M&A
Irish drugmaker Elan splurges $380 mn on two acquisitions
20 May 2013
Morgan Stanley to sell Indian wealth management unit to Standard Chartered
20 May 2013
Accenture to acquire digital marketing firm Acquity for $316 mn
20 May 2013
Groupe Danone to acquire 4% indirect stake in China Mengniu Dairy
20 May 2013
China buys stakes in key Australian power assets
18 May 2013
Yahoo board to consider $1.1-bn bid for blogging service Tumblr
18 May 2013
DirecTV in talks to acquire stake in online-video site Hulu
18 May 2013
Yahoo in stake talks with social blogging site Tumblr
17 May 2013
Ousted from Citi, Vikram Pandit returns to Indian roots
17 May 2013
Bayer AG to acquire herbal drug maker Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk
17 May 2013
Sun Capital explores sale of specialty chemicals firm Emerald Performance Materials
17 May 2013
Eureka Forbes to buy majority stake in Swiss marketer Lux
16 May 2013
Cairn India boosts Vedanta’s FY’13 net profit by 163%
16 May 2013
Etihad Air may have to make open offer for Jet Airways stake
15 May 2013
Heineken acquires 3.21% in Vijay Mallya’s United Breweries
15 May 2013
Citigroup to sell Brazilian consumer finance units to Itaú Unibanco for $1.37 bn
15 May 2013
Actavis rejects Mylan’s $15-bn offer
15 May 2013
US hedge fund Third Point urges IPO for Sony entertainment business
14 May 2013
China’s XD Group in talks to buy General Electric JV Prolec GE for up to $1 bn: report
14 May 2013
Citic Capital, Temasek to buy Chinese software firm Asiainfo for $900 mn
13 May 2013
Goldman Sachs to invest Rs109.74 crore in BPL Medical Technologies
13 May 2013
Carl Icahn, Southeastern table firm bid for Dell
11 May 2013
TowerBrook Capital to buy jeans and sportswear maker True Religion for $835 mn
11 May 2013
Actavis in talks to buy Ireland’s Warner Chilcott
11 May 2013
Alibaba buys 28% in Chinese map-nav firm AutoNavi
11 May 2013
Alibaba to buy 20-30% in Chinese digital mapping and navigation firm AutoNavi
10 May 2013
Piramal Group buys 10% in Shriram Transport Finance from TPG for Rs1,652 crore
10 May 2013
StanChart in talks to buy Morgan Stanley India wealth unit
10 May 2013
Carlyle Group tables bid for Rio Tinto's Northparkes copper mine
10 May 2013
Apache Corp plans to sell assets worth $4 bn
09 May 2013
US real estate firm Trulia buys software maker Market Leader for $355 mn
09 May 2013
Facebook in talks to buy Israeli mobile navigation start-up Waze for $1 bn: report
09 May 2013
US medical device provider ICU Medical weighs $1 bn sale: report
09 May 2013
Italian energy giant Eni to sell 11.7% stake worth $1.98 bn in Snam
09 May 2013
CNPC in talks to acquire Brazilian oil startup Barra Energia for about $2 bn: report
08 May 2013
Mengniu Dairy to acquire stake in Modern Dairy for $409 mn
08 May 2013
China’s Fosun Pharma to buy majority stake in Israel’s Alma Lasers for $240 mn
08 May 2013
Petronas to buy OGX's Brazilian offshore field stake for $850 mn
08 May 2013
ThyssenKrupp seeks buyers for railway and construction units
07 May 2013
Germany’s Hochtief sells airports division to Canada's PSP Investments for $1.4 bn
07 May 2013
Dell to buy cloud software firm Enstratius
07 May 2013
TPG Capital, Warburg Pincus explore sale or IPO of luxury retailer Neiman Marcus
07 May 2013
Consortium led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate to acquire BMC Software for $6.9 bn
07 May 2013
Canadian PE firm Onex to buy Nielsen Expositions for $950 mn
06 May 2013
McAfee to buy Finland rival Stonesoft Oyj for $389 mn
06 May 2013
BC Partners bids $1.3 bn for electronic animal identification firm Allflex
03 May 2013
After Yahoo, Vivendi now offers to buy online video-sharing service Dailymotion
03 May 2013
Marine Harvest takes $1.7-bn hostile bid to Cermaq shareholders
03 May 2013
Bharti Airtel to sell 5% stake to Qatar Foundation for $1.26 bn
03 May 2013
Bharti Airtel to buy rest of Bangladesh's Warid Telecom
02 May 2013
PE firms Bain Capital, Golden Gate lead race to buy BMC Software: report
02 May 2013
Goldman Sachs affiliate to acquire insurance software firm Ebix for $743 mn
02 May 2013
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to acquire rest of IMC for $2.05 bn
02 May 2013
Etihad to appoint three directors on Jet airways
30 April 2013
Telefonica to sell 40% of Central American assets to Guatemala’s CMI for $500 mn
30 April 2013
Carphone Warehouse to buy out Best Buy in European JV for $730 mn
30 April 2013
Kodak to sell two imaging units to UK pension plan for $650 mn
30 April 2013
Alibaba Group to buy 18% in Chinese Twitter-like site Weibo for $586 mn
29 April 2013
French PE firm Pai Partners to buy R&R Ice Cream for reported $1.1 bn
29 April 2013
Lloyds to sell Spanish retail banking business to Banco Sabadell
29 April 2013
Bayer to acquire contraception device maker Conceptus for $1.1 bn
29 April 2013
Valeant Pharma's $13-bn Actavis deal put on hold
29 April 2013
BHP Billiton to sell Pinto Valley copper mine to Capstone Mining for $650 mn
29 April 2013
France sells 2.1% in EADS for $920 million
27 April 2013
UPS to acquire Hungarian healthcare logistics company CEMELOG
27 April 2013
Canada’s Valeant Pharma in talks to buy Actavis for over $13 bn
27 April 2013
Tata Technologies acquires US-based Cambric Corp
26 April 2013
Bain Capital, Thomas Lee Partners left in the race for Carestream Health: report
26 April 2013
German steelmaker Salzgitter denies interest in copper producer Aurubis AG
26 April 2013
GrainCorp finally submits to ADM’s $3.1-bn bid
26 April 2013
Sinopec to sell 30 % in Myanmar gas block to Taiwan's CPC
25 April 2013
PotashCorp abandons $15-billion takeover of Israel Chemicals
25 April 2013
Verizon working on $100-bn bid for Vodafone’s stake in Verizon Wireless
25 April 2013
Tech Mahindra aquires Type Approval Lab of Sweden
25 April 2013
Georgia-Pacific to acquire Buckeye Technologies for $1.5 bn
24 April 2013
Co-op pulls out of deal to buy Lloyds branches
24 April 2013
GlaxoSmithKline plans to sell Lucozade and Ribena soft drink brands
24 April 2013
Opko Health to acquire Israel’s Prolor Biotech for $480 mn
24 April 2013
Etihad Airways to buy 24% in Jet Airways for Rs2,061 crore
24 April 2013
Chinese regulators approve Marubeni-Gavilon merger with stiff conditions
24 April 2013
Bharti Airtel to acquire Warid Telecom Uganda from UAE’s Warid Group
24 April 2013
Thailand’s CP All to buy majority stake in retail chain Siam Makro in $6.6 bn deal
23 April 2013
ValueAct acquires $1.9-bn stake in Microsoft
23 April 2013
Chinese biotechnology firm 3SBio receives sweetened offer from CEO
23 April 2013
Kawasaki Heavy and Mitsui Engineering deny merger talks
22 April 2013
ENRC co-founder plans $6-bn bid for Kazakh miner
22 April 2013
KPMG snaps up financial advisory firm Makinson Cowell
20 April 2013
Carlyle acquires majority stake in UK minicab firm Addison Lee for $459 mn
20 April 2013
PE firms in talks to acquire stake in Reliance Globalcom
20 April 2013
Germany’s HeidelbergCement takes over Russia's CJSC Construction
19 April 2013
Barrick Gold to sell three Australian mines
19 April 2013
Lenovo in talks to buy IBM’s x86 business
19 April 2013
Blackstone backs out from pursuing Dell bid
19 April 2013
CVC Capital Partners to buy German energy-metering firm Ista
19 April 2013
2G scam: wrap up probe into Aircel-Maxis deal, SC tells CBI
18 April 2013
Roper Industries to acquire Managed Health Care Associates for $1 bn
18 April 2013
Bertelsmann expects to raise $2.1 bn from RTL share sale
18 April 2013
Investment group IMIC makes conditional bid for Afferro Mining, as JSPL backs out
18 April 2013
Daimler sells remaining stake in EADS for $2.9 billion
17 April 2013
Carl Icahn agrees to limit Dell stake to under 10%
17 April 2013
$76-bn Glencore-Xstrata merger wins Chinese conditional approval
17 April 2013
Kodak to sell document imaging assets to Brother for $210 mn
16 April 2013
Dish Network launches $25.5-bn bid for Sprint Nextel
16 April 2013
Kazakhstan may edge out ONGC to hand over Kashagan oilfield to China
16 April 2013
Liberty Global's $22.5 bn Virgin Media deal gets EU green light
15 April 2013
Centrica, Qatar Petroleum to buy Suncor Energy’s Canadian hydrocarbon assets for $987 mn
15 April 2013
Thermo Fisher nears $12.8-bn takeover of Life Technologies: report
15 April 2013
Komatsu to exit joint venture L&T Komatsu
13 April 2013
Germany’s Joh A Benckiser to acquire D E Master Blenders 1753 for $9.8 billion
13 April 2013
LinkedIn to acquire newsreader start-up Pulse for $90 million
12 April 2013
Sinclair Broadcast to acquire Fisher Communications for $373.3 million
12 April 2013
Warren Buffett seeks to buy bankrupt Chinese solar panel maker Suntech Power Holdings
12 April 2013
Pearson buys out Educomp’s stake in vocational training company IndiaCan Education
10 April 2013
French media giant Lagardère sells entire stake in EADS for $2.97 billion
09 April 2013
Billabong former US head and Sycamore Partners table $300 mn takeover bid
09 April 2013
Saudi Arabia’s Dabbagh Group in talks to buy Hinduja’s stake in Petromin JV
09 April 2013
TCS to acquire French enterprise software maker Alti for Rs533 crore
09 April 2013
Vedanta Resources to acquire Cairn Energy through Cairn India
09 April 2013
Reliance Steel secures $2 bn credit for acquisition of Metals USA
08 April 2013
Ericsson to acquire Microsoft Corp's Mediaroom IPTV business
08 April 2013
Google eyes popular cross platform messaging service WhatsApp
08 April 2013
Germany's Merz Pharma withdraws bid for Obagi Medical Products
08 April 2013
UPS to challenge EU regulator’s decision to block merger with TNT Express
08 April 2013
KKR to buy 90 % in Mumbai-based Alliance Tire for Rs3,568 crore: report
08 April 2013
Reliance Steel & Aluminum raises $2 bn for Metals USA Holding acquisition
06 April 2013
India’s Competition Commission eases M&A norms
06 April 2013
Anheuser-Busch InBev, DoJ near antitrust agreement on Grupo Modelo acquisition
06 April 2013
Labrador Iron Ore mulls selling stake in Iron Ore Company of Canada
06 April 2013
European regulator approves Random House, Penguin £2.4 bn merger
05 April 2013
Australia's Billabong International receives revised lower takeover bids: report
05 April 2013
Hilco rescues UK music retailer HMV in a reported $76 million deal
05 April 2013
Autonomy acquisition ousts HP chairman, two directors
05 April 2013
Walt Disney to shut video game production company LucasArts
05 April 2013
Bertelsmann to sell stake in RTL Group for around $1.93 bn
04 April 2013
Valeant Pharma outbids Merz for control of Obagi Medical Products
04 April 2013
Qatar’s Hassad Food buys majority stake in Bush Foods Overseas for Rs544.50 crore
04 April 2013
CNPC, Petronas eye Marathon Oil's stake in Angola offshore blocks
04 April 2013
Thermo Fisher emerges lead contender for Life Technologies: report
03 April 2013
Pfizer, Novartis, Abbott in race for Brazil’s Ache Laboratorios: report
03 April 2013
American Greetings receives sweetened offer from Weiss family
03 April 2013
Abramovich's steel giant Evraz acquires 51 % stake in Timir ore project
02 April 2013
Nasdaq buys eSpeed trading platform for $750 mn
02 April 2013
Suzuki Motor raises stake in Maruti Suzuki to 56.21 per cent
01 April 2013
L&T completes acquisition of Audco India
01 April 2013
Southeastern Asset Management first proposed then opposed Dell buyout
01 April 2013
KKR in exclusive talks to buy French fashion brands Maje, Sandro and Claudie Pierlot
01 April 2013
ONGC, Oil India table $5-bn bid for Videocon, Anadarko gas field in Mozambique
01 April 2013
Dell board recommends sale; rejects `risky’ leveraged recap
30 March 2013
Amazon to acquire book recommendations site Goodreads
30 March 2013
ONGC buys two off-Azerbaijan oilfields from Hess Corp
30 March 2013
Dutch coffee maker D E Master Blenders in takeover talks with Joh A Benckiser
30 March 2013
Liberty Global acquires 12.65% in Dutch cable operator Ziggo for $808 mn
30 March 2013
Societe Generale sells entire Egyptian subsidiary stake to Qatar National Bank for $2 bn
30 March 2013
Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman to launch counter-bid for Tele2 Russia
28 March 2013
TNT Express sells China road operations to Citic Private Equity
28 March 2013
Novartis AG will cut stake in Indian arm to meet SEBI norms
28 March 2013
Australian watchdog approves Qantas-Emirates tie-up
28 March 2013
GMR gets rid of 'unviable' coal mine assets in South Africa
28 March 2013
Leighton Holdings to sell majority stake in three telecom assets to Ontario Teacher's for $647 mn
28 March 2013
Ericsson in talks to buy Microsoft's IPTV business: report
28 March 2013
Tech Mahindra delays Mahindra Satyam merger by 6 months
26 March 2013
Goldman, Berkshire amend warrant agreement
26 March 2013
US online video-streaming service Hulu looks for buyers: report
26 March 2013
Schroders to pay £424 million for Cazenove Capital
26 March 2013
Shire expands opthalmology business with $160-mn acquisition of SARcode Bioscience
26 March 2013
Dutch food firm CSM to sell bakery business to Rhone Capital for $1.4 bn
26 March 2013
Australian property group Westfield in $1.3-bn US JV deal
26 March 2013
Blackstone Group, Carl Icahn table competing offers for Dell Inc
25 March 2013
L&T Finance to buy 50 % Future Generali general insurance JV: report
25 March 2013
TNT Express to cut 4,000 jobs as part of restructuring
25 March 2013
Apple acquires indoor location app developer WiFiSlam
25 March 2013
S Kumars plans to sell controlling stake in Reid and Taylor: report
25 March 2013
Schroders considering acquisition of Cazenove Capital
23 March 2013
Majority Inmet shareholders accept First Quantum's C$5.1-bn hostle bid
23 March 2013
US eye care firm Bausch & Lomb files for IPO
23 March 2013
S Africa’s Bidvest to raise stake in drugmaker Adcock Ingram to 60%
23 March 2013
Valeant Pharmaceuticals to acquire Obagi Medical Products for $344 mn
21 March 2013
Yahoo in talks to buy controlling stake in online video website Dailymotion: report
20 March 2013
IBM completes acquisition of Star Analytics
20 March 2013
Liberty Media to buy 27.3 % in US cable TV operator Charter Communications for $2.62 bn
20 March 2013
Blackstone Group weighs rival bid for Dell: report
20 March 2013
BBC World to sell Lonely Planet to NC2 Media for $75 mn
19 March 2013
Liberty Media close to buying 25 % in Charter Communications for $2.5 bn: report
19 March 2013
Australia’s M2 Telecommunications acquires rivals Dodo and Eftel
19 March 2013
Brazil’s Gerdau buys out Kalyani stake in Tadipatri steel plant
18 March 2013
US cosmetic laser manufacturer Cynosure to buy rival Palomar Medical
18 March 2013
Panasonic gains on plasma TV exit report
18 March 2013
SingTel mulls sale of Optus Satellite Unit in $1-bn deal
18 March 2013
Travelex receives takeover offer
18 March 2013
Virgin Australia receives FIRB approval for Skywest takeover
18 March 2013
Queensland govt sells Aurizon stake to raise A$806 mn
18 March 2013
Dropbox acquiring Mailbox owner
16 March 2013
ArcelorMittal set to sell 15 % stake in Quebec iron ore mines
16 March 2013
Aditya Birla, Vedanta may bid for Rio Tinto’s stake in Iron Ore Company of Canada: report
16 March 2013
Reliance Communications confirms talks with Batelco
15 March 2013
CNPC acquires Eni's 20 % Mozambique gas stake for $4.2 bn
15 March 2013
Hostess sells Twinkies to investment firms for $410 million
14 March 2013
Tesco buys Giraffe restaurant chain
14 March 2013
HMV rescue deal by March end: report
13 March 2013
Tata Steel forms alliance with Canada’s Labrador Mines
12 March 2013
PE firm Madison Dearborn seeks to sell Yankee Candle
12 March 2013
UK Serious Fraud Office probing Autonomy’s accounts: HP
12 March 2013
Publicis Groupe acquires Mumbai-based digital marketing consulting firm Convonix
12 March 2013
CIL to spend Rs35,000 cr on foreign acquisitions by 2017
12 March 2013
KKR consortium to bid for gene-sequencing equipment maker Life Technologies: report
12 March 2013
KKR in talks to buy Warburg Pincus' stake in Alliance Tire: report
12 March 2013
Indonesian billionaire Stephen Riady to buy US Bank Tower for $367.5 mn
11 March 2013
