"What this indicates is, first, that those attempts were not successful and second, just any old merger won't fly under the Bush administration".
In the case against the McClellans, the S.E.C. contends that Mr. McClellan, a 51-year-old mergers and acquisitions tax partner at Deloitte, told his wife about pending acquisitions, and she in turn passed them on to the Sanders in London.
The European Union's eight-year-old merger regulation says only that a merger which "creates or strengthens a dominant position shall be declared incompatible with the common market".
The 22-year-old Merger Fund (MERFX), for example, is managed to "produce positive returns under a wide variety of market conditions".
His team's access to AOL's mobile app team in Palo Alto, Calif., Mr. O'Brien said, exemplifies the benefits of the year-old merger.
In 2007, Daimler and Chrysler unwound their nine-year-old merger, which never produced the global synergy that executives had promised.
The former Time Warner chief, Gerald M. Levin, dropped jaws last week by taking the blame for "the worst deal of the century," the decade-old merger of America Online and Time Warner.
Kirk Kerkorian's fraud suit against DaimlerChrysler over the terms of its five-year-old merger will resume on Monday, after it was abruptly recessed last week.
The four-year-old merger of the drugstore chain and the pharmacy benefit manager is the subject of an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission and a multistate inquiry by the attorneys general of 24 states, according to earlier disclosures by CVS Caremark.
Dresdner Bank agreed to buy Wasserstein, Perella & Company for $1.56 billion, turning to the 12-year-old merger advisory firm to bolster its investment-banking business after two failed mergers at home.
It also raises new questions about the survival prospects of Jurgen E. Schrempp, DaimlerChrysler's chairman and architect of the two-year-old merger of Daimler-Benz and Chrysler.
