Korea Development Bank wants to invest in Lehman Brothers Holdings, and the man behind that effort is Min Euoo-sung, a former head of Lehman’s Korean operations who is largely unknown to U.S. investors. So we were intrigued by an article in today’s ...
An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. A deal would mark the end of 180 years of independence for UST and its predecessorsnot counting the brief period it was part of the American Tobacco Co. monopoly. UST began in 1822 as the Pittsburgh ...
To fisk is to offer a point-by-point refutation or criticism of an essay, article or a blog post. Or a recent opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal? It is a sad fact that many of the professionals that consider the influence of activist investors ...
That is the home of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri and where A-B was filing suit against InBev claiming that the Belgian-Brazilian brewer was trying to acquire the U.S. brewer using an “illegal plan and scheme.” Monday, ...
An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. Play up experience, independence and sophistication of existing A-B board? Check. Make menacing reference to InBev relationship with Cuba? Wait a second, Cuba? Yes, the tiny island nation of Cuba: ...
Other prescriptions? Urging Carlyle people to seek “downside protection,” whether by paying down debt, pulling in strategic partners or finding “multiple and early exit paths.” He suggested investments in defensive industries, like consumer products, ...
Merger volume is down 26% from the halcyon days of early last year, and private-equity buyout activity has slowed more than that. So Deal Journal was intrigued by the latest from Mario Gabelli in the latest Roundtable discussion (subscription required) ...
We are talking about product quality, and more specifically, quality as determined by product-testing magazine Consumer Reports. When news that GE was considering a sale of the appliance arm, the magazine’s The Home & Garden blog reported how various ...
Deal Journal has for a couple of months been running the feature “How Bad Is It,” devoted to confirming or debunking the worst fears about the severity of the credit crunch. So we were struck today by two stories showing how the vocabulary of the ...
Delta Air Lines and Northwest Airlines are headed to the altar, a marriage widely expected to be just the first of a sudden wave of nuptial bliss in the industry. But will other airline deals that taxi up behind them — such as a potential merger of ...
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