential for objections from lawmakers, Warner is the third-largest record company and would likely face less resistance than No. 1 Universal Music Group or No. 2 Sony over a bid for No. 4 EMI.
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Comcast, the largest cable provider in the U.S., is in negotiations with regulators over its bid to purchase a 51% stake in NBC Universal, giving it control of a major movie studio, Universal Studios, as well as major TV channels.
He added it was "total nonsense" to suggest there was ever any quid pro quo offered by the Scottish government over the BSkyB bid, because the Scottish government had "absolutely no determination over BSkyB's ownership".
The first was the government's handling of the bizarre affair of Italy's central-bank governor, Antonio Fazio, who is accused of favouring a takeover bid by Banca Popolare Italiana (BPI) for Antonveneta, a larger Italian bank, over a rival bid from a Dutch bank, ABN Amro.
Leyton Orient Football Club has launched a legal bid over West Ham's move to the 2012 Olympic Stadium.
BBC: Leyton Orient in 2012 Olympic stadium High Court action
Finally, there is the matter of Senator Kerry's seemingly desperate bid over the past few days to suppress his former colleagues' criticism.
Rising above the price of the Getco offer is a likely signal investors anticipate at least one more bid over the top.
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However, the tourists opted to stay in the changing room once the tea break was over in a bid to register their unhappiness.
But the Seattle software giant yanked its bid over the weekend.
West Ham have held talks with the local Newham Council over a joint bid to occupy the stadium, with a proposed 50, 000-capacity for football matches, after the 2012 Games.
BBC: UK Athletics boss Ed Warner boosts West Ham's 2012 plan
The memo written by Jeremy Hunt in November about News Corp's BSkyB bid seems to explain almost everything that transpired in relation to the bid over the succeeding six months or so.
The Event phase, in which you and your opponent bid over who gets each event, adds a layer of chaos that can possibly ruin all your well-planned strategies if you're not prepared.
Opposition lawmakers have called for Jeremy Hunt, the minister for culture, media and sport, to also resign over the allegations he was too close to News Corp. while he handled the regulatory process over the BSkyB bid.
Mr Icahn, who owns 5% of the internet company, had nominated his own slate of directors and called for Jerry Yang to step down as chief executive after talks with Microsoft over its takeover bid fell apart.
After the auction is over, crank out receipts: assigned value for the donors, excess of bid price over assigned value to buyers.
Even some who had initially declared firm opposition to the bid softened over time.
Either way it forced Sky into increasing its bid by over 40% from the current rights arrangement.
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Factory owners Vion and one of the bidders both issued statements criticising each other over aspects of the bid.
Pinnacle saw its period of exclusivity as bidders end on 19 June without agreement being reached as the takeover bid stalled over the 10-point issue.
So as the sun sinks slowly over Jacobshorn and we bid a fond farewell to Davos, we are reminded why we came to this odd burg in the first place.
Burnham was with the FA delegation, including former FA chairman Lord Triesman, Capello and former England captain David Beckham, that handed over the England 2018 bid book to Fifa in Zurich and May.
Yet now we learn that the man who replaced him, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, had expressed equally strident - albeit pro rather than anti Murdoch - views in private in a draft memo to the prime minister, before he took over responsibility for the bid.
Sunday's Premier League defeat to Manchester United prompted declarations that Chelsea's title bid is over, while Scolari himself called this Cup tie as "the game of the year" - and right from the off it was clear the Blues were under no illusions as to the tie's importance.
's multibillion-dollar bid to take over British Sky Broadcasting collapsed as the scandal spread.
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