Westlaw Business Currents - The Legal Lens on Business News http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/MA.aspx (c) 2010 Thomson Reuters. All rights reserved. en-us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:30:50 EDT Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:30:50 EDT westlawbusiness-currents@thomsonreuters.com (Westlaw Business Currents Editorial Staff) Reverse takeovers are on the uptick, as is the legal complexity that rides alongside them, sometimes stopping them in their tracks. Fueling this is an increase in UK cash shells, and both LSE and AIM companies benefit… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0023.aspx?src=RSSFri, 30 Jul 2010 02:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0023.aspx?src=RSS Clearwire Corp has agreed to rent space on its network to Best Buy Co Inc so that the electronics retailer can sell wireless services directly to consumers, the companies said...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0011.aspx?src=RSSThu, 29 Jul 2010 10:43:32 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0011.aspx?src=RSS Japan's Panasonic Corp said it would buy out subsidiaries Sanyo Electric and Panasonic Electric Works for up to $9.4 billion in cash and shares to accelerate its push into greener businesses...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0010.aspx?src=RSSThu, 29 Jul 2010 08:44:58 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0010.aspx?src=RSS Britain's PartyGaming and Austria's bwin unveiled a deal to create a $3.3-billion online gaming business, positioning them to profit from any deregulation of a lucrative U.S. market...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0013.aspx?src=RSSThu, 29 Jul 2010 08:08:27 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0013.aspx?src=RSS Pay-TV firm BSkyB added 90,000 customers in the fourth quarter on surging demand for high definition services, and sees new American dramas fuelling growth ahead of a possible takeover...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0005.aspx?src=RSSThu, 29 Jul 2010 04:15:13 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100729_0005.aspx?src=RSS Quicksilver Resources is attempting to turn its excess gas into gold. The Texas-based natural gas and oil exploration and production company recently entered into a... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0039.aspx?src=RSSThu, 29 Jul 2010 02:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0039.aspx?src=RSS ConocoPhillips, the third-largest U.S. oil company, said it will sell its entire stake in Russian oil major Lukoil in a bid to boost shareholder returns and reported better-than-expected quarterly profit...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100728_0014.aspx?src=RSSWed, 28 Jul 2010 10:02:43 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100728_0014.aspx?src=RSS Shares of Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) were suspended, as its state-run parent said it would hold a signing ceremony on Thursday likely to be attended by Rio Tinto executives...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100728_0004.aspx?src=RSSWed, 28 Jul 2010 04:39:32 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100728_0004.aspx?src=RSS Casino operator MGM Resorts International plans to sell the land under its joint-venture Borgata resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for about $73 million... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100728_0017.aspx?src=RSSTue, 27 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100728_0017.aspx?src=RSS Private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Goldman Sachs' unit GS Capital Partners are to buy medical products provider HGI Holdings from another buyout firm... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0026.aspx?src=RSSTue, 27 Jul 2010 15:15:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0026.aspx?src=RSS The billionaire Barclay brothers sold their 10.4 percent stake in InterContinental Hotel Group Plc for 335 million pounds ($520 million), sending shares in the... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0027.aspx?src=RSSTue, 27 Jul 2010 10:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0027.aspx?src=RSS Merck & Co said it struck a deal with Sinopharm Group Co Ltd to market the U.S. drugmaker's cervical cancer vaccine and other vaccines in China... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0010.aspx?src=RSSTue, 27 Jul 2010 08:45:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0010.aspx?src=RSS Japanese government bonds were little changed in a market struggling to find short-term cues after the results of European bank stress tests and ahead of economic data at... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0013.aspx?src=RSSMon, 26 Jul 2010 22:15:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100727_0013.aspx?src=RSS Dubai World warned that lenders, aside from the government's own support fund, would face a "significantly" worse deal if its debt plan fails and it is forced to seek liquidation...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0004.aspx?src=RSSMon, 26 Jul 2010 12:33:51 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0004.aspx?src=RSS Malaysian state investor Khazanah trumped India's Fortis Healthcare in a takeover battle for Singapore's Parkway with an offer that values Asia's biggest listed hospital operator at $3.3 billion...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0014.aspx?src=RSSMon, 26 Jul 2010 10:21:23 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0014.aspx?src=RSS Dancing the M&A two-step is all the rage these days. And acquirers have a way of ensuring that they come out on top – via “top-up” options… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0037.aspx?src=RSSMon, 26 Jul 2010 02:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0037.aspx?src=RSS Carlyle Group has agreed to sell Kbro, Taiwan's largest cable TV operator, to the controlling shareholder of Taiwan Mobile in a deal worth about... