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Some Rivals Weigh Bids for Cadbury

The contest for Cadbury could become a little more crowded. While Kraft Foods’ $16.7 billion offer for Cadbury is the only official bid on the table, other snack companies are weighing their next steps. Hershey is considering making an offer of at ...

From MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED AND ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, The New York Times,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of Pennsylvania,  Kraft Foods Inc.,  J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,  Merrill Lynch,  Bank of America

Hershey Considers a Counterbid for Cadbury

Hershey is considering bidding for Cadbury, a proposal that would top the $16.7 billion hostile bid from Kraft, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Friday. Any Hershey offer would likely be at least $17 billion, these people said. The ...

From MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED AND ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Dealbook,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,  Bank of America,  Merrill Lynch

Hershey and Ferrero Hold Talks Over Potential Cadbury Bid

Hershey and the Italian chocolate maker Ferrero have held talks over a potential bid for Cadbury that would rival Kraft’s $16.7 billion hostile offer, a person briefed on the matter told DealBook on Tuesday. But while Hershey and Ferrero, which makes ...

From ANDREW ROSS SORKIN AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Dealbook: Barclays’ Remarkable Bargain

When is a good deal too good? That question is being whispered around Wall Street these days, a year after Lehman Brothers went bust in the biggest bankruptcy ever. Sure, the panicked days of last autumn might seem like ancient history. After all, for ...

From ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martin Kelly

Buffett Bets Big That Railroads Have a Future

America’s best-known investor, Warren E. Buffett, is making his biggest bet yet on the nation’s economic future by buying, of all things, a railroad. Railroads were once the engines of the U.S. economy. What role do they play now? After deftly ...

From MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED AND ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Berkshire Hathaway,  Goldman Sachs,  Dow Jones,  General Electric,  Union Pacific

Comcast Said to Be Close to Gaining NBC Universal

General Electric and the cable giant Comcast have moved closer to a deal giving control of NBC Universal to Comcast, and a formal announcement could be made sometime next week, people briefed on the talks said Sunday. After a series of meetings last ...

From MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED AND ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, The New York Times,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Comcast,  General Electric,  News Corporation Limited,  Standard Poor's

‘It came from Downing Street,’ said Paulson . . .

The book, published today, describes in detail what happened on September 13 and 14 last year, when Hank Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, his successor Tim Geithner — then president of the New York Federal Reserve — and Christopher Cox, chairman ...

From ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, Times Online,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hank Paulson,  Christopher Cox,  Timothy F. Geithner,  United States Department of the Treasury,  Financial Services Authority

Holding Off Disaster: The Race to Save Lehman

In the summer of 2008, two months before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Richard S. Fuld Jr., the firm's chairman, was continuing his desperate efforts to find a lifeline. They had begun in March, shortly after the demise of Bear Stearns, when Mr. ...

From ANDREW ROSS SORKIN, The New York Times,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: John J. Mack,  Morgan Stanley,  Kenneth D Lewis,  Bank of America,  Timothy F. Geithner

Bruce Wasserstein, Lazard Banker and Engineer of High-Stakes Deals, Dies at 61

Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980s and reshaped the mergers and acquisitions business into a high art, died Wednesday in Manhattan. Mr. Wasserstein, 61, was the chairman and chief ...

From ANDREW ROSS SORKIN AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED, The New York Times,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lazard LTD.,  Bruce Wasserstein,  Harvard Business School,  Wendy Wasserstein,  Elaine Chao

Bruce Wasserstein, Lazard Chief, Dies

Bruce Wasserstein, a Wall Street investment banker who helped pioneer the hostile takeover in the 1980’s and turned the mergers and acquisitions business into a high art, died Wednesday. Mr. Wasserstein, 61, was the chairman and chief executive of ...

From ANDREW ROSS SORKIN AND MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED, The New York Times,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bruce Wasserstein,  Lazard LTD.,  Wendy Wasserstein

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