When it emerged that companies advising on the sale were offered millions of shares, the business department said that this was not an issue because there were "Chinese walls" between the advising and purchasing divisions.
Eclipse, the purchasing technology division of the travel-management company Rosenbluth International, made its 2003 forecast based on calculations that airlines have learned painful lessons about revenue, if nothing else, this year.
The patent used to be property of Logitech, but Elan acquired Logitech's touch pad technology division, thereby purchasing the patent with it.
The company has also been busy looking at acquisitions, a tactic it took in 2005 when it acquired the ThinkPad brand by purchasing IBM's PC division.
In 1984 Cosmair, L'Oréal's American division, purchased Warner Cosmetics for $146 million.
(The Hill) BMW plans to purchase the leasing division of ING NV, the Dutch financial services company, for 637 million euros, or roughly $915 million.
In 2007 Kraft purchased the biscuit division of Groupe Danone, a French company, for more than $7 billion, and in 2010, after lengthy and often contentious negotiations, Kraft purchased Cadbury, a British candy company, for more than $19 billion.
Pixar was formed in 1986 when Jobs purchased the computer division of Lucasfilm.
Sunrun, a developer and financier, recently purchased the residential division of REC Solar, a major installer.
