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    BNN: 6 Global Banks Now at Tipping Point for a Corporate Spinoff Reveals The Edge

    Frances Horodelski, Business Anchor, BNN:

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    PERE: The REIT Crusades, Activists Now Pushing Boardroom Changes & Pursuing Breakups

    By Evelyn Lee, Staff Writer, PERE magazine June 2015 issue:

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    HSBC’s Big Announcement Fails To Impress; Big Challenges Ahead, 3 Way Spinoff Coming Says The Edge

    “No one on the HSBC board has restructuring experience: The Edge”

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    Business Insider: Everyone was shocked when this Wall Street bank’s CEOs suddenly resigned, but insiders saw it coming months ago

    By Jonathan Marino, Senior Writer, Business Insider: Deutsche Bank has a new CEO taking over — John Cyran. Cyran’s predecessors, a pair of co-CEOs named Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen, resigned over the weekend. Many in the banking community say they saw the firing coming as early as March, when it was announced that Deutsche Bank had failed the US regulatory procedure broadly referred to as a stress test.

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    New York Post: Embattled Deutsche Bank names new CEO, The Edge repeat analysis ‘Wall Street Banks at Tipping Point’

    By James Covert, Staff Writer, New York Post: Deutsche Bank is cleaning house at the top, and a new boss is already brandishing the axe. The embattled German bank on Sunday named British-born John Cryan to succeed co-CEOs Anshu Jain and Juergen Fitschen, who have been dogged by probes into alleged manipulation of benchmark interest rates, mis-selling of derivatives, tax evasion and money laundering.

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    Intel’s Altera Buy Foreshadows Future Of Tech, Activism – The Edge Sees Dominance

    By Benjamin Horney, Staff Writer, Law360:

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    Great Ever Deal Maker? John Malone Back in the Spotlight With Charter’s Time Warner Cable Deal

    By Georg Szalai, Staff Writer, The Hollywood Reporter: Liberty Media chairman John Malone is widely lauded as one of the pioneers of the U.S. cable TV industry.

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    Investor risk with United Technologies disposal / spinoff of its Sikorsky asset says advisor The Edge, Future Spinoffs predicted

    New York, Reuters, May 21, 2015: According to The Edge Group, a specialist advisor of research intelligence to large value and activist investors, Sikorsky’s low margin, takeover target business, together with the alternative option of avoiding an immediate heavy tax burden (on a ~$10bn buy out) make it an ideal spinoff candidate through an 89%/11% split spinoff, based on its 2014 revenues. However, reports suggest management are also looking to potentially sell the business. “Breaking-up the.

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    Yum Brands, home of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, may be happy to serve activist investors

    By Evelyn Cheng , Staff Writer, CNBC:

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    Danaher to buy Pall in $13.8bn cash deal, The Edge predicts spinoff

    By Anna Nicolaou and Pan Yuk in New York, Senior Staff Writers, Financial Times:

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