This suggests a more limited role for the FCC when it comes to merger review.
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The Spanish government blocked a previous plan for Telefonica to merger with the Netherlands' KPN, prompting the resignation of chairman Juan Villalonga.
Imagine the Sarbanes-Oxley truth serum applied to merger and divestiture announcements.
Gabelli trails Merger in long-term performance with an annualized 9.8% over five years, although Gabelli has clocked a superior 4.1% return in 2001, to Merger Fund's 2.3%.
The culture secretary said he recognised the need for changes to merger rules but added that safeguards were already in place to check whether an individual was suitable to hold a broadcasting licence.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews told the Institute of Welsh Affairs' conference in December that their future funding, including being allowed to charge higher tuition fees, would depend on a willingness to "progress swiftly to merger and reconfiguration".
While it is not necessary for the merger to move forward, approval of the MOU helps to clear the path to labor integration should a merger to occur.
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Both Glamorgan and Newport universities welcomed Mr Andrews' decision to allow their merger to progress.
If an offer is made, you will need to evaluate the acquiring company to determine if it makes sense to follow the merger to completion.
On Sunday, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said France and Germany must reduce their stakes in EADS if the UK is to allow a merger to go ahead.
Introduced by TWA in 1961, the practice took off during the merger wave of the 1980s, when executives started pondering whether it was smarter to seek out merger opportunities to make money for shareholders or to hold on to their jobs.
Hazlett also points to the NAB's vehement opposition to the merger as evidence that competition to satellite radio does exist.
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Thinking alone may not contain threats to the merger from other carriers hungry to get their hands on either company's assets.
But the real key to the merger is US Airways' comprehensive service to small cities along the East Coast.
This process seems bound to lead to eventual merger, perhaps within three years, to coincide with the French government's sale of its 44% stake in Renault.
He stressed that there was "no option but to postpone merger" until Welsh society has a chance to respond to the proposal.
This may eventually lead to a merger of Ifil with Fiat, opening the door to an outside investor being brought in to rescue the Fiat Auto division, which is labouring under a heavy dependence on the Italian market, a lack of scale and earlier diversification into difficult emerging markets such as Brazil.
Its beleaguered boss, Stan O'Neal, is reported to have suggested a merger to his counterpart at Wachovia, a commercial bank.
Even one of the fiercest critics of CEO compensation, Harvard Law School's Lucian Bebchuk, reports in recent research with Alma Cohen and Charles Wang that golden parachutes do motivate CEOs to find merger-and-acquisition opportunities and, as a result, to extract more takeover premiums for shareholders.
The decision of global defense player BAE Systems and European aerospace giant EADS to terminate merger discussions today leaves both companies with a wide array of other opportunities to pursue.
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The regionals' small workforces don't bring the same kind of antagonistic seniority problems to a merger that a pairing of two large airlines does, so labor issues aren't likely to kill a deal.
Analysts told the newspaper that Mr Mittal may wait and buy iron ore assets from Rio at a later date should regulators demand the miner sells part of its business to allow a merger with BHP to go ahead.
We are prepared to deliver a draft merger agreement to you and begin discussions immediately.
We discussed a number of alternatives ranging from commercial partnerships to a merger proposal, which you rejected.
Having Qatar as an option may put some pressure on VW to agree to its merger terms.
Pfizer already lowered guidance for 2003 because of inventory writedowns tied to its merger with Pharmacia.
He says when it comes to the merger, the facts are on our side.
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The number of retail subscribers increased from 2007 to 2008 due to the merger with XM.
Such uncertainties limit BA's options, as well as its attractiveness to a merger partner.
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The parent company will still have to give its blessing to any merger involving its dependants.
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