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The Wall Street Journal Deals Dell said it will pull out of the bidding war for 3PAR after rival Hewlett-Packard raised its offer for the data-storage company yet again to $33 a share, or roughly $2.1 billion.
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Burger King agreed to be acquired by New York-based private investment firm 3G Capital Management for about $4 billion, including both equity and debt.
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American International Group's application to list its main pan-Asian life insurer contained a record 11 bookrunners, people familiar with the matter said, a further sign that the company is determined to raise as much money as possible.
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Oil giant Petroleo Brasileiro has agreed to pay Brazil $42.5 billion in stock to acquire five billion barrels of deepwater reserves, a controversial price because investors say it is more than the oil is actually worth.
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Avis increased the cash portion of its offer for Dollar Thrifty as it battles Hertz for the potential buyout.
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Airline company PT Garuda Indonesia has appointed UBS and Citigroup as international underwriters for its initial public offering, scheduled for later this year.
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The Democratic chairman of a blue-ribbon panel examining the U.S. financial crisis said that government officials made a "conscious policy decision" not to prevent Lehman Brothers' 2008 collapse, potentially accelerating the financial crisis.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission settled insider trading allegations against a former hedge-fund manager and an executive at Merck & Co., involving a big drug-company deal in 2007.
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Tribune said a court-appointed mediator will help negotiate among sparring creditors in the company's 21-month stint in bankruptcy.
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After a little more than four years trading on the Big Board, Burger King's stock was little changed through Tuesday's close, while some of its major competitors' have soared.
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Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China plans to acquire an additional 32% stake in Shenzhen Development Bank for $4.27 billion in a private placement to control the national lender.
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Couche-Tard raised its takeover bid for Casey's General Stores, increasing the per-share price of the now $1.45 billion hostile offer by 4.8%.
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Pfizer agreed to buy privately held FoldRx Pharmaceuticals, whose leading drug candidate is a therapy for a genetic neurodegenerative disease for which the only current therapy is a liver transplant.
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As Sinochem hired HSBC to suss out a possible bid for Potash of Saskatchewan, the Canadian province's top official expressed grave concerns about such a takeover.
Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity.
A roundup of the morning's private equity-related news.
The private equity firms founded by Tom and Alec Gores have closed a deal together for the first time. Another brother, Sam Gores, was pivotal.

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Despite the brisk pace of U.S. bank failures this year, buyers of the assets are accepting smaller price discounts and more credit risk, and in some cases paying a premium for deposits.
As merger plays heat up, James Stewart focuses on two less-publicized names—Mosaic and Network Appliance—for his dollars.
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