Sentences with phrase «more than a merger»

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Health insurance giant Aetna pulled in more than $ 63 billion in 2016 revenues and $ 2.9 billion in earnings despite a year that would lead to the demise of its planned $ 34 billion merger with rival Humana.

Wells Fargo Securities analyst says a competitor will be removed from the market if the Sprint and T - Mobile merger, valued at more than $ 26 billion, is approved.

Globally deals totalling $ 1.55 trillion have been struck so far this year, while in Europe mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have totalled more than $ 621 billion, up 151 percent on the same period in 2017, Thomson Reuters data shows.

According to the research firm Evercore ISI, the tech industry's giants have allotted more than $ 9 billion toward mergers and acquisitions so far this year — including the MuleSoft deal, valued at $ 6.5 billion alone.

Analysts have long speculated that Express Scripts could be involved in some sort of merger deal, but more likely as an acquisition target rather than as an acquirer.

More than two centuries later, its fate is still tied to Canada, the United Kingdom and, with the merger with Coors, the United States — three countries where it is struggling to keep a share of an ever - shrinking beer - drinking market.

• The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will seek to stop the merger of DraftKings and FanDuel, because the combined company would control more than 90 % of the U.S. market for paid daily fantasy sports contests.

Viacom has asked CBS to sweeten its merger bid by about $ 2.8 billion or almost a quarter more than CBS's offer, people familiar with the matter said.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

So far, 2016 has seen mainland firms launch a record $ 181 billion of overseas mergers and acquisitions — about 70 % more than the whole of last year.

Based on my own observations from more than two decades in the field of business brokerage and mergers and acquisitions, many small businesses that survived the economic downtown are now seeing renewed strength in their top - line revenues, and solid or growing bottom - lines.

Sawiris's operations were saddled with more than US$ 15 billion of debt, and the merger, which creates the world's fifth - largest carrier, relieves some of the strain.

Social media is fuelling a fundamental shift in labour relations and corporate communications, and is showing it can do more than just complicate negotiations — it can affect control of major business announcements like divestments, layoffs, mergers and acquisitions.

The two companies» combined enterprise value, a more comprehensive measure of total value than market capitalization, would value the merger at more than $ 20 billion, the Journal reported.

The Department of Justice unveiled a lawsuit to block the $ 85 billion mega merger more than one year after it was announced.

CBS Corp's board is set to discuss a merger with Viacom Inc on Thursday, sources have told Reuters, possibly starting the process of reuniting the two media companies split by mogul Sumner Redstone more than a decade ago.

So far this year, there have been more than 9,000 mergers announced in the U.S., worth an estimated $ 1.2 trillion, according to Dealogic.

While rumors about a potential merger between the electric car maker and consumer electronics giant have swirled for years, a new Bloomberg report suggests that Tesla has recruited at least 150 employees from Apple — more than any other company, including competing car firms.

A merger with Mylan would create a generics powerhouse with more than $ 27 billion in revenue and would give the company the heft it needs to cut costs and battle rising competition.

Last year, business mergers in the U.S. reportedly totaled more than $ 1 trillion, and accounted for roughly 43 percent of all mergers worldwide.

There were more than $ 500 billion in pharma and health care acquisitions last year alone, according to Thomson Reuters — and that's not even counting the recently failed merger between Pfizer (pfe) and Allergan (agn).

SolarCity shares were up more than 1 percent, and shares of Tesla Motors were up slightly after shareholders for the two companies voted Thursday to approve a merger.

The trickier question is whether the deal is ultimately accretive to the combined operation's earnings — that the merger represents a more efficient deployment of capital than keeping the firms separate.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission had barred merger talks among telecommunications companies for more than a year as it conducted a $ 19.8 billion auction of airwaves from broadcasters for wireless use.

Consider hiring an intermediary, which depending on the size of the deal could be a broker (usually $ 10 million or less), mergers and acquisitions professional (more than $ 15 million), or an investment banker (a large or public company).

Whether they're backing up one another in tough negotiations or sitting down to evaluate risky mergers, all teams (communities) must be much more than the sum of their parts.

The merger still has to be approved by regulators, but if it succeeds, the new group, to be called Publicis Omnicom Group, will have more than 130,000 employees.

