M&A

No government pressure on banks to merge, says official

12 Jan 2010

HCL Technologies to merge with HCL Technoparks

12 Jan 2010

Bharti to take 70 per cent stake in Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom

12 Jan 2010

Bharti plans to make $300 million fresh investment in the company, to take the overall investment to $1 billion, to cover new funding to cover capacity expansion, coverage and new products

China's Bright Foods bids $1.4 billion for CSR's sugar business

12 Jan 2010

Shanghai municipal government owned food producer Bright Food Group Co. is planning to acquire the sugar and renewable energy business of Australia’s CSR Ltd.

Heineken beats SABMiller to acquire Femsa's beer unit for $7.6 billion

11 Jan 2010

Heineken edged out London-based brewing giant SABMiller Plc in an auction to acquire the beer operations of the largest brewer in Latin America, in an all stock transaction valuing it at $7.6 billion

Siemens Healthcare shareholders, creditors to approve merger with Siemens

11 Jan 2010

Sanofi-Aventis commences tender offer for Chattem

11 Jan 2010

PE investments in India decline for second straight year to $4 billion

11 Jan 2010

Private Equity firms invested $1,392 million over 84 deals in India during Q4 2009, taking the annual investment numbers to $3,824 million over 232 deals

Government to hire experts for bank mergers: report

11 Jan 2010

Australian zinc miner CBH weighs A$148 million Nyrstar offer

11 Jan 2010

Santos to sell Gladstone LNG stake to fund growth projects

11 Jan 2010

According to analysts, the stake sale will relieve Santos from its tight liquidity position, and help the company finance the requirements at Gladstone and the Papua New Guinea LNG

No plan to merge BSNL and MTNL: Pitroda

09 Jan 2010

Sam Pitroda, IT advisor to the prime minister said on Friday that the government was not planning to merge BSNL and MTNL but efforts were on to sell stake in BSNL

No plan to merge BSNL and MTNL: Pitroda

09 Jan 2010

Sam Pitroda, IT advisor to the prime minister said on Friday that the government was not planning to merge BSNL and MTNL but efforts were on to sell stake in BSNL

No plan to merge BSNL and MTNL: Pitroda

09 Jan 2010

Sam Pitroda, IT advisor to the prime minister said on Friday that the government was not planning to merge BSNL and MTNL but efforts were on to sell stake in BSNL

Viceroy to divest 49-per cent stake to JP Morgan to finance new Bangalore hotel

09 Jan 2010

GSK inching closer to deal with Dr Reddy's?

08 Jan 2010

GM gets last minute bids for Saab

08 Jan 2010

Reliance hikes offer for LyondellBasell to $13.5 billion

08 Jan 2010

Independent Liquor scotches takeover speculation

08 Jan 2010

Google sweetens bid for On2 Technologies to $132 million

08 Jan 2010

Hutchison Whampoa to privatise Hutchison Telecom for $538 million

08 Jan 2010

Jindal cuts stake in Australia’s RCI despite bidding war with Meijin

08 Jan 2010

JSPL sold 2.1 million shares of Perth-based RCI, thre days before matching a revised sweetened 29 December takeover offer from China's Meijin Energy Group

Government to offload 10 per cent in BSNL; lines up 60 PSUs for stake sale

07 Jan 2010

NTT Communications acquires 29.7-per cent stake in goFLUENT Group

07 Jan 2010

Chinese state firm to buy £153-million stake in African Minerals

07 Jan 2010