Word: anti-trust
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...bidders have emerged to date, trailing 11 investment banks, but so far only one offer is on the table, an unappetizing €4.4 billion stock offer from supermarketer William Morrison that Safeway no longer supports. Three bigger retailing rivals - Tesco, Sainsbury and Wal-Mart - are likely to encounter serious anti-trust obstacles if they make bids, bankers say, and the two financial bidders, KKR and Philip Green, would load the retailer up with debt. With the volume of merger activity in Europe down 62% from 2000 and off 20% from 2001, according to Thomson Financial, bankers are elbowing...
...European Commission's 1999 decision to stop a merger between Airtours (now renamed My Travel) and First Choice, two British travel companies. The $1.2 billion deal will not be revived, but the case sets an important precedent. This is the first time a court has overturned a Commission anti-trust decision, and it comes while several larger appeals are pending - including the thwarted takeover of Honeywell by General Electric and the merger of WorldCom and Sprint. It may be too early to declare a new outbreak of merger mania, but companies with an eye on European assets will certainly...
...hostile stock market and an anti-trust suit have pushed Microsoft stock down about $66 in the past two years, to $53.26 at press time...
...case rejecting a subpoena of research records by Microsoft. In that case, the software giant had sought records from David B. Yoffie, Starr professor of international business administration at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor Michael A. Cusumano, to defend itself in the federal government’s anti-trust lawsuit...
...case rejecting a subpoena of research records by Microsoft. In that case, the software giant had sought records from David B. Yoffie, Starr professor of international business administration at Harvard Business School, and MIT Professor Michael A. Cusumano, to defend itself in the federal government’s anti-trust lawsuit...