M&A

QIA - Brookfield Property raise bid for Songbird Estates to £2.6 bn

QIA - Brookfield Property raise bid for Songbird Estates to £2.6 bn

05 Dec 2014

Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners yesterday raised their bid for London's prestigious Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates to £2.6 billion

Barnes & Noble to buy Microsoft's 17% stake in Nook e-reader unit

Barnes & Noble to buy Microsoft's 17% stake in Nook e-reader unit

05 Dec 2014

The largest US bookstore chain, Barnes & Noble Inc operates Nook, one of the web's largest e-commerce sites, which features more than two million titles for its electronic reader, Nook Bookstore

British specialty pharma company BTG to buy PneumRx Inc for up to $475 mn

British specialty pharma company BTG to buy PneumRx Inc for up to $475 mn

04 Dec 2014

SoftBank emerges GrabTaxi Holdings' largest investor with $250-mn funding

04 Dec 2014

SoftBank emerges GrabTaxi Holdings' largest investor with $250-mn funding

04 Dec 2014

US utility NextEra Energy to buy Hawaiian Electric Industries for $2.63 bn

04 Dec 2014

Johnson & Johnson explores sale of artificial sweetener brand Splenda

04 Dec 2014

Australian broadcaster Ten Network attracts several prospective buyers

Australian broadcaster Ten Network attracts several prospective buyers

04 Dec 2014

Beleaguered Australian broadcaster Ten Network Holdings yesterday confirmed that several parties have shown interest in taking control of the group

Brown Shoe in the race to buy women's luxury shoe retailer Stuart Weitzman

03 Dec 2014

Pine chemical producer Arizona Chemical seeks to sell itself for $1.5 bn plus

03 Dec 2014

Telenor and TeliaSonera to merge Danish operations into equal JV

Telenor and TeliaSonera to merge Danish operations into equal JV

03 Dec 2014

The merged entity will have a combined mobile subscriber base of around 3.5 million, market share of approximately 40 per cent, revenues of more than DKK 9 billion ($1.5 bn) and significant synergy potential

Canadian PE firm Onex in talks to buy Survitec Group for around $704 mn

Canadian PE firm Onex in talks to buy Survitec Group for around $704 mn

03 Dec 2014

Intel acquires password management startup, PasswordBox to bolster security arm

02 Dec 2014

GIC to buy industrial real estate firm IndCor from Blackstone Group for $8.1 bn

GIC to buy industrial real estate firm IndCor from Blackstone Group for $8.1 bn

02 Dec 2014

Japanese drugmaker Otsuka Holdings to buy Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc for $3.5 bn

02 Dec 2014

Aviva agrees to buy Friends Life for $8.8 bn

Aviva agrees to buy Friends Life for $8.8 bn

02 Dec 2014

Roche to acquire prenatal tester for risks in down syndrome Ariosa Diagnostics

02 Dec 2014

Qatari royal family leads race to buy Pepe Jeans Group for at least €700 mn

02 Dec 2014

PE firm Silver Lake to sell financial trading communications IPC Systems for $1.2 bn

PE firm Silver Lake to sell financial trading communications IPC Systems for $1.2 bn

02 Dec 2014

US chipmaker Cypress in $4-bn merger deal with peer Spansion

US chipmaker Cypress in $4-bn merger deal with peer Spansion

02 Dec 2014

The merger of Cypress Semiconductor Corp and Spansion Inc,  will create a leading global provider of microcontrollers and specialised memories for embedded systems

Warren Buffet’s Lubrizol to buy two units of Weatherford for $750 mn

Warren Buffet’s Lubrizol to buy two units of Weatherford for $750 mn

02 Dec 2014

The acquisitions of these two businesses will give Lubrizol a more significant footprint in the $20-billion oilfield chemicals business

John Laing offers to pay £1 bn for Balfour Beatty's public-private partnership assets

01 Dec 2014

JSW Steel eyes Rs30,000-cr acquisition of Bhushan Steel, defers Italian plans

JSW Steel eyes Rs30,000-cr acquisition of Bhushan Steel, defers Italian plans

01 Dec 2014

JSW Steel Ltd, the third-largest steel maker in India, has deferred plans to acquire Italian steelmaker Lucchini SpV and instead decided buy Bhushan Steel's Odisha unit and through it a stake in Orissa Sponge

German real estate giant to buy smaller rival Gagfah for $4.9 bn

01 Dec 2014

Mangalore Chemicals shares spurt as Vijay Mallya resigns from board

Mangalore Chemicals shares spurt as Vijay Mallya resigns from board

01 Dec 2014

Vijay Mallya has stepped down from the board of Mangalore Chemicals & Fertilizers as he lost control of his last bastion after losing control of Kingfisher Airlines and United Spirits