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...After Bear Stearns collapsed a decade ago, its last serving chief executive Alan Schwartz had a clear goal: build a new dealmaking firm with the capabilities of a Bear, but without the big leveraged bets...
...For the dealmakers in other parts of these financial groups, who specialised in advising companies on mergers and acquisitions, this created an additional problem....
...The week’s other big takeover came as US cable group Charter agreed to acquire Bright House Networks for $10.4bn in the latest round of consolidation among cable TV and broadband groups....
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