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Recently, M&A rumors have again begun circulating around TiVo (TIVO). When similar rumors were swirling in early April, we warned our FootnotedPro subscribers that signals in the company’s filings didn’t really mesh with the idea of an imminent deal. Since then, TiVo shares have dropped more than 50%, badly trailing the NASDAQ.
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With mergers and acquisitions popping up daily, it’s easy to forget that not everyone automatically agrees that a particular deal is a good idea.
We found a recent example in the 8-K that UIL Holdings Corp. (UIL) filed, where one board member opposed the deal so strongly that he resigned in protest.
The acquisition, announced May 25, [...]
Sometimes “no” really means “no,” and that seems to be the case in Airgas, Inc.’s (ARG) repeated rejection of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.’s (APD) unsolicited takeover attempts.
It’s not exactly a David and Goliath situation, but Air Products – with a market cap of $14.66 billion – is practically three times as large as Airgas, [...]
Just as the summer horizon would seem uncharacteristically empty without dandelions, it’s hard to imagine the M & A landscape without shareholder lawsuits.
Thus, it’s no real surprise that after SAP America, a subsidiary of SAP AG (SAP) announced May 12 that that it was acquiring Sybase, Inc. (SY) in a $5.8 billion transaction, a number [...]
On June 25, 2010, the shareholders of XTO Energy, Inc. (XTO) will decide at a special shareholders’ meeting whether or not XTO should become a wholly owned subsidiary of ExxonMobil Corp. (XOM).
When Michelle wrote about the deal last December, she noted at the time that XTO’s senior executives had agreed to take consulting agreements rather [...]
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