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Articles Written by: DENNIS K. BERMAN
But there’s a behind-the-scenes story to the change. One that could affect future investments in the banking industry and at least conceivably, a similar investment by private-equity firm TPG in the ever-ailing Washington Mutual. It also sheds light on ...
Chief executives are supposed to present cool, dispassionate mastery of the worlds around them. Especially a CEO under attack in one of the largest hostile offers in history.
Which makes August Busch IV’s remarks on Anheuser’s Friday conference call ...
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Corporate lawyer Marty Lipton has never cared much for activist investors or other threats to the sanctity of the board room.
But time has largely washed his viewpoint away. Courts, Congress, regulators and boards themselves all are giving more power ...
Who needs the media? It is time to take the message directly to the people.
The interviews are light and informal, with the feel of Charlie Rose-turned-infomercial. Brito and Lipin are casual and tieless. Brito looks especially low-key, turned out in a ...
Yahoo destroyed itself to save itself. Microsoft tried to get stronger, but only ended up exposing its own weakness. Somehow Google emerged triumphant, effectively neutralizing its two biggest competitors.
That is what makes the Yahoo-Microsoft ...
An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers.
It’s been less than 12 months since the debut of the Deals & Dealmakers conference, the Journal’s star-studded Wall Street confab (think prom with brains.) It was a propitious moment, with the ...
Pardon if were getting a touch nostalgic, but we couldnt help but feel it was 1999 again reading CBS press release about its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET Networks. The deal supposedly makes CBS Web sites one of the 10 most popular Internet ...
An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers.
It’s hard to ignore the look of the photo. And of course, the black suits.
If there’s any one defining image from Blackstone’s beautifully lush annual report, it is the image below. Five men in dark ...
What did Steve Ballmer really mean in his rejection letter to Yahoo’s Jerry Yang? Deal Journal offers one interpretation of selected passages. The excerpt is in standard font and the translation is in italics.
We continue to believe that our proposed ...
Which brings us to perhaps the greatest male bastion of the modern world: Activist investing.
How many women are leading funds that cajole boards, run proxy fights, or agitate for corporate change? There’s not a single, solitary one.
That’s largely ...