Tag Archives: antitrust

The Federal Trade Commission has given Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR) and Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) antitrust approval to proceed with their plan to merge through an all-stock transaction. FTC released a notice of early termination of the required waiting period for the deal under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, the companies said in …

Private investment firm H.I.G. Capital has closed a tender offer of $20.00 per outstanding share of NCI (Nasdaq: NCIT) common stock Saturday as part of the former’s pending $283 million cash acquisition of the Virginia-based government information technology firm. The companies said Monday the tender offer covers 7,424,366 shares of Class A common stock …

Shareholders at healthcare services providers Centene (NYSE: CNC) and Health Net (NYSE: HNT) have separately approved the deal originally announced in July for Centene to purchase Health Net for $6.3 billion in cash and stock. Eighty-five percent of all outstanding shares in Centene voted in favor of the transaction and 78 percent of outstanding shares …

Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) has closed its $4.75 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Exelis nearly three months after the companies announced the transaction, which sees Harris shareholders own 85 percent and Exelis shareholders hold 15 percent in the combined company. “The Exelis acquisition is transformative… and marks a major milestone in Harris’ …

IntelliDyne has won a potential $21 million contract to provide information technology support services to the U.S. Justice Department‘s antitrust division. The five-year contract includes base and option years for work such as systems engineering and administering system operations, IntelliDyne said Wednesday. Work will also include end-user and remote trial …