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...At its peak, the BVI had more than 700,000 companies incorporated and was especially popular in the Hong Kong market, where all offshore companies were known as “BVIs”....
...“It is not a satisfying position if all you have to do to dodge rules is to not respond to a letter — that is exactly the kind of approach you would expect from someone who is involved in criminality,” Mr...
...Tenke was developed by Phelps Dodge before its $26bn acquisition by Freeport in 2007....
...He was criticised at the weekend for receiving £200,000 from his mother in what the Mail on Sunday called a “tax dodge”....
...In the previous downturns copper prices have bottomed out once Freeport has started cutting production at its US mines, acquired when the company bought Phelps Dodge....
...In what Detroit’s radical geographer, William Bunge, called “the great American tax dodge”, suburbanisation was part of the shift of people, resources, industry and commerce from the city to surrounding...
...Silicon Valley culture has had mixed results as subject material for the mass entertainment industry....
...He played a role in the last period of large-scale consolidation in the mining industry, advising Phelps Dodge on its $26bn merger with Freeport-McMoRan and Inco on its $19bn sale to Brazil’s Vale....
...Freeport acquired a 57 per cent stake in the venture when it bought Phelps Dodge in 2007....
...This explains the sudden increase in demand for more fairness opinions, highlighted in a survey by Duff & Phelps....
...Dodge....
...Buying Freeport, which spent $26bn to acquire rival Phelps Dodge last year, would help the Brazilian group build its position in base metals....
...Freeport-McMoRan last night agreed to buy Phelps Dodge for $25.9bn in cash and stock to become the world’s largest publicly traded copper company, with mines stretching from Indonesia to Chile....
...According to a published Bank of America analysis done at the time by Glen Taksler, if all existing Phelps Dodge debt were to be tendered and Phelps Dodge was to issue no new debt, “In standard CDS contracts...
...Freeport-McMoRan on Sunday night agreed to buy Phelps Dodge for $25.9bn (£13.7bn) in cash and stock to become the world’s largest publicly traded copper company with mines stretching from Indonesia to Chile...
...The move by Penn came on the heels of Freeport-McMoRan’s $26bn deal to buy Phelps Dodge and create the world’s largest publicly traded copper miner. Freeport is not even half the size of Phelps....
...Last month, Phelps Dodge agreed to be taken over in a $26bn deal by Freeport-McMoRan to create the world’s largest publicly-listed copper mining group....
...“The Freeport/Dodge deal is a reflection of the industry’s continued confidence in the supply/demand outlook for miners,” Man Securities said in a research note....
...Phelps Dodge, the Arizona-based copper producer, has abandoned its pursuit of Inco, leaving Brazil’s CVRD as the only bidder for the Canadian nickel miner....
...Another big deal was Freeport McMoRan’s $25.9bn purchase of Phelps Dodge that would create the world’s largest copper miner. Shares in Phelps jumped 66.4 per cent to $119.17 for the year....
...This month, Freeport-McMoRan agreed to pay $26bn for Phelps Dodge, a mining group twice its size in market capitalisation....
...This week’s $26bn take-over bid by Freeport McMoRan, the US copper producer, for Phelps Dodge, its larger rival, has pushed the total value of mining M&A deals in 2006 to about $113bn....
...Phelps Dodge fell 0.7 per cent to $122.87, from an earlier high of $124.75....
...capacity in one of the mining industry’s most tightly-fought takeover battles....
...Dodge, the Arizona copper producer that values Inco at about C$17bn....
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