No, Google bought a great deal more than patents when it acquired Motorola, though there are doubtless some real gems in the portfolio.
In 2001 the private-equity arms of Allianz and Goldman Sachs, assisted by Goldman's investment bankers, constructed a deal which bought out Hoechst and put them in as 67% shareholders.
Shareholders that recently bought the stock, or those who bought in since the rumored deal surfaced on January 11, get a healthy windfall of up to 25 percent.
Terra Firma, a British outfit, has struggled to keep control of one of its main portfolio companies, EMI, a record label, which it bought in a highly leveraged deal in 2007.
Getting an 1100% raise if your company is bought sounds like a pretty sweet deal.
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About 47% of flash sale subscribers and 36% of daily deal subscribers have never bought one, Forrester found.
"This is a good deal and Boeing definitely bought in the right area, " says Alex Hamilton, aerospace and defense analyst at C.
The club also announced that it had signed a new eight-year sponsorship deal for its training kit, having bought out the last two years of DHL's existing contract in the expectation of striking a better deal.
Kellogg bought the business, after a previous deal with Diamond Foods collapsed in the midst of accounting issues at that company.
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Nearly a third of all daily deal sites have either been bought up by rivals or have succumbed to the costs of running such enterprises.
Some argue that the 2009 deal with former rebels that bought - at a high price - a measure of peace to the Kivus was destined to fail.
It is crucial to recognize that the consumers who bought snow pants because of the rebate deal have been harmed, if only a little bit, by the terms of the deal.
Buffett recently faced intense scrutiny after news broke that he knew David Sokol, Berkshire Hathaway executive and his possible successor, bought shares in a company before the deal was announced.
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Historically, Japan has rarely bought equipment from European manufacturers, preferring to deal with U.S. weapon manufacturers.
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That pitch bought the Kings time, before the brokered deal between the city and the Maloofs fell apart last year.
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And the very worst, if the climate change continues to happen in spite of what we do, we will undoubtedly have bought ourselves a lot of extra time to deal with those changes by removing the worst of the causative factors.
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The Franco-Russian initially bought into Pompey as joint owner when he struck a deal with then-chairman Milan Mandaric.
Some bought East Indian sugar instead, which was a good deal more expensive.
Since travel agency computers aren't set up to deal with sky couch bookings, most are bought through the airline's website or through a call to the carrier.
In the 1980s TCI bought up hundreds of cable systems, at times doing a deal a week.
But the likely reason why Trump bought the plane in February is that he got a great deal.
He bought equipment and started making it before Dow offered a better deal.
Of Sir Cliff's total, 95% were bought on CD single from Woolworths branches after he struck a deal with the chain to stock the song.
The deal is the third management buyout since it was bought from Six Continents, then known as Bass, by PPMV and Royal Bank Development Capital in 1997.
The money-losing Hornets were a prime candidate to move after the NBA bought the team from George Shinn in a seller-financed deal in December, 2010 after a local buyer could not be found.
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Dresdner is proud of its investment-banking business: arguments over the latter's future led to the scrapping of the deal with Deutsche, and since then it has bought Wasserstein Perella, an American firm, to bring in new expertise.
The Agnellis resisted several foreign attempts to take over the group throughout the 1990s, but eventually did a deal with General Motors under which the American carmaker bought 20% of Fiat Auto, and Fiat Auto acquired 5% of GM (which it has since sold to raise cash).
That deal was a worthy bet, that time could be bought while new reforms would rebuild institutions and raise tax revenues.
More than a few of the 140 members who have bought so far will tell you they think they got a good deal.
The group brainstorming led to a deal with Liz Claiborne, the former sportswear powerhouse that bought a 50-percent stake in the label from Rodriguez's original Italian backer Aeffe.
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