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Themes
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M&A,
Divestitures & LBOs in 1997
News Stories
1997 Statistics
Major Deals
Telecommunications
AT&T
MCI-WorldCom
- The MCI-WorldCom deal may not be so
good for consumers (USNews,
November 24, 1997)
- MCI Takes Offer From WorldCom Offer
$37 billion merger is biggest ever (S F Chronicle,
November 11, 1997)
- Is WorldCom's Sweetened Bid Too
Sweet? (WashingtonPost,
November 11, 1997)
- WorldCom wins MCI Boards agree to
$51 per share deal that will create telephone
powerhouse (CNNfn,
November 10, 1997)
- WorldCom's Bid for MCI (BusinessWeek,
October 13, 1997)
- With Market Hot, WorldCom Wouldn't
Need Cash to Buy MCI
(washingtonpost, October 2,
1997)
WorldComm-MFS
Hilton-ITT
- Hotel Industry Consolidation
Accelerates: Patriot American Says It Will
Acquire Interstate for $2.1 Billion (WashingtonPost,
December 3, 1997)
- ITT Shareholders Reject Hilton's
Takeover Bid (WashingtonPost,
November 13, 1997)
- In an Ugly Battle for ITT, Only the
Price Looks Pretty
(WashingtonPost, November
11, 1997)
- ITT Agrees To Buyout By Starwood
$13.3 Billion Deal May End Hilton Takeover
Bid (WashingtonPost,
October 21, 1997)
- Judge Blocks ITT Plan To Split Into
3 Firms (washingtonpost,
September 18, 1997)
- ITT's
Strip Show
PepsiCo Spin-off
The Battle for Conrail
Utilities: Few
May Benefit From Megamergers of Utilities (SF
Chronicle)
Other
- Swiss Banking Giants SBC, UBS to
Merge: Deal Would Create World's 2nd-Largest
Bank (WashingtonPost,
December 9, 1997)
- First Union to Buy CoreStates
Financial $16.6 Billion Deal Would Set
Industry Record (WashingtonPost,
November 19, 1997)
- Antitrust Regulators Clear
Raytheon-Hughes Merger (washingtonpost,
October 3, 1997)
- Travelers snaps up Salomon, but is
bigger really better? (USNews, October
6, 1997)
- Wall Street sees Salomon Bros. and
Travelers' Smith Barney as a good fit (CNNfn, September
24, 1997)
- McKesson acquires AmeriSource Health
Corp. for $2.25 billion (CNNfn, September
23, 1997)
- Coopers & Lybrand and Price
Waterhouse Merge (Upside,
September 18, 1997)
- Coopers & Lybrand, Price
Waterhouse to Merge
(washingtonpost, September
18, 1997)
- AOL snares CompuServe (CNNfn, September
8, 1997)
- Acquisition
Will Make Wachovia Top Va. Bank: N.C. Firm
Bids $2.3 Billion for Central Fidelity (washingtonpost,
June 25, 1997)
- HP,
VeriFone Deal Is Done (San Francisco
Chronicle, June 26, 1997)
- Compaq
to Acquire Tandem Computers (washingtonpost,
June 24, 1997)
- How
CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. want to
divide up Conrail Inc. (washingtonpost,
June 24, 1997)
- Union
Pacific Resources Offers $4.2 Billion for
Pennzoil (washingtonpost, June 24,
1997)
- CNNf
n
- Frederick's sells for $53M - June 16, 1997
- Why
BankAmerica Got Hitched In A Hurry (BusinessWeek)
- 06/09/97
THE RETURN OF MA BELL? (BusinessWeek)
- CNNfn
- Belco buys stake in Hugoton - June 20, 1997
-
SALE
OF THE CENTURY (Fortune, February
17, 1997)
- Dean
Witter, Morgan Stanley to form largest
securities firm (San Francisco
Chronicle, February 6, 1997)
LBOs
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