Chinese generic drugmaker Simcere receives $500-mn bid from chairman
11 March 2013
BHP Billiton eyes sales of 10 asset
11 March 2013
Berger Paints India acquires architectural business of of Sherwin Williams Paints India
11 March 2013
GVK sells 51-per cent Hancock Coal stake to Aurizon
11 March 2013
AT&T mulls taking 25 % stake in Mukesh Ambani’s Jia infocomm for $3.5 bn: report
11 March 2013
KKR & Co to acquire US machinery maker Gardner Denver for $3.74 bn
09 March 2013
Elan Corp snubs Royalty Pharma, goes ahead with $1 bn share buyback program
09 March 2013
LSE revises offer for majority stake in LCH Clearnet
09 March 2013
ExxonMobil hires Barclays to sell part stake in Hong Kong’s Castle Peak Power: report
08 March 2013
Sycamore Partners to buy US specialty retailer Hot Topic Inc for $600 mn
08 March 2013
First Quantum Minerals confident of acquiring Inmet Mining
07 March 2013
Rosneft acquires 30 % stake in ExxonMobil’s Gulf of Mexico blocks
07 March 2013
DP World to sell stakes in Hong Kong container terminals and logistics centre for $742 mn
07 March 2013
Johnson Controls explores sale of automotive electronics business
07 March 2013
CNPC in talks to buy Eni’s part stake in a Mozambique gas project: report
07 March 2013
Blackstone Group, HP, Lenovo interested in Dell: report
07 March 2013
Time Warner to spin off Time magazine unit
07 March 2013
Bank of England governor calls for RBS to be split and sold
07 March 2013
Australian print group Blue Star buys rival Geon’s key assets
07 March 2013
S Korea's Samsung to acquire stake in Japan's Sharp
06 March 2013
Decks all clear for Diego-United Spirits deal, says Mallya
05 March 2013
ConAgra, Cargill and CHS to merge North American flour milling businesses
05 March 2013
Anadarko Petroleum to sell part stake in Heidelberg project for $860 mn
05 March 2013
HSBC to sell US subsidiary HSBC Finance Corp's loan portfolio for $3.2 bn
05 March 2013
Hess Corp to exit downstream business and focus on E&P
05 March 2013
After Videocon, Anadarko puts 10 % stake in Mozambique gas field on the block
05 March 2013
US chemical company A Schulman launches $563 mn unsolicited bid for Ferro Corp
04 March 2013
Temasek buys 5 % in Spanish energy giant Repsol for $1.35 bn
04 March 2013
Hecla Mining to buy Canadian gold miner Aurizon Mines for $774.36 mn
04 March 2013
Japex to acquire 10 % in Petronas Pacific Northwest LNG and a shale gas project in Canada
04 March 2013
Middle East consortium may acquire British football club Arsenal for $2.3 bn: report
04 March 2013
News Corp to sell entire stake in New Zealand's Sky Network Television for $714 mn
04 March 2013
Canada's Comark apparel chain put for sale by KarpReilly: report
02 March 2013
Rio Tinto mulls majority stake sale in Iron Ore Company of Canada for $1.8 bn: report
02 March 2013
Danish industrial group Danfoss to buy rest of Sauer-Danfoss for $692 mn
02 March 2013
Carlyle, promoters sweeten takeover bid for China's budget hotel chain 7 Days to $688 mn
02 March 2013
Former Autonomy chief Mike Lynch says HP silent over accusations of inflated revenue
02 March 2013
Sky to buy Telefonica’s UK broadband unit for £180 mn
02 March 2013
Bertelsmann said to pay €800 million for KKR’s stake in BMG
01 March 2013
British Airways and Iberia parent IAG reports loss of €943 million for 2012
01 March 2013
Competition watchdog clears Diageo-USL deal; calls it boon to branded liquor market
01 March 2013
Info Edge acquires recruitment technology software maker MakeSense for Rs8 crore
01 March 2013
Standard Chartered in talks to buy Morgan Stanley's private wealth management business in India
28 February 2013
Cipla amends offer, offers $512 mn for whole of Cipla Medpro South Africa
28 February 2013
Gina Rinehart loses appeal for stake in Rhodes Ridge iron ore deposit
28 February 2013
Strides Arcolab sells Agila Specialties to Mylan for $1.6 bn
28 February 2013
Germany's E.ON plans to buy Eike Batista’s stake in Brazil's MPX Energia: report
27 February 2013
Etihad acquires Jet Airways' slots at London’s Heathrow airport ahead of stake buy
27 February 2013
Jindal Steel and Power hikes stake in Australia’s Apollo Minerals to 11.70 %
27 February 2013
Shell to buy Repsol’s liquefied natural gas assets for $4.4 bn – GAIL loses out
27 February 2013
Tata Steel should look to sell Corus assets: CLSA study
27 February 2013
Tribune Co hires investment bankers to explore sale of newspapers
27 February 2013
Warren Buffett adds Tulsa World to his newspaper portfolio
27 February 2013
Carlyle prepares to sell aerospace and defence company Arinc: report
26 February 2013
Nestle to buy US medical foods company Pamlab to bolster health and nutrition business
26 February 2013
Japan to raise $10 bn through Japan Tobacco stake sale
26 February 2013
Royalty Pharma launches $6.6 bn bid for Irish drug maker Elan Corp
26 February 2013
Sinopec to acquire Chesapeake’s shale assets for $1.02 bn
25 February 2013
Pearson takes full control of Bangalore-based learning services company TutorVista
25 February 2013
RBS starts winding down retail, commercial operations in India
25 February 2013
Founder mulls taking Barnes & Noble private
25 February 2013
BP nears $16-bn settlement over Gulf of Mexico oil spill: report
25 February 2013
Heinz to sell China packaged food business to Zhengzhou Sanquan Foods
25 February 2013
Chevron to buy stakes in two Australian shale gas assets from Beach Energy for $349 mn
25 February 2013
MSC Industrial to buy Barnes Group’ distribution business for $550 mn
23 February 2013
PetroChina to buy stakes in two Australian exploration assets from ConocoPhillips
22 February 2013
Spain’s Ferrovial to buy UK‘s utility services company Enterprise for $589 mn
22 February 2013
Petrobras in talks to sell stakes in Argentinean refineries to Oil Combustibles for $400 mn
22 February 2013
KKR & Co said to table $3.7-bn bid for US industrial machinery maker Gardner Denver
22 February 2013
Mexico’s Grupo Gigante to buy Office Depot’s stake in Mexican JV for $687.34 mn
22 February 2013
Linn Energy to buy Berry Petroleum for $4.3 billion
21 February 2013
The New York Times Co again seeks buyer for Boston Globe
21 February 2013
Vodafone’s Rs11,200-cr tax bill to get a relook: Chidambaram
21 February 2013
TPG makes Rs1,400-cr profit from sale of 10 % stake in Shriram Finance
21 February 2013
ONGC-OIL in race for Videocon’s Mozambique gas stake
21 February 2013
Office Depot to buy smaller rival OfficeMax for $1.2 bn
21 February 2013
Canada approves ExxonMobil's $3.1-bn Celtic Exploration deal
21 February 2013
First Majestic Silver backs out from bidding war over Orko Silver Corp
20 February 2013
AirAsia seeks FIPB nod for 49% stake in JV with Tata Sons
20 February 2013
FBI joins SEC insider trading probe in $28-bn HJ Heinz deal
20 February 2013
US payment processor TSYS to buy prepaid debit card provider NetSpend for $1.4 bn
20 February 2013
Canadian life insurer Great-West Lifeco to buy Irish Life Group for $1.73 bn
19 February 2013
Kazzinc, Verny Capital acquires Kazakhstan gold miner Orion Minerals for $200 mn
19 February 2013
Japan's Orix to buy Robeco Groep from Rabobank for $2.6 billion
19 February 2013
Irish media firm INM to sell South African business for $227 mn
19 February 2013
Tata Group retail arm Trent buys TVS Shriram's stake in Landmark for Rs84 crore
19 February 2013
Hotel Leelaventure to sell Chennai IT Park building to RIL for Rs170.17 crore
19 February 2013
US office supply retailers Office Depot and OfficeMax in merger talks: report
19 February 2013
Metalloinves denies talks to swap Udokan project for stake in Norilsk Nickel
19 February 2013
Office Depot seeks to sell Mexican joint venture unit: report
18 February 2013
Investcorp acquires controlling stake in Scottish oil field services provider Hydrasun
18 February 2013
BT Group in race to buy ESPN football rights: report
18 February 2013
Gujarat NRE Coking Coal rejects Rs1,200 crore bid from JSPL
18 February 2013
SEC files suit, freezes Goldman Sachs account in suspected insider trading in Heinz deal
16 February 2013
Unichem to sell Madhya Pradesh formulation facility to Mylan for Rs160 crore
16 February 2013
GAIL, EDF Trading bid for Repsol's LNG business
16 February 2013
China’s Dongfeng Motor bids $350 mn for electric car maker Fisker Automotive: report
16 February 2013
Merck to pay $688 mn to settle anti-cholesterol drug Vytorin lawsuits
15 February 2013
Andhra HC quashes tax demand on Sanofi over Shantha Biotech buyout
15 February 2013
British regulator stymies $2.2-bn Britvic - A G Barr merger
15 February 2013
US regulator approves £2.4 bn Penguin Group-Random House merger
15 February 2013
Mahindra Satyam acquires majority stake in Brazilian ERP provider Complex IT
15 February 2013
Japan’s Orix Corp to acquire Dutch asset manager Robeco from Rabobank for $2.6 bn: report
15 February 2013
Warren Buffett, 3G Capital to buy HJ Heinz Co for $23 bn
15 February 2013
American Airlines, US Airways merging to form world’s biggest airline
14 February 2013
American Airlines, US Airways boards said to approve merger
14 February 2013
Coeur d'Alene Mines outbids First Majestic with $383 mn offer for Canada’s Orko Silver
14 February 2013
Rio's Turquoise Hill to sell stake in Altynalmas Gold to Sumeru Gold for $300 mn
14 February 2013
China’s Citic Group acquires 13 % in Australia's Alumina for $467 mn
14 February 2013
Bahrain Air to file for liquidation amid rising debt
14 February 2013
Rumours of bid by Apple sends shares of German luxury TV maker Loewe zooming
13 February 2013
Comcast to buy GE's stake in NBC Universal for $16.7 bn; to gain full control
13 February 2013
Go Daddy acquires smartphones website creator M.dot Inc
13 February 2013
GSK among others mulling upto $4-bn bid for Brazilian drugmaker Ache Laboratorios
13 February 2013
US regulators approve $15.1-bn Cnooc-Nexen deal
13 February 2013
At $2.5 bn, Russia’s Sintez emerges highest bidder for Greek energy firm DEPA: report
12 February 2013
Bristol-Myers Squibb enters $482-mn Latin American deal with Reckitt Benckiser
12 February 2013
British private equity firm 3i sells Mold-Masters to Milacron for $963 mn
12 February 2013
Dr Reddy's acquires 93 % shares of OctoPlus; extends offer till 26 February
12 February 2013
Court approves bankrupt Hostess Brands' auction of Twinkies, other brands
12 February 2013
Barclays restructuring includes 3,700 job cuts, annual savings of $2.6 bn
12 February 2013
UK regulator probes accounts of HP-owned software firm Autonomy
12 February 2013
Taj to review options over Orient-Express bid
12 February 2013
Canadian private equity firm Onex to sell 50 % in RSI Home Products
12 February 2013
US generic drug maker Perrigo acquires Rosemont Pharmaceuticals
12 February 2013
Cipla Ltd puts $220-mn bid for South African generic drug maker on hold
12 February 2013
Wallenberg fund, Lindengruppen launches $1.74-bn bid for Sweden's Hoganas
11 February 2013
Hakon Invest to buy Sweden’s largest food retailer ICA AB for $3.1 bn from Ahold
11 February 2013
SEBI grants Diageo request on United Spirits offer
11 February 2013
AOL shares up on first sales rise in eight years
09 February 2013
Major investor opposes $24.4-bn Dell deal
09 February 2013
KazMunaiGas yet to decide on buying ConocoPhillips stake in Kashagan project
09 February 2013
Sun Pharma calls off $600-million buyout of Taro
08 February 2013
Blackstone acquires majority stake in 2 Maldivian seaplane operators
08 February 2013
Airtel revamps ops; continues management rejig
08 February 2013
Kazakh wealth fund acquires 29 % in Glencore-controlled zinc producer Kazzinc
08 February 2013
Blackstone, others to buy Bangalore IT Park for Rs1,950 crore: report
08 February 2013
Washington Post Co to sell The Herald to Black Press Ltd
07 February 2013
American Airlines seeks to extend deadline for reorganisation plan
07 February 2013
BHP mulls sale of Australian coking coal mine
07 February 2013
Google to buy e-commerce firm Channel Intelligence for $125 mln
07 February 2013
US metal processor Reliance Steel to buy Metals USA for $766 million
07 February 2013
CVS Caremark buys Brazilian drugstore chain Drogaria Onofre
07 February 2013
Silver Wheaton in $1.9-bn gold mining deal with Vale
07 February 2013
British renewable-power developer Blue Energy acquires RidgeWind for $391 mn
07 February 2013
Thomas Cook to acquire 74% stake in Ikya for Rs256 crore
06 February 2013
Biogen Idec to pay Elan Corp $3.25 bn plus for full rights of multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri
06 February 2013
French oil giant Total in talks to sell gas network unit for $3.25 bn
06 February 2013
SABMiller, China JV to buy Kingway's brewery assets for S$864 mn
06 February 2013
Canada’s Silver Wheaton in $1.9-bn gold deal with Vale SA
06 February 2013
Liberty Global strikes Virgin Media deal for $15.75 bn
06 February 2013
Kotak Mahindra Bank acquires business loans portfolio of Barclays India
05 February 2013
Dell sells itself to Michael Dell and Silver Lake in a $24.4 billion deal
05 February 2013
Bharti Airtel to buy out Alcatel Lucent stake in JV
05 February 2013
GSK ups stake in Indian arm to 72.5% in a Rs4,800-cr stock deal
05 February 2013
S Korea’s KT Corp in fray for Vivendi's $6-bn stake in Maroc Telecom
05 February 2013
Tata Consulting Engineers acquires Ecofirst
05 February 2013
Diageo’s open offer for United Spirits stake cleared
05 February 2013
Oracle to buy network equipment maker Acme Packet for $2 bn
05 February 2013
Nestle India to acquire 26 % stake in dairy firm Indocon Agro
05 February 2013
MetLife to acquire Chile’s largest pension fund Provida for $2 bn
04 February 2013
Petronas to buy shipping subsidiary MISC Bhd for $2.8 bn
04 February 2013
Sinopec in talks to buy assets over $1 bn from British oil explorer Afren: report
04 February 2013
PPG industrial coatings adds electronic materials products to its portfolio
02 February 2013
IBM to acquire Star Analytics
02 February 2013
Japanese brewer Kirin Holdings to sell entire stake in Fraser and Neave for $1.6 bn
02 February 2013
China syndrome: Geely to take over iconic London taxi cab maker
02 February 2013
Dell founder seeks majority control with own funds
01 February 2013
Fashion e-retailers Inkfruit and Zovi merge
01 February 2013
US govt to block Anheuser-Busch InBev's $20.1-bn Grupo Modelo bid
01 February 2013
ONGC to bid for Videocon’s stake in Mozambique gas field worth $3 bn
01 February 2013
Malaysia’s Petronas offers $2.8 bn for shipping firm MISC buyout
01 February 2013
Bristol-Myers Squibb may sell some brands in Mexico, Brazil: report
01 February 2013
UPS withdraws $6.85-bn offer for TNT Express as EC refuses approval
31 January 2013
AMR CEO Horton’s fate uncertain as merger with US Airways nears
31 January 2013
Deal closer after Etihad team, Jet chief meet Ajit Singh
31 January 2013
Vogue International seeks buyer for Organix Hair Care brand: report
31 January 2013
DLF sells 150 MW Gujarat wind turbine project for Rs282.30 crore
31 January 2013
Avery Dennison to sell office and consumer products units to Canada's CCL for $500 mn
31 January 2013
Endo Health Solutions in talks to sell itself: report
31 January 2013
Sinochem to buy stake in Pioneer Natural Resources' Texas shale gas field for $1.7 bn
31 January 2013
Monsanto acquires Agradis and its microbe assets
30 January 2013
Air India to divest ground handling, MRO subsidiaries
30 January 2013
Bids for Hostess Brands now total $440 million
29 January 2013
Kazakh oil project partners approve ONGC's acquisition of ConocoPhillips' stake
29 January 2013
Samsung acquires US-based portable CT scanners maker NeuroLogica
29 January 2013
Goldman Sachs sells stake in China’s ICBC for $1 bn
29 January 2013
Etihad team to meet Sharma amid talks for stake in Jet
29 January 2013
Compuware rejects Elliott Management's $2.3-bn takeover offer; to spin-off software unit Covisint
28 January 2013
Hinduja Group to buy Belgian media company Alfacam
28 January 2013
Johnson & Johnson weighs sale of Women's Health division: report
28 January 2013
Cisco Systems to sell home networking business to Belkin International
