Busch, Augustus A. IV
Bush, President George H. W.
Bush, President George W.
C
Cablevision
CalPERS (California pension fund)
Canadian Supreme Court
Carlino, Peter M.
Carlyle Group
Carmody v.Toll Brothers, Inc.
Carroll, Lewis
Case, Stephen
Cash
as acquisition currency
deals
financing
reserves
and takeovers
Cash-settled equity derivatives
Cayne, James
C-Bass LLC
CBS Corporation
Celanese Corporation
Centerbridge Partners LP
Cerebus Capital Management LP
Cerebus-United Rentals dispute
Chandler, Chancellor William B.
Chesapeake Corp. v. Shore
Chevron Corporation
Children’s Investment Fund versus CSX
China
rise of economy
China International Trust & Investment Corporation (CITIC)
China Investment Corp. Ltd. (CIC)
Chinalco
Chrysler LLC
Citic Securities
Citigroup
bailout
City Capital Assocs. Ltd. P’ship v. Interco
CKX, Inc.
Clayton Antitrust Act
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
litigation
CNBC
CNET Networks, Inc. Jana versus
CNOOC Ltd.
Coach, Inc.
Collar mechanisms
College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). See also Exon-Florio Amendment and foreign investment
Commodity bubble
Commonwealth Associates v. Providence Health Care Inc.
Company auctions
Compaq Computer Corp.
Conglomerates acquisition craze
Consolidated Edison, Inc. v. Northeast Utilities
Consolidated Supervised Entity (CSE) program
Constellation Energy Group Inc.
Contingent value rights (CVRs)
Corporate governance
“good governance” trend
Corporate raiders
Countrywide Financial Corporation
Covenant-lite debt
Cowen & Company
Cox, Christopher
craigslist
Credit
agreements
bubble
crash of 1989
crisis
markets,
risk
scarcity
Credit default swaps
Credit Suisse Group AG
Cross-border transactions
CSFB Private Equity
CSX Corp.
D
Daimler-Benz AG
Danone SA
Dash, Eric
Davis, Martin
Davos conference of 2009
“DealBook” column (Davidoff)
“Deal Journal, The”
Deal machine
Dealmaking, xvii. See also Globalization of dealmaking
beyond a crisis age
discipline
global business
institutionalization of
lack of activity
personality
reform needed
Deal-protection devices
Dean Witter & Co.
Debt. See also Credit
commitment letters
financing
Debtor-in-possession financing
Delaware
case law
legislature
Delaware Chancery Court
Delaware Supreme Court
Delaware takeover law management buyouts and going privates
Department of Commerce
Department of Justice
Deritives. See Cash-Settled Equity Derivatives
D.E. Shaw & Co.
Diebold, Inc.
Diller, Barry
Dimon, Jamie
Dinallo, Eric
Disclosure requirements
Disney-Infoseek deal
Distressed deals
Dolan family
Dow Chemical
Dow Jones & Co.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Drew, Daniel
Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.
Dr. Pepper Company
Dubai Ports
Due diligence
Dynegy Inc.
E
eBay Inc.
EDF Group
Eller &Company
Ellison, Larry
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
Employee Retirement Income Security Act
Englehard
Enron Corporation
Equity Office Properties Trust, xvi
Erie Gang
Erie Railroad. See New York &Erie Railroad
ESB, Inc.
Evercore Partners Inc.
Evergreen Investments
Exchange Act Section 13(d)
Exchange offer
Executive compensation . See also Agency costs
Exon-Florio Amendment
F
Faber, David
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation
Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association)
nationalization of
FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal government as dealmaker
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac)
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
Federalist Paper Number
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal takeover law. See also Restructuring Takeovers
Federal Trade Commission
Feinberg, Stephen
Fertitta,Tilman
FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency)
Fiat
Financial crisis, xvii
Financial institutions, distress of benefits from investments by sovereign wealth funds
Financial panics
Financial revolution, xvii
Financial Services Authority
Finish Line Inc.. See also Genesco-Finish Line Case
Fiorina, Carly
First Boston Corp.
First Data Corp.
First Magnus Financial Corp.
Fisk, James
Foot Locker, Inc.
Forbes, Steven
Forbes
Force-the-vote provision
Ford Motor Company
Foreign investment in the U.S. Regulation of
Fortis Holding SA/NV
Forstmann, Teddy
Forstmann Little & Co.
