He was simply the accidental fall guy in a stock deal.

"These brokers took some friends of my parents in a stock deal."

The sale was a cash stock deal for just under $1 billion.

But that is always the risk in a stock deal."

The stock deal is valued at about $750 million, according to industry sources.

Specific terms of the cash and stock deal were not disclosed.

The value of the acquisition, which is a stock deal, was not released.

In fact, it is hard to imagine any investor who would be better off to take the stock deal.

The stock deal, subject to the usual conditions, is valued at almost $2.1 billion.

Many attitudes at the firm changed with the May disclosure of the stock deal.

"The office made a lot of money on stock deals," he recalled.

He was not caught pulling stock deals or writing bad checks.

Also, it's always a good idea to remember that if a stock deal seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Terms of the stock deal are not being disclosed.

Attend to your stock deals - and be very discreet.

He was mixed up in some shady stock deal and had to leave town."

For one thing, the accounting treatment on many stock deals is tax-free.

The companies declined to disclose the price, describing it only as a cash and stock deal.

Now, starting a company often means multimillion-dollar stock deals, and the rush to market is on.

Other accountants, including members of the institute, had publicly criticized the stock deal.

Cardinal will then acquire the remaining drug business in a tax-free stock deal.

He was going to burn them with a phony stock deal, as near as I could make out.

The purchase price was not disclosed, but the stock deal was estimated to be worth $300 million or more.

Jay Gould's World, acquired as part of a stock deal.

The company said the merger, a stock deal estimated at more than $5 billion, would create a $15 billion health care provider.