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...Barclays had been an advisor on GKN’s sale of its Driveline auto parts business to US peer Dana....
...On Monday, US car parts maker Dana raised its offer for GKN’s automotive division, seemingly bolstering its case to investors to reject Melrose....
...Follow David J Lynch on twitter: @davidjlynch...
...Mr Wheeler joins the firm from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He held senior roles at Jefferies International and ABN AMRO....
...The president picked Dana Boente, US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as acting attorney-general until his appointee for the job, Senator Jeff Sessions, is confirmed by the Senate....
...David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are back as agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully....
...Mike Lynch, Autonomy’s founder, argues that although access to information is important, there is far greater value in forming an understanding of data and automatically processing it, freeing people to...
...The sole adviser to KNOC is the Bank of America Merrill Lynch team, while Morgan Stanley, RBS and Royal Bank of Canada are all on the Dana side. people@ft.com...
...We are hearing KNOC and its advisers Merrill Lynch swept the market for a 29.9 per cent stake in Dana Petroleum on Friday morning. The trades haven’t printed yet but they will....
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch, KNOC’s advisory bank, contacted Dana shareholders before the London market opened on Friday to offer to buy their shares for £18 each....
...On the KNOC side, Bank of America Merrill Lynch banker Andrew Osborne, formerly of Hoare Govett also, is working with bank chairman Simon Mackenzie-Smith, mergers man Philip Noblet and Anya Weaving....
...KNOC is being advised by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Dana by Royal Bank of Canada and Royal Bank of Scotland....
...Royal Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Canada are advising Dana, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch is acting for KNOC. Dana and KNOC declined to comment....
...This summer, Korea National Oil Corp, the state-owned energy explorer, launched the country’s first cross-border hostile takeover to try to win control of UK oil group Dana Petroleum....
...Dana Petroleum is advised by Royal Bank of Canada and Royal Bank of Scotland, with KNOC using Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Dana’s corporate brokers are Royal Bank of Scotland and Royal Bank of Canada. KNOC has used Bank of America-Merrill Lynch for previous foreign acquisitions....
...The latest twist in the stand-off was triggered after Bank of America Merrill Lynch, KNOC’s adviser, provided commitment letters from a set of Asian banks late on Friday to RBS Hoare Govett and Royal Bank...
...They are fast learners and will be after intellectual capital, access to developed markets and, inevitably, commodities,” says Carlo Calabria, vice-chairman at Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Korea National Oil Corp’s £1.9bn ($3bn) unsolicited bid for Dana Petroleum has raised eyebrows in Asia, given the traditional reluctance among the region’s companies, especially state-run firms, to go hostile...
...KNOC is being advised by Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...Royal Bank of Scotland is advising Dana while Bank of America-Merrill Lynch is acting for KNOC. Royal Bank of Canada is Dana’s joint corporate broker....
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