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    <title>Hershey cleared to dine on Cadbury</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T21:53:50Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T21:53:43Z</updated>

    <summary>Conservative is the adjective widely attached to the charitable trust that controls Hershey. But maybe it doesn't apply.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Matthew Wurtzel</name>
        <uri>http://dealscape.thedealblogs.com/</uri>
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        Conservative is the adjective widely attached to the charitable trust that controls Hershey. But maybe it doesn't apply.
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<entry>
    <title>Deal Stocks: GS, DELL, CBY, HSY, GE, CMCSA</title>
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    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/dealscape//29.31880</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T21:36:24Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T21:52:57Z</updated>

    <summary>A look at the news moving deal-related stocks including Goldman Sachs, Cadbury, Hershey and General Electric.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>George White</name>
        
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        A look at the news moving deal-related stocks including Goldman Sachs, Cadbury, Hershey and General Electric.
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<entry>
    <title>GSI Group goes under</title>
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    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/dealscape//29.31891</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T21:00:43Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T18:03:24Z</updated>

    <summary> Technology supplier GSI Group Inc. filed Chapter 11 on Friday morning with a deal in place to hand over a majority of its common shares to noteholders. The debtor's new owners are led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC and Highbridge Capital Management LLC. This is a free content preview. Subscribers enjoy access to all stories in full as well as second-to-none market intelligence. Dig deeper, with Pipeline. 368 in-depth reports of Bankruptcies in the Technology sector 187 articles related to Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC 51 articles related to GSI Group Inc.  50 company pages related...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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         Technology supplier GSI Group Inc. filed Chapter 11 on Friday morning with a deal in place to hand over a majority of its common shares to noteholders. The debtor's new owners are led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC and Highbridge Capital Management LLC. This is a free content preview. Subscribers enjoy access to all stories in full as well as second-to-none market intelligence. Dig deeper, with Pipeline. 368 in-depth reports of Bankruptcies in the Technology sector 187 articles related to Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC 51 articles related to GSI Group Inc.  50 company pages related...
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<entry>
    <title>Dell drives in IT services as PC slump deepens</title>
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    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/corporatedealmaker//30.31897</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T21:00:26Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T21:20:31Z</updated>

    <summary>Dell Inc.'s (NASDAQ:DELL) stock price is taking a beating after Thursday's third-quarter earnings -- down about 9% in late afternoon trading Friday. The PC maker reported revenue of $12.9 billion, up 1% from the previous quarter and down 15% from a year earlier. Profits plummeted 54%. This Tech Trader Daily...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Suzanne Stevens</name>
        
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        Dell Inc.'s (NASDAQ:DELL) stock price is taking a beating after Thursday's third-quarter earnings -- down about 9% in late afternoon trading Friday. The PC maker reported revenue of $12.9 billion, up 1% from the previous quarter and down 15% from a year earlier. Profits plummeted 54%. This Tech Trader Daily...
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<entry>
    <title>Should MetroPCS take a Leap?</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T20:52:34Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T20:52:17Z</updated>

    <summary>Walter Piecyk of Pali Capital says MetroPCS should renew its pursuit of Leap Wireless.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Chris Nolter</name>
        <uri>http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/</uri>
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        Walter Piecyk of Pali Capital says MetroPCS should renew its pursuit of Leap Wireless.
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<entry>
    <title>The Deal Economy 2010: Avaya's Ali on digesting Nortel</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T20:17:54Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T20:55:17Z</updated>

    <summary>Avaya's Mohamad Ali discusses the company's next target in the wake of buying assets of bankrupt Nortel.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Maria Woehr</name>
        <uri>http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape</uri>
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        Avaya's Mohamad Ali discusses the company's next target in the wake of buying assets of bankrupt Nortel.
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<entry>
    <title>eBay's Skype deal is (finally) undone</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T20:04:50Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T20:08:35Z</updated>

    <summary>A consortium of investors that includes Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board takes charge of Skype. What's next?</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Olaf de Senerpont Domis</name>
        <uri>http://techconfidential.com/money-out/blog/</uri>
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        A consortium of investors that includes Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board takes charge of Skype. What's next?
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<entry>
    <title>Gartmore plans December IPO </title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T20:00:37Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T18:02:26Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Hellman &amp; Friedman LLC's Gartmore Group Ltd. plans to hold an initial public offering in London next month as its San Francisco parent seeks to take advantage of the sustained recovery in equity markets to make a partial exit. Money manager Gartmore, which had £21.8 billion ($36.4 billion) of assets under management as of September, said Friday it has applied to list on the main London Stock Exchange Market through an IPO predicted to be worth more than £500 million. The IPO will enable it to cut debt to about £150 million; help it attract clients and talented fund...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[ Hellman &amp; Friedman LLC's Gartmore Group Ltd. plans to hold an initial public offering in London next month as its San Francisco parent seeks to take advantage of the sustained recovery in equity markets to make a partial exit. Money manager Gartmore, which had £21.8 billion ($36.4 billion) of assets under management as of September, said Friday it has applied to list on the main London Stock Exchange Market through an IPO predicted to be worth more than £500 million. The IPO will enable it to cut debt to about £150 million; help it attract clients and talented fund...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>Proxy prelim: CF wins Terra board seats</title>
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    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/corporatedealmaker//30.31895</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T19:45:44Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T19:54:37Z</updated>

