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• 2007 ERNST & YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR(R): Larry Andrus, Merger power

  - 2007-07-01

  LARRY ANDRUS/CEO

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• Caught in the middle

  - 2007-02-01

  BIG FOUR FIRMS HAVE TRADITIONALLY AIMED HIGH. BUT NOW THAT THEY'RE TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TO THE MIDDLE MARKET, JUST WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE MID-TIER FIRMS? Something's in the air. First Big Four firm Deloitte swooped on the Melbourne office of mid-tier firm BDO. Not long after it scooped...

  Tags: accountancy, Australia, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Government, Investment, KPMG International, merger, Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley, Strategy

• Macquarie snares big name from E&Y.

  - 2006-09-27

  Byline: Cathy Bolt Sep 27, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Martin Alciaturi from Ernst & Young (E&Y) is to become Macquarie Bank's head of corporate finance in Perth. Alciaturi has resigned as head of E&Y's Perth transaction advisory...

  Tags: Australia, equity, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment, M&A, merger

• Big year for small mining mergers.

  - 2006-03-15

  Mar 15, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- There will be increased acquisitions by medium-sized resources companies in Australia in 2006. A study by Ernst & Young found...

  Tags: acquisition, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment, merger

• M&A brilliance bonus.

  - 2005-11-06

  Byline: Jane Searle Nov 06, 2005 (BRW - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Takeovers and mergers can be used to bring talented executives into an organisation. James Joughin, a mergers and acquisitions ...

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• Merger mania in the media unlikely.

  - 2005-10-25

  Byline: Neil Shoebridge Oct 25, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian media companies will not rush to acquire each other, even when they are suddenly...

  Tags: Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, Investment, MARKETING, media, merger

• Merger may help investors in bankrupt Spokane, Wash., mortgage lender.

  - 2004-10-26

  By John Stucke, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 26--A court-ordered report suggests that bankrupt Metropolitan Mortgage & Securities' entire family of so-called independent companies be merged. If adopted by the court, such a consolidation would...

  Tags: bankruptcy, consolidation, Ernst & Young LLP, FINANCE, investor, Litigation, merger, United

• Espotting Media reports preliminary first quarter 2004 results; Company reaches profitability - reports net revenues of over $30 million - Daniel Ishag, CEO & Founder, shortlisted for Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award.

  - 2004-04-27

  M2 PRESSWIRE-27 April 2004-Espotting: Espotting Media reports preliminary first quarter 2004 results; Company reaches profitability - reports net revenues of over $30 million - Daniel Ishag, CEO & Founder, shortlisted for Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneur of the Year' awardC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04262004...

  Tags: Entrepreneurship, Ernst & Young LLP, Espotting Media, FINANCE, FindWhat, Investment, merger, revenue

• Incitec-Pivot deal: now it's up to shareholders.

  - 2003-04-01

  Mar 31, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) A meeting of shareholders in fertiliser company, Pivot, will be held on 29 April 2003. It will vote on the proposed merger with Incitec's fertiliser business, which will create Australia's largest fertiliser manufacturing and distribution...

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• M&A activity dogged by war.

  - 2003-03-26

  Mar 26, 2003 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) Accounting group Ernst & Young predicts that merger and acquisition activity will rise in some Australian sectors in 2003. However, it warns that activity will be muted until the war in Iraq and the uncertainty...

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