Week in review: May 19-25

Source: Westlaw Business Currents

May 25 – Takeda Pharmaceutical, Japan's top drugmaker, is to buy Brazil's Multilab for up to 540 million Brazilian reals ($265 million). Takeda will pay 500 million reals upfront to the owners of Multilab and up to 40 million in additional f ...
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Should P&G Cut Its 3.5% Dividend?

Source: Forbes

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Private equity deals

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Oaktree to invest $225 million in Diamond Foods

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

Daniel Acker / Bloomberg Diamond Foods suffered a setback in February when it said that it reported certain costs in the wrong quarters. Diamond Foods agreed to a $225 million investment from Oaktree Capital Management as the snack maker ...
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Diamond Foods' Oaktree deal proves to be tough nut to crack

Source: San Francisco Business Times

Mark Calvey covers banking and finance for the San Francisco Business Times. Rick Wolford served as interim CEO at Diamond Foods as the San Francisco company sought a private equity investment. Diamond said Wednesday that Oaktree ...
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peHUB Second Opinion 5.23

Source: PE Hub

The CIT Group has appointed Neil Wessan as MD and group head of CIT Capital Markets effective immedlatey. Previously, Wessan was head of capital markets at Gleacher ...
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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

Source: Reuters

May 23 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2000 GMT on Wednesday: ** Poland's top utility PGE will likely drop its 7.5-billion zloty ($2.21 bill ...
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Diamond Foods 'White Knight' Could Be a Stalking Horse

Source: The Street

In fact, as Diamond shareholders question whether a $225 million investment by Oaktree Capital(OAK) is a savior for the company, they should view the private equity firm's investment as a skeptical bet on the likelihood of a resurgence by ...
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Diamond Foods issues new walnut-buying contract

Source: MarketWatch

Want to see how this story relates to your portfolio? Just add items to create a portfolio now: SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Embattled Diamond Foods (NASDAQ:DMND) said in a regulatory filing Wednesday it issued a new walnu ...
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