25 January 2013
Coromandel Fertilisers acquires 56.28 % stake in Liberty Phosphates
25 January 2013
Alamos Gold refuses to sweeten C$780-mn bid for fellow Canadian rival Aurizon Mines
25 January 2013
Hilco looking to buy Jessops: reports
25 January 2013
Amazon.com acquires Polish speech-recognition firm Ivona Software
25 January 2013
Cisco to buy Israeli mobile network software maker Intucell for $475 mn
24 January 2013
Exide set to take full control of ING Vysya
24 January 2013
ING exits ING Vysya Life Insurance
23 January 2013
Canadian food retailer Metro to sell 48.2 % in Couche-Tard for $482 million
23 January 2013
Yahoo acquires social news start-up Snip.it
23 January 2013
Allergan to buy adult migraine treatment drug maker MAP Pharmaceuticals for $958 mn
23 January 2013
Restructuring firm Hilco UK buys HMV debt to gain control
23 January 2013
Tata Steel, ICVL escape Rio Tinto’s blunder in Mozambique
22 January 2013
Om Group to sell downstream business to Freeport-McMoRan led JV for $435 mn
22 January 2013
OUE backs out of bidding war for Fraser and Neave
21 January 2013
Cisco picks up minor stake in Russia’s Parallels
19 January 2013
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to acquire SeaCube Container for $467 mn
19 January 2013
IPO seen valuing Pfizer’s animal health unit at $12.5 billion
19 January 2013
Thai billionaire Sirivadhanabhakdi outbids Indonesia’s Overseas Union for F&N
19 January 2013
US regulators seek more concessions in $20.1 bn Anheuser-Busch-Grupo Modelo deal
19 January 2013
Hindalco to acquire alumina refinery from Novelis
18 January 2013
Mexican bottler Coca-Cola FEMSA to buy Grupo Yoli for $700 million
18 January 2013
BHP Billiton's sale of Ekati diamond mine hits roadblock
18 January 2013
Founding family raises takeover offer for American Greetings
18 January 2013
Hewlett-Packard approached by investment bankers: reports
17 January 2013
Silver Lake Partners nears $15 bn financing for Dell acquisition
17 January 2013
ArcelorMittal tables $1.5-bn bid for ThyssenKrupp’s US steel plant
17 January 2013
DLF plans to sell wind energy business to former GE India head for Rs900 crore: report
17 January 2013
PE firm Advent to exit Swiss travel retailer Dufry
16 January 2013
Persistent Systems acquires NovaQuest
16 January 2013
CCI, Sebi seek clarification in Diageo-USL deal
16 January 2013
Stansted Airport attracts three bids worth $1.61 bn each: report
16 January 2013
Yes Bank, IndusInd Bank in talks to buy Royal Bank of Scotland's Indian retail assets: report
16 January 2013
ConocoPhillips to sell Montana, North Dakota oilfileds to Denbury Resources for $1.05 bn
16 January 2013
Dell in talks with buy-out firms to go private: report
15 January 2013
Saint-Gobain to sell North American glass container operation to Ardagh Group for $1.7 bn
15 January 2013
Israel’s Nice Systems in talks to buy rival Verint for $1.5 bn: report
15 January 2013
Pfizer eyes Strides Arcolab’s injectables unit Agila Specialties: report
15 January 2013
Xstrata exits Queensland copper project
14 January 2013
SKF to cut 2,500 jobs due to weak demand in Europe
14 January 2013
Canadian junior gold miner Alamos Gold to buy Aurizon Mines for $792.96 mn
14 January 2013
Altamont Capital, VF Corp table $586-mn offer for Billabong International
14 January 2013
Deloitte completes acquisition of Monitor’s global strategy consulting business
14 January 2013
EC to block TNT's $6.85-bn acquisition by UPS
14 January 2013
Swiss watch maker Swatch to acquire Harry Winston’s watch and jewellery unit for $750 mn
14 January 2013
Canadian uranium producer Uranium One to sell itself to Russia's ARMZ for $2.79 bn
14 January 2013
Hong Kong’s Citic Telecom to acquire Macau telco CTM for $1.16 bn
14 January 2013
HSBC's $9.3.8-bn sale of Ping An stake under a cloud: report
12 January 2013
S Africa’s Impala Platinum sells stake in Zimbabwean subsidiary to locals for $971 mn
12 January 2013
KKR, Temasek in the race to buy Warburg’s stake in Alliance Tire for around $400 mn: report
11 January 2013
GSFC to acquire 19.98 % in Canadian potash Karnalyte for Rs250 crore
11 January 2013
French energy giant EDF sells entire stake in US power group Exelon Corp for $623 mn
11 January 2013
PE firm Cerberus to acquire five supermarket chains from Supervau for $3.3 bn
11 January 2013
Punj Lloyd subsidiary bids for Australian Machmohan Holdings’ construction business
10 January 2013
TransCanada, Progress Energy in $5-bn pipeline deal
10 January 2013
Pearson to exit adult-education arm
09 January 2013
Dish Network trumps Sprint Nextel with unsolicited bid for Clearwire Corp
09 January 2013
LIC bought 50 per cent of shares divested in Hindustan Copper
08 January 2013
Marico to hive off Kaya into separate unit
08 January 2013
Sony Music to team up with BMG to bid for Universal Music Group’s EMI assets: Report
08 January 2013
Illumina to buy Down syndrome test maker Verinata Health in a $450 mn deal
08 January 2013
Government nominates two directors to IFCI board
05 January 2013
Sahara used OFCD money to buy hotel
05 January 2013
NCR acquires software-maker uGenius Technology to boost its video ATM technology
05 January 2013
Vodafone gets reminder over tax dues
05 January 2013
Qatar’s Al Jazeera buys US cable channel Current TV
04 January 2013
Australian regulator expresses concern over Virgin-Tiger merger
04 January 2013
Buffet’s MidAmerican acquires two solar projects in California for $2.5 billion
04 January 2013
Microsoft acquires start-up id8 Group R2 Studios Inc: Reports
03 January 2013
US car rental firm Avis acquires Zipcar for $500 mn
03 January 2013
Geometric acquires Germany's 3Cap Technologies
03 January 2013
ArcelorMittal to sell $1.1 bn stake in Canadian iron ore mine to Posco, China Steel
02 January 2013
Godrej Consumer Products arm acquires Colgate-Palmolive's Soft & Gentle brand in UK
01 January 2013
Carlyle-led consortium to acquire financial advisory firm Duff & Phelps for $666.5 mn
31 December 2012
Toshiba to sell stake in N-power firm Westinghouse
28 December 2012
‘PE funds quadrupled healthcare investment this year’
27 December 2012
Clariant Chemicals sells part of India business to SK Capital for Rs3,029 cr
27 December 2012
Carlyle to sell Japanese drug capsule maker Qualicaps to MCHC for $660 million
26 December 2012
Carlyle and KKR in lead to buy Reynolds and Reynolds for $5 bn: report
26 December 2012
London Stock Exchange trims offer for clearing house LCH.Clearnet
26 December 2012
Qatar Petroleum eyes ADB stake in Petronet LNG
26 December 2012
Billabong takeover moves to the next stage
24 December 2012
US online travel firm Expedia to buy controlling stake in Germany’s trivago for $632 mn
22 December 2012
British insurer Aviva sells US unit for £1.1 bn
21 December 2012
GE to buy the aerospace-parts business of Italy’s Avio for $4.3 bn
21 December 2012
NYSE Euronext and ICE in $8.2-bn merger
21 December 2012
Gulf Oil completes acquisition of Houghton International
21 December 2012
US ceramic tile maker Mohawk to acquire Italian peer Marazzi Group for $1.5 billion
21 December 2012
Crane Co to acquire MEI Conlux Holdings for $820 million
21 December 2012
ConocoPhillips to sell Nigerian businesses to Oando Energy for about $1.79 billion
21 December 2012
Oracle to buy cloud-based marketing software firm Eloqua for $810 mn
21 December 2012
Benckiser snaps up Caribou Coffee for $340 million
21 December 2012
Illumina reportedly agrees to Roche's $8.2-bn takeover offer
21 December 2012
IBM to acquire StoredIQ
20 December 2012
Carlyle Group led consortium to buy Chinese display-advertising provider Focus Media for $3.7 bn
20 December 2012
French cement giant Lafarge seeks to sell minority stake in Indian unit for $300 mn: report
20 December 2012
ICE in talks to acquire NYSE Euronext for around $8 bn: report
20 December 2012
Kodak sells imaging patents for $525 mn
20 December 2012
DLF to sell luxury hotel chain Aman Resorts back to founder Adrian Zecha for Rs1,637 crore
20 December 2012
Knight Capital to sell itself to Getco Holding in $1.4 billion deal
20 December 2012
Nielsen to buy radio station audience rating provider Arbitron for $1.26 billion
20 December 2012
Serco acquires MENA Business Services subsidiary in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
19 December 2012
Mumbai's Transasia acquires Drew Scientific, JAS Diagnostics Inc
19 December 2012
Carl Icahn’s American Railcar bids for rival Greenbrier for $543 mn
19 December 2012
Australian surfwear company Billabong receives $556-mn takeover bid
19 December 2012
ConocoPhillips to sell Algerian business unit to Indonesia’s Pertamina for $1.75 bn
19 December 2012
GE closing in on Italian aerospace firm Avio in over $4-bn deal: report
18 December 2012
Sun Pharma to buy some generic business of Takeda's US subsidiary URL Pharma
18 December 2012
BP sells North Sea gas field stake to utility firm SSE for $288 mn
18 December 2012
M&M to buy out Navistar’s stake in truck JVs
18 December 2012
Sun Pharma’s US unit to buy URL Pharma
18 December 2012
Hedge fund Elliott Management launches $2.3-bn bid for mainframe software maker Compuware
18 December 2012
Billabong International’s Americas head to table $555-mn takeover bid
18 December 2012
Canada’s Sun Life Financial to sell some US businesses to Delaware Life Holdings for $1.35 bn
18 December 2012
Clearwire agrees to Sprint Nextel’s sweetened $2.2 bn offer
17 December 2012
Canada’s First Quantum Minerals sweetens takeover bid to $5.17 bn for Inmet Mining
17 December 2012
After IRDA, SEBI opposes raising LIC investment cap
17 December 2012
Fortis Healthcare to sell entire stake in Australia’s Dental Corp to UK’s Bupa Plc for $285 mn
17 December 2012
Discovery buys Northern European TV channels for $1.7 bn
15 December 2012
LSE to renegotiate LCH deal
15 December 2012
PPG Industries to buy AkzoNobel’s North American architectural coatings business for $1.05 bn
15 December 2012
French defence firm DCNS eyes stake in Pipavav Defence & Offshore Engineering
15 December 2012
Insurance Australia to sell UK business to Aquiline Capital
14 December 2012
Wall Street billionaire Wilbur Ross acquires large stake in NBNK Investments
14 December 2012
Sprint Nextel to buy rest of rival Clearwire for $2.1 bn
14 December 2012
International Paper to sell Building Products unit to Georgia-Pacific for $750 mn
14 December 2012
ArcelorMittal sells 20 % stake in Canada’s Baffinland Iron Ore Mines to partner Nunavut
14 December 2012
PetroChina to buy 49.9 % in Canada’s Encana’s Alberta shale gas prospect for $2.2 bn
14 December 2012
Renault raises $1.93 bn from Volvo stake sale
13 December 2012
Societe Generale to sell majority stake in Egyptian subsidiary to Qatar National Bank for $2 bn
13 December 2012
SPX Corp outbids private equity consortium for Gardner Denver: report
13 December 2012
Rosneft inks deal to buy Russian oligarchs 50% stake in TNK-BP for $28 billion
13 December 2012
Bill Gates becomes Canadian National Rail's largest shareholder with 12 % stake
13 December 2012
GrainCorp rejects Archer Daniels Midland's revised $2.9 bn bid as too low
13 December 2012
UTC to sell Pratt & Whitney’s power systems unit to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
13 December 2012
BT exits Tech Mahindra
12 December 2012
Warburg Pincus seeks $10 bn plus for eye care company Bausch & Lomb
12 December 2012
Chesapeake Energy to sell midstream assets to Access Midstream Partners for $2.16 bn
12 December 2012
PetroChina to buy minority stake in BHP Billiton’s Browse LNG JV for $1.63 bn
12 December 2012
Diageo ends talks to buy tequila brand Jose Cuervo
12 December 2012
Delta buys Singapore Airlines' 49 % stake in Virgin Atlantic
12 December 2012
Roman Abramovich buys Norilsk Nickel stake for $1.49 bn to end battle between two oligarchs
11 December 2012
Spectra Energy to buy Express-Platte oil pipeline system for $1.49 bn
11 December 2012
Sutherland pips Genpact to acquire Apollo Health Street for Rs1,000 crore
11 December 2012
Google to sell Motorola Mobility's China manufacturing plant to Flextronics
11 December 2012
Honeywell to buy Intermec for $600 million
11 December 2012
Amgen to buy Decode Genetics for $415 million
11 December 2012
Fortescue Metals to sell 25 % stake in Nullagine iron-ore mine to BC Iron for $199 mn
10 December 2012
Virgin Atlantic brand may bow out, says British Airways, Iberia chief
10 December 2012
Wanxiang Group gets control of bankrupt US lithium battery maker A123 Systems in $256-mn deal
10 December 2012
Chinese consortium to buy 80 % of AIG’s aircraft leasing unit ILFC for $4.23 bn
10 December 2012
After United Spirits, Diageo eyes US bourbon maker Beam: report
10 December 2012
Apple, Google team up to buy Kodak patents for over $500 mn: report
10 December 2012
Claris transfers infusions business to JV with Japanese cos for Rs1,050 crore
08 December 2012
Wipro to acquire Singapore’s LD Waxson Group for Rs790 crore
08 December 2012
Sanofi still in the race for Bayer’ blood glusose testing business: report
08 December 2012
Russia’s MegaFon acquires 50 % stake in mobile retailer Euroset for $1.1 bn
08 December 2012
China approves Glencore-Viterra $6.2 bn deal
08 December 2012
Australia’s Talison Lithium recommends Chengdu Tianqi’s sweetened $815 mn offer
08 December 2012
Canada approves Cnooc-Nexen $15.1 bn deal
08 December 2012
Chinese consortium in talks to buy controlling stake in AIG’s aircraft leasing unit: report
07 December 2012
Mahindra loses race for Aston Martin
07 December 2012
Norway’s Yara to buy Bunge's Brazilian fertilizer business for $750 mn
07 December 2012
Arcadia Group to sell stake in Topshop/Topman to Leonard Green for $563 mn
07 December 2012
Indonesia’s Medco buys Reliance’s stake in Yemen-9 block
06 December 2012
BHP Billiton eyes US metallurgical coal producer Walter Energy: report
06 December 2012
Italy’s ERG SpA to buy Italian, German wind power assets of GDF Suez for $1.12 bn
06 December 2012
Freeport-McMoRan to buy Plains Exploration, McMoRan Exploration for $9 bn
06 December 2012
Publicis Groupe acquires luxury brands advertising agency AR New York
05 December 2012
Germany’s Intersnack close to buying UK’s KP Snacks for around $644 mn: report
05 December 2012
HSBC to sell entire stake in China's Ping An Insurance to Thai group for $9.38 billion
05 December 2012
Nokia to sell head office to Exilion Capital Oy for $222 mn
05 December 2012
Carl Icahn forced to abandon $3-bn Oshkosh bid
05 December 2012
Baxter International to buy Swedish dialysis product company Gambro for $4 bn
04 December 2012
Piramal arm buys market analytics firm Abacus in UK
04 December 2012
US specialty chemicals firm Innospec withdraws $745 mn bid for TPC Group
04 December 2012
Dean Foods to sell Morningstar dairy to Canada’s Saputo for $1.45 bn
04 December 2012
NSN to sell optical fibre unit to Marlin Equity Partners, cut 650 German jobs
04 December 2012
Batelco to acquire Cable & Wireless Communications assets for $1 bn
04 December 2012
Archer Daniels Midland sweetens offer for Australia’s GrainCorp to $2.9 bn
04 December 2012
Equifax to buy credit services unit of Computer Sciences Corp for $1 bn
04 December 2012
S African miner Gold Fields secures $1.5-bn demerger loan
04 December 2012
Delta plots takeover of Branson's Virgin Atlantic: report
03 December 2012
Woodside Petroleum strikes $1.25 bn Leviathan LNG deal
03 December 2012
MphasiS to acquire US data analytics company Digital Risk for Rs1,100 crore
03 December 2012
Vodafone accelerates integration of C&WW
01 December 2012
UPS offers concessions to complete TNT Express acquisition
01 December 2012
Japan's Fast Retailing to buy majority stake in denim clothing designer J Brand Holdings for $290 mn
30 November 2012
RBS India sale of retail unit to HSBC falls through as deadline ends
30 November 2012
Rio Tinto to cut costs by $5 billion by 2014
30 November 2012
Cisco to buy network traffic-management software firm Cariden Technologies for $141 mn
30 November 2012
Bayer clinches deal for sale of Thane land
30 November 2012
Belden to sell Thermax, Raydex cable businesses to Carlisle for $265 mn
