* WildStorm Productions ( properties acquired 1999 )

Hazmi obtained a B-1 / B-2 tourist visa on April 3, 1999 from the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using a new passport he acquired a few weeks earlier.

Netscape stock traded from 1995 until 1999 when it was acquired by AOL in a pooling-of-interests transaction ultimately worth US $ 10 billion.

In 1999, Viacom bought out United Television's interests, and handed responsibility for the start-up network to the newly acquired CBS unit, which Viacom bought in 1999 – an ironic confluence of events as Paramount had once invested in CBS, and Viacom had once been the syndication arm of CBS as well.

In 1999, Seagull Software acquired the ObjectShare Java development lab ( including the original Smalltalk / V and Visual Smalltalk development team ), and still owns VisualSmalltalk, although worldwide distribution rights for the Smalltalk product remained with ObjectShare who then sold them to Cincom.

Timmerman, acquired by the Rams in 1999, had previously won Super Bowl XXXI with the Green Bay Packers.

From 1999 to 2010, Vietnamese companies have been involved as either an acquiror or an acquired company in 1, 320 mergers and acquisitions with a total value of 7. 7 billion USD.

For example: Activision acquired Raven ( 1997 ), Neversoft ( 1999 ), Z-Axis ( 2001 ), Treyarch ( 2001 ), Luxoflux ( 2002 ), Shaba ( 2002 ), Infinity Ward ( 2003 ) and Vicarious Visions ( 2005 ).

Vickers remained independent until 1999 when the then Vickers plc was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc who sold the defence arm to Alvis plc, which became Alvis Vickers.

In 1999 Cartoon Network Studios acquired its own facility located at 300 N 3rd St in Burbank, California.

It was demerged from GEC and acquired by British Aerospace ( BAe ) on November 30, 1999 to form BAE Systems.

During the Internet boom in 1999, the company acquired Cerent Corporation, a start-up company located in Petaluma, California, for about US $ 7 billion.

Albertsons, Inc. acquired American Stores ' holdings, including Jewel and Jewel-Osco stores, in 1999.

In 1995, Steinway Musical Properties, parent company of Steinway, merged with the Selmer Company to form Steinway Musical Instruments, which acquired the flute manufacturer Emerson in 1997, then piano keyboard maker Kluge in 1998, and the Steinway Hall in 1999.

Steinway has acquired some of its suppliers in order to maintain high quality: the German manufacturer Kluge in Wuppertal, which supplies the keyboards, was bought in December 1998 ; in November 1999, Steinway purchased the company which supplies its cast iron plates, O. S.

GD's exit from the aviation world was short-lived, and in 1999 the company acquired Gulfstream Aerospace.

* PyroTechnix, founded as Computer Presentation, acquired February 1996, closed in 1999.

* Headgate Studios in Bountiful, Utah, founded in 1992, acquired April 1996, sold to original owner in 1999.

* Synergistic Studios, founded in 1978, acquired in 1996, studio closed in 1999.

Universal Music Group acquired PolyGram in 1999, resulting in a corporate reorganization of labels.

In 1999, Transamerica was acquired by Dutch insurance company Aegon.

Warner – Lambert took over Parke – Davis in 1976, and acquired Wilkinson Sword in 1993 and Agouron in 1999.

SUGEN was a company focused on protein kinase inhibitors, founded in 1991 in Redwood City, California and acquired by Pharmacia in 1999.

In 1999, the company acquired Frontier Corporation, the former Rochester Telephone Corporation, and renamed it Global Crossing North America, Inc.

The former assets of Aerospatiale are now part of EADS, except the Satellites activities which merged with Alcatel and became Alcatel Space, in 1999, now Thales Alenia Space.

Between 1995 and 1998, $ 29 billion of state assets in gas and electricity alone were sold to private enterprise ( for statistics, see Parkinson, Jeff, 1999 ).

It started with comparatively meager assets of $ 11 million but crossed the $ 100 billion milestone in November 1999 ; this astonishing increase was funded by the market's increasing willingness to invest in such a product.

