Dutch court lifts obstacle to ABN-Barclays takeover
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The Dutch Supreme Court on Friday lifted a major obstacle to a bid by Barclays of Britain to buy ABN Amro, ruling that ABN could sell its US subsidiary without shareholder approval.
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Bank of America Corp  has shelved plans to take ABN AMRO NV  to court, preferring to wait until the Dutch Supreme Court rules on the Dutch bank's sale of its U.S. unit, a Bank of America spokesman said on Friday.
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Shareholders in British bank Barclays on Friday backed a bid to acquire ABN Amro of The Netherlands after Barclays mangement assured them the deal would not be done at any price.
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THE defence of Gold Fields against a hostile $8.1 billion (Â£4.3 billion) bid from Harmony Gold Mining, its smaller South African rival, was dealt a further blow last night when a US court threw out its legal challenge to the takeover.
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A European banking consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland on Monday ramped up the cash part of its 71.1-billion-euro bid for Dutch group ABN Amro in an attempt to beat a rival offer from Barclays.
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Barclays is close to raising enough  finance to carry out its attempted takeover of the Dutch bank, ABN.
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Progress made by Britain's Barclays  in its offer for ABN AMRO demonstrates its ability to offer the Dutch bank's shareholders "certainty and deliverability", Chief Executive John Varley said on Wednesday.
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LONDON/AMSTERDAM  - Royal Bank of Scotland  and its partners have sweetened their 71.1 billion-euro ($98 billion) bid for Dutch bank ABN AMRO , putting in more cash in an attempt to beat rival suitor Barclays .
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ABN AMRO&#39;s  supervisory board  is getting more involved in the Dutch bank&#39;s takeover battle  after a consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland   launched a bid, ABN said on Wednesday.
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Barclays called in two state-backed Asian financial powerhouses on Monday to strengthen its offer for ABN Amro amid a European bidding battle for the Dutch bank worth nearly 100 billion dollars.
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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's chief executive as saying on Saturday.
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British bank Barclays&#39; bid for Dutch bank ABN Amro is too low compared to the consortium bid, ABN Amro chairman Rijkman Groenink told a shareholders meeting Thursday.
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ABN AMRO  said on Sunday that it is keeping its neutral stance on competing bids for the Dutch bank as it could not support a break up under the RBS-led  consortium's takeover offer which was financially superior.
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO can go ahead with its $21 billion sale of U.S. subsidiary LaSalle Bank to Bank of America, the Dutch Supreme Court said on Friday, boosting the chance that Barclays could succeed in its all-share bid to buy ABN for 64 billion euros ($88 billion).
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Bank of America  has accused a  Dutch court of unlawful action by blocking its $21 billion  purchase of ABN AMRO&#39;s  U.S. unit LaSalle Bank in an  appeal filing, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO  can proceed with its $21 billion sale of U.S. subsidiary LaSalle to Bank of America , the Dutch Supreme Court said on Friday, boosting the prospect Barclays  will succeed in its takeover of ABN.
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NYSE Euronext has joined Dutch and British financial authorities in examining trading patterns of ABN Amroâs shares and American depositary receipts just before the multibillion-dollar bidding war over ABN became public, the bank said. âWe have received a request from the NYSE regarding transactions ahead of the announcement of our merger talks with Barclays,â a spokesman, Neil Moorhouse, said, reading a statement. He said ABN was cooperating with the investigation, but could not comment on whether there was any reason to suspect insider trading. The Supreme Court in the Netherlands is expected to make a ruling Friday in the fight between Barclays and a consortium of banks led by the Royal Bank of Scotland to buy ABN Amro for about 71 billion euros ($97.6 billion).