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Botox-maker Allergan Plc to buy Kythera Biopharmaceuticals for $2.1 bn
18 Jun 2015
Botox-maker Allergan Plc yesterday struck a deal to buy Kythera Biopharmaceuticals Inc in a $2.1-billion cash-and-stock deal, in a bid to expand its portfolio of cosmetic treatments
Comcast Corp eyes deal with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile US unit
17 Jun 2015
Comcast is looking at a mega acquisition after recently backing out of a $45.2-billion merger deal with Time Warner Cable over fears of a possible veto from federal competition regulators
Abbott Laboratories to back Mylan-Perrigo deal
17 Jun 2015
US regulators approve Royal Dutch Shell-BG Group $70 bn merger
17 Jun 2015
The US Federal Trade Commission has cleared the deal, which still requires regulatory approval from the European Union, China, Australia and Brazil
Blackstone, Carlyle to table $10 bn bid for NCR Corp
17 Jun 2015
Private equity firms Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group have teamed together to make an over $10-billion bid, including debt, for NCR Corp in a leveraged buyout
Ruias to sell 49% in Essar Oil to Russia's Rosneft for Rs10,500 cr: report
16 Jun 2015
The Ruias, along with Essar Energy Plc, own 90 per cent stake in Essar Oil and a deal with Rosneft will make the Ruias a minority shareholder in the company
EU conditional nod for Merck's $17-bn purchase of Sigma-Aldrich
16 Jun 2015
Sigma-Aldrich is a life science and technology company that manufactures and distributes more than 230,000 chemicals, biochemicals and other essential products globally to research and applied labs as well as in industrial and commercial markets
Cox Automotive acquires Dealertrack for $4 bn
16 Jun 2015
Coty nears deal to buy three P&G brands for about $12 billion
16 Jun 2015
Coty Inc, the $4.6-billion US cosmetics group, has won an auction to acquire Wella hair care and Max Factor and CoverGirl makeup brands from Procter & Gamble for around $12 billion
RCom in talks to buy Sistema's India unit
15 Jun 2015
Sistema has spectrum in nine of the country’s 22 telecom circles and a merger would give Reliance Communications access to Sistema's airwaves in these nine circles, without a significant payout
Orion to bid for Tesco's S Korean unit, Homeplus
15 Jun 2015
Canadian retailer HBC to acquire Metro AG’s department store business
15 Jun 2015
The deal would include the Galeria Kaufhof chain in Germany and Galeria Inno in neighboring Belgium, as also the business's real-estate portfolio
Vedanta annexes Cairn India in $2.3-bn all-stock deal
15 Jun 2015
The merger will help debt-laden Vedanta to use debt-free Cairn India’s cash reserves of over Rs16,800 crore to part pay its Rs37,636 crore debt
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