On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2011. Google Inc., based in Mountain View, California, has been very busy this year with acquisitions. In a previous post, we reported on Google’s purchase of ITA Software Inc., a travel data provider, for $676 million. We have also discussed Google’s more than […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Friday, October 7, 2011. Shareholders of the Del Monte Corporation who were dissatisfied with the actions of the company’s board and the company’s financial advisor, Barclays Capital, sued both Del Monte and Barclays for failing to act in the shareholders’ best interests during the $4 billion acquisition of […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2011. At last, the ongoing contract dispute between Warner Brothers and Charlie Sheen has been settled. Monday evening, August 26, both sides agreed to a settlement of the lawsuit concerning the contractual differences between Sheen and Warner Brothers. The suit concerning the contract […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Friday, September 23, 2011. A bank best known for its booming credit card business, Capital One, would like to acquire another banking giant, ING Direct USA, for $9 billion. The biggest potential roadblock for the deal is the Dodd-Frank Act, which instructs the Federal Reserve to […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2011. During the last week of August, PharMerica Corp. adopted what it called a “poison pill measure” to halt an unwanted buyout from Omnicare Inc. The poison pill measure, also known as a shareholders’ rights plan, was created to dissuade Omnicare from following through on […]
On behalf of Daniel Watkins of Watkins Firm, A Professional Corporation posted on Thursday, September 15, 2011. One might be forgiven for thinking that big banks in California or anywhere else in the country might be operating on thin ice when it comes to getting even bigger. The words “too big to fail” conjure immediate hostility and memories of expensive […]