A year later, she was GE's top mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 50 Women to Watch 2008] Reference

& Co, the best bank in European mergers-and-acquisitions advisory?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mergers and Acquisitions Rankings Rankle] Reference

A sale would be one of the biggest mergers-and-acquisitions deals in Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [AIG Hits Trouble In Asia Over a Life Unit] Reference

Harbinger hired Moelis & Co., a mergers-and-acquisitions boutique, as its adviser.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleveland-Cliffs' Fateful Flaw] Reference

& Co., where he will serve as vice chairman of its mergers-and-acquisitions group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rifkin to J.P. Morgan] Reference

The mergers-and-acquisitions banker has a weakness for limited liability partnerships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gertie Wants a Gulfstream: Bonus Babes Dream of Barbados, Baubles, Baguette Bags] Reference

"Read the law," says Nicholas Benes, a leading mergers-and-acquisitions expert at JTP Corp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kid V. the Man] Reference

You recently hired a mergers-and-acquisitions expert (Tarkan Gürkan from Lehman Brothers).    From Wordnik.com.  [Campbell's Chief Looks] Reference

International Power, has raised expectations that the mergers-and-acquisitions game is back on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Count on a New Mergers Boom] Reference

Some mergers-and-acquisitions observers were puzzled by Yahoo's choice of language in the release.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft Stands by Yahoo Bid] Reference

It was the fewest in a quarter since the mergers-and-acquisitions world's upturn that began in 2003.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deals Pipeline Drips, Drips......Drips] Reference

Ever meet an investment banker who didn't say his mergers-and-acquisitions pipeline was just bursting?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankers Ever the Optimists] Reference

Mr. Bilicic, 44 years old, has run Lazard's power-and-utility mergers-and-acquisitions group since 2002.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bilicic Leaves Lazard, Joins KKR] Reference

For now, he says of mergers-and-acquisitions activity, "it's like a daffodil or a crocus" starting to bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning=Losing] Reference

An American, he joined Cadbury after several years working as a mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sugar and Spice: A Clash of Two Change Agents] Reference

Asian deals are hot -- at a time when it's no fun being a mergers-and-acquisitions banker in New York or London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think bubble trouble is over?] Reference

International Business Machines Corp. sued an executive for accepting a mergers-and-acquisitions post at Dell Inc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justice Department Probes Hiring Practices in Silicon Valley] Reference

The commodities business has been a rare bright spot in an otherwise sluggish mergers-and-acquisitions environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brazilian Mining Firm Vale Courts Xstrata] Reference

Private-equity firms ruled the mergers-and-acquisitions business, funding their deals with big dollops of ever-cheaper debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amid Gazprom's power play,] Reference

The 33-year-old Mr. Chakrapani works as a managing director in Blackstone's mergers-and-acquisitions advisory group in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackstone Can] Reference

Last year, Merrill was ranked top for mergers-and-acquisitions advisory services in Russia, according to data provider Dealogic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ex-Russia central banker] Reference

At a panel full of mergers-and-acquisitions veterans talking about the past four decades of M&A, veteran deal lawyer Marty Lipton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earnings Feed] Reference

At a panel full of mergers-and-acquisitions veterans talking about the past four decades of M&A, veteran deal lawyer Martin Lipton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bear 'find' energizes J.P. Morgan] Reference

Bank deals are scarce in Australia these days, contributing a sliver of the overall mergers-and-acquisitions volume in the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. George's Gets] Reference

Whither the furious mergers-and-acquisitions speculation spurred by the battered stock prices of financial stocks covered by the ban.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Selling:] Reference

Still, making a judgment about mergers-and-acquisitions activity in the banking sector today is more about incremental risk than price.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santander's Capital Spigot] Reference

"Everybody's worried about financing," says Morton Pierce, chairman of the mergers-and-acquisitions practice at law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankers Follow] Reference

George Bilicic has left the firm to rejoin Lazard Ltd. as head of the investment bank's power-and-utility mergers-and-acquisitions group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turnaround: KKR Banker Rejoins Lazard] Reference

The Spanish construction-and-infrastructure company paid £10.3 billion for BAA in 2006, at the top of the mergers-and-acquisitions cycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gatwick Operator] Reference

Mr. Chakrapani, 33 years old, works as a managing director in Blackstone's corporate and mergers-and-acquisitions advisory group in London.    From Wordnik.com.  [Retail Veteran Rings Up an Employee Discount?] Reference

Mr. Donatelli has been working closely with H-P's mergers-and-acquisitions team to plot its next moves, said a person familiar with the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [In H-P Dell War, It's Dave vs. Dave] Reference

What are the advantages and disadvantages of making a completely fresh "greenfield" investment, compared with going the mergers-and-acquisitions route?.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Invest Big In America, For Foreigners] Reference

But he stressed that a strong currency alone wouldn't be sufficient for Hitachi to become more aggressive in its overseas mergers-and-acquisitions strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitachi President Urges Action on Yen] Reference

But importantly, these frauds are believed to be concentrated in the once booming and now hurting energy, telecommunications and mergers-and-acquisitions sectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Farewell To Foreigners] Reference

So Mr. Maughan was surely beaming when Mr. Rubin, during his Q&A with the audience on Oct. 17, talked a bit about Citi-group and its mergers-and-acquisitions activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deryck Maughan and Other Citigroup Hopefuls Await Former Treasury Secretary's Signal Rubin's Cube] Reference

The ETF's cash levels can vary and typically rise when mergers-and-acquisitions activity slows, Mr. Patti said, although, he added, "there are always some deals out there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Merger-Arbitrage ETF Banks on Deal Pickup] Reference

To bring some balance to his enterprise, he hired Harde, a former mergers-and-acquisitions specialist for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. He says she is as steady as he is volatile.    From Wordnik.com.  [TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz ... and Cash] Reference