Japanese internet and solar company SoftBank Group Corp. is raising its stake in Sprint Corp.
after merger talks with T - Mobile collapsed, signaling its commitment to a turnaround at the U.S. wireless carrier.
Eighteen months
after its merger talks with Greenberg Traurig fell apart in the public eye, Berwin Leighton Paisner has renewed its efforts to crack the US, confirming that it is in discussions with Missouri - based Bryan Cave about a potential union.
Two years
after its merger talks with Greenberg Traurig ended, Berwin Leighton Paisner has secured its elusive US tie - up, confirming yesterday (26 February) that partners had approved a fully financially - integrated deal with Bryan Cave that will go live in April.
SJ Berwin has confirmed that it is to lose two funds partners to US firm Proskauer Rose,
after merger talks between the two firms were called off last year.
Not exact matches
Shares of Lufthansa reached the top of the European index on Tuesday
after an Italian newspaper said the German airline was in
merger talks with Etihad Airways.
Less than a week
after RHB Bank and AMMB Holdings received the regulatory go - head to start
merger talks, the country's second largest lender CIMB Group said it sold a 50 percent stake in its stockbroking unit to China Galaxy Securities.
Minbos Resources has ended
merger talks with its joint venture partner, Petril Projects,
after the two companies were unable to agree on certain terms of the proposal.
Sprint and T - Mobile's first round of
merger talks ended in 2014
after U.S. President Barack Obama's administration expressed antitrust concerns about it.
Andy Serwer, Yahoo Finance editor - in - chief, discusses which media mega-deal
mergers are ahead
after Sprint stock surges on
talks of a
merger.
In other news, T - Mobile and Sprint are soaring
after a report says they've resumed
merger talks.
«It's too early to
talk about how benefits and compensation may synch up,» Mackey said of the topic,
after jesting that Whole Foods employees will get free Amazon devices on
merger day.
In April,
merger talks between Orange and fellow French telecom Bouygues fell apart
after billionaire Martin Bouygues balked at the terms laid out by the French government - backed Orange, while Bouygues was also concerned over the potential difficulty of attaining antitrust approval.
Earlier this week, WIND Mobile CEO Anthony Lacavera announced he is interested in opening
merger talks with troubled telecom company and fellow small player Mobilicity,
after the federal government rejected an application from major player TELUS to acquire Mobilicity's spectrum licenses.
Rumors are spreading that the
merger being negotiated by T - Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) and Sprint (NYSE: S) is hitting a rough patch right now, months
after the companies first started
talking, and just as the two were expected to expected to seal the deal.
TOKYO Japan's Fujifilm Holdings Corp and U.S. firm Xerox Corp have reopened
talks on their $ 6.1 - billion
merger and are discussing a higher price
after Xerox, under pressure from top investors, asked to renegotiate the terms.
NEA - backed IndiaHomes, which pursued
merger with JP Morgan and Bertelsmann - backed IndiaProperty, got defunct
after failure of those
talks.
Shares in Softbank jumped on Friday
after a media report said the Japanese conglomerate's
talks with a US rival over a potential
merger were...
Meanwhile, shares of Sprint plummeted 11.6 %
after the wireless company and T - Mobile ended
merger talks (T - Mobile stock also declined nearly 6 % on the news).
Shares of Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) rose more than 7 percent Tuesday morning while shares of T - Mobile US Inc (NASDAQ: TMUS) gained 5 percent
after CNBC's David Faber reported the two mobile companies are in active
merger talks.
Their first round of
merger talks ended unsuccessfully in 2014
after the administration of then - U.S. President Barack Obama expressed antitrust concerns.
The dynamics within the U.S. telecom industry may change
after the on - again, off - again
merger talks between Sprint Corp (NYSE: S) and T - Mobile Us Inc (NASDAQ: TMUS) resulted in a
merger agreement.
After the end of the auction in April, it is expected that the
merger talks for Sprint and T - Mobile will once again start, according to several sources of Reuters.
Speculation about other possible
mergers and acquisition were also rife
after reports emerged last month that Spain's biggest Cava producer, Freixenet, has received a buyout offer, with German drinks group Henkell & Co. also confirming it was in preliminary
talks with the Catalan company over a possible «co-operation».
Wu called the risk of weakened net neutrality and the possible
merger «joint threats» as he
talked to reporters
after the event.
WAMCs» David Guistina
talks with Mike Spain about red light cameras finally coming to Albany, a proposed
merger with Time Warner Cable, and how residents felt about fireworks
after the weekend and newly passed law.
Last July, Scripps's board of trustees called off
merger talks with USC
after the Scripps faculty revolted.
After entering into
talks, both organizations agreed to put the
merger on hold for a year, realizing that merging would be a big change for their staff and their communities.
Founding partner Thomas Kummer and managing partner Michael Bonner are leaving Las Vegas, Nevada's Kummer Kaempfer,
after the collapse of
merger talks...
First up was Norton Rose Fulbright which, not content with the transatlantic
merger that created it, is on course for a second US
merger after entering into
merger talks with Chadbourne & Parke.
While BLP managing partner Lisa Mayhew laid out her firm's reason for looking for a
merger and why «scale for the sake of scale» was not what it was
after, ultimately the collapsed
talks boiled down to the pay and culture divide between BLP and the Miami firm.
«When it comes to international growth we're not
after scale for the sake of scale and we only want a
merger if it helps with our strategy,» says Berwin Leighton Paisner's relatively recently appointed managing partner, Lisa Mayhew, of the firm's much -
talked about discussions with Miami's Greenberg Traurig.
(1) The announcement came
after a frenetic week with failed
talks of restructuring, a proposed
merger with DLA Piper and lawyers fleeing the firm.
Quinn Emanuel's name has become synonymous with rapid growth, and
after yet more double - digit increases in both revenue and partner profits during 2016, news emerged last week that it had held
talks about a potential
merger with Washington DC litigation firm Williams & Connolly.
News of the
merger talks broke earlier this month (2 February)
after months of discussions, and the deal will go live in the second quarter of this year.
LG has been openly looking for a
merger in recent years, with the firm entering into serious discussions with Scotland's Shepherd and Wedderburn last summer, which are understood to have ended around September 2011
after the Scottish firm opted out of the
talks.
Four years
after it emerged that Ashurst was exploring another round of US
merger talks, this time with Sidley Austin, the firm looks a long way from achieving a substantial foothold in the world's largest legal market.
SJ Berwin and Proskauer Rose have called off their transatlantic
merger talks after nine months of protracted discussions.
According to some sources,
talks are in progress between Uber's Indian branch and its local competitor Ola Cabs,
after a
merger was called for by SoftBank, an investor common to both companies.
A report this morning from Reuters shares that T - Mobile is «close to agreeing tentative terms» for a
merger deal with Sprint
after months of
talks.
The association says
talks about the
merger began last fall
after Parry Sound EO Meg Cameron - Hammel announced her early retirement.
Ackman claims that
after he started
talking about a potential
merger with Simon, Brookfield indicated it might want to buy GGP as well, but then continued to ask for extensions to put together a deal.
Shares had rallied last week
after Reuters reported WP Glimcher was in
merger talks with shopping center developer Kite Realty Group Trust.
Each association had more than 40 percent participation in this vote, and more than 95 percent of the voting members approved the
merger, which was authorized and finalized by the National Association of REALTORS ® on Dec. 23, five months
after talks started and only a month and a half
after our first
merger committee meeting.