Jui Chakravorty

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Position: Correspondent

Jui Chakravorty Das covers mergers and acquisitions. She also co-produces and anchors a weekly segment for Reuters video. Jui has previously covered the U.S. auto industry, reported on the world and issues of Arab-America, reported from the Gaza Strip following the Israeli pullout of troops and covered the U.S. airline industry. She is a recipient of the 2009 Society of American Business Editors and Writers Association award for best real-time coverage of the General Motors-Chrysler merger saga. She speaks flluent Hindi and Bengali, semi-fluent Arabic and severely-rusty French.

Articles

Vivendi, GE agree to interim payment on NBCU stake November 20, 09:03pm EST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Vivendi SA and General Electric have agreed that Vivendi will be paid close to one-third of the value of its NBC Universal stake, although a value for the stake itself is still being negotiated, a person familiar with the matter said. ... Full Article

GE, Vivendi talks focus on price, timing: sources

GE, Vivendi talks focus on price, timing - sources

GE-Vivendi talks over NBC Universal stalled: report

UPDATE 3-Vivendi stake sale in NBCU hinges on price, timing

UPDATE 4-GE, Vivendi make progress on NBC Universal

Blog Posts

Cuban would like to own the Dodgers

Mark Cuban lost out in the fight for the Chicago Cubs. But that didn't get him down -- he told the Los Angeles Times on Monday he would consider buying the Los Angeles Dodgers if the terms were right. The Dodgers won't be cheap. In April, Forbes magazine valued the Dodgers as the fourth most valuable team in baseball at $722 million. A 95 percent stake in the Chicago Cubs, ranked No. 5, just sold for a record $845 million. Cuban didn't make it to fourth base with the Cubs, but could he hit a home-run on this one? Full Article | Comments [1]

NRG, Exelon on bridge to nowhere

'Tis the season for unbridgeable gaps. NRG Energy rejected Exelon's sweetened (and hostile) bid on Wednesday, saying the $6.9 billion offer was still too low. Exelon raised its all-stock offer for ... Full Article | Comments [1]

Bidding war for Data Domain likely to surge on

EMC on Monday increased its offer for Data Domain by 12 percent to $33.50 a share, valuing the specialty storage maker at $2.4 billion and raising stakes in a bidding war against rival NetApp. EMC also ... Full Article