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Bharti Airtel clinches $10.7-billion Zain deal
24 Mar 2010
Bharti Airtel will pay $9 billion and assume $1.7 billion of Zain's debt to acquire most of its African assets.
Resolution scouting for more acquisitions
24 Mar 2010
IOC - OIL may not hike bid for Gulfsands
24 Mar 2010
Lionsgate spurns Icahn’s revised takeover bid
24 Mar 2010
Welspun to acquire stake in MSK Projects
23 Mar 2010
UB Group sells Aventis stake for Rs414 crore
23 Mar 2010
Shell, Petro China seal Arrow Energy acquisition with $3.2 billion revised offer
22 Mar 2010
Australia’s coal seam gas producer Arrow Energy yesterday agreed to the joint takeover bid after both the acquiring companies revised and hiked the acquisition offer
Bharti ties up $8.3 billion debt for Zain Africa buy
22 Mar 2010
Bharti Airtel Limited has tied up a loan of Rs37,607 crore from State Bank of India and a consortium of foreign banks to fund its acquisition of Kuwait-based Zain telecom's African assets
Indian Oil may hike its £400 million unsolicited bid for Gulfsands Petroleum
20 Mar 2010
Gulfsands on Saturday rejected the bid saying that the offer is wholly inadequate and materially undervalues it
The story behind Rio's $1.35-billion Saimandou deal with Chinalco
By By Ravi Kunder | 19 Mar 2010
Rio Tinto gives away a 47-per cent stake in the world's third-largest iron-ore mining project to Chinese state-owned aluminium giant, Chinalco, for just $1.35 billion. writes Ravi Kunder reports
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