Archive for the 'M&A' Tag

We were going to write about something else this morning, but the big news that Google (GOOG) agreed to buy Motorola Mobility (MMI) in a $12.5 billion deal prompted us to change our plans. The WSJ live-blogged the conference call and there’s plenty of other breathless coverage pointing out that this is Google’s biggest deal [...]

Sometimes, we run into something really unusual in the filings. Periodically, filings intersect with current events far from the usual realm of corporate and financial headlines. And then there those rare occasions that we get both in the same document. That’s what we found tacked on to the end of the 10-Q that Medicis Pharmaceutical (MRX) filed [...]

Last week, Petrohawk Energy Corp. (HK) announced that the company would be sold to BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP) in a $12.1 billion cash deal. Since that news broke on July 14, shareholder Astor BK Realty Trust filed suit to enjoin the sale, alleging – according to a Bloomberg article - that “The board’s acceptance of BHP’s [...]

A takeover fight always makes for good sport, and so we were as excited as anyone* by the announcement yesterday that Williams Cos. (WMB) was making a $4.9 billion all-cash hostile bid for Southern Union (SUG), the pipeline company that announced its betrothal just last week to Energy Transfer Equity (ETE) in a $4.2 billion equity [...]