M&A

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

08 Dec 2017

Stryker Corp to buy Entellus Medical for $662 mn

08 Dec 2017

Gilead Sciences to buy Cell Design Labs for up to $567 mn

08 Dec 2017

Israel Chemicals to sell its fire safety and oil additives units to SK Capital for $1 bn

07 Dec 2017

Paytm picks up 50% stake in Nearbuy-Little combine

07 Dec 2017

Walgreens' Boots Alliance buys 40% in Sinopharm Holding GuoDa Drugstores for $418 mn

07 Dec 2017

UnitedHealth to buy DaVita Medical Group for $4.9 bn

07 Dec 2017

Cineworld Group to buy US peer Regal Entertainment for $3.6 bn

07 Dec 2017

Nestle to buy Canadian vitamin maker Atrium for $2.3 bn

07 Dec 2017

Swiss food and drink giant Nestle SA yesterday struck a deal to buy Canadian privately-held vitamin maker Atrium Innovations for $2.3 billion in order to expand its consumer healthcare portfolio

Discovery raises stake in joint venture Oprah Winfrey Network to more than 70%

05 Dec 2017

TPG Capital raises buyout offer for medical device maker Exactech to $737 mn

05 Dec 2017

Broadcom takes its $103-bn bid hostile by nominating 11 for Qualcomm board

05 Dec 2017

On 13 November, Qualcomm's board unanimously rejected Broadcom's non-binding, unsolicited bid saying that the proposal dramatically undervalues Qualcomm and comes with significant regulatory uncertainty

Airtel acquires strategic stake in Juggernaut

04 Dec 2017

CVS Health to buy Aetna for around $69 bn

04 Dec 2017

The deal would help the drugstore giant fortify itself against looming competition from Amazon.com Inc, and also save around $750 million annually

Fonterra to pay French food group Danone €105 mn over false recall

02 Dec 2017

Volkswagen in talks to buy stake in Russian light commercial vehicles manufacturer GAZ

02 Dec 2017

Nestle, Bain Capital, Cinven in race for Merck KgaA’s consumer health unit

02 Dec 2017

Swiss food giant Nestle and private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven – owners of German drug firm Stada — are in the race to buy Merck KgaA’s consumer health unit

Axalta Coating Systems ends merger talks with Japan’s Nippon Paint Holdings

01 Dec 2017

Economics to decide market value of Air India

30 Nov 2017

SoftBank offers to buy Flipkart shares from market at reduced valuation

30 Nov 2017

Vietnam seeks to raise $4.8-bn in stake sale of state-run brewer Sabeco

30 Nov 2017

Jet Air, SpiceJet may join race to acquire segments of Air India

30 Nov 2017

There may be more potential buyers for Air India other than the Tata Group and IndiGo, which have already expressed interest, as Jet Airways and SpiceJet are likely to join the bidding for the debt-ridden airline

US fast-food chain Arby's Restaurant Group to buy Buffalo Wild Wings for $2.4 bn

30 Nov 2017

Thoma Bravo to buy data security company Barracuda Networks for $1.47 bn

29 Nov 2017

Emerson Electric withdraws takeover bid for Rockwell Automation

29 Nov 2017

US-based industrial-automation systems maker Emerson Electric Co yesterday withdrerw its takeover bid for Rockwell Automation Inc after the Milwaukee-based company rejected its latest sweetened buyout offer