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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Mirant Options Were Active Ahead of "Options"	After Mirant said today that it hired J.P. Morgan Chase, the “options” the company is considering for its future became the talk of Wall Street. Will the company sell itself, pay a big dividend, do nothing? Another set of the company’s options — its stock options — were the talk of some circles on Wall Street last week too. According to Bloomberg, the volume of Mirant call-option contracts jumped Thursday to 325,235 from a daily average of 10,224 this year, the hig...	April 09, 2007
First Data Pre-Deal Trading 'Stinks to High Heaven'	It isn’t just buyout firms that are getting rich off LBOs these days. A lucky few investors are hitting the jackpot by placing timely bets ahead of the deals. See Harrah’s Entertainment, Freescale Semiconductor, HCA and now First Data. Both the options and the credit default swaps of the payments processor had some funky movements ahead of today’s announcement. (There were no press leaks before and the Wall Street Journal (here) and New York Times the story last night. The c...	April 02, 2007
Texas Pacific Group pays a healthy $945 million for surgery division	Filed under: Private equity There has been lots of private equity interest in the health care sector. Some of the notable deals include the buyouts of HCA and Triad. The latest deal comes from the Texas Pacific Group (TPG). The firm has agreed to pay $945 million for the Surgery Division of HealthSouth Corp. (NYSE: HLS). The division has 139 outpatient surgery centers and three surgical hospitals across 35 states [revenues were not disclosed]. Interestingly enough, HLS will keep an equity sliver...	March 26, 2007

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