M&A

SoftBank-led group to buy 20% stake in Uber at 30% discount

29 Dec 2017

Mukesh Ambani acquires RCom’s wireless assets to bail out brother Anil

29 Dec 2017

Reliance Jio will acquire 122.4 MHz of 4G spectrum in the 800/900/1800/2100 MHz bands, over 43,000 towers, 1,78,000 kilometres of fibre and 248 media convergence nodes in the deal

DLF completes Rs9,000-cr stake sale in rental arm to GIC

27 Dec 2017

With the closure of the deal, DLF promoters have received Rs8,950 crore from GIC and another Rs1,600 crore from the rental arm, DLF Cyber City Developers Ltd

Anil Ambani announces new debt resolution plan for RCom

27 Dec 2017

Without any loan write-off, under the new strategic debt resolution plan, RCom will be repaying up to Rs17,000 crore loans out of proceeds from monetisation of spectrum, tower and fibre assets

Amazon acquires camera and doorbell startup Blink

23 Dec 2017

Ownership of HSCL transferred to housing and urban affairs ministry

22 Dec 2017

Roche to acquire US biotech firm Ignyta for $1.7 billion

22 Dec 2017

Penske Media to buy 51% stake in Jan Wenner’s Rolling Stone

22 Dec 2017

Reliance Infra to sell its Mumbai power assets to Adani for $2.93 bn

21 Dec 2017

The transaction marks Adani Group’s entry into the power distribution sector in Mumbai and an increase in the group’s footprint in the power transmission

Germany's Delivery Hero sells Foodpanda to Ola

20 Dec 2017

The deal involves the transfer of Foodpanda's India business to Ola in exchange for Ola shares, with Ola committing to invest $200 million in the new business

Belgian fresh and frozen foods producer Greenyard in advanced talks to buy Dole Food Co

19 Dec 2017

Hershey to buy Texas-based snack-maker Amplify Snack Brands for $1.6 bn

19 Dec 2017

Campbell Soup to buy snacks maker Snyder's-Lance for $4.87 b

19 Dec 2017

US data centre company Equinix to buy Australian rival Metronode for $792 mn

18 Dec 2017

Oracle to buy Australian cloud-based software developer Aconex for $1.2 bn

18 Dec 2017

Melbourne-based Aconex is a cloud-based solution that manages team collaboration for construction projects and digitally connects owners, builders and other teams, providing management of data, documents and costs across all stages of a construction project lifecycle

UK tycoon Sanjeev Gupta's GFG Alliance to buy stake in tidal power developer Atlantis

15 Dec 2017

Walt Disney to acquire 21st Century Fox for $52 bn

14 Dec 2017

The deal marks an expansion of Walt Disney’s global reach while bringing to a close more than half a century of expansion by Murdoch, who turned a single Australian newspaper he inherited from his father into one of the world’s largest news and film conglomerates

Warburg Pincus to acquire 20% stake in Airtel’s DTH arm for $350 mn

13 Dec 2017

Westfield Corp accepts Unibail-Rodamco’s $32.7-bn takeover offer

12 Dec 2017

Thyssenkrupp to cement Tata Steel deal with offer to workers

11 Dec 2017

Thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel had in September agreed to merge their European steel operations, creating Europe’s second largest steelmaker

Apple finalising deal for acquisition of Shazam

09 Dec 2017

KKR & Co to buy Hyperion from Sweden’s Sandvik

09 Dec 2017

AT&T-Time Warner deal: anti-trust trial to begin in March

09 Dec 2017

TVS buys 14.78% stake in electric two-wheel startup Ultraviolette

08 Dec 2017

BASF to merge oil and gas unit with Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s DEA Deutsche Erdoel

08 Dec 2017