30 November 2012
Aston Martin says it is looking for capital, not buyer
29 November 2012
Siemens to acquire rail automation unit of Invensys for $2.78 bn
29 November 2012
PVR to buy Kanakia Group's controlling stake in Cinemax for Rs395 crore
29 November 2012
NCR Corp to buy Israeli software company Retalix for $650 million
29 November 2012
BP sells stakes in North Sea assets to Abu Dhabi National Energy for $1.06 bn
29 November 2012
Google to acquire marketing firm Incentive Targeting
29 November 2012
Mahindra-Satyam shareholders oppose Tech Mahindra swap ratio
28 November 2012
Smith & Nephew to buy privately-held Healthpoint for $782 million
28 November 2012
Sahara acquires two New York hotels for $800 million
28 November 2012
ConAgra Foods to acquire Ralcorp Holdings for $5 billion
28 November 2012
Multiplex chain operator PVR in talks to buy stake in Cinemax India
28 November 2012
Government looks to raise Rs12,000 crore through sale of 9.5 % in NTPC
27 November 2012
Canadian PE firm Onex acquires US insurance broker USI for $2.3 bn
27 November 2012
ONGC acquires ConocoPhillips’ Kazakh oilfield stake for $5 bn
27 November 2012
Patnis purchase stake in Grameen Capital India
27 November 2012
Dutch dredger Boskalis launches $884-mn bid for maritime transport company Dockwise
27 November 2012
Canadian PE firm Onex to buy US insurance brokerage USI for $2.3 bn
27 November 2012
L'Oréal to buy specialist makeup brand Urban Decay Cosmetics
26 November 2012
Jet Airways, SpiceJet in talks with foreign carriers to sell stakes
26 November 2012
Qatar Holding sells Barclays’ warrants worth $1.24 bn
26 November 2012
OVL to raise $900 mn through overseas bonds to fund acquisitions
24 November 2012
IK Investment plans sale of German fire extinguisher maker Minimax
24 November 2012
China's Chengdu Tianqi gets Australian approval for acquiring Talison Lithium
24 November 2012
European regulator approves $67-bn Glencore-Xstrata deal with conditions
23 November 2012
Fiat Industrial wins CNH Global board's nod with sweetened offer
22 November 2012
GM to buy Ally Financial’s European, LatAm operations for $4.2 bn
22 November 2012
China's Chengdu Tianqi raises stake in takeover target Talison Lithium
22 November 2012
Canadian light oil producer Pinecrest Energy to acquire Spartan Oil for $428 mn
22 November 2012
Cipla offers to acquire controlling stake in Cipla Medpro South Africa for $220 million
21 November 2012
Xstrata-Glencore merger: investors snub £144-million retention bonuses
21 November 2012
Carrefour to divest stake in Indonesian supermarket chain to CT Corp for $673 mn
21 November 2012
China's Chengdu Tianqi launches $803-mn bid for Australia’s Talison Lithium
21 November 2012
TransCanada to buy BP's stake in Crossfield Gas Storage facility for C$210 mn
21 November 2012
ONGC plans dollar bonds to fund $1-bn acquisition of Azerbaijan oilfields: report
21 November 2012
Diageo offers to acquire additional 26 % in United Spirits for Rs5,441 crore
20 November 2012
Bayer backs out from bidding war with Reckitt Benckiser over US vitamins maker Schiff Nutrition
20 November 2012
Glencore shareholders approve $67-bn merger with Xstrata
20 November 2012
Fiat Industrial sweetens takeover offer for CNH Global with cash
20 November 2012
Canadian life sciences company SQI Diagnostics explores sale
20 November 2012
Total to sell Nigerian oilfield stake to China’s Sinopec for $2.5 bn
20 November 2012
CNOOC accepts Canada’s demands for approval of $15.1 bn Nexen deal: report
20 November 2012
Allergan to buy SkinMedica’s skin care unit for $350 million
19 November 2012
HSBC in talks to sell its 15.6 % stake worth $9 bn in China's Ping An Insurance
19 November 2012
LN Mittal to acquire Lafarge, Anglo American's UK assets in £272-mn deal
19 November 2012
Cisco to acquire privately-held cloud networking start-up Meraki for $1.2 bn
19 November 2012
Billabong’s US head plans takeover
19 November 2012
Japan's Komatsu, China's Sinomach in the race for German machine tool maker MAG Group
19 November 2012
Bell Canada, Astral Media devise new takeover plan: report
17 November 2012
Anglo American and Lafarge to sell UK assets to steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal for $452 mn
16 November 2012
KPN to sell German mobile-phone towers to American Tower for $500 mn
16 November 2012
Indonesia’s Overseas Union Enterprise tables $10.7 bn counter-bid for Fraser and Neave
16 November 2012
ArcelorMittal to sell stake in South African miner Kalagadi Manganese for $438 mn
16 November 2012
US specialty chemicals maker Innospec raises bid for TPC Group to $744 mn
15 November 2012
Qantas to cut debt and buyback shares in restructuring
15 November 2012
DLF divests to cut debt; will sell Aman Hotel
15 November 2012
Starbucks to serve tea with $620-mn Teavana Holdings
15 November 2012
GrainCorp rebuffs Archer Daniel Midland's $2.77-bn bid
15 November 2012
Pepsi backs Britvic-Barr deal to create European beverage leader
14 November 2012
Global mobile phones sales fall 3 % in Q3: Gartner
14 November 2012
Fonciere des Murs to buy 165 hotels in France from Carlyle for $646 mn
14 November 2012
Posco consortium to buy $1-bn stake in ArcelorMittal Mines Canada
14 November 2012
Egyptian billionaire Sawiris offers to buy 30 % in Telecom Italia for $6.4 bn: report
12 November 2012
Canada’s home furnishing retailer Leon's Furniture to acquire The Brick for $698.85 mn
12 November 2012
Aditya Birla Group, Prominvest drop plans to acquire Australia’s Northern Iron
12 November 2012
Telstra joins bidding for Leighton assets
10 November 2012
Yamuna a drain with no fresh water: Pollution body
10 November 2012
German retailer Douglas Holding to recommend $2-bn takeover offer from Advent International
10 November 2012
Precision Castparts to acquire Titanium Metals for $2.9 billion
10 November 2012
Orient Express rejects Indian Hotels' takeover bid
09 November 2012
Diageo to acquire 53.4 % in United Spirits for Rs11,165 crore
09 November 2012
Priceline.com to acquire Kayak Software Corp for $1.8 bn
09 November 2012
British Airways owner IAG to buy rest of Spanish budget airline Vueling for $144 mn
09 November 2012
Germany’s Bosch sells entire stake in Japan’s Denso for $1.40 bn
09 November 2012
Boston Scientific to buy Vessix Vascular in a $425 million deal
09 November 2012
Tata Power acquires 26 per cent stake in Indonesian mining firm BSSR
08 November 2012
News Corp buys out ESPN in ESPN Star Sports JV
08 November 2012
UK accountancy firm BDO to merge with rival PKF's UK arm
08 November 2012
Norwegian oil giant Statoil weighs $7.6 billion purchase of Whiting Petroleum: report
08 November 2012
Dutch life sciences company DSM to acquire US food ingredients maker Fortitech for $634 mn
08 November 2012
Sprint Nextel to buy some of US Cellular's spectrum, customers for a $480 mn
08 November 2012
Sinopec close to buying stakes in Nigerian onshore oil blocks from Total for $2.4 bn
07 November 2012
French conglomerate Groupe Limagrain acquires Delhi's Century Seeds
07 November 2012
Gulf Oil acquires US specialty chemicals firm Houghton for $1.05 bn
07 November 2012
Pearson denies plans to sell Financial Times
07 November 2012
Spain’s EDP Renovaveis sells 49 % stake in US wind farms to Canada’s Borealis for $230 mn
07 November 2012
Diageo to buy 51 per cent stake in United Spirits for $2 bn: report
06 November 2012
Icahn’s target-Netflix adopts “poison pill”
06 November 2012
Nike may sell Cole Haan, Umbro to Apax Partners for $500 mn: report
06 November 2012
MetLife to sell $70-bn mortgage servicing portfolio to JPMorgan Chase
05 November 2012
US health insurer Humana to acquire Metropolitan Health Networks for $850 mn
05 November 2012
Chalco still interested in Canada’s Turquoise Hill Resources
05 November 2012
Japan's Inpex to acquire 26 % in ONGC’s KG basin deep sea block
05 November 2012
Hindujas set to acquire US chemicals firm Houghton for $1.1 billion
03 November 2012
China clears Nestle’s $11.85-bn deal for Pfizer's baby food business
03 November 2012
Glencore, Pramod Agarwal in race for Anglo American's Amapa iron ore mine: report
03 November 2012
Canada extends review of $15.1 bn Cnooc-Nexen deal by a month
03 November 2012
Israeli govt rejects Potash Corp’s $15-bn bid for Israel Chemicals
03 November 2012
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to acquire Oriental Trading
02 November 2012
Codelco to sell part stake in Anglo American Sur JV to Mitsui for $998 mn
02 November 2012
Canada’s Crescent Point Energy to acquire Ute Energy Upstream Holdings for $784 mn
02 November 2012
US supply chain software firm RedPrairie to acquire JDASoftware for $1.9 billion
01 November 2012
Carl Icahn gears up for board battle after acquiring 10 % in Netflix
01 November 2012
Sinopec eyes French oil major Maurel & Prom
01 November 2012
French retailer Carrefour to sell Malaysian operations to Japan’s Aeon for $324 mn
01 November 2012
Wipro approves demerger of non-IT businesses into Wipro Enterprises
01 November 2012
Potash Corp in talks to buy Israel Chemical
01 November 2012
PVH Corp to buy apparel firm Warnaco Group for $2.9 billion
31 October 2012
Aditya Birla group eyes majority stake in Living Media: report
31 October 2012
Way cleared for CMH takeover by Murdoch’s News Ltd
31 October 2012
Noble, Posco drop $1.24 billion bid for Australia’s Arrium
31 October 2012
Allergan explores sale of obesity intervention business
31 October 2012
Carlyle Group to buy a Japanese sanitation unit from Sealed Air for a reported $377 mn
31 October 2012
Walt Disney to buy George Lucas's Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion
31 October 2012
Russia's Severstal in talks to buy ArcelorMittlal's assets in France
30 October 2012
Bayer to buy US vitamins maker Schiff Nutrition International for $1.2 bn
30 October 2012
Virgin Australia sells 10 per cent stake to Singapore Airlines
30 October 2012
Penguin, Random House in £2.4-bn merger pact
29 October 2012
PE deals in real estate drop by 15 % in Jan - Sep 2012
29 October 2012
Petronas agrees to Canada’s extended review of Progress Energy deal
29 October 2012
News Corp plans to buy Pearson's Penguin Group for around $1.6 billion: report
29 October 2012
Hitachi consortium close to buying UK’s Horizon nuclear project for around $628 million: report
27 October 2012
Switzerland's Maus Freres acquires controlling stake in French sportswear firm Lacoste
27 October 2012
GAIL mulling purchase of Reliance gas pipeline
27 October 2012
Oshkosh rejects Carl Icahn’s $3-bn unsolicited offer
27 October 2012
Michael Foods, Mexico’s Grupo Lala eye Dean Foods Co's Morningstar unit: report
27 October 2012
Cerveceria Costa Rica to buy North American Breweries for $388 million
27 October 2012
Tata Group renews bid to acquire Orient-Express hotels
27 October 2012
US industrial machinery maker Gardner Denver explores sell-off
27 October 2012
US healthcare firm McKesson buys PSS World Medical for $2.1 bn
26 October 2012
CESC to acquire control of BPO firm Firstsource
25 October 2012
Asos dismisses speculation over bid by Amazon
25 October 2012
Cabinet panel approves sale of 10 per cent equity in NMDC
25 October 2012
Hess to sell interest in Beryl area fields to Shell for $525 mn
25 October 2012
China’s Cathay Fortune goes hostile with A$830-mn bid for Australian miner
25 October 2012
Loop Mobile denies report of being up for sale
25 October 2012
Rupert Murdoch eyes LA Times, Chicago Tribune: report
22 October 2012
Pfizer to buy ADHD drug maker NextWave Pharma for $255 mn
22 October 2012
TRAI allows telcos to issue “combo” recharge vouchers
22 October 2012
L&T Finance Holdings to buy Family Credit for Rs120 crore
22 October 2012
Siemens to exit solar thermal, photovoltaics business
22 October 2012
Consortium led by European PE firm Permira to buy Ancestry.com for $1.6 bn: report
22 October 2012
Archer Daniels launches $2.77-bn bid for rival Graincorp
22 October 2012
Dr Reddy's Laboratories to acquire Dutch specialty pharmaceutical firm OctoPlus for €27.4 mn
22 October 2012
JSPL close to acquiring West African iron ore mine for around $2 bn
22 October 2012
ArcelorMittal bids for ThyssenKrupp’s Americas steel business
22 October 2012
ING to sell its Hong Kong, Macau Thai insurance units to Pacific for $2.14 bn
22 October 2012
French retailer Carrefour to sell Colombian operations to Chile's Cencosud for $2.62 billion
20 October 2012
Sprint Nextel buys controlling stake in Clearwire Corp
20 October 2012
MeadWestVaco to buy Gujarat-based Ruby Macons from Alibhai Nathani
20 October 2012
Canadian government blocks Petronas $5.12-bn bid for Progress Energy
20 October 2012
Russia’s Rosneft nears deal for BP’s TNK-BP stake
19 October 2012
Indian Hotels to make $1.86 billion bid for Orient Express
18 October 2012
Haier to take a controlling stake in New Zealand's Fisher and Paykel
18 October 2012
Wesco International to buy Canadian rival EECOL Electric for $1.16 billion
18 October 2012
C H Robinson to sell payment processing unit T-Chek to Electronic Funds Source for $302.5 mn
18 October 2012
Canada's Penn West Petroleum to sell assets worth$1.32 billion to repay part debt
17 October 2012
ExxonMobil to acquire Canadian oil and gas company Celtic Exploration for $3.1 billion
17 October 2012
UK’s William Hill ups the ante for Sportingbet to £530 million
17 October 2012
ASML to buy lithography light sources supplier Cymer for $2.5 bn
17 October 2012
Cable & Wireless in talks to sell controlling stake in Macau's telecoms unit to Citic Telecom
17 October 2012
US funeral services products maker Hillenbrand to buy Germany’s Coperion for $530 mn
17 October 2012
Karnataka Bank denies reports of takeover bid by ICICI Bank, Kotak Bank
16 October 2012
China's crop nutrient producer Yongye receives $326.3-mn offer to go private
16 October 2012
South Africa’s Invicta to buy Singapore’s Kian Ann Engineering for $155 mn
16 October 2012
CNH Global rejects Fiat Industrial's merger proposal
16 October 2012
Argonaut Gold to buy Prodigy Gold for $348 million
16 October 2012
Rio Tinto rejects Mongolian bid to alter terms for Oyu Tolgoi copper, gold projects
16 October 2012
Russia's MegaFon to buy 51% in mobile retailer Euroset for $1.33 bn
16 October 2012
European PE firm acquires pharmaceutical company Amdipharm for $590 million
15 October 2012
Kreke family, Advent International to buy German retailer Douglas Holding for $2 bn
15 October 2012
French hotel group Accor sells majority stake in 15 Formule 1 hotel chain to Samhi
15 October 2012
ONGC consortium among final three for stake in ConocoPhillips Canadian assets: report
15 October 2012
PE firm Tanglewood Investments puts Ameriforge Group for sale
15 October 2012
Consortium led by a Japan’s Innovation Network planning to buy chipmaker Renesas for$2.55 bn
15 October 2012
Santander nixes £1.7-bn RBS deal
13 October 2012
SunPower takes 42 % stake in Australia's Diamond Energy
13 October 2012
Carlyle's deadline extended for firm offer for Chemring Group
13 October 2012
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund sells Daimler stake worth $1.6 billion
12 October 2012
Coca-Cola Hellenic to exit Greece, seek UK, US listing
12 October 2012
TPG Capital becomes second PE firm to walk away from surfwear retailer Billabong
12 October 2012
Copper explorer Discovery rejects Chinese PE firm Cathay Fortune's $850-mn bid
12 October 2012
Icahn bids $3-bn for Oshkosh in bid to merge it with Navistar
12 October 2012
Platts to acquire global sugar and biofuels information provider
11 October 2012
Chidambaram vows more policy changes to ward off S&P downgrade
11 October 2012
Japan's Softbank in talks to buy controlling stake in Sprint Nextel for more than $19 bn: report
11 October 2012
Apollo Tyres eyes controlling stake in Cooper Tire & Rubber Co: report
11 October 2012
Unitech agrees to sell its Uninor stake to Telenor
11 October 2012
ING to sell Malaysian insurance business to AIA Group for $1.73 bn
11 October 2012
Danaher, Cooper to sell Apex Tool to Bain Capital for $1.6 billion
11 October 2012
BAE, EADs in last minute negotiations to save deal
