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Nomura Caught in Insider Trading Scandal: By Emi Emoto and Aiko Hayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Nomura Holdings , Japan's largest brokerage house, said on Tuesday that it had fired an employee at the centre of an insider trading ring and warned the fallout could harm its business. The insider...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial accounting, M&A, Tokyo, Nikkei, fallout, Hong Kong, Japan, stock, earnings, compliance, merger, knowledge, trader, analyst, stock price, Thomson Reuters Corp., commission, CEO; News items 2008-04-22
Investment Risk in Africa Now on Par with Asia: The Find: More than half of M&A deal-makers expressed significant interest in China, India and Southeast Asia despite their belief that risks in the region nearly equal those in Africa. The Source: "M&A Beyond Borders: Opportunities and Risks," commissioned...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual property, Jessica Stillman, M&A, risk; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Coping With m&amp;A Culture Clash: This article signifies that in a global environment, mergers and acquisitions have become vital in the race to achieve economies of scale, to reach new markets, and to build new capabilities. Companies that excel at managing the cultural aspects of mergers will improve their odds of creating successful new organizations...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, BearingPoint Inc., M&A, merger, environment; White papers
Not by m&amp;A Alone: As the high-tech sector restructures, boards and executives should think beyond acquisitions and consider joint ventures and other kinds of alliances. The paper reveals that an alliance makes sense when a company wants to become involved in a business but prefers to share risks or to gain expertise or assets...; Tags: Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, McKinsey & Co., alliance, M&A, asset, acquisition, board; White papers
m&amp;A Auctions: Are You Ready to Sell Your Company on eBay?: Auctions seem to have taken over the world of middle market mergers and acquisitions in recent years. It's enough to make a person wonder if eBay will soon advertise "Slightly used high tech company/one owner/mint condition" along with its roster of books, appliances, and autographed baseballs. Like other auctions, M&A...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, auction, M&A, eBay Inc., asset; White papers

Global Mergers & Acquisitions Merger Integration for the Aerospace & Defense Industry: To achieve high performance, A&D companies must grow. Often that growth comes through Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) - domestic, and increasingly, international. Accenture has helped hundreds of their clients realize high-performance by helping them through the M&A process. Accenture covers the entire M&A lifecycle - from pre-deal through the transaction...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A, Accenture Ltd., aerospace, high-performance, merger, industry, tool; White papers
Digging Deeper With the Supply and Demand Chain: When a company is growing either by Merger or Acquisition (M&A), looking over the Profit and Loss (P&L) statement and balance sheet is simply not enough to make a "Go" or "No go" decision. With M&As on the rise again, it may be prudent to examine the reasons that sound...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Cygnus Business Media, P&L, M&A, demand chain, valuation, merger, acquisition; White papers
Capital Markets Slowdown Triggers Pharma Micro-Deals in 2002: In 2002, the ability of companies to raise funds on either the public or private markets was greatly restricted, triggering a substantial reduction in the average value of M&A deals in the pharma sector. Globally, there were 374 M&A deals announced in the pharmaceutical sector in 2002, which represented 12%...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting, pharmaceutical company, M&A, capital market, analysis; White papers
D.Telekom Pressed to Do m&amp;A, Looks at Sprint: Sources: By Nicola Leske and Nikola Rotscheroth LUXEMBOURG/DUESSELDORF (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG's major shareholder, the German state, is pressing it to make large acquisitions in the hope of raising its sagging share price, a source familiar with the government's thinking said. "Berlin is...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Vertical industries, Corporate law, NETWORKING, Deutsche Telekom AG, Sprint Nextel Corp., Sprint Communications, Berlin, T-Mobile, government, acquisition, shareholder, AT&T Corp., writeoff, Network technology, UMTS, Thomson Reuters Corp., VoD, GSM; News items 2008-05-05
