M&A

Canadian PE firm Onex to acquire Swiss carton maker SIG Combibloc for $4.66 bn

25 Nov 2014

Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp yesterday struck a deal to acquire SIG Combibloc Group, the world’s second-largest maker of drink cartons

Devices maker Stryker mulls $16-bn bid for British peer Smith & Nephew

25 Nov 2014

US medical device maker Stryker Corp is considering structuring the transaction as a tax inversion move, allowing it to move its base to the UK, where the taxes are lower than in the US

Bharti Airtel sells 4,800 towers in Nigeria to American Tower Corp

24 Nov 2014

Brazil's JBS SA to buy Australian processed foods company Primo Smallgoods for $1.25 bn

22 Nov 2014

Blackstone to buy GE’s real estate business in Japan for $1.6 bn

22 Nov 2014

Blackstone will acquire GE Capital Real Estate’s 200 residential properties, with more than 10,000 rental units, primarily in the major cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, in Japan’s largest property deal this year

British insurance company Aviva plans to buy Friends Life for $8.8 bn

22 Nov 2014

A merger of Aviva and Friends Life would create the UK’s largest insurance, savings and asset management business by number of customers and a net worth of about £20 billion ($31.4 billion).

Biyani’s Future Group buys out Nilgiris supermarket chain

21 Nov 2014

Nilgiris operates a franchisee-operated convenience store chain with 140 outlets in key urban centres in the four southern states and also owns a portfolio of brands in dairy, bakery, chocolates and staples along with their manufacturing facilities in Bangalore

Apache Corp eyes $1.4 bn through sale of oil and gas assets

21 Nov 2014

Houston-based Apache will sell its working interest in approximately 90,000 net acres in mature southern Louisiana fields, which are characterised by high decline rates and short reserve lives

Itochu looks to sell PrimeSource Building Products for more than $1 bn

20 Nov 2014

Tech Mahindra to acquire US network solutions firm Lightbridge for $240mn

20 Nov 2014

Fresenius, Permira table joint bid for Danone’s medical nutrition unit

20 Nov 2014

Kotak Mahindra Bank to acquire ING Vysya Bank

20 Nov 2014

Upon merger, the combined Kotak will have 1,214 branches, with a wide-spread pan-India network, getting both breadth and depth given the strong geographic complementarities between Kotak and ING Vysya

Royalty Pharma to buy cystic fibrosis drug from Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for $3.3 bn

20 Nov 2014

Halliburton to acquire rival Baker Hughes for $34.6 bn

18 Nov 2014

Oil services giant Halliburton will acquire its rival Baker Hughes for about $34.6 billion, leading to a merged entity worth $67 billion

JSW Energy to buy 2 Jaiprakash hydropower units in Himachal for Rs9,700 crore

17 Nov 2014

The acquisition of the 300 MW of Baspa II hydro-electric project and the 1,091 MW Karcham Wangtoo hydro project will make JSW Energy the largest private sector hydro-power generator in the country

Rel Entertainment to buy more American, European gaming studios

15 Nov 2014

BSkyB crops name to SkyTV after European deal

14 Nov 2014

Amec and Foster Wheeler merge in friendly $3.2-bn deal

14 Nov 2014

Gas and engineering project management company Amec has acquired its Swiss rival Foster Wheeler AG in a friendly $3.2 billion deal to form Amec Foster Wheeler PLC

Halliburton and Baker Hughes in merger talks

14 Nov 2014

US oilfield services providers Halliburton & Co and Baker Hughes Inc are in merger talks in a deal that will value the merged company at around $67 billion

KIK Custom Products seeks to sell itself for more than $1.5 bn

14 Nov 2014

Warren Buffett to buy Duracell from P&G in a stock swap deal worth $3 bn

14 Nov 2014

The divestment is part of Procter & Gamble's strategy to improve its financial performance by focusing on about 80 brands that generate 95 per cent of its profits