In 1986, August's youngest son, Don Sebastiani, took the company from about 200, 000 cases to just shy of 8 million cases produced in 1999, at which time he sold a number of assets to Constellation Wines.

In 1999 Tandberg Television entered into a £ 170 million agreement to acquire all the assets of NDS Group ’ s Digital-TV products business, the Digital Broadcasting Business ( DBB ), a subsidiary of The News Corporation group.

The project was renamed The Ur-Quan Masters because the trademark Star Control was registered by Accolade in 1997, acquired in 1999 by Atari ( then known as Infogrames ), along with the rest of Accolade's assets.

In May 1999, Time Asia estimated Suharto's family fortune at US $ 15 billion in cash, shares, corporate assets, real estate, jewelry and fine art.

In 1999, CSX Transportation ( CSX ) and the Norfolk Southern Railway ( NS ) jointly purchased Conrail on the open market and split up its track mileage and other assets between them.

Since the Total-Petrofina merger in 1999, all of FINA's former marketing assets and the Big Spring refinery have been owned by Texas-based Alon USA.

In 1999, BAT moved to take Imasco private, but had no interest in the company's non-tobacco assets, which put Canada Trust in play.

Yarrow Shipbuilders was nationalised into British Shipbuilders by the Labour Government headed by Jim Callaghan and was subsequently privatised by Margaret Thatcher's government when the shipyard assets were purchased by GEC Marconi in 1985 ; in 1999 it became part of BAE Systems Marine.

In June 1999, Astral Media announced they would make a takeover of Radiomutuel and soon gained control of Radiomutuel's assets including MusiMax shortly thereafter.

The majority of the Plessey defence assets were amalgamated into BAE Systems ; when in 1999 BAe merged with the defence arm of GEC, Marconi Electronic Systems ( MES ).

With the acquisition of the Oryx Energy Company of Dallas, Texas in 1999, Kerr-McGee gained more onshore assets, as well as significant assets in several foreign areas, most notably Algeria and western Kazakhstan.

Until 1979, when the Canal Zone as a solely United States territory was abolished under the terms of the Panama Canal Treaties, the town of Balboa was the administrative center of the Canal Zone ( and remained so until mid-day of December 31, 1999, by which time, according to the Torrijos-Carter Treaties, the Panama Canal and all its assets, territories, etc., would be fully turned over to Panama and the Panamanian government, to be run however the Panamanian government fit and deems fit ).

Of the 82 Edge and Agreement Corporations in operation at year-end 1999, 27 were Banking Edges located mostly in New York City and Miami with total assets of $ 18 billion.

In 1999, these institutions accounted for 81. 6 percent of all assets ( source: Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System ).

PrimeStar Partners sold its assets to DirecTV in 1999 and all subscribers were converted to the DirecTV platform.

In January 1999, Primestar announced plans to add The Movie Channel to its service, but shortly thereafter Primestar's assets were sold to Hughes Communications, then-owners of DirecTV.

After some major acquisitions in the mid-1990s by Hughes Electronics ( Magnavox Electronic Systems and PanAmSat ), GM divested most of Hughes assets from 1997 – 2003, including sale of defense operations to Raytheon in 1997, the spinoff of Delphi Automotive Systems in 1999, the divestiture of Hughes Space and Communications to Boeing in 2000, and acquisition of the remaining communications and satellite operations ( mostly DirecTV ) by NewsCorp in 2003.

Between 1998 and 2001, T / Maker's clip art assets were sold each year as a result of some of the largest mergers and acquisitions in the computer software industry, including those of The Learning Company ( in 1998 ) and Mattel ( in 1999 ).

* In 1999 Cox acquired the cable television assets of Media General in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg, Virginia.

1999 PlainsCapital Bank grows to $ 878 million in assets and expands outside West Texas by opening its first Dallas branch.

Since 1999, the firm has advised on more than 250 restructurings totaling over $ 1 trillion in debtor assets, including the landmark bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings.