In 2000, Bruce Wasserstein sold Wasserstein Perella & Company to Dresdner Bank of Germany, which had earlier acquired the British merchant bank Kleinwort Benson.
In the mid-1980s Transamerica began selling off the travel and manufacturing subsidiaries it had earlier acquired in order to concentrate on expanding its core of financial-service operations.
Gucci, which is based in the Netherlands for tax reasons, but operates out of Italy, had agreed to the deal with Pinault to thwart a hostile bid by the luxury-goods maker LVMH-Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, which had earlier acquired a sizable stake in Gucci.
Yet unless a lawyer or judge consulted with the High Court library in Lusaka and found the one archival copy of these decisions held there or had earlier acquired one of the few mimeographed copies of the original decision, these precedents would not have been available to guide dispute resolution in an identical or similar case arising in 1995, until and unless the case reached the Supreme Court.
Qualcomm had earlier acquired a 14% stake Iridigm but then, last September, Qualcomm announced that it will pay about $170 million in cash for the remaining 86% of Iridigm.
In most cases, though, Rocket Internet's FoodPanda didn't buy out homegrown startups; it acquired venture capital-funded regional companies that sometimes had earlier acquired smaller local ones.
Leblanc joined the Montreal Juniors later that year, who had earlier acquired his QMJHL playing rights.
Sixty-five years later, in an obituary tribute, Peter Heyworth wrote in the same newspaper: "From Nikisch he had early acquired an immaculate stick technique and was quietly scathing about conductors who used their anatomy to indicate their artistic requirements..
The price seems to have been a huge and unusual discount, analysts say, since HSBC had two months earlier acquired its 10 percent stake for about $1.60 a share, according to public filings.