Fortress Investment Group
Foundry Networks, Inc
Franke, Joele
Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation)
nationalization of
Fred Meyer, Inc.
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Frontier
FSB
Fujitsu Ltd.
Fuld, Richard Jr.
G
Gates, Bill
Geithner, Timothy
General Electric Co.
General Motors Corporation
Genesco Inc.
Genesco-Finish Line case
GeoCities
GE Plastics
Germany
Getty Oil Co.
Gibson Greetings Inc.
Gilded Age
Gillette Co.
Global Crossing Ltd.
Globalization of dealmaking
GMAC LLC
Going
-private transactions
Golden parachute
Goldman Sachs Capital Partners
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Goodbody &Company
Goodyear, Charles “Chip”
Google Inc.
Go-shops
Gould, Jay
Government by deal assessing
Government Corporation Control Act
Government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs)
Grayken, John
Great Britain
Great Depression
Green v. Sante Fe Industries, Inc.
Greenberg, Alan C.
Greenberg, Hank
Greenbrier Resort
Greenhill & Co.
Greenmail
Greenspan, Alan
Grupo Modelo S.A.V. de C.V.
Guidant Corp.
Gulf Oil
Gung Ho (movie)
H
Hamilton, Alexander
Harman, Sidney
Harman International, Inc.
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.
Harrigan, Sean
Harris, Joshua
Harris Corp.
Hartley, Fred
Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act
Harvard University endowment
HD Supply, Inc.
Hedge fund activism
future of
investors
opposition to
results
rise of
shareholders
Hedge funds
“Event-driven”
Hercules Inc.
Hewlett, Walter
Hewlett Packard Co.
Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc.
High-yield bonds collapse in market in 1989
Hohn, Chris
Hollywood
Hologic Inc.
Hostile takeovers
activity
future, of
offers, xvii
Houdaille Industries
Housing crisis
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Huntsman, Jon
Huntsman, Peter R.
Huntsman Corp.
buy-out
Huntsman
Hutchison-Whampoa Ltd.
I
IBP Inc.
Icahn, Carl
InBev N.V./SA.
InBev transaction
India
Industrialization of foreign countries
IndyMac Federal Bank
In re IBP Inc. v. Shareholders Litigation
In re IXC Communications Inc. Shareholders Litig.
In re Netsmart
In re Pennaco Energy, Inc. S’holders Litig.
In re Toys “R” Us, Inc. S’holder Litig.
Institutional investors
activism of
Institutional traders
Interest rates
International Monetary Fund
International Nickel Company of Canada
Interstate Commerce Act
Investment bank
institutional model of
J
Jana Partners LLC
versus CNET
Jana case
Japan
J.C. Flowers Group
JDA Software Group Inc.
Jeffries&Company
Johnson, Ross
JPMorgan
acquires Bear Stearns
Junk bonds (see high-yield bonds)
“Just say no” defense
K
Kaplan, Judge Lewis A.
Kerr-McGee Corp.
Kijiji
Kimmitt, Robert
Knowlton, Phillip
Kohlberg, Jerome Jr.,
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), xvi and origin of private equity
Konrath, James A.
Korea Exchange Bank
Kozlowski. Dennis, xvii
KPMG
Kravis, Henry, xvi
Kuwait
Kuwait Investment Office
L
Lamb,Vice Chancellor Stephen P.
Lamphere, Gilbert H.
Landry Restaurants, Inc.
Lauder, Leonard A.,
Lazard Ltd.
Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.,
bankruptcy of
sale of
Leveraged buy-out. See also Private equity
Levin, Jerry
Lewis, Kenneth D.
Linens ‘n Things
Ling, James Joseph
Lipin, Stephen
Lipton, Marty
Liveris, Andrew
Loeb, Daniel
Lockups
defined
examples of
London Stock Exchange Group PLC
Lone Star Funds
Lord, Albert L.
Lotus Corporation
Lowenstein Sandler
Lucent Technologies Inc.
M
MAC clauses
carve-outs
future of
in flux
laws governing
purpose of
wars of fall 2007
Mack, John
MAMCO Manufacturing
Management buyouts, (MBOs)
Manchester City soccer team
Mao, Robert
Market check scope of
Mars Inc.
Masri, Edgard
Material Adverse Change Clauses. See MAC clauses
Meier, Roger
Mentor Graphics Corp. v. Quickform Design Systems, Inc.
