1.   In large takeovers the VAT involved can often run into millions of pounds and so the new rules will add a considerable cost to corporate acquisitions and battles.

2.   Analysts said AIG, known for an aversion to high prices in corporate acquisitions, may not fight for its plan to buy all of American Bankers.

3.   Candy Land and corporate acquisitions.

4.   Clinton has proposed tightening the Morris Trust rules, a move that would expose some corporate acquisitions to additional taxes.

5.   Corporate acquisitions, though, can sometimes seem to be impulse buys.

6.   DLJ also deploys billions of dollars raised from clients, employees and its own coffers to invest in corporate acquisitions.

7.   From the beginning, the company was distinguished by its aggressive salesmanship, its ruthless cost-cutting and its passion for corporate acquisitions.

8.   If it does pay that much, this would be largest corporate acquisition to date in Japan.

9.   It would have been the biggest corporate acquisition in history.

10.   Peerce handled a broad range of financial and business transactions like securities offerings, corporate acquisitions and divestitures.