Monday Morning Outlook

Buyouts/Investments:

• [Mega-deal] Neiman Marcus near deal to be sold for $6 billion
• [Mega-deal] Koch Industries to buy Molex for $7.2 billion
• Western Digital’s HGST to buy Virident for $685 million
• Ebay to buy Decide.com
• Gastar buys oil properties for $187.5 million
• NFP acquires Insurance West Corporation
• Patrick Industries completes acquisitions of Frontline Mfg and Premier Concepts

Events:

• Tuesday Webinar: How to get deals done with transactional risk insurance

Other News:

• What does the financing structure of Microsoft-Nokia mean?
• Where have all the bank mergers gone?
• Texas’ attorney general on why he challenged the AMR-US Air merger
• Cheaper jumbo loans just aren’t that weird
• Online reputation management for investment professionals
• Westview Capital oversubscribed on $430M Fund III

This week in history… Gillette buys Duracell for $7 billion (1996)