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...Relx said it typically spends £300m a year on acquisitions, with the purchase of ThreatMetrix the group’s largest since the 2008 purchase of ChoicePoint — a data aggregation company spun off from Equifax...
...Relx said it typically spends £300m a year on acquisitions, with the purchase of ThreatMetrix the group’s largest since the 2008 deal for ChoicePoint, a data aggregation company spun off from Equifax’s insurance...
...In 2006, ChoicePoint, a consumer data broker, paid $10m to settle FTC charges of lax electronic security practices affecting 163,000 consumers under that 1970 law....
...Eric Johnson, dean of the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, drew a parallel with the ChoicePoint incident in 2005, when it emerged that the data warehouser...
...However, this left its balance sheet stretched when six months later it announced the $4.1bn acquisition of Choicepoint, the insurance services business....
...He bears at least some of the blame for the pricey acquisition of Choicepoint, an insurance data business, and for an unpopular £1bn ($1.6bn) share placing that ensued in 2009, after Sir Crispin had left...
...It returned the proceeds to shareholders, however, leaving its balance sheet stretched when it then announced the $4.1bn acquisition of Choicepoint, the insurance services business....
...Mr Prozes, 64, has had three bosses and oversaw the $4.1bn (£2.6bn) acquisition of Choicepoint in 2008, as well as facing competition from Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw and more recently, Bloomberg Law....
...Sir Crispin boosted LexisNexis revenues by acquiring Choicepoint, a risk analytics tool used by insurers, for a hefty $4.1bn (£2.1bn), but a number of analysts say that meant the legal division received...
...LexisNexis, the data business, saw profits rise from £513m to £665m, boosted by the 2008 acquisition of ChoicePoint, the risk data business....
...The group’s borrowings increased last year when it bought Choicepoint, a provider of services to the insurance industry, for $4.1bn....
...Last year the publisher spent $4.1bn on the acquisition of Choicepoint, a provider of services to the insurance industry....
...Pressing ahead with difficult decisions is a classic for new chief executives, especially if the root cause of the trouble occurred before their arrival – in this case the ill-timed acquisition of ChoicePoint...
...That said, Mr Smith was dealt a bad hand by his predecessor Sir Crispin Davis, who helped rack up $8.4bn of debt through acquisitions such as Choicepoint, a provider of services to the insurance industry...
...He deemed July’s 109.2m share placing necessary after Reed’s balance sheet became strained by the $4.1bn acquisition of Choicepoint and subsequent failure to sell Reed Business Information....
...Reed has about $5bn of debt to refinance before 2012 and must repay $2bn of ChoicePoint acquisition financing in March 2010 and $2.2bn a year later....
...Proceeds from the sale of RBI were expected to pay debt following the group’s £4.1bn acquisition of ChoicePoint, an insurance industry service provider....
...It returned the proceeds to shareholders, however, leaving its balance sheet stretched when it then announced the $4.1bn (£2.5bn) acquisition of Choicepoint....
...The largest deals closed last year were Reed Elsevier’s €2.4bn acquisition of ChoicePoint, the US risk IT group; KKR’s €773m buy-out of Northgate Information Solutions, another group with many government...
...It expected Reed to repay the ChoicePoint debt partly through proceeds from RBI and partly through debt issuance....
...Reed’s priority is now to refinance the ChoicePoint acquisition facility fast. That would help kill idle and ill-informed chatter about threats to the dividend. RBI can’t expect much love....
...“Reed doesn’t need a deal now, but in a year’s time after the acquisition of ChoicePoint is bedded down it may become a more opportune time to revisit it.”...
...Epic says the FTC has brought cases before to enforce privacy and protect consumers’ personal information, including action against the ChoicePoint data aggregation service in 2006 that included $15m in...
...Reed needs to repay $2bn (£1.2bn) of ChoicePoint acquisition financing in March 2010, with the remaining $2.2bn a year later. Reed’s $3bn committed back-up bank lines expire in May 2010....
...Proceeds from the sale of RBI were expected to pay down part of the £5.7bn debt, which was built up after the $4.1bn acquisition of Choicepoint....
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