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0015.aspx?src=RSSMon, 26 Jul 2010 01:45:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0015.aspx?src=RSS Much of the US$55 billion in outbound investment, invested in the first half of 2010 by Chinese entities, can be credited to agile corporate counsel. Navigating through the maze of China’s outbound investment laws, these lawyers… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0025.aspx?src=RSSMon, 26 Jul 2010 01:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0025.aspx?src=RSS Bahrain plans to privatise national carrier Gulf Air as soon as possible encouraged by positive results in its restructuring...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0005.aspx?src=RSSMon, 26 Jul 2010 01:00:26 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100726_0005.aspx?src=RSS The African Union said Africa must turn ever more to China for its development because conditions and checks often stalled the flow of funds from Western nations and the World Bank…http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100725_0005.aspx?src=RSSSun, 25 Jul 2010 22:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100725_0005.aspx?src=RSS German airport operator Fraport is in talks with a Chinese partner as it seeks expansion opportunities overseas, the German firm's chief financial officer told Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100725_0003.aspx?src=RSSSun, 25 Jul 2010 09:19:57 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100725_0003.aspx?src=RSS Seven European banks would not be strong enough to withstand another recession and would face a capital shortfall of 3.5 billion euros ($4.5 billion), tests run in an attempt to revive investor confidence...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100723_0007.aspx?src=RSSFri, 23 Jul 2010 13:14:33 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100723_0007.aspx?src=RSS British aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce said it secured $1.7 billion in orders at the Farnborough Airshow, including deals for its Trent 700 engine, the leading engine for the Airbus A330...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100723_0008.aspx?src=RSSFri, 23 Jul 2010 11:32:44 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100723_0008.aspx?src=RSS JFE Holdings Inc, Japan's second-biggest steelmaker, plans to invest about $1 billion in India's JSW Steel Ltd, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with knowledge of the deal...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0041.aspx?src=RSSThu, 22 Jul 2010 21:12:38 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0041.aspx?src=RSS Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp is considering investing in and possibly acquiring major banks in North America, the Nikkei business daily reported...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0038.aspx?src=RSSThu, 22 Jul 2010 19:56:48 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100722_0038.aspx?src=RSS Global companies, take note of the Agricultural Bank of China’s neat ruse to improve the prospects of its recent Hong Kong IPO… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0029.aspx?src=RSSThu, 22 Jul 2010 01:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0029.aspx?src=RSS Algeria is considering tightening its rules on how the price is set when the state buys a foreign-owned firm, a step which could cost Egypt's Orascom Telecom billions of dollars...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0001.aspx?src=RSSWed, 21 Jul 2010 12:35:57 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0001.aspx?src=RSS Australia-based Paladin Energy Ltd said it plans to make an offer to buy out the remaining shares of NGM Resources it does not already own for about... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0009.aspx?src=RSSWed, 21 Jul 2010 12:15:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0009.aspx?src=RSS British lender Royal Bank of Scotland confirmed it had placed an order worth over $7.6 billion at list prices for 52 Airbus A320 family aircraft and 43 Boeing 737 family aircraft...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0010.aspx?src=RSSWed, 21 Jul 2010 03:33:51 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0010.aspx?src=RSS The conditions look ripe -- debt markets are up, companies' valuations soft -- but foreign private equity firms eyeing deals in Australia may now have to put their plans on...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0014.aspx?src=RSSWed, 21 Jul 2010 02:15:19 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0014.aspx?src=RSS Nokia Siemens Networks has won an eight-year contract worth more than $7 billion in the United States, a deal analysts said could be the largest order ever placed in the mobile telecoms gear industry...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0007.aspx?src=RSSTue, 20 Jul 2010 09:45:50 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0007.aspx?src=RSS A panel of capital markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India set the stage for overhauling the corporate takeover code, potentially making deals more... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0009.aspx?src=RSSTue, 20 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0009.aspx?src=RSS Emirates Telecommunications (Etisalat) is close to buying 26 percent in telecoms firm Reliance Communications...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100719_0004.aspx?src=RSSMon, 19 Jul 2010 12:45:40 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100719_0004.aspx?src=RSS Ireland's National Asset Management Agency has completed the transfer of a second batch of loans from all participants except nationalised Anglo Irish Bank... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0016.aspx?src=RSSMon, 19 Jul 2010 10:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100720_0016.aspx?src=RSS Bright Dairy, majority owned by Bright Food Group, will take a 51 percent stake in the milk processing arm of the privately-owned Synlait, which is a small player in the dairy export market dominated by giant co-operative Fonterra… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100719_0001.aspx?src=RSSMon, 19 Jul 2010 01:20:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100719_0001.aspx?src=RSS Distressed investor Wilbur Ross continues to build up his banking assets, while keeping Bank Holding Company Act (BHCA) restrictions in mind, to boot… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0037.aspx?src=RSSMon, 19 Jul 2010 00:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0037.aspx?src=RSS Malaysian state investor Khazanah may have to pay more than S$4.00 a share for Singapore's Parkway, or at least 3.1 percent above its share price to ward off rival bidder Fortis Healthcare...