The first ever ITV merger - engineered by the ITA - takes place between TWW and WWN in January.
As an American citizen, he made timely investments in post-Soviet aluminum and energy companies, endured the bankruptcy of petrochemical giant LyondellBasell, a merger he engineered, and then expanded into media and communications.
That's a huge bounce back from a $650 million loss in 1995 — the company's first in its 145-year history — and analysts expect earnings to top $1.2 billion this year, as a big media merger Messier engineered in March is consummated.
Harper engineered a merger and, in March 2004, aged 44, he became the leader of a new and distinctly rightwing Conservative party.
Clarence Mackay, a music-loving telegraph magnate, engineered a merger with the rival National Symphony and came out on top as chairman.
Two years ago, Mr. Seifert engineered a merger between the futures and options exchange of Deutsche Borse and that of its Swiss counterpart.
In 1971 he engineered a merger of several minor factions with the almost moribund Socialist Party and won election as leader of the reinvigorated party.
In 1994, Mr. Rogers engineered a merger with Cincinnati Gas and Electric, fighting off a hostile takeover bid, and created Cinergy, which has a market value of $6.4 billion.
In 2004, Mr. Sarkozy engineered a merger of two French drug companies, Aventis and Sanofi-Synthélabo, to stave off a bid for Aventis by a Swiss rival, Novartis.
In 1995, with his union battered by the exodus of jobs overseas, he also engineered a merger between his union and the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
France helped to rescue Dexia, which lends mainly to municipalities, with a capital injection and engineered a merger between two savings banks, Banque Populaire and the Caisse d'?argne.