10 October 2012
IRB Infrastructure completes acquisition of MVR Infrastructure & Tollways
10 October 2012
European regulator to raise concerns on UPS-TNT Express merger
10 October 2012
Canada’s AuRico Gold to sell Ocampo mine to Carlos Slim's Minera Frisco for $750 mn
10 October 2012
Toshiba to buy Shaw's stake in Westinghouse Electric for $1.6 billion
10 October 2012
PE firm Advent International to buy coating resins business of Cytec for $1.03 bn
10 October 2012
Spectrum Brands to buy Stanley Black & Decker's home business unit for $1.4 bn
09 October 2012
BP to sell Texas refinery to Marathon Petroleum in a $2.5 billion deal
09 October 2012
Innospec launches $721-mn bid for rival specialty chemicals maker TPC Group
09 October 2012
UnitedHealth to buy 90 % in Brazil's Amil Participacoes for $4.9 bn
08 October 2012
VLCC Healthcare in talks s to buy Malaysia’s Wyann in a Rs 100-crore-plus deal: report
08 October 2012
South Korea’s SK Telecom sells 2.85 % stake in Posco for $396 mn
08 October 2012
BAE - EADs mega merger on the rocks
06 October 2012
Canada extends review of Petronas $5.12 bn bid for Progress Energy
06 October 2012
Autodesk acquires Qontext from Hyderabad-based Pramati Technologies
06 October 2012
Hoax email claims Chinese bid for Australian mine engineering firm Macmohan Holdings
05 October 2012
Woolworths to spin off $1.4-bn shopping centres portfolio
05 October 2012
Unilever mulls selling Skippy peanut butter brand
05 October 2012
Hinduja Group in the lead to buy specialty chemicals maker Houghton International: report
05 October 2012
Chinese PE firm Cathay Fortune to buy copper miner Discovery Metals for $850 mn
05 October 2012
Qantas withdraws bid for temporary approval of alliance with Emirates Airlines
04 October 2012
Pearson chief's plans to step down sparks talk of Financial Times' sale
04 October 2012
OIL, IOC acquire 30 per cent in Carrizo’s shale gas assets in US for $82.5 million
04 October 2012
Tata Power scouting for coal assets in US, Africa, Columbia
04 October 2012
GSPC takes 65.12 per cent in Gujarat Gas for Rs2,464 crore
03 October 2012
Diageo closer to United Spirits deal, say reports
03 October 2012
Sanofi to acquire Colombian affordable drugmaker Genfar
03 October 2012
KazMunaiGas eyes ConocoPhillips stake in Kashagan oil field
03 October 2012
Japan’s Softbank to acquire smaller rival eAccess for $2.3 billion
03 October 2012
Integrys Energy to buy alternative fuel developer Fox Energy for $440 mn
01 October 2012
3M to acquire ceramic component maker Ceradyne for $847 million
01 October 2012
Magna International to acquire Germany’s ixetic Verwaltungs for $396 mn
01 October 2012
Informatica Corp to buy Germany’s Heiler Software
01 October 2012
Australia’s Arrium rejects $1-bn bid from Noble, Posco consortium
01 October 2012
Xstrata to back Glencore’s merger proposal
01 October 2012
Reliance to buy BP’s Malaysian petrochemicals plant for $230 million
29 September 2012
Dexia finalises sale of Turkish banking unit DenizBank to Sberbank, for $3.88 bn
29 September 2012
Dalmia Cement buys Adhunik Cement for Rs560 crore
28 September 2012
Dutch brewer Heineken finally wins control of Tiger beer maker APB
28 September 2012
ThyssenKrupp to sell Tailored Blanks car parts unit to China’s Wisco
28 September 2012
PE firm Apax Partners in talks to sell stake in Apollo Hospitals: report
28 September 2012
Medtronic to acquire orthopaedic device maker China Kanghui for $816 mn
28 September 2012
Dean Foods explores sale of Morningstar division
28 September 2012
Invesco set to acquire 49% in Religare’s unit for Rs450 crore: report
27 September 2012
Cerberus Capital to sell controlling stake in Japan’s Aozora Bank for $2.5 bn
27 September 2012
AIA Group to acquire Sri Lankan insurer Aviva NDB for $109 million
27 September 2012
Promoters offer to buy China’s budget hotel chain 7 Days Group for $635 mn
27 September 2012
BAE looks to merger lifeline to stay on course
27 September 2012
Canada’s CGI in $871-mn deal with US defence agency
27 September 2012
PE firm Onex to buy Germany’s KraussMaffei Technologies
27 September 2012
American Greetings receives $580-mn takeover offer from CEO
27 September 2012
Ericsson buys Canadian telecom software provider ConceptWave Software
26 September 2012
PE firm Onex close to buying KraussMaffei Technologies for $906 million: report
26 September 2012
Glencore slashes Kazzinc deal; aims to lift stake to 69.6%
26 September 2012
Canada’s Valeant Pharma acquires QLT’s Visudyne for over $112.5-mn
25 September 2012
Diageo in talks to acquire stake in Mallya’s United Spirits
25 September 2012
Leighton Holdings to sell telecom assets to pay debt
25 September 2012
ONGC denies bidding $5 bn for ConocoPhillips' Canadian oil sand assets
25 September 2012
Cairn Energy selling 8 per cent stake in India arm
25 September 2012
Groupon acquires fine dining discount website Savored
25 September 2012
PE firm Advent to buy Dutch pharmacy chain Mediq for $1.01 bn
24 September 2012
Virgin Australia raises issues over Qantas - Emirates proposed alliance
24 September 2012
Management to acquire New York's iconic Village Voice, others
24 September 2012
Qatar Holding in talks to buy Eike Batista's gold company AUX for $2 bn: report
24 September 2012
Bombay HC adjourns Vodafone transfer pricing case to 5 October
24 September 2012
Oilfields surveyor CGGVeritas to acquire Fugro’s seismic division for €1.2 bn
24 September 2012
Xstrata delays Glencore merger decision
22 September 2012
Diageo in talks to buy stake in Vijay Mallya's United Spirits: report
22 September 2012
Sunland sells Palazzo Versace hotel
22 September 2012
Dulux inches closer to Alesco takeover
22 September 2012
Mitsui’s stake buy in Arch Pharma gets CCI nod
22 September 2012
EU and US regulators approve Universal Music-EMI $1.9 bn deal
22 September 2012
Canada Pension Fund to buy Tomkins air distribution unit for $1.1 bn
22 September 2012
Future Group to buy grocery chain Big Apple for Rs61.4 crore
21 September 2012
LeapFrog Investments buys 15% in Mahindra Insurance Brokers for Rs80 crore
21 September 2012
ExxonMobil to buy Bakken shale assets from Denbury Resources for $1.6 bn
21 September 2012
BSkyB allowed to retain broadcast license
21 September 2012
Canadian gold miner B2Gold to buy Australia’s CGA Mining for $1.1 bn
20 September 2012
US cable operator Liberty Global to buy rest of Belgium’s Telenet for $2.56 bn
20 September 2012
Royal DSM in talks to buy Cargill's culture and enzymes business
20 September 2012
Boston Scientific to acquire heart device maker BridgePoint Medical
20 September 2012
Britain’s Hamleys sold to French toys giant Ludendo for £60 mn
18 September 2012
China's Meijin Energy launches $457-mn bid for Australia’s Western Desert Resources
18 September 2012
Technology incubator Science buys Indian start-up Pinpuff
18 September 2012
Google acquires Germany’s iOS photo editing app Snapseed maker Nik Software
18 September 2012
Vodafone tax decision after Shome panel report: FM
18 September 2012
Itochu Corp to buy two units of Dole Food Co for $1.68 bn
18 September 2012
Danaher acquires diagnostic systems maker Iris for $338 mn
18 September 2012
Lowe's withdraws $1.8 bn bid for Canadian home improvement retailer Rona
17 September 2012
Airtel launches voice-based navigation service in Chennai
17 September 2012
Tech Mahindra acquires 51 % stake Comviva Technologies
17 September 2012
Alliance Boots to buy 12% in China’s Nanjing Pharmaceutical for $88 million
17 September 2012
Australia’s surf-wear brand Rip Curl receives takeover offers
17 September 2012
Kodak may not divest patents; seeks royalties through new licensing company
15 September 2012
BP to sell entire stake in Draugen field to Royal Dutch Shell for $240 mn
15 September 2012
Seven Group seeks to allay competition concerns over Foxtel stake
14 September 2012
Bayer HealthCare to buy Teva Pharma' US animal health business for$145 mn
14 September 2012
Private equity firms eye office supply store chain Staples Inc: report
14 September 2012
EADS, BAE likely to unite, battle Boeing defence dominance
14 September 2012
Amul proposes acquiring loss-making Delhi Milk Scheme
12 September 2012
China’s Haier Group offers to buy rest of Fisher and Paykel Appliances for $710.36 mn
12 September 2012
Morgan Stanley, Citigroup agree Smith Barney price of $13.5 bn
12 September 2012
Max India selling its films business to German firm
11 September 2012
ITC buys 5.74 mn shares of EIH for Rs42 cr to up stake to 16%
10 September 2012
Infosys to buy Swiss consulting firm Lodestone for Rs1,900 crore
10 September 2012
Transocean to sell 38 shallow-water drilling rigs to Shelf Drilling for $1.05 bn
10 September 2012
BP near $7 bn Gulf of Mexico assets sale to Plains Exploration
10 September 2012
Snyder's-Lance to buy Pretzel Crisps maker Snack Factory for $340 million
10 September 2012
Swiss miner Xstrata finds Glencore’s new offer too low
10 September 2012
Carlyle Group to buy Cogentrix Energy from Goldman Sachs
08 September 2012
Godrej to divest all 43% stake in JV with chocolate maker Hershey
08 September 2012
ONGC Videsh buys Hess’s stake in Azerbaijan’s ACG fields for $1 billion
08 September 2012
Deccan Chargers good fit for Videocon's brands: Venugopal Dhoot
07 September 2012
Britvic-Barr merger faces no threat from rival bidder: Analysts
07 September 2012
Consolidated Media to back News Corp take over offer
07 September 2012
US home security and automation firm Vivint explores $2 bn selloff: report
06 September 2012
Australia's Billabong receives another A$694 mn offer from mystery suitor
06 September 2012
ING to sell stake in Capital One Financial for $3 billion
05 September 2012
Tech Data to buy technology products distribution companies of SDG for $350 mn
05 September 2012
JSPL acquires Candian listed firm, CIC Energy Corp
05 September 2012
3M abandons $550-mn Avery Dennison office products deal after DoJ threatens lawsuit
05 September 2012
Canadian PE firm Onex to buy SGS International for $813 million
05 September 2012
Fortescue Metals cuts capex plans; sells power station
05 September 2012
Campari to acquire Jamaican rum maker Lascelles de Mercado
05 September 2012
ONGC's $5-bn plan for ConocoPhillips' Canadian assets hits roadblock
04 September 2012
Ericsson leads race for Nokia Siemens' support systems business
04 September 2012
Chidambaram rules out rash action against Vodafone
04 September 2012
Tech Mahindra acquires Hutchison’s BPO arm for $87 million
04 September 2012
Canada’s Valeant to acquire Medicis Pharmaceutical for $2.6 bn
04 September 2012
Germany's Fresenius drops $4.09 bn bid for rival Rhoen-Klinikum
04 September 2012
Row erupts over sale of Queensland cotton farm to Chinese
04 September 2012
Lachlan Murdoch takes full control of DMG Radio Australia
04 September 2012
Blackstone acquires 33 % stake in specialty fragrance maker SH Kelkar for Rs243 crore
03 September 2012
UAE’s Etihad Airways increases stake in Virgin Australia to 10%
03 September 2012
Redrow chief makes £560-mn bid to win back control
01 September 2012
US Airways and bankrupt AMR evaluate potential merger
01 September 2012
China’s Shandong buys stake in Germany’s Kion Group for $922 mn
31 August 2012
Carlyle Group buys DuPont’s coating business for $4.9 bn
31 August 2012
BT raises Tech Mahindra divestment to 14.1 %
31 August 2012
Bank of Nova Scotia to buy ING Direct Canada for $3.14 bn
30 August 2012
Orchid sells API, R&D unit to Hospira for Rs1,113 crore to reduce debt
30 August 2012
BT sells part stake in Tech Mahindra for Rs556 crore
30 August 2012
Japanese AC maker Daikin to acquire Goodman Global for $3.7 bn
30 August 2012
Dublin's The Burlington Hotel goes for sale at a quarter of its value
29 August 2012
KKR offers to buy controlling stake in Japanese chip maker Renesas: report
29 August 2012
General Dynamics acquires defence operations of Gayston Corp
29 August 2012
PE firm Advent close to buying majority stake in German retailer Douglas Holding
29 August 2012
Daikin said to buy US rival Goodman Global for $3.82 bn
29 August 2012
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice to buy wedding dress retailer David's Bridal for $1.05 bn
29 August 2012
CCI clears Aditya Birla group’s acquisition of stake in Living Media
28 August 2012
First Reserve, SK Capital to buy chemicals firm TPC for $850 mn
28 August 2012
Lexmark International to axe 1,700 jobs, shut Philippines inkjet supplies facility
28 August 2012
HCL Infosystems denies media report of talks over stake sale to Lenovo
28 August 2012
Thailand’s PTT offers to buy thermal coal miner Sakari Resources for $960 mn
28 August 2012
PE firm Thoma Bravo acquires software developer Deltek for $1.1 bn
28 August 2012
Australia’s Sundance Resources accepts Hanlong's lowered offer of $1.4 bn
28 August 2012
IBM to acquire HR software maker Kenexa Corp for $1.3 billion
27 August 2012
BHP Billiton to sell Yeelirrie uranium deposit to Cameco for $430 mn
27 August 2012
Hertz to buy Dollar Thrifty for $2.3 bn after years of standoff
27 August 2012
L&T sells off plastics arm to Toshiba Machine
27 August 2012
L&T to divest stake in infrastructure arm
27 August 2012
PE firm Permira to buy Japan's largest sushi restaurant chain Akindo Sushiro for $1 bn
25 August 2012
CVC Capital weighs bid for Marks & Spencer: report
25 August 2012
Kodak to sell document imaging businesses, focus on commercial printing
24 August 2012
Australian magnate Tinkler drops Whitehaven Coal takeover bid
24 August 2012
Australia’s Future Fund to acquire infrastructure assets for $2 bn
24 August 2012
China's Shandong hopes to buy stake in German fork lift maker Kion Group: report
24 August 2012
Hain Celestial Inc to buy Premier Foods Plc for £200 million
24 August 2012
Rockwood Holdings buys Talison Lithium for C$724 mn
24 August 2012
Sony Pictures Television takes majority stake in Left Bank Pictures
23 August 2012
Glencore threatens to abandon $90 billion merger with Xstrata
23 August 2012
GVK gets green light for its $10-bn coal-and-rail project in Australia
23 August 2012
ConocoPhillips sells stake in a Russian joint venture to partner Lukoil
23 August 2012
Vendanta seeks shareholders' nod to up offer price for Hindustan Zinc, Balco
22 August 2012
Kraft Foods to sell 'Back to Nature' food brand to PE firm Brynwood Partners
22 August 2012
InterActiveCorp offers to buy Times Co’s About.com for over $300 mn: report
22 August 2012
UPS extends buyout offer period for Dutch rival TNT Express to November
22 August 2012
Aetna to buy Coventry Healthcare in $5.7-bn deal
22 August 2012
Kinder Morgan to sell stake in pipeline and other assets for $1.8 billion
22 August 2012
BAA agrees to sale of Stansted
21 August 2012
Tata Global Beverage completes acquisition of Russia’s SuntyCo
18 August 2012
Carlyle eyes British military equipment maker Chemring
18 August 2012
Qatar Holding buys stake in British airport operator BAA in $1.4 bn deal
18 August 2012
Heineken raises bid for Asia Pacific Breweries to $4.5 billion
18 August 2012
Cairn acquires 60 per cent Block 1 stake in Orange Basin from PetroSA
18 August 2012
Canada’s Teachers fund, Kirkbi to invest $614 mn in Danish facilities group ISS
16 August 2012
US payment processor Global Payments to buy Accelerated Payment for $413 mn
16 August 2012
Sharp denies plan to sell Sakai solar cell plant
16 August 2012
South Korea's Woongjin Holdings to sell stake in Woongjin Coway for $965 mn
16 August 2012
TCS acquires Pune-based strt-up for Rs188 crore
16 August 2012
GSK to sell Australian generic portfolio to Aspen Pharma
16 August 2012
Carlyle Group to buy Getty Images for $3.3 bn
16 August 2012
Thomas Cook completes sale of Indian operations to Prem Watsa’s Fairbridge Capital
14 August 2012
Mongolia opposes Chalco’s bid for Ivanhoe Mines' stake in SouthGobi Resources
14 August 2012
Google to buy Frommer brand of travel guidebooks
14 August 2012
Grand Slam Asset Management rejects Sun Pharma’s sweetened offer for Taro
14 August 2012
Tokyo Electron to buy chipmaker FSI International for $252.5 million
14 August 2012
