Sentences with phrase «of failed merger»

AT&T's last earnings statement showed the impact of the failed merger, which hurt their bottom line.

And in the event of a failed merger, I think they might be willing to give the PC party a second look if they have somebody that they trust in a leadership position.»

As a result of a string of failed mergers and best friend arrangements in the market, we are increasingly witnessing large firms focus on organic growth in new markets.

Not exact matches

In the wake of failed health insurance mergers earlier this year, some of its competitors are now eyeing the UnitedHealth model of vertical integration.

If Maple fails to clear up some of the uncertainty, shareholders could very well vote for the LSE merger in June, Ditmire predicts.

Despite the failed bid for Qualcomm, Broadcom still needs to be in the U.S. to keep its merger and acquisition strategy over the long term «healthy,» says Stacy Rasgon of Bernstein Research.

Managers today have unprecedented discretion in determining estimates of an acquisition's fair market value, but such calculations clearly warrant greater scrutiny, since fully half of all mergers and acquisitions consistently fail to live up to expectations.

Now that a merger of its mobile unit has failed, the Indian tycoon is running out of options to keep control of his flagship Reliance Communications while reducing its $ 7 bln of debt.

Actual results may vary materially from those expressed or implied by forward - looking statements based on a number of factors, including, without limitation: (1) risks related to the consummation of the Merger, including the risks that (a) the Merger may not be consummated within the anticipated time period, or at all, (b) the parties may fail to obtain shareholder approval of the Merger Agreement, (c) the parties may fail to secure the termination or expiration of any waiting period applicable under the HSR Act, (d) other conditions to the consummation of the Merger under the Merger Agreement may not be satisfied, (e) all or part of Arby's financing may not become available, and (f) the significant limitations on remedies contained in the Merger Agreement may limit or entirely prevent BWW from specifically enforcing Arby's obligations under the Merger Agreement or recovering damages for any breach by Arby's; (2) the effects that any termination of the Merger Agreement may have on BWW or its business, including the risks that (a) BWW's stock price may decline significantly if the Merger is not completed, (b) the Merger Agreement may be terminated in circumstances requiring BWW to pay Arby's a termination fee of $ 74 million, or (c) the circumstances of the termination, including the possible imposition of a 12 - month tail period during which the termination fee could be payable upon certain subsequent transactions, may have a chilling effect on alternatives to the Merger; (3) the effects that the announcement or pendency of the Merger may have on BWW and its business, including the risks that as a result (a) BWW's business, operating results or stock price may suffer, (b) BWW's current plans and operations may be disrupted, (c) BWW's ability to retain or recruit key employees may be adversely affected, (d) BWW's business relationships (including, customers, franchisees and suppliers) may be adversely affected, or (e) BWW's management's or employees» attention may be diverted from other important matters; (4) the effect of limitations that the Merger Agreement places on BWW's ability to operate its business, return capital to shareholders or engage in alternative transactions; (5) the nature, cost and outcome of pending and future litigation and other legal proceedings, including any such proceedings related to the Merger and instituted against BWW and others; (6) the risk that the Merger and related transactions may involve unexpected costs, liabilities or delays; (7) other economic, business, competitive, legal, regulatory, and / or tax factors; and (8) other factors described under the heading «Risk Factors» in Part I, Item 1A of BWW's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended December 25, 2016, as updated or supplemented by subsequent reports that BWW has filed or files with the SEC.

that the only reason the failed ATT merger / take over of T - Mobile a few years ago worked out is because John Legere was hired.

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The value of global mergers and acquisitions has failed to pick up, despite low interest rates and an improving global economy.

The Art of Buying a Hedge Fund: Why more firms are now looking to acquire a hedge fund, but mergers can also fail

The three boards that failed to get the critical vote required were: Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (75 per cent required and only 63 per cent of those who voted were in favour); Kamloops & District Real Estate Association (75 per cent vote needed and 70 per cent of those voting favoured the merger); and Okanagan - Mainland Real Estate Board (67 per cent needed and 56 per cent vote acquired).

It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

The ACCC's position on the competitive effects of the merger would hav ebeen different had Hans not been in «imminent danger of failing».

Indeed, analysis shows that for at least a third of the past century, the country was governed by parties which had failed to win an election in their own right but had created temporary mergers with another party in order to form a ruling coalition.

Marty and the Pod are put through the ringer by their arch-rival firm Kinsley - Johnson as part of the due diligence performed by MetroCapital for the pending merger; Jeannie does her best to keep Wes and the marriage at bay but fails to keep it a secret from Marty; April and Roscoe bond but Marty learns about Jeremiah's secret and receives shocking news from Monica.

Required merger of districts in which fewer than 85 percent of students pass state's Minimum Performance Test, and that fail to show «reasonable progress» toward improvement within two years.

Alford bristles at local media reports that have portrayed the Wilkinsburg - Westinghouse partnership as a merger of two failing schools.

Wiedeking led a failed hostile takeover attempt of Volkswagen, and later opposed the merger of the two carmakers.

The discipline required to consistently pay a dividend also has a way of discouraging management from wasting shareholder money on quixotic empire building or on overpriced mergers that fail to deliver value.

3) if step 2 fails, offer to take target private himself, provide value and liquidity to other shareholders and earn a bit more by way of a merger into one of his own entities, breaking it up himself or a combination thereof.

