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Reed Elsevier to Acquire ChoicePoint for $4.1 billion
Parties:
>Reed Elsevier Group plc is a world leading publisher and information provider. It is owned equally by its two parent companies, Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV.  (www.reed-elsevier.com/)
 
>ChoicePoint has grown from the nation's premier source of data to the insurance industry into the premier provider of decision-making insight to businesses and government. (http://www.choicepoint.com/)

Deal Information:
>AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGE 
http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040596/000119312508035586/dex21.htm
 
>Press Release:
 
>Consideration:
$50 cash
 
>Expected Closed:
Summer 2008
 
>Termination fee:
$100 million by Choicepoint and up to $15 million in reimbursement
 
>Notes:
  • The acquisition is subject to ChoicePoint shareholder approval.


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