Articles Written by:    DENNIS K. BERMAN     

The Fed Wishes To Inform You It is Displeased

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  9 Jul 2008
Related Topics: Washington Mutual, Inc.,  Federal Reserve,  TPG, N.V.

Anheuser-InBev: August Busch’s Conference Call Blunder

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  27 Jun 2008
Related Topics: InBev

Activist Shareholders: A Threat to America’s National Security

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  26 Jun 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress

Analyzing InBev’s Propaganda

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  23 Jun 2008
Related Topics: InBev,  Charlie Rose

Who Played It Worse: Microsoft or Yahoo?

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  12 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.,  IBM,  Steve Ballmer

Deals and Dealmakers 2008: Your Chance to Grill Wall Street’s Chieftains

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  10 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Peter Fisher (politician),  BlackRock, Inc.,  Kenneth D Lewis,  Bank of America,  Goldman Sachs

CBS Internet Strategy: Cats with a Few Dogs

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  15 May 2008
Related Topics: CNET Networks, Inc.,  National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Time Warner Inc.,  Les Moonves

Blackstone Goes “Reservoir Dogs”

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  13 May 2008
Related Topics: Quentin Tarantino

Microsoft-Yahoo: Translating Ballmer’s Letter

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  3 May 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Yahoo!,  Steve Ballmer,  Jerry Yang,  Kevin Johnson

Male Synchronized Swimmers? One. Female Activist Investors? Zero.

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 ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  11 Apr 2008

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