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Hertz Global Holdings Inc., awaiting final U.S. antitrust approval for its acquisition of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, is among rental-car companies enjoying price increases not seen since before the recession.
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Office Depot Inc. and OfficeMax Inc. are discussing a merger with a deal possible this week, said a person familiar with the matter. The shares surged.
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Office Depot Inc. agreed to buy OfficeMax Inc. for $1.17 billion in a bid to revive a retailer that’s been losing sales to online rivals and Staples Inc., the largest U.S. office-supplies chain. The shares of both companies fell, with Office Depot dropping the most since April 2010.
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U.S. antitrust regulators are investigating whether Macquarie Group Ltd.’s private-equity arm violated a consent decree allowing it to buy the Advantage rental car brand from Hertz Global Holdings Inc., two people familiar with the matter said.
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Kirkland & Ellis LLP hired two West Coast corporate attorneys with high-profile mergers and acquisitions experience, Michael S. Ringler and Rick C. Madden.
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When two companies merge to take on a market leader, the big kid on the block often suffers.
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Express Scripts Inc.’s bid for Medco Health Solutions Inc. should be approved by U.S. antitrust regulators only if the combined company allows customers to buy specialty drugs at pharmacies that compete with their own, a lawyer for independent rivals said.
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Express Scripts Inc.’s takeover of Medco Health Solutions Inc. is offering the biggest potential windfall in North America even as traders are more confident than ever the acquisition will clear U.S. regulatory hurdles.
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Merck & Co.’s Schering-Plough unit must face a challenge to its agreement with competitors to keep generic versions of its drug K-Dur off the market, an appeals court ruled, reversing a lower-court antitrust decision.
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Billionaire investor George Soros’s fight against his 2002 insider-trading conviction in France, over the sale of Societe Generale SA shares, may end tomorrow when the European Court of Human Rights rules on his appeal.
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