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Investors' new insight on mergers — employee bloggers
THE spotty success rate of mergers and acquisitions in creating shareholder value has long dogged investors who must try to decide whether a proposed acquisition by a company they own makes sense.
But with the advent of employee bloggers on the open Internet, especially those who work for leading technology companies, investors may be getting valuable [...]
Open letter to jerry yang (and Yahoo! IR)
Dear jerry,
I’m trying hard to stay informed about your thinking around Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo, but your Investor Relations department is not making it easy for shareholders to get your views on this issue.
For example, this morning you issued a short news release, which I found on Yahoo’s IR website, saying the board [...]
Quote of the Week #2
By Dominic Jones
THIS is actually a couple of weeks old, but it only recently came to my attention via RR Donnelley’s excellent Real Corporate Lawyer website.
It’s from a single-page memo on June 28, 2007 by heavyweight Wall Street lawyer Martin Lipton of the namesake firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Wikipedia says Lipton and his [...]
A riveting Friday read courtesy of the SEC
By Dominic Jones
IF YOU’RE a fan of crime and spy novels like I am, you’ll love the Securities and Exchange Commission’s news release and subsequent media coverage about yesterday’s bust in the TXU insider-trading case.
The full release is here, but I’m reproducing some highlights below:
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Hafiz Naseem, an investment [...]
Investment Blogs Go Mainstream on Yahoo! Finance
By Dominic Jones
PITY the investor relations people at Illinois Tool Works Inc. They arrived at work this morning to find that someone named Jason Wood had gained access to Yahoo! Finance and is calling their latest acquisition a “strange, strange deal.”
You can almost hear them asking: “Who the hell is Jason Wood and where [...]
News digest for July 25, 2006
SEC Names Hewitt Chief Accountant
Conrad Hewitt, former chief financial regulator for the State of California, was named chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. He will oversee accounting interpretations, international accounting matters, and professional practice issues, for the SEC.
Google makes nice with Wall Street
“When a company first goes public, it kind of [...]
News digest for July 11, 2006
Financial Institutions Revise Equator Principles for Environmental and Social Risk Management
The revision underscores how far the financial sector has progressed in embedding in the project finance arena a common set of best practices to manage social and environmental risks related to project financing.
Girding for a Media Battle with Activist Hedge Funds
Activist shareholders simply take advantage [...]
Today's top links (July 6, 2006)
Lay’s Death Clears His Record
Under the “abatement doctrine,” the death of former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay wipes both his conviction and indictment from the criminal record, complicating civil suits against his estate.
M&A volume up 36% to record $1.95 trillion in first half
Industry tracking firm Dealogic reported Wednesday that global merger and acquisition volume rose 36% [...]
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