Mergers & Acquisitions
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Banco do Brasil may buy out Banco Votorantim-source
SAO PAULO, May 13 - State-controlled Banco do Brasil is in talks to buy the remaining stake it still does not own of Banco Votorantim, a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Sunday, in a move that could help Brazil's largest lender expand in the local auto loan market.
Louis Dreyfus set for capital market debut -FT
May 13 - Global commodity trading powerhouse Louis Dreyfus is set to issue bonds for the first time and may publicly list a Brazilian subsidiary as it prepares to step up acquisitions amid quickening consolidation in the trading sector, the Financial Times quoted its CEO as saying on Sunday.
Towers Watson & Co to buy largest private Medicare exchange
May 13 - Towers Watson & Co, a New York-headquartered professional services company, said on Sunday it would buy Extend Health Inc, operator of the largest private Medicare exchange in the United States, to boost its health benefits offering for employers.
UPDATE 2-Avon to consider Coty's $10.7 bln takeover bid
* Coty seeks clarity on why Avon wants more time to respond
Avon to consider Coty's $10.7 billion takeover bid
May 13 - Avon Products Inc on Sunday said it told Coty Inc that it would consider the smaller company's $10.7 billion takeover bid and expected to respond within a week.
NEWSMAKER-UniCredit chairman bolsters German, Italian ties
MILAN, May 13 - UniCredit's newly-elected chairman Giuseppe Vita will seek to be a brige between Italian and German cultures in Italy's biggest bank by assets as the lender attemps to turn the corner after a year of massive losses.
RPT-Rothschild in major Middle East scale back-sources
* Slumping deal volumes forcing rethink of MEast strategy
UPDATE 5-American Airlines to explore merger options
May 11 - AMR Corp, parent of American Airlines, bowed to pressure on Friday from its unsecured creditors, including its largest labor unions, and said it would explore merger options while it is still in bankruptcy.
UPDATE 4-Chesapeake wins breathing space with $3 bln loan
* Sales could affect cash flow needed for credit facility
Then and now: A Dewey timeline
May 11 - January 1909 - Three Harvard Law grads form the Wall Street law firm Root, Clark & Bird that later became Dewey Ballantine.
- Finance: UPDATE 4-American Airlines to explore merger options
- Technology: The Dewey chronicles: The rise and fall of a legal titan
- Healthcare: UPDATE 1-Covington Investments offers to buy Advocat for $50 mln
- Consumer: Avon cooperating with SEC in stock trading probe
- Energy: UPDATE 3-Saskatchewan seeks conditions on Glencore's Viterra bid
- Industrials: Troubled Mexican airline sold to investor group
- Brown pushes tax hike as California's money woes deepen
- JPMorgan executives expected to leave over loss
- Coalition talks stall, Greece faces "moment of truth"
- Yahoo CEO out, board settles with investor
- Al Qaeda bomb maker is top threat, must be killed: U.S. senator
- Saudi and Bahrain expected to seek union: minister
- Secrecy needed in trade talks: USTR Kirk
- Taliban can be defeated, but Pakistan must do more: U.S. senator
- Obama aide in Yemen in anti-al Qaeda drive
- Senior Afghan peace negotiator shot dead in Kabul
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