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100719_0003.aspx?src=RSSSun, 18 Jul 2010 23:08:42 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100719_0003.aspx?src=RSS Independent power producers Mirant Corp and RRI Energy have received a request from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for additional information regarding their proposed merger...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0012.aspx?src=RSSFri, 16 Jul 2010 09:50:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0012.aspx?src=RSS Private equity firms TPG and Carlyle submitted a final joint bid for Australian hospital group Healthscope, a spokeswoman the consortium... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0010.aspx?src=RSSFri, 16 Jul 2010 06:45:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0010.aspx?src=RSS U.S. video games producer Electronic Arts Inc is selling out of Ubisoft Entertainment SA six years after buying a big chunk of the world's third-largest independent... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0008.aspx?src=RSSFri, 16 Jul 2010 06:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0008.aspx?src=RSS A recently enacted tax disclosure law from China is threatening to take the world by storm, even shaking public markets in the U.S., Hong Kong, Canada and Bermuda… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0041.aspx?src=RSSFri, 16 Jul 2010 02:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0041.aspx?src=RSS Buy shares in a leading British company and you might be buying more than you bargained for, as emerging market deals come into play… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0033.aspx?src=RSSFri, 16 Jul 2010 00:15:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0033.aspx?src=RSS The owner of Penthouse magazine offered to buy rival Playboy Enterprises Inc for $210 million, making a bid that was 13 percent above the buyout proposal from... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0009.aspx?src=RSSThu, 15 Jul 2010 18:15:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100716_0009.aspx?src=RSS Oil and gas producer Apache Corp is seeking $6 billion to $7 billion financing to purchase up to $10 billion in assets from BP Plc in a deal that could be announced next week... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0026.aspx?src=RSSThu, 15 Jul 2010 13:25:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0026.aspx?src=RSS U.S. buyout firm TPG and the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs agreed to buy diaper-maker Ontex from rival Candover in the year's largest European buyout...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0029.aspx?src=RSSThu, 15 Jul 2010 13:14:53 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0029.aspx?src=RSS Weather Investments, the holding company of Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris, is considering a move into Poland and Serbia after the success of its mobile operations in Italy...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0002.aspx?src=RSSThu, 15 Jul 2010 12:48:08 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0002.aspx?src=RSS As the oil from the BP Plc gusher laps onto U.S. Gulf Coast shores, it is also muddying the prospects of Southern bank mergers... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0027.aspx?src=RSSThu, 15 Jul 2010 08:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0027.aspx?src=RSS Two health care takeovers in Australia were reaching a turning point on Thursday with chatter on financing clouding a $1.6 billion bid for Healthscope... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0031.aspx?src=RSSThu, 15 Jul 2010 06:20:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0031.aspx?src=RSS Private equity firm Blackstone Group has pulled out of a consortium bidding for Australia's second-largest hospital owner Healthscope... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0030.aspx?src=RSSThu, 15 Jul 2010 05:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100715_0030.aspx?src=RSS Iran's government has sold an 18 percent stake in Iran Khodro, the Middle East's biggest carmaker, for the equivalent of about $430 million...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100714_0002.aspx?src=RSSWed, 14 Jul 2010 12:55:20 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100714_0002.aspx?src=RSS Smaller banks that got U.S. government bailout money are likely to run into trouble repaying it and may become vulnerable to takeovers as a result, a congressional watchdog agency... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100714_0010.aspx?src=RSSWed, 14 Jul 2010 11:45:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100714_0010.aspx?src=RSS Tata Steel denied a media report the company was planning to raise about $2 billion through fresh equity over the next quarter to help fund expansion. "Nothing at this point"...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100714_0008.aspx?src=RSSWed, 14 Jul 2010 02:46:24 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100714_0008.aspx?src=RSS Summer is turning up the heat in the northern hemisphere. As travelers are packing their bags, legal counsel of PRC hospitality and travel companies have been… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0025.aspx?src=RSSWed, 14 Jul 2010 01:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0025.aspx?src=RSS Under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law and the Filing Thresholds Regulations, the State Council has delegated to MOFCOM the right to investigate… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0016.aspx?src=RSSTue, 13 Jul 2010 17:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0016.aspx?src=RSS Borders Group Inc said that it had agreed to sell a British-based retailer of stationery, cards and gifts to Primary Capital Ltd for about $31 million (20.5 million pounds)...