Mercier, et al. v. Inter-Tel
Merck & Co., Inc
Merger-of-equal transactions
Mergers
Long-form
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
sale of
Mervyn’s
Mesa Petroleum Corp.
MGIC
MGICRadian acquisition transaction
Microsoft Corporation
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co.
Middle Eastern Islamic nations
Midwest Air Group Inc.
Milken, Michael R.
MIT Sloan School of Management
Mitsubishi Bank
MM Companies, Inc. v. Liquid Audio, Inc.
MONY Group S’holder Litig.
Moody’s Investor Service
Moral hazard
Morgan, J. P.
Morgan Stanley
saving of
Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC)
Mortgage-related assets
Mozilo, Angelo
Mubadala Development Company
Mudd, Daniel H.
Murdoch, Rupert
Mutual funds
Myers Industries, Inc.
N
Nasdaq Group Inc.
National Amusements Inc.
National Security Foreign Investment Reform and Strengthened Transparency Act (FISA)
NCS HealthCare
Neiman Marcus Inc.
New Century Financial Corp.
Newmark, Craig
News Corp.
New York & Erie Railroad
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Listing Rule
Northern Natural Gas
Norway Government Pension Fund
No-talks
Novelly, Paul A.
NYNEX
O
Obama, President Barack
Obama administration
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
Office of Thrift Supervision
Ohio Mattress Company
Omnicare v. NCS HealthCare
O’Neal, Stanley
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Optima International of Miami v.WCI Steel, Inc.
Oracle Corp.
Oregon Council
Orman v. Cullman
P
Pac-Man Defense
Palin, Governor Sarah
PanAmStat Corp.
Pandit,Vikram
Panic
AIG collapse
Bear Stearns collapse
Financial panics
Lehman, collapse
Wall Street panic
Pantry Pride Inc.
Paramount Communications, Inc. Time Inc.
Paramount Communications v. QVC Network
Paramount Pictures Corp.
Parsons,Vice Chancellor Donald F.
Paulson, Henry J. Jr.
Payment in kind (PIK) security. See also PIK-toggles
Peninsular & Oriental Steam, Navigation Company (P&O)
Penn National Gaming, Inc.
Pennzoil v.Texaco
Pension funds
PeopleSoft Inc.
Perelman, Ronald O.
Pershing Square Capital Management LP
Personality element. See also Dealmaking
importance of
Petrochemicals Industries Company
Pfizer Inc.
PHH Corp.
Phillips Petroleum
Pickens,T. Boone
PIK-toggles. See also Payment in kind (PIK) security
Pirate Capital LLC
Pixar
Poison pen
Poison pill
effects of
Pooling accounting
Portnoy v. Cryo-Cell Int’l, Inc.
Powell, Colin L.
Prince, Charles
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia
Private equity,
bubble
economic incentives
fault and failure of
firms
future of
implosion of
in sixth wave
origins and history of
takeovers
transactions
Private Equity Council
Private trading markets
Proctor & Gamble
Providence Equity Partners LLC
Proxy contest
Purchase accounting
Q
Qatar
QVC, Inc.
R
Radian Group Inc.. See also MGICRadian acquisition
RCA Corp
Realogy Corp.
Record date
Reddy Ice Holdings, Inc.
Redstone, Sumner
“Regulation by deal” approach of government
Reserve Primary Fund
Restructuring takeovers
dealmaking
Delaware takeover law
federal takeover law. See also Restructuring Takeovers due diligence and disclosure proposal for reforming federal takeover code tender offer and merger parity
Reverse auctions
Reverse termination fee
Revlon Inc.
Revlon, Inc. MacAndrews &Forbes Holdings, Inc.
Duties under (Revlon duties)
Rigas, John
Rio Tinto
Rising Sun (Crichton)
RiskMetrics
RJR/Nabisco acquisition,
Roberts, George R.,
Roche Holding, A.G.
Rockefeller Center
Roehm, Carolyne
Rohm & Hass
Rosenstein, Barry
Roth, Steven,
Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
Rule 10b-13
Rule 14e-5
S
S&L scandal
Sandell Asset Management Corp.
Santiago Principles
code of conduct
definition of sovereign wealth funds
Sara Lee Corporation
Sarbanes-Oxley Act
“Saturday night special”
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Basic Industries Corporation
Savings imbalance
“Scarlet Woman of Wall Street”
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