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...Litera The business is one of the leading consolidators in the legal technology market, having made more than a dozen acquisitions in the past three years....
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...Tan is known as the chip industry’s arch consolidator but was partly forced to change his area of interest after it became clear that any further deals in the sector would face strong opposition from competitors...
...In striking a deal for VMware, Tan, known as the chip industry’s arch consolidator, is opportunistically picking up one of the software industry’s most valuable and profitable companies....
...Chipmaker Broadcom has been thwarted as a consolidator in the semi industry, but its continuing diversification — with a $69bn deal to buy software maker VMware announced today — could prove more fruitful...
...It is also the biggest bet yet for Malaysian-born Tan, known as the chip industry’s arch consolidator, who has transformed Broadcom into a giant bigger by market value than Oracle, Intel, Cisco and IBM....
...That offers Rocket currency with which to play the consolidator. It could use this interest rate cycle to bulk up....
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...The German company, which has built a network stretching from the Netherlands to eastern Europe and taken stakes in operators in the UK and Greece, has long been regarded as a potential consolidator in the...
...Amundi is the natural consolidator,” he said....
...If Uber and the meal delivery group Grubhub come to an agreement on their merger talks, the gloves could finally come off between Washington and big tech consolidators....
...BorgWarner wants to play consolidator, a role that brings with it inherent risks. This however is a mild one....
...In early summer, Yoshitaka Kitao, SBI’s president, outlined a plan that would see it investing in some of Japan’s 70 regional banks, eventually, perhaps, becoming the consolidator of a fourth “megabank”...
...Xerox’s unsolicited bid for HP Inc this week, if successful, will finally bring the curtain down on a company that long defined Silicon Valley’s unique approach to innovation — though HP’s printers will...
...Expect Stripe to figure as a consolidator. The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers....
...It no longer looks so far-fetched to think of Mr Tan as the most serious consolidator in software since Oracle’s Larry Ellison almost 20 years ago....
...Richard Waters writes that it no longer seems so far-fetched to think of Tan as the most serious consolidator in the software industry since Oracle’s Larry Ellison almost 20 years ago....
...Revered names such as PaineWebber, Smith Barney, and Dean Witter have been wiped from the banking landscape by consolidators — while others, equally big, such as Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, were consumed...
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