Packeteer Hints Tech m&amp;amp;A Still Active: The M&A market may have slowed down a bit even in the tech sector, but there are still signs of life. Take Packeteer, the Cupertino, Calif.,-based bandwidth-management software company. It had drawn the attention of two hedge-funds controlled by Elliott Associates as well as a higher-priced offer from Blue...; Tags: M&A, Packeteer, Blue Coat Systems Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Security, Investment, Finance, Kevin Kelleher; Blog posts 2008-04-21
Lufthansa Sees More Airline m&amp;A: BERLIN, April 21 (Reuters UK) - Lufthansa (LHAG) expects further consolidation among airlines both in Europe and in the United States and is prepared to play and active role, the German flag carrier's chief executive said on Monday. CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber told reporters Lufthansa had the...; Tags: M&A, Lufthansa, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Oukbs; News items 2008-04-21
New Pension Regulator Powers Could Hurt m&amp;A: By Simon Challis LONDON (Reuters UK) - Proposals to beef up the powers of the pensions regulator to make companies put more money into their schemes could threaten M&A deals and even make firms think twice about refinancing, pension consultants argue. "This is dynamite. It could...; Tags: Regulator, M&A, Pension, Benefits, Regulations, Human Resources, Government, Oukbs; News items 2008-04-15
Oracle Speaks on m&amp;amp;A, Is Microsoft Listening?: During the past week when the tech headlines seemed to be dominated by an increasingly hostile attempted takeover by Microsoft of Yahoo, someone at Tech Confidential did something clever - sat in and listened while Oracle executives talked at a conference about how to do smart takeovers. ...; Tags: Oracle Corp., M&A, Microsoft Corp., Integration, Doug Kehring, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Kevin Kelleher; Blog posts 2008-04-12
Deals Without Delusions: The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Dan Lovallo, Patrick Viguerie, Robert Uhlaner, John Horn, antidote, M&A, diligence, integration, Six Sigma, valuation, revenue, compensation, best practice, performance, game, strategy; Articles 2008-04-01
m&amp;A: Executing the Merger: M&A: Executing the MergerInnovation is another casualtyAnother casualty in many mergers and acquisitions is innovation. Both in the target company and in the acquirer, often get distracted and slow down their pace of innovation while also missing out on some of the hidden opportunities from the combination.Braden Kelley; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A, merger; Discussion threads 2008-02-28
m&amp;A: Executing the Merger: After all the research and due diligence, planning and negotiating, why do two-thirds of M&A deals go belly up? M&A consultant, Steven Ramirez, argues that it is the integration of the merger that will ultimately determine its success.; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, M&A, merger; Videos 2008-02-01
Steve Ballmer: Read These Books Before Microsoft Buys Yahoo!: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco By Bryan Burrough and John Helyar Widely considered one of the best business books ever written. Potentially sobering for Mr. Ballmer, given how poorly this worked out. It's especially appropriate because it was an example...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Yahoo! Inc., Michael Fitzgerald, Microsoft Corp., merger, Steve Ballmer, Books; Blog posts 2008-02-07
How to Plan a Merger: Once, the most common way to grow a business was to hire talent and expand gradually. Today what used to be called “merger mania” is simply business as usual. Determine Whether an Acquisition Makes Sense for Your Firm ...; Articles 2007-09-07
McKinsey: Get Ready For More Foreign m&amp;amp;As: The latest McKinsey Quarterly is out with a story that asks, are mergers and acquisitions over? The obvious answer is no, of course. But McKinsey's article makes a very important observation: the wave of private equity and hedge fund deals in the United States may beÂ flaming out, but there is...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial services, Investment, William J. Holstein, Cross-Border M&A, McKinsey Quarterly, McKinsey & Co., M&A; Blog posts 2008-01-03
Be a Master m&amp;A Negotiator: Got a big merger on the table? Here’s the strategy and savvy you’ll need to close the deal.On paper, it all seems so perfect: You’ve targeted the ideal company to acquire, the PowerPoint slides are screaming “upside,” you’ve done your financial and legal research, and you’ve given the other company...; Tags: Merger, M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Nicole Solis; Articles 2007-12-13