Tag: Staples
Staples Offers $1B For Office Depot’s Consumer Biz
On Friday, June 4, Staples announced that it had sent a letter to the board of Office Depot outlining a US$1 billion offer for...
Staples Announces Plans to Purchase Office Depot: Will Its Third Attempt...
By: Jonathan Hermann & Melissa R. Ginsberg (Patterson Belknap)
Staples’ parent company recently announced plans for an attempt to buy all outstanding stock of Office Depot’s parent company (ODP)...
Office Depot Rejects Staples $2.1B Takeover Bid
Office Depot rejected a takeover offer from its arch-rival Staples on Tuesday, January 19, instead offering a counter-proposal that it claimed would invite less...
Staples Looks To Buy Office Depot For $2.1B
Staples is once again proposing to buy rival Office Depot in a US$2.1 billion deal, five years after the US government squashed their prior merger agreement,...
Conduct Remedies, With 2020 Hindsight: Have We Learned Anything in the...
Ten years ago the U.S. antitrust agencies began using conduct remedies more frequently and more expansively than ever before. Research and experience, however,...
US: Staples in $6.9 billion sale to private equity firm Sycamore
Sycamore Partners said on Wednesday it would acquire US office supplies chain Staples for $6.9 billion, a rare bet by a private equity firm...
Not So Natural Experiments
Gregory Leonard, Jul 29, 2013
Over the last 20 years, the economics profession has moved away from the estimation of structural economic models and toward...
