Bausch & Lomb asks AMO to revise takeover bid
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Bausch & Lomb Inc.  on Tuesday requested that rival Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  revise its unsolicited $4.23 billion bid to buy the eye care company, which plans to instead accept Warburg Pincus' $3.67 billion offer.
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WILMINGTON, Del.  - Oracle Corp. ORCL.O Chief  Executive Larry Ellison said on Friday his company has talked  about revising its current $21-per-share offer to buy rival  PeopleSoft Inc. PSFT.O, although it has focused more on  lowering the bid instead of raising it.
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Barclays has drawn up contingency plans to restructure its all-share offer for Dutch rival ABN Amro with a significant cash sweetener, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
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British bank Barclays sweetened its takeover bid for Dutch rival ABN Amro on Monday by including a cash element as part of a revised informal offer worth 67.5 billion euros (93.3 billion dollars).
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Gold Fields, the South African gold producer, revised the terms of its proposed merger with Iamgold of Canada on Tuesday in its latest attempt to fend off a hostile bid from smaller rival Harmony.
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The board of Northern Rock, leading an in-house bid to rescue the bank, revises its proposal.
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IN ordering a one-week extension of its takeover bid for Australian Leisure &amp; Hospitality last night, the Takeovers Panel clearly considers that Bruandwo, with its adviser UBS, has been too clever in seeking to defeat its rival joint bidder, CMM Hotel &amp;
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc.  on Thursday confirmed it was interested in exploring a potential acquisition of Bausch & Lomb Inc.  and offering a superior price than the eye-care company's deal to be bought by a private equity firm for $3.67 billion.
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Barclays would make a better merger  candidate with ABN AMRO than a bid by a group led by Royal Bank  of Scotland aimed at breaking up the Dutch bank, a Dutch  newspaper quoted ABN&#39;s chief executive as saying on Saturday.
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Shareholders in ABN AMRO   will weigh three key events in the coming week to decide which  of two rival bidders will clinch control of the Dutch bank  after a six-month takeover battle.
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Advanced Medical Optics Inc., a maker of eye-care and surgical products, bid $75 a share for rival Bausch &amp; Lomb Inc., topping an offer from private-equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC, a person familiar with the matter said.
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(Corrects paragraph 24 to show prior art change has been  proposed, but does not go into effect on Nov 1, as earlier  sent)
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Australia's Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd.  made a revised takeover offer for U.S. utility NorthWestern Energy Corp.  after a regulator blocked its initial US$2.2 billion bid on concerns the deal was not in the interests of customers.
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Business & money: Â· GMB seeks session to look at financing of deal Â· Industry urged to disclose more information
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Shareholders of Bausch & Lomb Inc  approved a proposed $3.67 billion takeover by private equity firm Warburg Pincus on Friday, the eye care company said.
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Business & money: Government tells two groups bidding for Northern Rock to improve their offers or see bank nationalised
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Company has revised its financial forecasts for the current quarter.