Banks Lose Out on Fees as Potash Bid Is Withdrawn
The investment banks advising BHP Billiton would have earned an estimated $140 million in total financial advisory fees if there had been a deal.
View ArticleThe Deal Makers Who Deserve Failing Grades
The Deal Professor highlights the lowlights of M.&A. over the past year.
View ArticleAnadarko Shares Surge on Deal Talk
Speculation is swirling that the world largest's miner, BHP Billiton, is prepping a $90 a share offer for Anadarko - moving Anadarko stock in pre-market trading.
View ArticleConfident Deal Makers Pulled Out Checkbooks in 2010
In the first annual gain in deal-making worldwide since the financial crisis, the value of mergers and acquisitions rose 23.1 percent in 2010, to $2.4 trillion.
View ArticleRoasting and Toasting the Deal Makers
It is time again for the annual DealBook closing dinner, where we toast and roast Wall Street and its deal makers - and look ahead to make a couple of New Year's resolutions.
View ArticleCargill to Split Off Mosaic Unit in Complex Deal
The spinoff will leave Mosaic as a wholly owned public company, one that could prove lucrative to potential buyers given its strength in the production of phosphate and potash.
View ArticleLondon and Toronto Exchanges Announce Merger
The merger between the London Stock Exchange and the TMX Group would form one of the largest markets for mining and natural resource stocks, but it could face regulatory hurdles.
View ArticleBHP to Pay Chesapeake $4.75 Billion for Shale Gas Assets
The deal, which will give BHP Billiton access to the American shale gas market, is the first by the Anglo-Australian giant following its failed effort to buy the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan last...
View ArticleAt Forum for Deal Makers, M.&A. Meets the Law
Investment bankers, lawyers and others in the takeover business will gather in New Orleans on Thursday for the Tulane Corporate Law Institute. The Deal Professor examines the agenda.
View ArticleBattling Headwinds in a Shifting M.&A. Marketplace
The apparent hesitance of strategic bidders may be the result of a fundamental reassessment of the value of takeovers.
View ArticleBHP Billiton to Buy Petrohawk for $12.1 Billion
BHP's proposed takeover of Petrohawk, an independent energy company, is the mining giant's latest effort to snap up shale natural gas resources.
View ArticleIn Petrohawk's Sale to BHP, a Quest for Capital
Though the price tag for the Petrohawk deal appears high, BHP Billiton believes it is acquiring quality natural gas assets for a good price, since the independent energy company needed more capital.
View ArticleThe Outer Limits of Insider Trading
The S.E.C. needs more than suspicious trading patterns to prove an insider trading case and must provide evidence that a trader acted on material nonpublic information.
View ArticleViterra Deal Gives Glencore Influence in Global Wheat Trade
Glencore has slowly expanded its agricultural business beyond Europe and Russia into markets like Australia. With Canada's position as a top wheat exporter, the Viterra deal gives Glencore much more...
View ArticleIn Judging Hostile Bids, Look at How Recent Targets Fared
Companies that have prospered by spurning offers and remaining independent usually have a strong, informed board that is willing to stand up to both its chief executive and a hostile raider.
View ArticleTemasek Scraps Plan for American Chief
Temasek Holdings, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, said it was parting ways with Charles W. Goodyear -- less than six months after picking him to be its first foreign chief executive.
View ArticleA Curious Case of Insider Trading
The S.E.C. case against two Spaniards who bought call options on Potash right before BHP Billiton's takeover offer has some curious aspects.
View ArticleBanks Lose Out on Fees as Potash Bid Is Withdrawn
The investment banks advising BHP Billiton would have earned an estimated $140 million in total financial advisory fees if there had been a deal.
View ArticleThe Deal Makers Who Deserve Failing Grades
The Deal Professor highlights the lowlights of M.&A. over the past year.
View ArticleAnadarko Shares Surge on Deal Talk
Speculation is swirling that the world largest’s miner, BHP Billiton, is prepping a $90 a share offer for Anadarko — moving Anadarko stock in pre-market trading.
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