* On deck: Oaktree Capital is sowing seeds for a NYSE listing
* Foster Kamer: Hedge funds buy the farm
* Big deal: Shire buying VC-backed biotech for $750 million
* James Woolery: How a trillion dollars of corporate cash will change the M&A landscape
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London opens strong, European shares climb on real estate and the Nikkei climbs 1%.
* Eric Paley: The talent curve
* Adrian Chen: Teenage moguls fight over Twitter account
* Bill Gates: “I was a strong proponent” for the Skype takeover
* Dennis Berman: Byron Trott, the Midwest Medicis’ favorite financier
* Bob Moon: Why did Google just borrow $3 billion?
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* New York watering hole Elaine’s to close: “The truth is, there is no Elaine’s without Elaine.”
* Q&A with John Huntsman: “If 90% of oncological community said something was causing cancer we’d listen to them.”
* Roger Lowenstein says Wall Street is not guilty: “Why have no executives gone to jail for their roles in the financial crisis? Because risk-taking and stupidity aren’t criminal.”
* Ruth Marcus takes on corporate America’s greatest scourge: “Some people believe that Mitt Romney is unfit to be president because the health reform he instituted as Massachusetts governor included an individual mandate. I believe Romney is unfit to be president because he used a PowerPoint presentation to defend it.”