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Securities Law Prof Blog
Borse Dubai Agrees to Buy Stake in Nasdaq
Nasdaq and Borse Dubai have agreed that Borse Dubai will buy a 20% stake in Nasdaq -- thus becoming its largest shareholder -- and Nasdaq's 30% stake in the London…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Coca Cola to Acquire Energy Brands for $4.1 billion
The Coca-Cola Company today announced that it had agreed to acquire privately-held Energy Brands, Inc., known as glacéau, the maker of trendy vitaminwater. The purchase price is $4.1 billion in…
Media Law Prof Blog
Canadian Company Seeking To Acquire Additional Properties Itself Being Sought
Chum, a Canadian media conglomerate busily trying to acquire more properties, is itself being acquired, a novel situation for Canadian regulator CRTC. Read more here in a Globe and Mail…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Blog rumors : May need to view with skepticism
Wow. All day long I'm reading that MyBlogLog was acquired by Yahoo - for $10 million at that. Scoble reports tonight that blog rumors are dangerous stuff, evidence being that…
Marler Blog
Natural Selection Foods calls off PSJ purchase
By Bill Marler
An interesting story by Brian Gaylord of Produce News was the failure of sale of the Pride of San Juan's manufacturing operations to Natural Selection Foods in October. Brian wrote:…
Rush on Business
RULES OF BUYING A BUSINESS: NO. 2 – BECOME AN EXPERT
By Rush Nigut
RULES OF BUYING A BUSINESS - RULE NO. 2: BECOME AN EXPERT Buying a business at a great price takes work and preparation. If you are not currently an expert…
LawSites
More bad news about Onfolio
Following up on my earlier post about Microsoft's acquisition of Onfolio, this comment from Dave Rakowski led me to read the acquisition FAQ, which is full of bad news. To…
LawSites
Microsoft acquires Onfolio
In the news: Microsoft acquires Onfolio. And here is Microsoft's announcement. I have mixed feelings about this. I have used Onfolio for close to a year as my RSS aggregator…
Business and Commercial
Sharing Lessons Learned Is Part of Exemplary Service
By Patrick Lamb
I was talking to a client one day and he mentioned that he would be unavailable for several days because he was working on an acquisition. I was happy to…
The Conglomerate Blog: Business, Law, Economics & Society
Google’s Use of Proceeds
By Gordon Smith
Several commenters below have noted that Google does not need the money from its IPO to fund its present operations. The usual inference is that the IPO is a liquidity…