Sentences with phrase «than a merger of»

A combination of a drugstore company and an insurer is considered less problematic than a merger of two players in the same business, which could reduce competition and hurt consumers.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Merger and acquisition activity in the oil and gas sector dropped to less than $ 1 billion in the first quarter of this year — the lowest since 1994, according to figures recently published in The Globe and Mail.

«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.

Chipmakers are already among the market's best performers this year, but Ankur Crawford of the Alger Spectra Fund thinks Broadcom (avgo), at less than 16 times 2017 earnings, looks undervalued following its merger with Avago.

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.

It is also less - than - shocking that Kraft Heinz, the food giant caused by the merger of Kraft and Heinz earlier this year, is closing yet another plant.

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.

«The nature of competition among three almost equal providers, which would be after the merger, is quite different than what we have right now,» he said.

Add a potential multi-billion dollar entertainment industry merger to the long list of economic casualties from the Brexit less than a week after the U.K.'s historic vote to leave the European Union.

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

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.

The CEO of Publicis Groupe revealed that the approval process for its proposed merger with Omnicom is progressing faster than expected.

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).

One of the first references that popped up after the deal was announced — other than the obvious comparison to the disastrous Time Warner - AOL merger — was to Verizon's recent attempt to create its own tech - news site, a short - lived effort known as SugarString.

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.

Overall our default perspective probably ought to be against mergers - we should require abundant and specific evidence of large potential gains to convince us that a particular merger is in the best interest of anyone other than management and the investment bankers constructing the deal.

(The investigation comes less than two years after the government approved the merger of US Airways and American Airlines to create the world's largest airline.)

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.

NVCA president Mark Heesen is also concerned that the total value of merger and acquisition deals, another key outlet for VC - backed companies, was 40 percent less in the second quarter than in the same period in 2007.

Legere's comments come as speculation heats up that the wireless industry may see a flurry of mergers and acquisitions under a Trump administration expected to demonstrate a much lighter regulatory touch than the previous one.

For example, the expected timing and likelihood of completion of the proposed merger, including the timing, receipt and terms and conditions of any required governmental and regulatory approvals of the proposed merger that could reduce anticipated benefits or cause the parties to abandon the transaction, the ability to successfully integrate the businesses, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the merger agreement, the possibility that Kraft shareholders may not approve the merger agreement, the risk that the parties may not be able to satisfy the conditions to the proposed transaction in a timely manner or at all, risks related to disruption of management time from ongoing business operations due to the proposed transaction, the risk that any announcements relating to the proposed transaction could have adverse effects on the market price of Kraft's common stock, and the risk that the proposed transaction and its announcement could have an adverse effect on the ability of Kraft and Heinz to retain customers and retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with their suppliers and customers and on their operating results and businesses generally, problems may arise in successfully integrating the businesses of the companies, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected, the combined company may be unable to achieve cost - cutting synergies or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies, and other factors.

That being said, the lack of progress in NXP's merger with Qualcomm continues to weigh on this stock, and the limited amount of new merger information in this release probably played a larger part in today's plunging share price than the actual report.

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.

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.

Humana posts stronger - than - expected fourth - quarter earnings Wednesday and says it will update shareholders next week on its 2017 outlook after the collapse of its $ 37 billion merger with Aetna.

Rather than use his own stock, Shkreli induced two Retrophin employees (Thomas Fernandez and Kevin Mulleady) to deliver 90,000 of their Retrophin shares to him in exchange for a promise of Fearnow Shares — i.e., unrestricted shares in Desert Gateway, the Reverse Merger entity.5 Those 90,000 shares were multiplied to 450,000 shares after the Reverse Merger.

Less than a month later, another federal judge said that a $ 48 billion merger of two other big health insurers, Anthem and Cigna, should not go forward.

(5) Except in connection with a corporate transaction involving the Company (including, without limitation, any stock dividend, stock split, extraordinary cash dividend, recapitalization, reorganization, merger, consolidation, split - up, spin - off, combination, or exchange of shares), the terms of outstanding awards may not be amended to reduce the exercise price of outstanding Options or stock appreciation rights or cancel outstanding Options or stock appreciation rights in exchange for cash, other awards or Options or stock appreciation rights with an exercise price that is less than the exercise price of the original Options or stock appreciation rights without stockholder approval.

But rather than banning these toxic chemicals, on March 21st the EU approved the $ 66 billion merger of Bayer and Monsanto, the US agribusiness giant producing Roundup and the genetically modified (GMO) seeds that have reduced seed diversity globally.

Munster believes the buy would make it past regulator muster, as Walmart alone would still carry a larger share of the retail market than the potential Amazon and Target merger.

«Adjusted earnings for these periods exclude the mark - to - market effects of non-qualifying hedges, the net effect of other than temporary impairments (OTTI) on certain investments, operating results from the Spain solar project and merger - related expenses.

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.

Bloomberg Gadfly columnist Tara Lachapelle explains why T - Mobile and Sprint stand a better shot of winning regulatory for their merger now than in th...

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Although subsequent administrations have continued reviewing vertical mergers, the Chicago School's view that these deals generally do not pose threats to competition has remained dominant.139 Rejection of vertical tie - ups — standard through the 1960s and 1970s — is extremely rare today; 140 in instances where agencies spot potential harm, they tend to impose conduct remedies or require divestitures rather than block the deal outright.141 The Obama Administration took this approach with two of the largest vertical deals of the last decade: Comcast / NBC and Ticketmaster / LiveNation.

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.