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Insiders back Reata with $25M
Paul Bonanos - The Deal- 06 July 2007
Cancer drug developer Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc. of Irving, Texas, will advance its two primary drug candidates through Phase 2 clinical...
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Gloucester votes no on Xstrata
Jamie Freed - Sydney Morning Herald- 06 July 2007
Gloucester Coal shareholders yesterday voted down a $391 million takeover proposal from Xstrata Coal, leaving the door open for the...
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MBF mulls privateers' bids
Danny John - Sydney Morning Herald- 06 July 2007
Australia's second biggest private health insurance fund, MBF, is considering takeover bids of about $2 billion from a rival player...
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ABN offer deadline extended
Paul Rogerson - The Herald- 06 July 2007
The Royal Bank of Scotland-led consortium seeking to buy Amsterdam-based ABN Amro has been granted an extension until July 23...
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ICI demands ultimatum for Akzo Nobel
Salamander Davoudi - Financial Times- 05 July 2007
ICI, the UK chemicals group, has requested that the Takeover Panel issue Akzo Nobel, the Dutch conglomerate, with a “put-up-or-shut-up”...
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GlobeOp postpones float
Sarah Spikes - Financial Times- 05 July 2007
GlobeOp, the hedge fund administration company, has postponed its flotationtoday in response to a $465m (£230m) lawsuit filed by US-based...
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AAP acquires Media Research Group
The Age- 05 July 2007
National news agency Australian Associated Press (AAP) has bolstered its media monitoring, analysis and distribution service with the acquisition of...
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Fox & Hound acquires Champps
Vyvyan Tenorio - The Deal- 05 July 2007
Fox & Hound Restaurant Group, a portfolio company of hedge funds Newcastle Partners and Steel Partners II LP, has agreed...
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Nord-Est faces 21 Centrale buyout
Paul Whitfield - The Deal- 05 July 2007
Nord-Est SA is expecting a new owner within weeks after majority shareholder Harwanne Cie. de Participations Industrielles et Financières began...
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Alcan pins hopes on white knights
Jamie Freed - The Age- 05 July 2007
Canadian group Alcan will continue talks with potential white knight suitors believed to include BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto rather...
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Fairfax deal draws mixed response
Miriam Steffens - The Age- 05 July 2007
Fairfax Media's plans to expand into metropolitan radio and TV production through a break-up of Southern Cross Broadcasting has drawn...
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Volatile times for Wesfarmers, Coles
Nabila Ahmed - The Age- 05 July 2007
Analysts are warning of continued volatility in Wesfarmers and Coles shares in the lead-up to October's shareholder vote on Australia's...
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Antitrust review for Barclays bid
The Standard- 04 July 2007
Barclays, the United Kingdom's third-largest bank, officially notified European Union regulators about its planned bid for ABN Amro, the biggest...
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MediaWorks offer 'closes Monday'
New Zealand Herald- 04 July 2007
HT Media, a subsidiary of Australian private equity investor Ironbridge Capital, has confirmed its takeover offer for CanWest MediaWorks (NZ)...
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Investors punish Wesfarmers
Nabila Ahmed - The Age- 04 July 2007
Shares in Wesfarmers have fallen the most in more than four years, as investors nervous about its bold bid for...
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CD&R taps bridge for ServiceMaster
David Carey & Vipal Monga - The Deal- 03 July 2007
A skittish high-yield market induced the New York buyout firm CD&R to scotch a $1.15bn bond offering for its buyout...
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Serentis lands $20.6m
Clifford Carlsen - The Deal- 03 July 2007
Specialty drug developer Serentis raised $20.6m in a Series A financing from MVM Life Science Partners, Apposite Capital and Novo...
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Advent buys builder in Mexico
Kelly Holman - The Deal- 03 July 2007
Advent International said Tuesday, July 3, it agreed to acquire a majority stake in the housing business of Mexican builder...
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Wesfarmers shares dip sharply
Leo Shanahan - The Age- 03 July 2007
Shares in Wesfarmers and Coles have dropped sharply after the two companies reopened trading this morning following yesterday's bid by...
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Fairfax gets back on the airwaves
Miriam Steffens & Matt O'Sullivan - The Age- 03 July 2007
Macquarie Media and Fairfax Media have joined forces to break up Southern Cross in a $1.35bn deal under which the...
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Leonard Green buys Container
Luisa Beltran - The Deal- 02 July 2007
Los Angeles buyout firm Leonard Green & Partners LP has won the auction to buy a controlling stake in the...
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VC reap an IPO bonanza
George White - The Deal- 02 July 2007
The market for technology initial public offerings had its best quarter in years, according to a new report released by...
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Mirics in $10m round
Paul Bonanos - The Deal- 02 July 2007
Intel Capital's aggressive investment streak now includes its leadership of a $10 million second round of funding for radio-frequency chip...
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Late round for ITIL developer
Clifford Carlsen - The Deal- 02 July 2007
newScale Inc. raised $11m in a late-stage round to accelerate sales and marketing efforts and take advantage of the growing...
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Wesfarmers closes in on Coles
Nabila Amhed - The Age- 02 July 2007
Wesfarmers is poised to be announced as the winner of the Coles auction in Melbourne this afternoon. Coles chairman and...
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BCE losers refuse to back down
The Globe and Mail- 02 July 2007
The battle for the country's biggest telephone company may not be over yet even after the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan...
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