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Egar gave up the case last year because of a possible conflict of interest, and Barnett, whose firm, Stewart and Barnett, is based in Santa-Anna, said he did not use that defense...
...Craig McCaw, the 39-year-old chairman of the company, which is based in Kirkland, Wash., the bid for LIN caps a stunning sprint of growth. Since 1973, McCaw has parlayed a backwater cable-TV franchise into a cellular firm with annual revenues of $311 million...
...television systems would provide distribution vehicles for that product. Warner, meanwhile, has film, cable-TV and publishing units and differs from Paramount in owning the largest domestic record company. "Time would make a good fit with either Warner or Paramount," says Peter Appert, a media analyst for the investment firm of C.J. Lawrence, Morgan Grenfell...
...just unhappy that he's been left out. He can't stop kibitzing." All the while, however, Davis was preparing his attack under the code name Kronos, for a Greek god associated with time. Davis was advised by Robert Greenhill, vice chairman of the Morgan Stanley investment banking firm, which is now Paramount's chief adviser in the bid. Paramount said last week that Donald Rumsfeld, a former Defense Secretary, has agreed to serve as trustee for tendered Time stock until Paramount clears all legal barriers to its takeover...
Investment bankers, who stand to make hundreds of millions of dollars in advisory and underwriting fees no matter who comes out on top, had been hunting for months for a firm to derail the Time-Warner deal. Morgan Stanley gave its search for a spoiler the code name Project Clock. Merrill Lynch, another Davis adviser, assigned the name Space to its project. Citibank, for its part, stands to make $350 million in fees for putting together Paramount's war chest. At the same time, the bank manages 1.5 million shares of Time stock for its clients, on which they stand...