Great Wolf Buyout Game Needs High Roller All-In Bet

Great Wolf Resorts lack of a high roller bidding drama also coincides with some new high stakes corporate battles, including the takeover campaign launched by European drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline(GSK) for Human Genome Sciences(HGSI) , a failed hostile Roche bid for Illumina(ILMN) and Carl Icahn's first 2012 activist win.

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Deutsche Bank will continue to advise Great Wolf Resorts, while Morgan Stanley, UBS, and Nomura have acted as financial advisers to Apollo's bid.

-- Written by Antoine Gara in New York