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...Marc Martos-Vila, a professor of finance at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, says it might also be about the state of financial markets. Mergers and buyouts, he notes, often come in waves. "The first merger tells the market something, and then other companies, to be competitive, try to make a move," he says. First Lehman, then Merrill, then ... But does this mean the stand-alone investment bank is no longer viable? "In the short term, it doesn't seem like it is," Martos-Vila says. "But when confidence is restored in the market and they move to another...
...company filed for bankruptcy protection after a court said it owed Pennzoil $10.5 billion in damages stemming from an earlier merger agreement. Texaco eventually paid Pennzoil $3 billion, emerged from bankruptcy after 361 days and later became part of Chevron...
...merger of Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank, the biggest banking deal in Germany in a decade, was met with anything but a show of confidence by investors...
...while Blessing and Allianz chief executive Michael Dieckmann, 54, celebrated the deal, investors thrashed Commerzbank for paying too much and analysts questioned whether Blessing and his team were up to the task of successfully completing the merger. In light of the ongoing financial crisis, analysts were surprised to learn that Commerzbank values the struggling Dresdner bank at a premium of 1.1 times its current book value. Commerzbank shares fell as much as 12.1% in trading Monday, the biggest decline in the company's stock since October 2002, according to the news agency Bloomberg...
...Talks had been ongoing for months, but were hampered by Dresdner executives who knew that the merger could cost them their jobs. On the Dresdner management board, only CEO Herbert Walter backed the deal, and he will take a new job on the board of the new Commerzbank...