    <summary>Hostile acquirer CF Industries Holdings Inc. (NYSE:CF) is closer to getting its target, rival fertilizer maker Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE:TRA), which voted out its chairman according to a preliminary proxy count in New York. On Friday, CF said all three of its director nominees were elected to Terra's board. Chairman...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Basdeo Hiralal</name>
        
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        Hostile acquirer CF Industries Holdings Inc. (NYSE:CF) is closer to getting its target, rival fertilizer maker Terra Industries Inc. (NYSE:TRA), which voted out its chairman according to a preliminary proxy count in New York. On Friday, CF said all three of its director nominees were elected to Terra's board. Chairman...
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<entry>
    <title>TowerBrook sets up new lender </title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T19:00:40Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T17:49:06Z</updated>

    <summary> London- and New York-based private equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners LP said Friday it raised about $700 million to start a commercial lending institution in London to provide finance for midmarket companies. TowerBrook said it would lead the establishment of the lender, Haymarket Financial, but two major Canadian pension funds, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Omers Private Equity, part of Omers Administration Corp., the investment arm of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, were co-investing in the transaction. This is a free content preview. Subscribers enjoy access to all stories in full as well as second-to-none market intelligence....</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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         London- and New York-based private equity firm TowerBrook Capital Partners LP said Friday it raised about $700 million to start a commercial lending institution in London to provide finance for midmarket companies. TowerBrook said it would lead the establishment of the lender, Haymarket Financial, but two major Canadian pension funds, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board and Omers Private Equity, part of Omers Administration Corp., the investment arm of Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System, were co-investing in the transaction. This is a free content preview. Subscribers enjoy access to all stories in full as well as second-to-none market intelligence....
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<entry>
    <title>Deal Economy 2010: Avaya's Ali on digesting Nortel</title>
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    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/corporatedealmaker//30.31890</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T18:31:23Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T18:31:08Z</updated>

    <summary>Avaya Inc.'s Mohamad Ali had little time to settle in after becoming senior vice president for corporate development in July. Four days after the former IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) dealmaker started, Avaya made a $475 million stalking-horse bid for a unit of bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp. The enterprise communications provider was...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Suzanne Stevens</name>
        
    </author>

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        Avaya Inc.'s Mohamad Ali had little time to settle in after becoming senior vice president for corporate development in July. Four days after the former IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM) dealmaker started, Avaya made a $475 million stalking-horse bid for a unit of bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp. The enterprise communications provider was...
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<entry>
    <title>Deal Economy 2010: Eydenberg on PE IPOs</title>
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    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/dealscape//29.31885</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T18:28:46Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T18:33:13Z</updated>

    <summary>The head of the financial sponsor group at Deutsche Bank says more private equity firms may in 2010 seek public market exits for portfolio companies.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Suzanne Stevens</name>
        
    </author>

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        The head of the financial sponsor group at Deutsche Bank says more private equity firms may in 2010 seek public market exits for portfolio companies.
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<entry>
    <title>Vivendi: Hopes for NBC exit </title>
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    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/dealscape//29.31887</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T17:42:29Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T17:42:54Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ Vivendi SA gave the clearest indication yet that it wants to sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal Inc. when CFO Philippe Capron said the French company didn't want to be a part of General Electric Co. and Comcast Corp.'s plans to split the broadcaster between them. &quot;We are not interested in staying on board a new GE-Comcast ownership of NBCU, so yes, we would exit,&quot; Capron told a conference Thursday in Barcelona. But he also warned that a sale was not inevitable. &quot;We could just say no.&quot; This is a free content preview. Subscribers enjoy access to all...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[ Vivendi SA gave the clearest indication yet that it wants to sell its 20% stake in NBC Universal Inc. when CFO Philippe Capron said the French company didn't want to be a part of General Electric Co. and Comcast Corp.'s plans to split the broadcaster between them. &quot;We are not interested in staying on board a new GE-Comcast ownership of NBCU, so yes, we would exit,&quot; Capron told a conference Thursday in Barcelona. But he also warned that a sale was not inevitable. &quot;We could just say no.&quot; This is a free content preview. Subscribers enjoy access to all...]]>
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<entry>
    <title>The end of the Fed as we know it? </title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheDealBlogsNetwork/~3/DrnUB_R6LwA/the_end_of_the_fed_as_we_know.php" />
    <id>tag:www.thedeal.com,2009:/dealscape//29.31886</id>

    <published>2009-11-20T17:27:22Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T17:26:09Z</updated>

    <summary>So the beginning of the end for the Federal Reserve we've known for almost a century has begun with Rep. Ron Paul's proposal to audit the central bank inching closer to the floor of the House.</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Matthew Wurtzel</name>
        <uri>http://dealscape.thedealblogs.com/</uri>
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<entry>
    <title>Disney, Microsoft, Abbott Labs win M&amp;A awards</title>
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    <published>2009-11-20T16:58:51Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-20T16:58:35Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[ On Wednesday and Thursday, The Deal was in conference mode, hosting panels of high-profile dealmakers on financial and corporate sides, doing post-panel video interviews and live-blogging. The two-day Deal Economy 2010 event was capped off in a packed room where strategic dealmakers received honors for their M&amp;A work. Corporate...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Basdeo Hiralal</name>
        
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        <![CDATA[ On Wednesday and Thursday, The Deal was in conference mode, hosting panels of high-profile dealmakers on financial and corporate sides, doing post-panel video interviews and live-blogging. The two-day Deal Economy 2010 event was capped off in a packed room where strategic dealmakers received honors for their M&amp;A work. Corporate...]]>
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