By IR Web Report on February 18, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, Investor Relations, m&a, management, microsoft, rss, technology, yahoo
By IR Web Report on February 11, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, Investor Relations, m&a, microsoft, microsoft-yahoo acquisition, technology, yahoo
By IR Web Report on July 13, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, law, m&a
By IR Web Report on May 4, 2007
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 [...]
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By IR Web Report on September 12, 2006
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 did he [...]
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By IR Web Report on 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, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Google, hedge funds, m&a, management, Names Hewitt, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
By IR Web Report on July 10, 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 [...]
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By IR Web Report on July 5, 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 [...]
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