Critics have warned that, even though the deal represents a «vertical» rather than a «horizontal» merger (which receive more scrutiny), it poses a danger to competition because AT&T could distribute Time Warner shows in a faster or cheaper fashion to its own subscribers, or withhold them from rivals.

Brinkley's job is bigger and harder since BofA's merger with Fleet, which brought total assets to more than $ 1 trillion.

Since it launched the original offer, Gannett's stock price (GCI) has lost more than 50 % of its value, as investors voted with their feet on the chain's proposed merger.

The company also boasts 1.5 million available listings, more than Starwood and Marriott after the merger.

95 merger and acquisition deals occurred, with disclosed transactions amounting to more than $ 20 billion.

First, Trump's focus in dealing with the corporate world is preserving American jobs, while antitrust policy is more about the consumer than the worker (although some argue that workers benefit from aggressive antitrust enforcement because mergers seek corporate streamlining, leading to fewer jobs).

Mr. Loeb supports the merger, which would create an agriculture and chemical giant currently valued at more than $ 120 billion before...

This means that executives have to be far more selective when identifying potential merger and acquisition candidates than they otherwise would have had to be in a world of easy money.

Heading into its merger talks with T - Mobile, Sprint (NYSE: S) needed a deal more than its rival.

Each of City Capital's Managing Directors has more than 20 years of investment banking experience, offering clients the judgment and transaction management expertise honed from successfully executing more than $ 60 billion of collective merger and capital market transactions.

The Justice Department review comes at an awkward time for AB InBev as it is seeking to buy No. 2 SABMiller Plc SAB.L for more than $ 100 billion in what would be the biggest - ever merger of brewers.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

To date, the firm has advised on more than $ 2 trillion of merger, acquisition, recapitalization, and restructuring transactions.

Polycom's stock could reach more than $ 20 per share by the end of 2017, 50 % higher than Polycom's current price, under a merger scenario.

Maria has more than 20 years» experience in the proxy solicitation industry and specialises in the strategic advice and execution of mergers and acquisitions, annual meetings, proxy fights and other extraordinary transactions.

Under the 2017 Plan, a change in control is defined to include (1) the acquisition by any person or company of more than 50 % of the combined voting power of our then outstanding stock, (2) a merger, consolidation, or similar transaction in which our stockholders immediately before the transaction do not own, directly or indirectly, more than 50 % of the combined voting power of the surviving entity (or the parent of the surviving entity), (3) a sale, lease, exclusive license, or other disposition of all or substantially all of our assets other than to an entity more than 50 % of the combined voting power of which is owned by our stockholders, and (4) an unapproved change in the majority of the board of directors.

Since word of the merger of Heinz Co. and then - Oscar Mayer parent company Kraft Foods broke more than seven months ago — foretelling cuts and other «restructuring» in the never - ending quest to increase shareholder value — Madison's and the state's open wallets have been on full display.

Here is the answer, and it is as dumb and shareholder - unfriendly as you could want: «Maryland law prohibits companies from doing mergers with so - called «interested stockholders» for a period of five years,» and an «interested stockholder» is anyone who, along with its «affiliates or associates,» owns more than 10 percent of the company's stock.

Using acquisition or merger synergies to strengthen their market presence, is more preferred by startups than invading new markets with a little knowledge and struggling to get a foothold.

This was well above the $ 36 billion recorded in the first half of 2004, which included the $ 27 billion Westfield merger, and more than triple the semi-annual average since 1995.

But Mr. Lee and others argue that the recent spate of large deals, which also include the $ 16 billion merger of cable companies Liberty Global Inc. and Virgin Media Inc., and the $ 18.1 billion to be spent by Comcast Corp. to buy General Electric Corp. out of broadcaster NBC Universal, are more than coincidental timing.

For the first half of 2013, health information technology saw more action in mergers and acquisitions than segments like healthcare business services, consumer health and pharma IT, according to a new report from New York - based investment bank Berkery Noyes.

Morgan Stanley was involved in more mergers and acquisitions in emerging markets than any other investment bank in 2013, for a total deal value of $ 99 billion, which represented a 14.7 % market share, according to Thomson Reuters.