M&A
BSE in talks to acquire United Stock Exchange: report
24 Mar 2014
Bombay Stock Exchange, the country’s oldest bourse, is in preliminary talks to acquire United Stock Exchange, in a bid to take on the younger but bigger National Stock Exchange
BlackBerry reaches deal to sell majority of its Canadian real estate
22 Mar 2014
BlackBerry will sell more than 3 million square feet of space as well as vacant lands and lease back a portion of the spac
Temasek acquires 24.9% in Li Ka-shing's A S Watson Co for $5.7 bn
21 Mar 2014
Temasek Holdings, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, today agreed to buy a 24.9-per cent stake in billionaire Li Ka-shing's health and beauty chain A S Watson
J P Morgan to sell physical commodities business to Swiss trading house Mercuria for $3.5 bn
20 Mar 2014
Vodafone to buy Spain's largest cable operator ONO for €7.2 bn
18 Mar 2014
Vodafone, which last month completed the $130-billion sale of its stake in US mobile network Verizon Wireless, is strengthening its hold over the European market through the ONO deal
German utility RWE to sell oil and gas unit to Mikhail Fridman’s L1 Energy for $7.10 bn
18 Mar 2014
RWE Dea currently has stakes in more than 180 licences or concessions in oil and gas blocks in 14 countries and is the operator of almost half of them
Charterhouse Capital buys education-software company Skillsoft for more than $2 bn
15 Mar 2014
The deal comes a few days after buyout firm Hellman & Friedman struck a deal to buy Renaissance Learning from Permira in a $1.1- billion deal
SC refuses to clear tax roadblock in Nokia-Microsoft deal
15 Mar 2014
As a result of the verdict, Nokia India will have to agree to an open-ended guarantee that the company would meet any future tax claims relating to the dispute before it can transfer Indian assets to Microsoft
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