Pfizer files IPO for animal health unit Zoetis Inc
14 August 2012
BP to sell California refinery to Tesoro Corp for $2.5 billion
13 August 2012
DLF sells Mumbai plot to Lodha Developers for Rs2,750 crore
13 August 2012
RIM looking to sell NewBay: report
13 August 2012
Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates invest Rs298.5 crore in Nova Medical
13 August 2012
Switzerland’s Julius Baer to buy BofAML’s non-US wealth units for $882 mn
13 August 2012
Sun Pharma to buy out Israel’s Taro for $571 million
13 August 2012
BP to sell US midstream gas assets to Eagle Rock Energy for $227.5 mn
11 August 2012
Sun Pharma to spin off domestic formulations business into Sun Resins & Polymers
11 August 2012
Reliance Industries sells stake in Yemen block to Indonesia's Medco Energi
10 August 2012
Republicans see red in proposed Wanxiang-A123 Systems green deal
10 August 2012
IBM eyes RIM’s enterprise division: report
10 August 2012
AstraZeneca to pay Bristol-Myers Squibb $135 mn more for Amylin drug rights
10 August 2012
Nokia to sell 500 wireless patents to US mobile ringtone firm Vringo for $22 mn
09 August 2012
National Oilwell Varco to buy rival Robbins & Myers for $2.54 billion
09 August 2012
Nokia to sell its Qt software business to Finnish IT services firm Digia Oyj
09 August 2012
US battery maker A123 Systems to get $450-mn lifeline from China’s Wanxiang
09 August 2012
Warner Chilcott scraps sale plans; to pay $1 billion dividend
08 August 2012
CIL plans South African arm to push coal mine acquisitions
08 August 2012
DSM to buy Brazilian animal-nutrition company Tortuga for $575 mn
08 August 2012
Thai billionaire Charoen upsets Heinken’s $6 bn bid for Tiger Beer maker
08 August 2012
Gina Rinehart appeals to Fairfax retail shareholders
08 August 2012
Canada’s Endeavour Mining to buy Avion Gold for C$389 million
08 August 2012
CJ Korea Express may bid for US-based freight forwarder Phoenix International
08 August 2012
Employees Provident Fund approves Reliance Capital stake sale to Nippon Life
07 August 2012
Carl Icahn offers to buy rest of CVR Energy at $29 a share
07 August 2012
BC Partners to buy German generic drugs maker Aenova for $618 mn
07 August 2012
Citigroup to sell UK and Ireland Diners Club card businesses to Affiniture Cards
07 August 2012
Australian gold producer Silver Lake to buy Integra Mining for $446 mn
07 August 2012
Spyker claims $3-bn from GM for Saab's bankruptcy
07 August 2012
Best Buy founder offers to take company private for at least $8.16 billion
07 August 2012
General Motors eyes lightweight steel market with NanoSteel stake
07 August 2012
Noble Energy to buy stakes in Falkland Oil licences
06 August 2012
Rival banks eye Royal Bank of Scotland's US retail division Citizens Bank: report
06 August 2012
PE firm Advent buys majority stake in AOT
06 August 2012
Government may start divestment process with IPO by RINL
04 August 2012
F&N to sell stake in Tiger brewer to Heineken for $4.1 bn
04 August 2012
US chip-design software firm to buy Taiwan's Springsoft for $406 mn
04 August 2012
Advent International may buy Serta mattress maker National Bedding for $3 bn: report
04 August 2012
Kishore Biyani to take over Rs170-cr Deccan Chronicle loan
04 August 2012
Sun Pharmaceuticals eyes German generic-drug maker Stada: report
03 August 2012
Heineken bags Singapore’s Tiger beer maker APB with raised bid: report
03 August 2012
AT&T to buy NextWave Wireless Inc for $600 mn
03 August 2012
Glencore to sell Viterra’s stake in Canadian Fertilizers to CF Industries for $911 mn
03 August 2012
Schneider Electric receives two buyout offers for sensors subsidiary CST
03 August 2012
Lenovo, EMC form strategic alliance
02 August 2012
Bain Capital to buy 30 % of Genpact for $1 billion
02 August 2012
Australia's Sundance Resources expects Hanlong's offer to be lowered
01 August 2012
Google acquires social media marketing start-up Wildfire
01 August 2012
Canadian retailer Rona rejects Lowe's $1.8-bn takeover offer
01 August 2012
Hawker Beechcraft union opposes sale to China's Superior Aviation
31 July 2012
AkzoNobel signs agreement to sell its shares in ICI Pakistan
31 July 2012
ABB to acquire the rail business of RGM
31 July 2012
Sahara India buying controlling stake in New York's Plaza Hotel for $570 mn
31 July 2012
General Atlantic Partners in talks to buy stake in online retailer Snapdeal: report
31 July 2012
Sundance Resources in trading halt ahead of Chinese regulatory approval
31 July 2012
Aditya Birla outbid by Swiss-Russian trading firm Prominvest for Northern Iron
31 July 2012
ConAgra to buy Unilever’s N American frozen meal business for $265 mn
31 July 2012
Oracle to buy network virtualisation software maker Xsigo Systems
30 July 2012
CB&I to buy engineering firm Shaw Group for $3.04 billion
30 July 2012
Malaysia's Petronas sweetens bid for Canada’s Progress Energy to $5.12 bn
28 July 2012
Twitter, Apple talked of massive intevestments in the social network
28 July 2012
Apple to buy fingerprint-authentication firm AuthenTec for $356 mn
27 July 2012
Harry Winston in talks to buy Rio Tinto's stake in Canada’s Diavik Mine: report
27 July 2012
TPG Capital buys Chinese packaging company HCP Holdings
27 July 2012
United Technologies-Goodrich $16.5 bn deal receives conditional EU approval
26 July 2012
Wockhardt completes divestment of nutrition business to Danone
26 July 2012
UTC to divest Hamilton units to Carlyle Group, BC Partners for $3.46 bn
26 July 2012
Toyota Motor's trading arm Toyota Tsusho to buy luxury retailer PPR's stake in auto distributor CFAO
26 July 2012
Billionaire Li Ka-shing to acquire UK gas-distributor WWU for $1 bn
26 July 2012
Specialty chemicals maker TPC Group enters talks to go private for $600 mn: report
26 July 2012
PetroChina to acquire stake in Qatar's natural gas block from GDF Suez
26 July 2012
Three PE firms submit final bids for DuPont’s vehicle paint unit: report
25 July 2012
Carlyle Group, BC Partners team up for UTC’s Hamilton units
25 July 2012
Anglo American to buy majority stake in Mozambique’s Revuboe coal for $555 mn
25 July 2012
Aditya Birla Group raises bid for Australian iron ore miner Northern Iron to $532 mn
24 July 2012
Satellite imagery provider DigitalGlobe to buy larger rival GeoEye for $453 mn
24 July 2012
Stanley Black & Decker to buy Infastech for $850 mn
24 July 2012
Wipro to buy Yardley in UK; add Woods of Windsor brand
24 July 2012
Sinopec to buy stake in Talisman's North Sea assets for $1.5 bn
24 July 2012
Germany's Joh A Benckiser to acquire Peet's Coffee & Tea for $1 bn
24 July 2012
After dumping JSW Energy, Canada’s CIC Energy to ink $114 mn deal with JSPL
24 July 2012
TPG Capital returns with $712 mn offer for Australia’s Billabong
24 July 2012
Cnooc making China’s largest acquisition with Canada’s Nexen for $15.1 bn
24 July 2012
UTC to sell Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne unit to GenCorp for $550 mn
23 July 2012
US power producers NRG Energy, GenOn Energy to merge in $1.7-bn all-stock deal
23 July 2012
Murdoch quits UK newspapers’ boards before News Corp split
23 July 2012
TCS, Cognizant and Infosys in the race to buy Swiss consultancy firm Lodestone: report
23 July 2012
Citic Securities to buy Credit Agricole SA’s Asian CLSA unit for $1.25 bn
23 July 2012
Google acquires start-up email management software provider Sparrow
21 July 2012
European regulator widens probe into $6.4-bn UPS-TNT deal
21 July 2012
Shell now eyes Anadarko’s stake in Mozambique offshore gas fields: report
21 July 2012
P&G to buy rest of Spanish Arbora & Ausonia JV for $1 bn
21 July 2012
TPG Capital eyes Australian media company Nine Entertainment: report
20 July 2012
Heineken launches $4.1-bn bid for Fraser & Neave’s stake in Tiger beer maker
20 July 2012
Israel’s Taro rejects Sun Pharma’s $367-mn buyout offer
20 July 2012
LSE, SGX in merger talks, after trading agreement: Report
20 July 2012
Lloyds Banking Group to sell 632 branches to Co-operative
20 July 2012
Chevron acquires RIL's Kurdistan blocks
20 July 2012
SAIL disinvestment gets CCEA nod
20 July 2012
Tamasek, Chinese bank to take stake in RCom's cable business
19 July 2012
Georgia Gulf to buy PPG Industries' commodity chemicals business for $2.1 bn
19 July 2012
French utility Veolia to sell US waste management unit to Highstar Capital for $1.9 bn
19 July 2012
Consortium led by BC Partners to buy US cable operator Suddenlink for $6.6 bn
19 July 2012
Go Daddy buys cloud-based accounting software firm Outright.com
19 July 2012
Jindal Steel & Power in talks to buy Canadian coal developer CIC Energy
19 July 2012
Canada’s Cogeco Cable to buy US-based Atlantic Broadband for $1.36 bn
19 July 2012
Biocon plans merger with biopharma subsidiary
18 July 2012
Russia’s Nord Gold to take full control of High River Gold Mines
18 July 2012
ManpowerGroup acquires 100 per cent stake in Web Development Company
18 July 2012
SAIC to acquire maxIT Healthcare Holdings for $473 million
18 July 2012
Ireland’s Ryanair bids €694 mn for rival Aer Lingus
18 July 2012
Microsoft faces EC fine for failure to comply with browser undertaking
18 July 2012
Steris Corp to buy diagnostics company US Endoscopy for $270 million
17 July 2012
Samsung to acquire CSR’s mobile handset business for $310 million
17 July 2012
RIL in talks to sell entire stake in Kurdistan oil fields to Chevron for $200 mn
17 July 2012
Australian wealth manager ClearView spurns CCP BidCo’s $220-mn bid
17 July 2012
Human Genome Sciences agrees to GSK's revised $3-bn offer
17 July 2012
Ultimate Logistics, MEEL and Ushdev jointly offer to acquire 26 per cent in Lloyd Steel
16 July 2012
Tata Steel exits Dutch recycler HKS Scrap Metals Co
16 July 2012
TPG Capital to acquire Par Pharmaceutical for $1.9 billion
16 July 2012
Thermo Fisher to acquire One Lambda for $925 mn
16 July 2012
Comcast takes full control of MSNBC.com, buys Microsoft’s stake for $300 mn
16 July 2012
GSK to close Human Genome Sciences acquisition with $2.8-bn revised offer: report
16 July 2012
Tube Investments to acquire industrial gear maker Shanthi Gears
16 July 2012
Areva to sell gold producing unit La Mancha to Weather II for C$315 mn
14 July 2012
Tinkler's consortium launches $5.3-bn bid for Australia's Whitehaven Coal
14 July 2012
Bain Capital, Singapore’s GIC plan joint bid for Genpact stake: report
13 July 2012
Ontario Teachers fund to buy majority stake in Norwegian clothing brand Helly Hansen
13 July 2012
Vivendi seeks buyer for its $8.1-bn stake in Activision Blizzard: report
13 July 2012
Australia’s Telstra sells NZ subsidiary to Vodafone for A$660 million
13 July 2012
Premier Oil acquires majority stake in Rockhopper’s Falkland field for $1 bn
13 July 2012
Japan’s advertising giant Dentsu to buy British rival Aegis for $5 billion
12 July 2012
Qatari royal family buys iconic Italian fashion house Valentino for $857 mn
12 July 2012
PE firm Carlyle acquires 10 per cent in Infotech Enterprises for Rs210 crore
12 July 2012
BHP Billiton plans sale of Brazilian aluminium assets: report
12 July 2012
Bristol-Myers Squibb launches tender offer for Amylin
12 July 2012
South Africa's Mondi Group to buy German packaging firm for $782 mn
11 July 2012
Comcast to sell stake in A&E Television to Walt Disney, Hearst for $3.02 bn
11 July 2012
Maxis seeks to exit Aircel: report
11 July 2012
South Africa's Adcock Ingram to buy Cosme Farma drug business for Rs480 crore
11 July 2012
ONGC, IOC, OIL to bid for ConocoPhillips Canadian oil sand assets worth $5 bn
11 July 2012
L&T’s Tomco Switchgear acquires Henikwon Corp of Malaysia
10 July 2012
Intel to invest $4.1 bn in ASML Holdings for developing next-gen chips
10 July 2012
TPG Capital acquires Chinese cosmetics packaging firm HCP Holdings for $600 mn
10 July 2012
Remy Cointreau in exclusive talks to buy Scottish whisky maker Bruichladdich
10 July 2012
Microsoft to acquire large touchscreen display maker Perceptive Pixel
10 July 2012
HSBC sells Irish insurance business to Catalina Holdings
09 July 2012
Campbell Soup to buy Bolthouse Farms for $1.55 bn
09 July 2012
Thomson Reuters to acquire forex trading portal FX Alliance for $625 mn
09 July 2012
KKR to buy German cutlery, coffee machines maker WMF for $727 mn
09 July 2012
Schlumberger acquires 20 % stake in Chinese rival Anton Oilfield Services
09 July 2012
Xstrata postpones vote on $90-bn Glencore merger
07 July 2012
ArcelorMittal to hike stake in JV with China’s Valin to 49 per cent
06 July 2012
Volkswagen to own Porsche’s automobile business by 1 Aug
06 July 2012
Gina Rinehart cuts stake in Fairfax Media
06 July 2012
GKN acquires Volvo’s aerospace unit for £633 million
06 July 2012
Aditya Birla group acquires Terrace Bay Pulp Mill for around Rs2,000 crore
06 July 2012
Maple’s takeover of TMX Group clears major hurdles
05 July 2012
M&M in talks to acquire stake in Beechcraft: reports
05 July 2012
Serum Institute buys Netherlands's Bilthoven Biologicals for $40 million
04 July 2012
TCIL to acquire 60 per cent NESMA Group stake in TCIL Saudi Co
04 July 2012
Dabur exits UAE cosmetics distributor Weikfield
03 July 2012
Microsoft to take $6.2-bn charge on 2007 online ad firm acquisition
03 July 2012
Dell outbids Insight Venture Partners to acquire Quest Software for $2.4 bn
03 July 2012
Essar Energy sells 50 % stake in Vietnam gas block to ENI
02 July 2012
Germany’s industrial gases supplier Linde AG to acquire Lincare for $4.6 bn
02 July 2012
Three Bahrain banks to merge to form a banking major
02 July 2012
Heritage Oil to buy Nigerian oil assets for $850 million
02 July 2012
St Barbara to acquire Allied Gold’s assets at 90 % premium
30 June 2012
Yatra.com to acquire Travelguru.com
30 June 2012
Staples to buy out Future Group's stake in joint venture: report
30 June 2012
Bristol-Myers Squibb, AstraZeneca expand alliance through Amylin acquisition
30 June 2012
Sony closes $2.2-bn purchase of EMI Publishing
30 June 2012
Cairn sells 3.5 % stake in India unit for over Rs2,000 crore
29 June 2012
Australia’s department store David Jones receives $1.68 bn takeover offer from mysterious UK firm
29 June 2012
Anheuser-Busch InBev to buy remaining Modelo stake for $20.1 bn
29 June 2012
British buyout firm Melrose to buy German utility meter-maker Elster for $2.3 bn
29 June 2012
News Corp confirms two-way split
29 June 2012
Malaysia's Petronas to buy Canada's Progress Energy for $5.4bn
28 June 2012
Danone to acquire controlling stake in Morocco's Centrale Laitiere for $685-mn
28 June 2012
French utility Veolia to sell UK regulated water business to Rift Acquisitions for $1.92-bn
28 June 2012
ABN AMRO to pay Ageas $498 million to end legal proceedings
28 June 2012
HSBC to sell entire stake in Axis Bank, Yes Bank for Rs2,448 crore
27 June 2012
Etihad, Qatar Airways in talks for minority stake in SpiceJet
27 June 2012
Qatar threatens to torpedo Glencore-Xstrata deal
27 June 2012
Mumbai's FINO acquires Nokia's mobile payment services in India
27 June 2012
Videocon seeks to sell 40 % stake in retail chain Next
27 June 2012
KKR to acquire 63% in Australian healthcare provider GenesisCare
27 June 2012
Loral to sell Space Systems/Loral to Canada's MDA for over $1-bn
27 June 2012
BP to sell minority stakes in two North Sea fields to Japan’s Mitsui
27 June 2012
SBA Communications buys TowerCo towers for $1.45-bn
27 June 2012
Bhushan Power and Steel revises open offer for Orissa Sponge
26 June 2012
BP to sell US liquids-rich assets to Linn Energy for $1.03 billion
26 June 2012
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp weighing two-way split plan: report
26 June 2012
Microsoft to buy social network business software company Yammer for $1.2 bn
26 June 2012
Vale sells Colombian thermal coal assets to Goldman Sachs unit for $407mn
26 June 2012
Aditya Birla nears $1-bn stake purchase of Jaiprakash Associates cement business: report
26 June 2012
Fidelity National to sell healthcare benefit solutions business to Lightyear
26 June 2012
Quest Software receives new $2.32 billion offer from mystery bidder
25 June 2012
Kamath prods Infosys to make large acquisitions
25 June 2012
B/E Aerospace to acquire German aerospace logistics firm Interturbine for $251 mn
