Environmental Group Behind the TXU Deal Hires a Banker
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Environmental Defense has hired Perella Weinberg Partners to advise it, possibly signaling that it wants an even more powerful seat at the bargaining table with TXU.
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Texas power company TXU Corp.  has agreed to be acquired by private equity firms Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.  and Texas Pacific Group  for about $32 billion in the largest leverage buyout in history, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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HOUSTON/NEW YORK  - Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis and Co on Tuesday recommended TXU Corp.  shareholders vote in favor of a $32 billion buyout of the Texas power company.
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Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP today announced the addition of two new environmental partners in the Houston office. Effective today, Gerald J. Pels and Gerald D.
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Before announcing the biggest buyout on record, the private equity buyers of utility TXU Corp. came calling on environmental groups, the latest sign of how the green lobby is increasingly shaping the agenda on Wall Street.
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Up to 200 former TXU Corp. (NYSE: TXU) workers, who went to work for a consulting firm after a deal between the companies, will lose their jobs, a spokesman for the consulting firm said Friday.
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc  has hired Deutsche Bank to advise it on a possible bid for Canadian aluminum producer Alcan , the Sydney Morning Herald paper reported on Monday.
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HSBC announced yesterday that it was creating a five-year, $100 million partnership with four environmental groups to conduct global warming research.
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Rio Tinto Ltd. Plc   has hired Deutsche Bank to advise it on a possible bid for Canadian aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  , the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
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Corporations are adding a new title to the executive suite â chief sustainability officer â not just an environmental watchdog, but someone to oversee the effort to go green.
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A Spanish bank has reached an agreement to acquire Laredo National Bancshares Inc. for $850 million. Laredo-based LNB, which has a branch in Austin at 5532 Manchaca Rd.
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Rio Tinto Ltd./Plc   has hired Deutsche Bank to advise it on a possible bid for Canadian aluminum producer Alcan Inc.  , the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
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Shareholder criticism over some recent management-led buyouts prompted TXU Corp.  to step carefully in forging its record-breaking $32 billion takeover pact.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 17--ROCKY FORD - The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District is looking at a long-term lease of 11 acres of land it would buy near the Colorado State University Agricultural Research Center near Rocky Ford.
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Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, which agreed to buy Laredo National Bancshares Inc. for $850 million, plans to keep Chairman Gary Jacobs in place at the Texas- based lender and to back his expansion strategy.
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One of two large financial firms consulting with the governor's office on the possible sale of the Texas lottery has hired the son of Gov. Rick Perry to work in its Dallas office.
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Sunrise Senior Living, a McLean operator of assisted-living facilities, said yesterday that it has hired a new chief financial officer to help clear up accounting problems and that it agreed to add a major shareholder's representative to its board to settle a lawsuit.