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    <title>Dealscape</title>
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    <title>Orval Kent CEO on bringing in a minority investor</title>
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    <published>2009-11-11T11:59:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T22:01:05Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Demitri Diakantonis</name>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Orval Kent CEO Steve Silk discusses why he and PE backer Questor Management decided to bring in New York buyout shop Mistral Equity Partners as a minority investor.</content>
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<entry>
    <title>JAL contest heats up </title>
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    <published>2009-11-11T09:30:36Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T22:54:10Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">The CEO of American Airlines Inc. went public with his company's desire to preserve an alliance with Japan Airlines Corp. amid talk that a rival proposal by Delta Air Lines Inc. might be favored by...</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Fortress nets $257M from Brookdale share sale </title>
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    <published>2009-11-11T03:00:55Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T22:52:32Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Fortress Investment Group LLC will earn about $257 million offloading just more than one-fourth of its stake in Brookdale Senior Living Inc., the Brentwood, Tenn., retirement center operator said....</content>
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<entry>
    <title>PTC seeks DIP reconsideration</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T23:00:23Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T22:56:38Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">PTC Alliance Corp. is scheduled to hit the auction block next month, but the twice-bankrupt maker of steel tubing hopes it will have enough financing to get there in one piece. The Wexford, Pa.,...</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Datatel, OpenLink software companies change PE hands</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T22:00:09Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T17:55:29Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Thoma Bravo LLC is selling education software company Datatel Inc. to Hellman &amp;amp; Friedman LLC for $570 million, quadrupling its original money after roughly 4 &amp;frac12; years. The deal is one of...</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Paulson betting Kraft will up offer?</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T21:57:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T22:13:25Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Sara Behunek</name>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Paulson doubled his stake in Cadbury to 2.1% on Monday, scooping up an additional 14.8 million shares. Does this mean he thinks Kraft will eventually ante up?</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Deal Stocks: AIG, BCS, HCS, GOOG, ORCL, GE, ABK</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T21:56:59Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T21:56:10Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>George White</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">A look at the news moving deal-related stocks including American International Group, Google, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, General Electric and more.</content>
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<entry>
    <title>ABA: Merger guidelines should reflect current practice</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T21:00:16Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T17:53:44Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Antitrust lawyers say it's high time the government raised its official threshold for determining whether concentration in a market is harming competition. The current thresholds contained in the...</content>
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<entry>
    <title>The best-performing hedge funds</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T20:49:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T21:02:22Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Sara Behunek</name>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">It's that time again. Yes folks, back for a second installation are some of the best-performing hedge funds of 2009.</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Australia's grapes of wrath</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T20:34:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T20:34:37Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Chris Nolter</name>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Trade groups plan to improve a bitter vintage, as Foster's and Constellation suffer Australian hangovers.</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Moody's upbeat on AIG </title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T20:00:15Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T17:52:44Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Shares of American International Group Inc. rose in early trading Tuesday after debt rating agency Moody's Investors Service said the bailed-out insurer will likely be able to pay back much or all of...</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Dodd wants a single bank regulator</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T19:39:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T19:24:25Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Donna Block</name>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Sen. Christopher Dodd thinks the Federal Reserve should get out of the business of banking regulation.
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<entry>
    <title>Tech Layoffs: AOL, Sprint, Electronic Arts</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T19:19:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T19:04:43Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Mary Kathleen Flynn</name>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">AOL, Sprint Nextel and Electronic Arts are the latest tech companies announcing layoffs in November, following RealNetworks and Microsoft.</content>
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<entry>
    <title>Cisco's got its work cut out on Tandberg</title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T19:00:30Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T19:00:49Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Olaf de Senerpont Domis</name>
        <uri>http://techconfidential.com/money-out/blog/</uri>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">Cisco reports that it has the backing of only 9.37% of Tandberg shareholders.</content>
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<entry>
    <title>BC Partners to buy ATI </title>
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    <published>2009-11-10T19:00:05Z</published>
    <updated>2009-11-10T17:51:28Z</updated>

    
    <author>
        <name>Neil Buchalter</name>
        
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/">London buyout shop BC Partners Ltd. agreed Tuesday to buy Dallas-based ATI Career Training Center from a consortium led by U.S. private equity firms Riverside Co. of New York and Primus Capital Funds...</content>
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