25 June 2012
Thomson Reuters acquires Dubai’s online business information firm Zawya
25 June 2012
Morgan Stanley to acquire majority stake in Continuum Wind Energy for Rs1,200 crore
25 June 2012
Sesa Goa, Sterlite shareholders approve merger
25 June 2012
Anheuser-Busch nears over $12-bn Grupo Modelo deal: report
25 June 2012
America Movil ups stake in Dutch mobile operator KPN to 21%
25 June 2012
Kerry Stokes strokes trouble for Rupert Murdoch's $2 bn bid for ConsMedia
23 June 2012
Suzlon sells China unit to China Power for $60 million
23 June 2012
Bain Capital said to pay over $1 bn for half of Japan’s biggest TV shopping channel
23 June 2012
Brazilian billionaire Batista to sell 49% in AUX gold to Qatar
23 June 2012
LAN Airlines merges with Brazil’s TAM to create LATAM Airlines
23 June 2012
Qantas Airways denieslobbying against Etihad’s Virgin stake
22 June 2012
Reliance Industries to sell Vimal, lost-making textiles business
22 June 2012
WPP Group to acquire digital agency AKQA
21 June 2012
British engineering firm Invensys ends talks with Emerson Electric
21 June 2012
Xstrata seeks buyers for its Frieda River copper project in Papua New Guinea
21 June 2012
Merck & Co in talks to buy Bangalore-based Micro Labs: report
21 June 2012
German fertiliser producer K+S starts work on $3.2-bn potash mine in Canada
21 June 2012
Chinese oil giant Sinopec eyes Chesapeake assets: report
20 June 2012
Blackstone, BC Partners team up to bid for Iglo Group
20 June 2012
Kansai Nerolac to acquire 68 per cent in Nepal Shalimar for Rs7.55 crore
20 June 2012
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp launches $2 bn bid for Australia's ConsMedia
20 June 2012
Julius Baer in talks with BofA for Merrill Lynch's non-US wealth business
20 June 2012
Air Products to acquire 67 % in Chile’s Indura SA for $884 mn
20 June 2012
Developer Brookfield acquires London office buildings for $829 mn
20 June 2012
Intel to buy wireless patents from Interdigital for $375 million
19 June 2012
Air Works India acquires stake in Dubai-based Empire Aviation Group
19 June 2012
Facebook buys Israeli facial-recognition technology firm Face.com
19 June 2012
Lion acquires Australian brewer Little World Beverages for A$382 million
19 June 2012
L&L Energy buys 51 % stake in China’s Lashu Coal Mine from Union Energy
19 June 2012
Canada’s Yamana Gold to buy Argentina-focused Extorre Gold for C$414 mn
18 June 2012
CWW’s key shareholder backs Vodafone’s $1.6 billion takeover
18 June 2012
UK supermarket giant Tesco to sell half of Japanese chain to Aeon Corp
18 June 2012
Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial to acquire Brit Insurance
18 June 2012
British buyout firm Melrose in talks to buy Germany's Elster Group for $2.3 bn
18 June 2012
CVC sells $500-mn stake in Formula 1 to Waddell & Reed
18 June 2012
KKR eyes UK’s mobile operator Everything Everywhere for £8 bn
18 June 2012
Aban Offshore in talks to sell thermal power projects to Nuziveedu Power: report
18 June 2012
Key suitors back out from BHP Billiton’s Ekati diamond mine auction
16 June 2012
Brazil may block Thyssenkrupp’s sale of Brazil’s steel plant to foreign company: report
16 June 2012
Motorola Solutions to buy UK's mobile computing company Psion
16 June 2012
Valeant Pharmaceuticals to buy OraPharma for $312 million
15 June 2012
Hong Kong bourse to buy London Metal Exchange for $2.18 billion
15 June 2012
America Movil to buy 21% in Telekom Austria from Ronny Pecik
15 June 2012
Nokia to sell UK luxury phone unit Vertu to PE firm EQT VI
14 June 2012
Royal Dutch Shell once again extends $1.8 bn offer for Cove Energy
14 June 2012
Aditya Birla Group eyes $1-bn stake in Drummond's Colombian coal mines
14 June 2012
J&J gets final US nod for $19.7-bn Synthes acquisition
14 June 2012
JWT acquires controlling stake in Hungama Digital Media Entertainment
13 June 2012
Cairn Energy to buy North Sea blocks owner Nautical Petroleum for $642 mn
13 June 2012
Reliance Capital gets regulatory nod for AMC stake sale to Nippon Life
13 June 2012
Multimillonaire ad man John Singleton confirms interest in Qantas
13 June 2012
Whitehaven Coal rejects mining magnate Nathan Tinkler’s buyout proposal
13 June 2012
Warren Buffett adds Texas daily Eagle newspaper to his newspaper empire
13 June 2012
Temasek Holdings acquires 5.4 % stake in Ivanhoe Mines
12 June 2012
GSK to buy new eczema drug Toctino from Basilea Pharmaceutica for £146 mn
12 June 2012
Apax, Bain in race to buy 41 % in Genpact for $1.4 billion: report
12 June 2012
Maruti Suzuki and Suzuki Power Train to merge
12 June 2012
Sahara India close to sealing $575 million New York’s Plaza Hotel deal
12 June 2012
Bolivia nationalises Glencore’s mining unit
12 June 2012
Vedanta acquires 24.5 % stake in L&T’s Raykal Aluminium
12 June 2012
Warburg Pincus makes open offer for 26 per cent in Future Capital Holdings
11 June 2012
United Technologies offers concessions to EU for $16.5-bn Goodrich acquisition
11 June 2012
PE firms Apax, JMI Equity to buy software firm Paradigm for $1 bn
11 June 2012
Telefonica sells 4.56 % stake in China Unicom for $1.4 bn
11 June 2012
EQT buying German bandage and plaster cast maker BSN Medical for $2.2 bn
11 June 2012
Canada’s PotashCorp not to hike stake in Israel Chemicals
11 June 2012
GlaxoSmithKline extends $2.6 billion offer for Human Genome Sciences
09 June 2012
Heineken acquires Belgian cider maker Stassen SA
09 June 2012
Olympus to pay $15.4 million to sacked British CEO
09 June 2012
Rolls-Royce buys out JV Aero Engine Controls
09 June 2012
South Africa’s Kumvest seeks to block First Uranium asset sale to Gold One
09 June 2012
Canadian consultancy firm Genivar buys UK’s WSP for C$442 million
09 June 2012
Khazanah and Baring in joint bid for Aegis: report
08 June 2012
Australian competition regulator clears Glencore’s Viterra takeover
08 June 2012
HSBC to sell Greek stock broking business
08 June 2012
Citrix Systems to buy mobile data traffic manger Bytemobile
08 June 2012
Chesapeake Energy in talks to sell pipeline assets to GIP for over $4 bn: report
07 June 2012
Google acquires mobile app Quickoffice
07 June 2012
Family-history research website Ancestry.com seeks buyers: report
06 June 2012
Oracle acquires social intelligence firm Collective Intellect
06 June 2012
America Movil acquires 4.1 % stake in Telekom Austria: report
06 June 2012
Etihad takes 4-per cent stake in Virgin Australia
06 June 2012
Private equity firm Thomas H Lee buys majority stake in Party City
05 June 2012
Belden launches $362 million bid for Canada’s Miranda Technologies
05 June 2012
Starbucks to acquire La Boulange Bakery owner Bay Bread for $100 million
05 June 2012
ONGC eyes Canadian oil sand assets of ConocoPhillips: report
05 June 2012
Telstra in talks to sell New Zealand unit TelstraClear to Vodafone
05 June 2012
Vanguard Natural Resources to acquire Antero Resources for $445 million
04 June 2012
Salesforce.com to acquire Buddy Media for $689 mn
04 June 2012
US health insurer WellPoint buying eyewear retailer 1-800 Contacts for $900 million: report
04 June 2012
American Greetings close to a deal for 400 stores of bankrupt Clinton Cards
04 June 2012
Warburg Pincus to wrap up Future Capital Holdings deal: report
04 June 2012
Vale, Posco interested in ThyssenKrupp’s Brazilian, US assets: report
04 June 2012
Templeton trying to block Sesa Goa-Sterlite merger: report
02 June 2012
BCE led consortium to acquire Canada's data centre firm Q9 Networks for C$1.1 bn
02 June 2012
China’s Zijin Mining to acquire Norton Gold for A$229 million
02 June 2012
No buyers for Germany's bankrupt 2,800-drugstore chain Schlecker
02 June 2012
Verizon to acquire Hughes Telematics for $612 million
02 June 2012
Xstrata CEO to receive $44.4 million to stay on post merger with Glencore
01 June 2012
KPN urges shareholders not to accept America Movil’s $3.5 bn offer
01 June 2012
CRISIL to acquire UK peer Coalition Development for Rs250 crore
01 June 2012
BP considers stake sale in Russian joint venture TNK-BP
01 June 2012
Panel report on AI-IA merger set to be made public
01 June 2012
Nike plans to divest Cole Haan and Umbro brands
31 May 2012
Ford Motor to sell automotive lighting business to Flex-N-Gate
31 May 2012
Canada’s IT firm CGI to acquire British peer Logica for £1.7 bn
31 May 2012
Italy's Eni to sell 30 % in Snam to state lender for $4.36 bn
31 May 2012
Japan’s NEC buys Australian technology business of CSG
31 May 2012
National Oilwell Varco to buy Canada’s CE Franklin
31 May 2012
Italian truck maker Fiat Industrial to merge with CNH Global NV
30 May 2012
Caterpillar to sell Bucyrus's African business to Barloworld for $115 mn
30 May 2012
Port of Antwerp acquires 4 -% stake in Essar Ports for Rs175 crore
30 May 2012
Salesforce.com close to buying Buddy Media for more than $800 mn
30 May 2012
FedEx to acquire Brazil’s largest logistics firm Rapidão Cometa
30 May 2012
Thomas Cook investors approve assets sale to reduce debt
30 May 2012
State Grid Corp of China to buy transmission assets in Brazil from ACS for $1 bn
29 May 2012
Defence equipment manufacturer Teledyne to buy LeCroy Corp
29 May 2012
US pump maker Colfax Corp to buy Peruvian welding products firm Soldex
29 May 2012
Marubeni to acquire Gavilon Group for $3.6 bn
29 May 2012
AngloGold Ashanti to buy 50 % of Brazilian gold mine from Kinross
29 May 2012
Brazil’s Vale to sell Colombian coal assets to unit of Goldman Sachs for $407 mn
29 May 2012
Oil India in talks to buy RIL's gas transport business
29 May 2012
Japan's Marubeni close to acquiring US grain, energy trader Gavilon for over $5 bn
29 May 2012
South Africa finally approves DuPont-Pannar Seed deal
28 May 2012
Oil India looks for overseas acquisitions
28 May 2012
Diageo to buy Brazil's most popular rum brand Ypioca for $469 million
28 May 2012
German realty group Wohnen to buy Barclays property portfolio for $1.55 bn
28 May 2012
Facebook eyes Norwegian browser maker Opera Software: report
28 May 2012
China’s Youngman backs out from Saab bid
26 May 2012
Japanese chipmaker Renesas to cut 14,000 jobs, sell loss-making unit
26 May 2012
Carl Icahn hikes stake in Chesapeake Energy, seeks board change
26 May 2012
Bank of America, Barclays to sell 26.5 % stake in Archstone to Lehman for $1.58 bn
26 May 2012
Dell in talks to buy network security firm Quest Software: report
26 May 2012
Bharti Airtel rating unaffected by its Qualcomm's India stake buy
25 May 2012
Canada’s Intact Ins, Germany’s HDI-Gerling in race for Reliance General Ins: report
25 May 2012
Silver Lake, Partners Group to buy Global Blue for $1.3 billion
24 May 2012
US industrial groups, PE firms eye German safety systems maker Bartec Holding: report
24 May 2012
Gina Rinehart triples wealth after mining deals, named world’s richest woman
24 May 2012
Bharti Airtel to buy 49% stake in Qualcomm's 4G broadband venture
24 May 2012
Oracle to buy cloud-based social marketing platform Vitrue
24 May 2012
Angelo, Gordon & Co to buy Japanese sushi restaurant chain Benihana for 296 mn
23 May 2012
Thailand's PTTEP trumps Shell's offer for Cove Energy with $1.9 billion bid
23 May 2012
CVC sells $1.6-bn stake in Formula 1 ahead of IPO
23 May 2012
SAP to acquire Ariba Inc for $4.3 bn
23 May 2012
Glencore takes control of Congolese copper and cobalt mine in a $480-mn deal
22 May 2012
French group Accor to sell US budget hotel business to Blackstone for $1.9 bn
22 May 2012
Cable & Wireless Worldwide board accepts Vodafone’s $1.6 bn bid
22 May 2012
Shaw Group to sell energy and chemicals division to Technip for $300 million
22 May 2012
Eaton Corp to acquire electrical equipment maker Cooper Industries for $11.8 bn
22 May 2012
Rio Tinto to sell Alcan Cable to General Cable Corp for $185 million
21 May 2012
Fortis in talks over control of Wockhardt Hospitals: report
21 May 2012
Barclays to sell entire $6.1-bn stake in BlackRock
21 May 2012
Dialysis clinic operator DaVita to buy HealthCare Partners for $4.42 bn
21 May 2012
Yahoo to sell 20% in Alibaba for $7.1 bn
21 May 2012
Google gets Chinese nod for $12.5-bn Motorola Mobility acquisition
21 May 2012
China’s Dalian Wanda to acquire US theatre chain AMC for $2.6 bn
21 May 2012
Motor homes maker Winnebago receives $321.5 mn buyout offer from Alex Mascioli
19 May 2012
Carlos Slim’s America Movil eyes stake in Telekom Austria: report
19 May 2012
Aditya Birla group to buy 27.5 per cent stake in India Today group
18 May 2012
Warren Buffet to buy 63 newspapers from Media General
18 May 2012
ICAP in talks to buy Plus Markets Group
18 May 2012
Human Genome adopts poison pill to thwart $2.6-bn hostile GSK bid
18 May 2012
Bharti Airtel slashes 3G mobile broadband rates
18 May 2012
Warren Buffett to acquire Media General newspapers for $142 million
17 May 2012
Macquarie-led consortium acquires E.ON’s gas distribution network for $4 bn
17 May 2012
Swiss dental company Straumann to buy 49% in Brazil's Neodent for $277 mn
17 May 2012
Sweden’s Tele2 rebuffs Russian exit speculation
17 May 2012
Bharti Airtel may conclude Qualcomm stake sales in two weeks
16 May 2012
Infosys scouting for acquisitions in Europe
16 May 2012
Piramal to buy US healthcare data firm Decision Resources for Rs3,400 crore
16 May 2012
ThyssenKrupp seeks buyer for Brazilian and US steel plants
16 May 2012
General Electric to acquire two mining equipment manufacturers
16 May 2012
Battle for Australian energy player Hastings Diversified hots up
16 May 2012
News Corp acquires stake in Chinese movie distributor Bona Film
15 May 2012
Apparel firm Pacific Brands says takeover offer by KKR unlikely
15 May 2012
Canadian uranium miner Cameco to buy nuclear fuel broker Nukem for $136 mn
15 May 2012
Coty withdraws $10.7-bn Avon bid
15 May 2012
Nvidia, Intellectual Ventures jointly acquire 500 patents from IPWireless
15 May 2012
Houses disrupted again over accusations against Chidambaram
14 May 2012
Avon to respond to Coty’s revised $10.7-bn offer within a week
14 May 2012
Concho Resources to buy Three Rivers' assets from Riverstone for $1 bn
14 May 2012
Towers Watson to acquire Extend Health for $435 million
14 May 2012
GDF Suez sells 40 % in Bahrain's Hidd Power Co to Malaysia's Malakoff
14 May 2012
PE executives bullish on deal opportunities over the next 12 months
12 May 2012
UK frozen food company Iglo receives tentative bids
12 May 2012
EU approves ABB’s $3.9-bn acquisition of Thomas & Betts
12 May 2012
Saskatchewan raises concerns on Glencore-Viterra deal
12 May 2012
E.ON reported to select Macquarie for $3.90 bn gas pipeline network: report
12 May 2012
HSBC to sell Latin American operations to Banco GNB Sudameris for $400 mn
12 May 2012
Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund acquires major stake in Shell
12 May 2012
Panasonic to acquire controlling stake in Firepro Systems
11 May 2012
Carlos Slim's America Movil to acquire T-Mobile's Simple Mobile to boost presence in the US
11 May 2012
Avon receives letter from Coty chairman Bert Brecht
11 May 2012
Coty's bags Warren Buffet backing for Avon, raises bid
11 May 2012
EMC Corp acquires Israeli flash-memory storage products maker XtremIO
11 May 2012
Warburg Pincus in advanced talks to buy majority stake in Future Capital: report
11 May 2012
Platinum Equity to acquire 65 % in Caterpillar Logistics for $750 million
11 May 2012
HSBC in talks to sell Latin American operations
10 May 2012
ICBC enters US market with acquisition Bank of East Asia’s US unit
10 May 2012
Micron Technology in talks to buy bankrupt Japanese chipmaker Elpida
10 May 2012
British greeting card retail chain Clinton Cards goes into administration
10 May 2012
Vodafone faces Rs20,000 cr tax; calls it ‘grossly unjust’
10 May 2012
Quest Software receives multiple proposals from suitors
10 May 2012
JAB divests stake in Reckitt Benckiser to fund Coty's Avon acquisition
10 May 2012
Samsung acquires US-based mobile cloud contents service provider mSpot
10 May 2012
Japan’s GC Corp, Unison Capital to buy drugmaker Showa Yakuhin Kako
09 May 2012
GlaxoSmithKline goes hostile with its $2.59-bn bid for Human Genome Sciences
09 May 2012
Zydus Cadila in talks to acquire Strides Arcolab's domestic generic business?
