Sentences with phrase «ups than mergers»

Eight deals were cross border verein tie - ups, and those are more like offshore franchise sign ups than mergers, so we may exclude those when looking only at the U.S. market.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

(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.

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.

More than half of mergers don't live up to promises.

The already legendary merger of the Gannet chain of newspapers and a television company in 1979, for a little more than 350 million dollars, seems today a very modest transaction compared with what took place a few months ago when an unprecedented US 19 billion dollar merger between Disney Company and the ABC Network was quickly overtaken by an even more massive Times Warner - CNN link - up worth, all told, in excess of US 25 billion dollars.

«With the effective merger of Meetic and Match this now means that we're the number 2 paid dating site in the UK... experiencing greater growth than all of our competitors over the past year with visitors up 205 %.

4.5 - inch 480 x 800 Super AMOLED Plus display Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) NFC support, though compatibility with the forthcoming ISIS mobile payment standard is «to be determined» Category 24 HSDPA (42 Mbps) and Category 6 HSUPA (5.76 Mbps) for extremely fast HSPA + support — faster than any HSPA + phone currently sold in the US AWS plus 850 / 1900 MHz compatibility for support on AT&T's «4G» network if the merger succeeds Preliminary measurements place it at 5.16 x 2.76 x 0.37 inches — within a few hundredths of an inch of the Infuse 16 GB internal ROM, 1 GB internal RAM, external microSD up to 32 GB Here's where it outdoes the Infuse: it's quoted with a Qualcomm 1.2 GHz dual - core APQ8060 application processor, which is extraordinarily unusual for a Samsung — particularly considering the availability of Samsung's own multi-core Exynos line; it's paired with an MDM8220 modem processor 8 megapixel primary camera with flash and 1080p video capture, secondary front - facing camera Like the Galaxy S II, the Hercules won't have a dedicated HDMI port — it'll move high - def video over Micro USB using MHL [CellphoneSignal]-LSB-...]

So, our old 401k has been sitting in limbo more than 2 months now and I'd like to roll it out into an IRA / Roth IRA, but the paperwork to the 401K plan administrator documenting that we are no longer employees is caught up in the firestorm of other merger concerns and keeps getting delayed.

In any situation where bidding is involved whether it's in an auction house, on eBay or in the high - powered world of mergers and acquisitions, there's always a risk that one of the bidders gets caught up in the process and bids more than they intended too....

Anecdotal evidence suggests there have been fewer mega merger match - ups than in years past — but plenty of talk.

And with the firm's merger with City firm Lawrence Graham set to go live in a matter of months, Poole has more reason than ever to smile, with the long - awaited London tie - up marking the completion of Wragges» journey from Birmingham firm to UK player.

Olswang more than halved its net debt during the 2014 - 15 financial year as it continues to weigh up possible merger options.

Separately I caught up with Avaneesh Marwaha, CEO of Litera Microsystems, about which rumours are circulating in the market — possibly encouraged by competitors — that the three way merger of Microsystems, Litera and the Sackett Group is less than plain sailing.

Some firms have had their ups and downs, but other than through mergers, there haven't been any big movers since 2009.

The merger boosts headcount to approximately 4,000 lawyers spread across more than 50 cities worldwide, and is likely to nudge the firm up to sixth place in the Am Law 100.

There's nothing like an unsolicited takeover bid to shake up one's summer, but when you head up the legal team at Canada's most iconic fast - food brands it brings with it more than the usual set of merger and acquisition - related challenges.