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...In its lawsuit, Cygnus alleges that “SVP took advantage of the Covid crisis to force and control a rushed bankruptcy process to take WPG Inc private”....
...The ex-KKR dealmaker waging a campaign on a K-Pop machine Activists have historically held little sway in South Korea....
...Drop us a line and join the conversation: Due.Diligence@ft.com Spacs: full throttle We’ve talked a lot in DD about special purpose acquisition companies and how the boom in blank-cheque listings is upending...
...Spacs: London Calling At a time when it seems like everyone and their mother is launching special purpose acquisition companies in the US, it might come as a surprise to DD readers that the running total...
...The law firm K&L Gates has hired Bonita Black as a partner in its corporate practice. She joins the firm’s Charlotte office from Dinsmore & Shohl....
...Job moves K&L Gates has hired Raphaël Bloch as a partner in its corporate and M&A practice in Paris. He joins from Allen & Overy....
...It remains Apple’s biggest ever acquisition, uniting the iPhone maker with a pair of music mavericks who, between them, have influenced the course of popular music for more than four decades....
...Billett, a finance professor at the University of Indiana who has studied the structures....
...PotashCorp last year approached Germany’s K+S, but was rebuffed and, although the industry remains relatively fragmented, the only deal to be agreed was the $8bn acquisition of Dutch group OCI’s European...
...Charter said it would become the second-largest cable operator in the US, as the acquisition would add about 2m customers in Florida, Alabama, Indiana and California....
...Indiana-based ACL is one of the US’ largest owner-operators of commercial barges, with some 2,300 barges and 120 tow boats working along 12,000 miles of the country’s inland waterways....
...The candidates bidding separately for a stake of around 20% in Versace include Blackstone, U.K....
...(Reuters) WSJ ordered not to divulge Libor names: “A British judge ordered the Journal and David Enrich, the newspaper’s European banking editor, to comply with a request by the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office...
...“The Pringles acquisition provides a ready-made international snack distribution platform, presumably with deeper distribution into snacking distribution channels than cereals.”...
...Pinnacle Foods Group LLC (“Pinnacle Foods”) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Birds Eye Foods, Inc....
...Getting access to mutual fund-dominated bastions such as company retirement plans, including US 401(k)s, could accelerate ETFs’ ascent....
...Next week the oil exploration company is expected to announced well results from its K prospect in Vietnam. If successful analysts estimate it could add up 100p to the Soco share price....
...In addition to the Tropicana casinos, Aztar has three properties in Nevada, Missouri and Indiana....
...In the retail sector, OfficeMax shares added 1.1 per cent to $32.82 after the retailer of office equipment settled a proxy fight with K Capital, a private equity firm....
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