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0012.aspx?src=RSSTue, 13 Jul 2010 08:42:57 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100713_0012.aspx?src=RSS Troubled state conglomerate Dubai World has invited creditors to a July 22 meeting to offer details on its multi-billion dollar debt restructuring, the first session to include all lenders since December 2009...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100711_0002.aspx?src=RSSSun, 11 Jul 2010 08:29:56 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100711_0002.aspx?src=RSS Dubai's Istithmar sold its 6.9 percent stake in low-cost carrier SpiceJet for $25.3 million...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100708_0005.aspx?src=RSSThu, 8 Jul 2010 02:14:25 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100708_0005.aspx?src=RSS BP boss Tony Hayward met officials from an Abu Dhabi state investment fund, the latest stop on a global quest for money to ward off takeovers and help pay the huge costs of the worst oil spill in U.S. history...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100708_0003.aspx?src=RSSThu, 8 Jul 2010 01:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100708_0003.aspx?src=RSS In early November, 2009, the merger-control regulator of the People’s Republic of China, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau under the Ministry of Commerce, announced… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100707_0017.aspx?src=RSSWed, 7 Jul 2010 19:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100707_0017.aspx?src=RSS Small-sized acquisitions and strategic buys rather than blockbuster multibillion dollar deals will be on the minds of the media moguls and financiers who gather at this week's Sun Valley conference...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100707_0016.aspx?src=RSSWed, 7 Jul 2010 10:35:24 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100707_0016.aspx?src=RSS Kraft Foods Inc agreed to sell Cadbury Plc's chocolate confectionery business in Romania to Oryxa Capital for an undisclosed amount to meet the European regulatory requirement of its Cadbury acquisition...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100707_0010.aspx?src=RSSWed, 7 Jul 2010 07:24:24 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100707_0010.aspx?src=RSS London and New York are not about to lose their spots as the world's leading financial centers but they are being challenged by emerging market upstarts in a... http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0015.aspx?src=RSSWed, 7 Jul 2010 02:45:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100721_0015.aspx?src=RSS Iron ore producer Cliffs Natural Resources Inc said it will buy INR Energy's coal mine operations for $757 million, the latest step in its strategy to become a...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0018.aspx?src=RSSTue, 6 Jul 2010 12:45:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0018.aspx?src=RSS U.S. law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom nailed the most lucrative tally of mergers and acquisitions worldwide in the first half of 2010, advising on $137 billion of deals...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0021.aspx?src=RSSTue, 6 Jul 2010 11:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0021.aspx?src=RSS Spanish motorway group Abertis' core owners and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners are set to secure 6-7 billion euros to fund their buyout of the firm next week, in spite of the ongoing global credit squeeze...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0010.aspx?src=RSSTue, 6 Jul 2010 10:37:59 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0010.aspx?src=RSS Spanish publisher Grupo Planeta gained EU regulatory approval on Tuesday for its acquisition of a major stake in Spanish book company Circulo from German media group Bertelsmann...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0003.aspx?src=RSSTue, 6 Jul 2010 03:21:55 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100706_0003.aspx?src=RSS Gulf stock markets will miss out on getting on the global investment map unless regulators take concrete action to address concerns raised by MSCI, who denied the region emerging market status for the second year running...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100708_0002.aspx?src=RSSTue, 6 Jul 2010 03:08:54 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100708_0002.aspx?src=RSS Investment flows to the world's four biggest emerging economies -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- slowed slightly in the first half of 2010 but growth rates and the pace of dealmaking remain strong, data shows...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100702_0004.aspx?src=RSSFri, 2 Jul 2010 08:35:42 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100702_0004.aspx?src=RSS The cross-border tie-up of mega-hedge funds Man Group and GLG Partners has moved one step closer to completion. GLG Partners filed its preliminary merger proxy for… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100701_0031.aspx?src=RSSFri, 2 Jul 2010 01:00:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100701_0031.aspx?src=RSS Venture-backed initial public offerings are the highest since before the financial crisis, even as venture-backed M&A activity is slipping, according to a survey by...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100701_0029.aspx?src=RSSThu, 1 Jul 2010 13:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100701_0029.aspx?src=RSS Fortis healthcarealong with its founders have made an open offer for all of Parkway Holdings for S$3.21 billion (US$2.3 billion), an adviser to the Indian hospital chain said...http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100701_0015.aspx?src=RSSThu, 1 Jul 2010 01:09:22 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/07/20100701_0015.aspx?src=RSS When the government both competes and regulates, the outcome of the competition should rarely be in doubt… http://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/06/20100629_0029.aspx?src=RSSThu, 1 Jul 2010 00:30:00 EDThttp://currents.westlawbusiness.com/Articles/2010/06/20100629_0029.aspx?src=RSS