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We all know the newspaper industry is in trouble, right? We see the headlines everyday, read the tales of woe, including this one in the premier issue of Portfolio and the cover story that I wrote in the current issue of Worth (not available online — sorry) with Mark Cuban’s thoughts on reviving newspapers.
So what [...]
Is there any other news other than the Blackstone IPO this morning? Or as the folks at PE Week write (fueled by a few Red Stripes, which seems an odd choice for getting through a dense S-1) “Blackstone, Blackstone, Blackstone”. Several footnoted regulars who pored through the filing (presumably without the help of Red Stripe) [...]
Last May, Mueller Water Products (MWA), which makes pipes and other equipment used for water treatment systems, went public at $16.70 as part of a spin-off from Walter Industries (WLT) and it’s fair to say that the IPO hasn’t exactly been a whopping success. Indeed, other than a brief period about a month after the [...]
Back in June, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) announced that it was acquiring Texas-based State National Bancshares (SNBI) in a $480 million deal as well as the larger Texas Regional Bancshares (TRBS) for $2.16 billion. Late Friday, SNBI filed its merger proxy that disclosed a $5.6 million "advisory fee" that director Mark Merlo would be [...]
Late Friday, KBR, which Halliburton (HAL) has been talking about spinning off for much of 2006, filed its latest amended S-1. The filing, which weighed in at 358 pages, was nearly 100 pages longer than the amended S-1 filed just before Memorial Day weekend. But one of the things that popped out — thanks [...]
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