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Smithfield Foods Chief Executive Larry Pope could receive nearly $46.6 million in payments as part of a planned takeover by China's Shuanghui, a securities filing showed.
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CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.
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Are mergers & acquisitions ready to take off? Richard Hendrix, FBR & Co. chairman and CEO, explains why there will need to be different valuation and growth environments before private equity firms will get more aggressive.
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Billionaire Carl Icahn proposes in a letter to shareholders that Dell undertake a tender offer for 1.1 billion shares at $14 each.
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Robert Kindler, Morgan Stanley vice chairman, explains why the market likes strategic deals and provides an overview of what's driving M&A activity and the prospects for the future.
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Scott Sperling, THL Partners co-president, provides insight on the private equity landscape and discusses why he sees a lot of uncertainty in the markets.
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Oliver Matthew, Senior Research Analyst at CLSA discusses the battle of bids over Sprint and Clearwire. He thinks Softbank will come out well out of these negotiations.
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CNBC's Melissa Lee and the Fast Money traders discuss the day's top trades and the stocks they'll be watching tomorrow.
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How to play Gannet, Actavis and B&G Foods on their acquisitions, with Mad Money host Jim Cramer.
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You say the name of a stock, and Mad Money's Jim Cramer tells you whether to buy or sell.
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Selling Smithfield in parts could bring more value to shareholders than the $4.7 billion Chinese deal, Starboard Value CEO Jeffrey Smith tells CNBC.
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Starboard's Jeff Smith explains why he believes selling Smithfield Foods piece-by-piece will breakout greater value for the company than a planned sale to a Chinese meat company.
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Orchard Supply Hardware Stores has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with rival retailer Lowe's Companies set to buy the majority of its assets for $205 million in cash.
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Starboard Value is pressuring Smithfield to explore a break-up rather than go ahead with a $4.7 billion takeover by a Chinese meat producer.
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Telefonica said it had not received any indication of interest from AT&T, following a Spanish newspaper report that the government had halted a 70 billion-euro ($93 billion) offer.
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You say the name of a stock, and Mad Money's Jim Cramer tells you whether to buy or sell.
Private Equity
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*Convicted of illegally trading Dell, Nvidia shares. Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager at hedge fund Diamondback Capital Management, and Anthony Chiasson, co-founder of hedge fund Level Global Investors, had been set to begin prison sentences later this summer.
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TORONTO, June 18- Canada's Tim Hortons Inc is under mounting pressure from activist investors to boost shareholder value a few weeks before a new CEO takes over after a second hedge fund said it had amassed a big stake in the coffee and doughnut chain.
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MONACO, June 18- Hedge funds, once seen as a quick route to riches for managers and investors alike, are trying to reinvent themselves as more socially conscious and make money all the same.
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