Mergers and Acquisitions

Chef Robert Irvine

OC Fair

Bodas de Sangre

Art Theatre

All Dean Goetz Wants for Christmas is His Two Blocks of Shares Daughter Unwittingly Tipped Him About

Goetz​Let this be a lesson to all you law firm associates working on big corporate mergers: DO NOT leave your documents about the pending deal lying around the family home during the holidays--lest your personal injury attorney father scan them and wind up facing accusations of insider trading.Tha ... More >>

Prepare to be Screwed: Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Approved

When it comes to the law, my knowledge is pretty much limited to drinking, drugs and anything else that at some point in my life might have gotten me fined, incarcerated or both. Despite my ignorance, though, I'm fairly certain that the Ticketmaster-Live Nation coupling will not only result in many ... More >>

Dishney: Disney Seeking to Acquire Marvel Comics in $4 Billion Transaction

Flickr user KingKong21Nemo finding Doctor Doom.​Just this morning, the Walt Disney Company released a press release announcing their intention to purchase and acquire Marvel and its portfolio of 5,000-plus characters--including Iron Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, the Fantastic Four and more--for $4 billi ... More >>

Rob Riggle

Irvine Improv

Live Nation So-Cal Offers $13 Tickets on Friday the 13th

Live Nation hasn't had the best PR lately, what with nearly unanimously negative response to their plans to merge with Ticketmaster--but who says that giant corporations don't have some neat ideas every now and then? This Friday the 13th (tomorrow, for those non-calendar inclined), they'll be sellin ... More >>

Times and Register Anti-Trust or Bust Lust in the Dust

As merger mania sweeps through the ownership suites of the L.A. Times and Orange County Register, some may find it odd that the fierce competitors: 1) are even considering joining forces, and B) would even be allowed to merge After all, it was not that long ago that those U.S. Department of Just ... More >>

"Confusion" at Register over buyouts

"Breaking" news in its "Newspaper Deathwatch" category: Media Bistro reports Orange County Register employees are unsure whether to take the buyout currently being offered or risk having future buyout offers lowered: Nervous staffers at the Orange County Register had been considered asking for vol ... More >>

XM Merges With Sirius

Earlier today, the Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed $4.59 billion (!) aquisition of satellite old-schooler XM Satellite Radio. This decision created one single US satellite radio provider. In response to questions fearing a monopoly, the Justice Dept. said " the combin ... More >>

The Undead (Financial edition)

Like the unstoppable killer in a horror movie, an unfeeling entity who once menaced OC and was believed to be long gone, is now poised to return. Just in time for Halloween, no less. If nothing else, you have to admire the timing. A county finance committee voted yesterday to add Merrill Lynch to ... More >>

The Brothers and Sisters Grim

Brad Silberlings Lemony Snicket Movie

Diary of a Mad County

Sympathy for the Devil

The Register's upside-down campaign for sprawl

Letters

Letters

Sequelitis Hits Gaming!

Are megamergers healthy for the industry?

Out of Sight

Ask Not For Whom Mike Capizzi Works

DA's aggressive defense of Wall Street firm

Merrill Lynched? Hardly

Capizzi Let the Big Boys Off