(The closings and mergers of funds is one complicating factor in fairly evaluating fund performance, and failing to evaluate closed funds can artificially enhance the success rate for active funds.)

Since the Company's failed merger with Raven Biotechnologies, Inc. in March 2008, the Board has publicly disclosed that it would either pursue a strategic transaction or a series of strategic transactions or dissolve the Company.

As a brief overview, the Management and Board have embarked upon a failed merger that garnered virtually no support from its shareholders, and was opposed by ISS, and continued on that path until the date of the special shareholders meeting and scheduled vote, spending lavishly in a failed effort to close it; attempted to implement substantial new options to itself, a plan opposed by ISS and the shareholders, which was withdrawn; continually paid itself outrageous sums of the shareholders money over the past three years; rejected highly qualified outside board members with deep, broad healthcare company experience supported by its shareholders; held many Board and Committee meetings with nothing to show for it; formed a new Strategic Transactions Committee that is highly paid but that has produced no deals for the shareholders to consider or for any outside valuation experts to formally review; spent lavishly on accountants, auditors and counsel; failed to successfully hire any outside professional negotiators and finally extinguish or remove the outstanding lease obligations; distributed no cash to the shareholders despite holding excess amounts; formed no special purpose entity to hold any royalty and milestone rights and payments for the benefit of its shareholders; and thus generally failed in its fiduciary duties to shareholders.

(Lists of past mergers just make me think of past failed airlines.

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Friends of the Earth Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels) staged a symbolic «failed marriage» today outside the cathedral in Brussels, decrying the merger between the energy provider, Lampiris and energy giant, Total.

However, considering the UAE economy is in a transitional period, the market often fails and makes it difficult for any proposed merger to be fairly assessed based on the fair values of the two companies.

Despite the size of that new firm, the merger has failed to fire major growth, with combined turnover remaining largely flat post-merger.

(1) The announcement came after a frenetic week with failed talks of restructuring, a proposed merger with DLA Piper and lawyers fleeing the firm.

Many a merger fails because of personality issues and the reasons behind the merger.

As with last year's demise of firms like Thacher Profitt, Thelen and Heller Ehrman, Wolf Block's failure, as described by The Legal Intelligencer, follows the same pattern: failed merger attempts, rainmaking partners jumping ship and a primary practice area (real estate) that suffered in the economic downturn.

Five quick - fire mergers, including the recent acquisition of failed firm Cobbetts for a knock - down price, have ensured the firm has never strayed far from the headlines over the past 18 months and, according to Leaitherland, the firm has no intention of stopping now.

MacEwen first gives a great round - up of links to all the stories on the failed merger of Dewey Ballantine and Orrick, before launching into his thoughts on the events.

A string of missed budgets and a failed merger sparked an exodus of equity partners at Goodman and Carr, and the firm's management decided closure was the only option.

Former cases include acting for an international law firm in defence of proceedings by a partner excluded for breach of duty and acting for partners in a prominent Hong Kong firm on claims for misrepresentation and breach of a partnership agreement following a failed merger.

In The Williams Companies, Inc. v. Energy Transfer Equity, L.P., et al., the Delaware Court of Chancery held that an acquirer in a merger did not fail to use «commercially reasonable efforts» to obtain a tax opinion from its tax...

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Therefore, with the merger of propertyguys and realtysellers I should reasonably expect that somewhere within R.S's VOW search function, consumers will be able to see the supposed 10,000 per year sold data for propertyguys, along with the failed sales, days on market etc., and I fully expect that Ms. Aitken has taken this into consideration prior to crafting her amendment.

I, for one, never imagined when I first started out that I would have to do things like manage lease space, navigate through MLS mergers, deal with the fallout of a failed association merger, start up a meeting and event space business, teach short sales and foreclosure classes, endure plummeting membership numbers during the hard times, launch a real estate licensing school, sing at installations, and jump on a float for a parade.

Mosca v. Kiner (277 A.D. 2d 937)- broker's, salesperson's and owner's motion for summary judgment dismissing buyer's complaint affirmed; where property was advertised as having deeded lake rights and the MLS indicated that the property had access to a private dock, buyer's post closing fraud cause of action fails where buyer had the means available to him of knowing, by the exercise of ordinary intelligence, the truth concerning the description and boundary of the land and failed to make use of such means; the presence or absence of deeded lake rights was a mater of public record, was not particularly within broker's, salesperson's or owner's knowledge and could have been ascertained by buyer by means available to him through the exercise of ordinary intelligence; specific merger clause in the contract defeats fraud cause of action

Venezia v. Coldwell Banker Sammis Realty (270 A.D. 2d 480)- buyer's action against seller for fraud for failing to disclose toxic contamination of untapped ground water beneath the property and surrounding area dismissed; cause of action against brokers severed; buyer's claim of fraud against seller was extinguished upon closing as a result of specific merger clause in contract of sale; moreover, buyer's failed to allege that seller made any representation about the condition of the land's subsurface or groundwater and did not allege that seller engaged in concealment or otherwise deceitful conduct designed to prevent the discovery of such contamination; seller is under no duty to speak; salesperson of one of the defendant real estate agencies represented to buyer that the house was in good condition