Archive for July 16th, 2007
Where is Lord Black’s green Canadian passport?
16 July 2007I read in The Toronto Star that the U.S. prosecutors are worried about Conrad Black being a “flight risk”, and that to ensure he wouldn’t jet off to a nation with no extradition treaty with the USA, Lord Black was forced to surrender his British Passport (which he conveniently brought with him to court on [...]
Three blind mice
16 July 2007We originally posted about the potential impact to BCE bondholders on March 30th . This posting included a discussion of:
• the lack of a change of control provision in the trust indentures which are available for all to read here
• if a privatization deal went through BCE bondholders (which is you, [...]
Datamirror hits the bid
16 July 2007Earlier today, IBM announced that it would be acquiring closely-held Datamirror (DMC:TSX) for $27.00 per shares. As the natural acquiror, it can’t come as any surprise that they finally reached a deal with Nigel et al. Just a matter of price and timing.
Our more avid readers may recall DMC’s takeover was predicted here [...]
Is Bridgewater the next IPO?
16 July 2007If you are one of the investment bankers chasing a shot at the Ottawa-based Bridgewater Systems initial public offering mandate, I wish you luck. With Dragonwave (DWI:TSX) touching an all-time high last week, it will certainly be hard for the backers at Bridgewater to ignore the best TSX Tech IPO window this century (see [...]