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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
Reuters(Adds Dell Inc, Orkla, Marathon Oil, Elan, prada, Telecom Italia and others) May 23 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Thursday: ** Activist investor Carl Icahn and Southeastern Asset...Tags: Finance, PPR, Orkla ASA, Softball, Lonmin Plc
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Blackstone and Prologis to pay $960 mln for warehouses -sources
ReutersNEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP and Prologis Inc have agreed to buy a portfolio of 17 million square feet of warehouse and distribution centers whose majority owner is Lehman Brothers for about $960 million, two sources familiar with...Tags: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Prologis
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Market Chatter-Corporate finance press digest
ReutersMay 23 (Reuters) - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Thursday: * Building products maker CPG International is being prepared for a sale by its private equity owner, a deal that could fetch between $1 billion and...Tags: Finance, Manufacturing and Engineering, Fidelity National Financial Incorporated, Italy, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
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Prosecutors' subpoena of SAC's Cohen puzzles defense lawyers
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - The decision by prosecutors to compel Steven A. Cohen to testify before a federal grand jury about allegations of insider trading at his $15 billion hedge fund is leaving many criminal defense lawyers scratching their heads. In the...Tags: Criminals, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Prosecution, Manhattan (New York City), Judges
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Scandal or not, one SAC investor can't get enough of Steve Cohen
ReutersBy Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Sam Forgione BOSTON/NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - As federal prosecutors circle Steven A. Cohen's $15 billion hedge fund in a long-running insider trading probe, one financial adviser in Texas is so devoted to the billionaire...Tags: Finance, Prosecution, Investments, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy
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Rockwood pigments businesses attract private equity bids -sources
ReutersBy Michael Erman and Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK, May 20 (Reuters) - Specialty chemicals producer Rockwood Holdings Inc's pigments businesses have attracted offers from buyout firms including Blackstone Group LP and Advent International Corp, several...Tags: Metal, Sales, Saudi Arabia, Rockwood Holdings Incorporated, Bain Capital, LLC
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Blackstone, Pactera insiders make $680 million offer
Reuters(Reuters) - Pactera Technology International Ltd said on Monday that Blackstone Group LP , together with the company's management, made a $680.3 million non-binding proposal to take China's largest technology outsourcing firm private. Pactera said it...Tags: Labor Markets, Finance, China Pacific Incorporated, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Stock Market
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SAC Capital's Cohen gets subpoena to testify: NY Times
Reuters(Reuters) - Steven A. Cohen has received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in a U.S. government insider trading investigation into his hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors, the New York Times reported, citing lawyers and executives briefed on the case....Tags: Justice System, The New York Times, SAC Capital Advisors, Prosecution, Steven Cohen
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Some foreclosed-upon homeowners getting mortgages
The Tampa TribuneStuck renting for a few years, Tampa Bay area residents who had a foreclosure during the housing crash are buying homes again. Among them is Xiomara Mewa of Tampa. A former loan officer, her finances tumbled five years ago when the lenders she worked...Tags: Finance, Government, Moody's Corporation, Federal Housing Administration, Foreclosures
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EXCLUSIVE-Onex fails to find buyer for Carestream Health
ReutersBy Soyoung Kim and Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters) - Onex Corp has called off its auction of medical imaging firm Carestream Health Inc after failing to find a buyer that was willing to meet its price expectation of as much as $3.5 billion,...Tags: Bank of America Corp., Finance, Science and Technology, The Carlyle Group, X-rays
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PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times - May 17
ReutersMay 17 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Headlines Budget black hole at heart of George Osborne's finances () Blackstone courts bold...Tags: Finance, Dell Inc., Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), Tony Hayward, Glencore International AG
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Blackstone planning to create new hedge fund - FT
ReutersMay 16 (Reuters) - Blackstone Group LP is planning to create a hedge fund which will consist of the boldest trades from the third-party hedge funds it invests with, the Financial Times reported. The new fund will invite managers to sell their interesting...Tags: Finance, Mutual Funds, Economy, Business and Finance
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