09 May 2012
JSPL acquires 9.25 % stake in Australia’s Apollo Minerals for Rs5.30 crore
09 May 2012
SingTel acquires Silicon Valley mobile advertising startup AdJitsu
09 May 2012
Marubeni in talks to buy US grain and energy trader Gavilon for $5.2 bn: report
08 May 2012
General Electric to buy a 15 % stake in China XD Electric for $535 mn
08 May 2012
Japanese brewer Asahi to acquire local soft drinks giant Calpis for $1.5 bn
08 May 2012
TRAI issues service quality standards for 3G voice calls
07 May 2012
DigitalGlobe rejects $792.3-mn bid from rival GeoEye
07 May 2012
American Vanadium seeks Japanese partner
05 May 2012
LinkedIn to acquire professional content sharing firm SlideShare for $118.8 mn
04 May 2012
Dutch life sciences company DSM launches $360-mn bid for US firm Kensey Nash
04 May 2012
BG to sell Brazilian gas distribution business Comgas to Cosan for $1.8 bn
04 May 2012
Women's apparel maker Ascena Retail to buy Charming Shoppes for $857.2 mn
04 May 2012
Microchip Technology to acquire Standard Microsystems for $939 million
04 May 2012
Insolvent UK clothing retailer, Aquascutum may change hands next week
03 May 2012
Telenor group chairman Harald Norvik resigns
03 May 2012
Vodafone heads huddle with Pranab over ‘retro’ tax; but no luck yet
02 May 2012
Aditya Birla Nuvo to acquire 50% stake in Pantaloon for Rs1,600 crore
30 April 2012
BG Group may sell $2-bn worth stake in Australian LNG project to China Investment Corp
28 April 2012
Maple Group may extend $3.6-bn offer for Canada's TMX
28 April 2012
Indiabulls in reverse merger with housing finance business
28 April 2012
Posco to sell part stake in iron ore miner Roy Hill to China Steel for $316.7 mn
28 April 2012
Canadian miner Iamgold to acquire gold explorer Trelawney for C$608 mn
28 April 2012
Shroders takes 25 per cent stake in Axis Mutual Fund
28 April 2012
Financial software maker Intuit to acquire Demandforce for $423.5 mn
28 April 2012
Japanese brewer Asahi in talks to buy local soft drinks giant Calpis for $1.2 bn
28 April 2012
Dutch bicycle maker Accell to acquire Raleigh Cycle for $100 mn
26 April 2012
BCG outlines six factors that drive reorganisation success
26 April 2012
German health care firm Fresenius launches $4.09 bn bid for rival Rhoen-Klinikum
26 April 2012
Watson Pharmaceuticals to buy Swiss rival Actavis for $5.60 billion
26 April 2012
Strides acquires US FDA-approved Sterile Formulations facility
26 April 2012
Halcón Resources to buy rival GeoResources for $973 mn
26 April 2012
Amgen to buy Turkey’s Mustafa Nevzat Pharmaceuticals for $700 mn
26 April 2012
James Murdoch denies using political influence for attempted BSkyB takeover
25 April 2012
Facebook buys AOL patents from Microsoft for $550 mn
25 April 2012
Shell to buy UK’s Cove Energy for $1.8 billion
24 April 2012
BAA sells Edinburgh Airport to Global Infrastructure Partnership for $1.3 bn
24 April 2012
AstraZeneca buys US biotech firm Ardea for $1.26 bn
24 April 2012
Thomson Reuters Corp sells health-care unit to Veritas Capital
24 April 2012
Max India to divest BOPP business: Reports
23 April 2012
Nestlé to acquire Pfizer’s nutrition business for $11.85 billion
23 April 2012
Vodafone acquires CWW for £1.04 billion
23 April 2012
China's Bright Food denies interst in British cereal maker Weetabix
23 April 2012
KCI to acquire Switzerland based APAG Group
23 April 2012
UK’s CWW PLC to accept Vodafone bid
23 April 2012
Japanese shareholders approve new Olympus board
21 April 2012
Aspen to buy GSK’s international OTC brands
20 April 2012
Icahn wins $2.26-bn takeover battle with CVR Energy board
20 April 2012
ThyssenKrupp nears sale of three automotive sector units: report
20 April 2012
GlaxoSmithKline’s $2.6-bn bid rejected by Human Genome Sciences
19 April 2012
China’s XCMG buys majority stake in Germany’s Schwing GmbH
19 April 2012
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to buy 20 % of TVS Logistics Services for Rs250 crore
19 April 2012
Essar Group plans to sell BPO firm Aegis
19 April 2012
Olympus India acquires shares worth Rs105.76 crore of Karur Vysya Bank
19 April 2012
Cameron International to buy TTS Energy division for $270 mn
18 April 2012
SXC Health Solutions to buy Catalyst Health Solutions for $4.4 bn
18 April 2012
Couche-Tard to buy Norway's Statoil Fuel and Retail business for $2.77 bn
18 April 2012
Nestle close to buying Pfizer’s infant nutrition business for $9 billion
18 April 2012
IBM to acquire Canadian analytics software provider Varicent Software
18 April 2012
Plains All American Pipeline withdraws $1 billion offer for SemGroup
18 April 2012
GVK eyes part stake sale in Australia’s Hancock coal to fund development
18 April 2012
FedEx in talks to buy French express-transportation company Tatex SAS
18 April 2012
Anil Agarwal’s son Agnivesh buys controlling stake in Primex Healthcare
17 April 2012
Toshiba Corp unit to buy IBM’s Retail Store Solutions for $850 mn
17 April 2012
Anheuser Busch InBev buys 51 % of Dominican brewer CND for $1.237 bn
17 April 2012
Essel Group has no plans to hike stake in IVRCL
17 April 2012
Piramal Healthcare buys Bayer’s molecular imaging and research portfolio
16 April 2012
Temasek buys shares worth $2.3 billion of ICBC from Goldman Sachs
16 April 2012
GDF Suez to buy British utility International Power for $10 billion
16 April 2012
KKR plans to buy, merge BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto’s diamond mines: report
16 April 2012
TRAI revises financial reporting system for telecom service providers
14 April 2012
Sumitomo Corporation sells 11 % stake in SML Isuzu to Isuzu motors
14 April 2012
Spain warns Argentina not to nationalise Repsol's Argentinean YPF unit
14 April 2012
DuPont seeks PE firms to re-bid for vehicle paint unit
14 April 2012
Serco’s new entity to close calendar year with $1 bn+ revenues
13 April 2012
Mothercare announces three-year turnaround plan
13 April 2012
Brazil's Cosan in talks to buy BG Group's stake in gas distributor Comgás
13 April 2012
Trafigura acquires 24 % stake in Nagarjuna Oil Corporation for Rs650 crore
13 April 2012
Carlsberg to sell majority of its former Copenhagen brewery site for $441 mn
13 April 2012
France Telecom to buy majority stake in Egyptian telecom operator Mobinil for $1.97 bn
13 April 2012
Mexican conglomerate Alfa’s unit Nemak to buy J L French Automotive
13 April 2012
Anheuser Busch close to buying Dominican brewer CND for $2.5 bn
12 April 2012
Cytec Industries to buy British aerospace parts supplier Umeco for $439 mn
12 April 2012
Mitsui Sumitomo acquires 26 % in Max New York Life Insurance for Rs2,700 cr
12 April 2012
Caterpillar sells part of its Australian Bucyrus business for $400 mn
12 April 2012
Richmont Holdings eyes Avon Products: report
12 April 2012
HSBC in talks to sell South Korean and Pakistan operations
12 April 2012
BMA to close unviable Norwich Park mine in Australia
11 April 2012
CVC Capital Partners to buy telecom assets of City Telecom for $644 million
11 April 2012
Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical to acquire URL Pharma for $800 million
11 April 2012
Private-equity funds in talks to invest $40-$50 million in JSM Corp: report
11 April 2012
Corning to acquire majority of Becton Dickinson's lab unit for $730 million
11 April 2012
Schlumberger to sell Wilson distribution unit to National Oilwell Varco
11 April 2012
Bharti in talks to buy Qualcomm licences: report
11 April 2012
ACCC approves Foxtel’s acquisition of Austar
10 April 2012
Chesapeake Energy sells assets worth $2.6 bn to reduce debt, fund development
10 April 2012
AT&T to sell majority stake in Yellow Pages to Cerberus Capital for $950 mn
10 April 2012
Facebook to acquire photo-sharing app maker Instagram for $1 bn
10 April 2012
Sahara India bids $600 mn for Plaza Hotel in New York: report
10 April 2012
iGate accepts minority shareholders' Rs520 per share offer to delist Patni
09 April 2012
Marico to sell 4.56% stake for Rs500 crore to fund Paras acquisaition
09 April 2012
Japan’s Fujikura to acquire telecom products maker Nistica
09 April 2012
Qatar's sovereign wealth fund buys 5 % of Xstrata worth $2.65 bn ahead of merger
09 April 2012
Gas Natural Fenosa in talks to buy BG Group’s stake in Gujarat Gas: report
09 April 2012
Abu Dhabi National Energy sells entire stake in electric carmaker Tesla Motors
09 April 2012
ISS backs Illumina board; urges rejection of Roche's $6.7-bn bid
07 April 2012
Indian companies to focus on overseas mining acquisitions: E&Y report
07 April 2012
Covidien to acquire Israel-based Oridion Systems for $300 million
05 April 2012
PCB maker Viasystems to acquire rival DDi Corp for $268 mn
05 April 2012
International Power rejects $9.5 bn offer from GDF Suez
05 April 2012
TKH Group to buy German digital imaging specialist Augusta for $215 mn
05 April 2012
Subash Chandra-run Essel Group hikes stake in IVRCL to 12.27%
04 April 2012
Burger King strikes $1.4-bn deal to go public again on NYSE
04 April 2012
L&T buys UK-based defence technology company Thalest for £3.2 million
04 April 2012
Carl Icahn’s $2.6-bn bid for CVR Energy gets majority support
04 April 2012
Dutch bicycle-maker Accell in talks to acquire UK’s Raleigh Cycle
04 April 2012
Molson Coors to acquire European brewer StarBev for $3.54 bn
04 April 2012
Camargo Correa offers $3.32 bn for cement maker Cimentos de Portugal
04 April 2012
BHEL calls off stake sale plan, targets Rs50,000-crore sales in FY’13
03 April 2012
Vodafone writes to PM over retrospective taxation move
03 April 2012
Letter to Roche from Illumina’s president and CEO
03 April 2012
Illumina rejects Roche’s $6.7-bn bid
03 April 2012
PE firm Vista to acquire British software specialist Misys
03 April 2012
Sanofi acquires US animal vaccines specialist Newport Laboratories
03 April 2012
Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov may buy 25.1 % stake in MegaFon for $5 bn
03 April 2012
Forest Laboratories buys hypertension drug rights from J&J for $357 mn
02 April 2012
Avon rejects Coty’s $10 billion takeover offer
02 April 2012
Singapore's DBS Group to buy Indonesia's PT Bank Danamon for $7.3 bn
02 April 2012
Chalco to buy Ivanhoe Mines’ stake in SouthGobi Resources for $926 mn
02 April 2012
Anandabazar Patrika plans to buy Star Group's 26 % stake in Indian arm
02 April 2012
Tata Capital among five shortlisted bidders for Thomas Cook (India): report
02 April 2012
European regulator approves IAG-BMI merger with conditions
02 April 2012
Vodafone may invoke bilateral pact to thwart taxman
31 March 2012
International Paper in talks to buy BK Birla's Century Textiles' paper unit: report
30 March 2012
Amylin reportedly rejects Bristol-Myers $3.5-bn bid
30 March 2012
Marubeni, Posco, STX Corp close to buying 30% in Roy Hill project for $3.2 bn
30 March 2012
Hynix, Micron, Toshiba submit bids for bankrupt Elpida Memory: report
30 March 2012
Vedanta's proposed government stake purchase to reduce refinancing risks: Fitch
29 March 2012
Tyco Flow and Pentair Inc in $7.7-bn all stock merger
29 March 2012
Roche increases hostile offer for Illumina to $6.7 billion
29 March 2012
Tata Comm, Vodafone deadline for C&WW bid extended
29 March 2012
Fortis in talks to sell 15 - 20 % stake to Carlyle and TPG Capital: report
29 March 2012
IVRCL to thwart hostile bid by Subash Chandra’s Essel Group
29 March 2012
Steag GmBH takes 5 per cent stake in HNPCL
29 March 2012
Force Motors sells JV stake to MAN for Euro 150 million
28 March 2012
Taiwan’s Foxconn to emerge Sharp's largest shareholder with 11 % stake
28 March 2012
Magic Johnson led consortium to buy Los Angeles Dodgers for record $2 billion
28 March 2012
Tata Global Beverages to hike stake in Mount Everest Mineral for Rs28 crore
28 March 2012
Angry Birds maker Rovio buys Finland’s Futuremark Games Studio
27 March 2012
TVS Group buys auto parts supplier Universal Components of UK
27 March 2012
Bausch & Lomb to acquire Ista Pharmaceuticals for $500 million
27 March 2012
Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals to acquire Russia’s Natur Produkt for $180 mn
27 March 2012
HSBC in talks to sell Mauritius retail banking division
26 March 2012
Defence supplier Esterline Technologies stock surges on takeover rumours: report
26 March 2012
BP plans to sell North Sea assets worth $3.2 billion: report
26 March 2012
PE firm Permira puts Iglo, Europe's largest frozen food firm, on the block
26 March 2012
Unitech seeks CLB nod for arbitration over Uninor stake
24 March 2012
Spectrum sale was okayed at highest level: Uninor
24 March 2012
Unitech offers to sell Uninor stake to Telenor: report
24 March 2012
Nippon Life to acquire 26-per cent in Reliance Capital for Rs1,450 crore
22 March 2012
Tatas to raise $2 bn for C&WW bid: report
22 March 2012
GE to acquire majority stake in engineering firm Advanced Systek
22 March 2012
Zynga to buy OMGPop, maker of "Draw Something” for $200 mn
22 March 2012
Kraft coins name for snacks company - Mondelez International
22 March 2012
US chip maker Broadcom to acquire Israel’s BroadLight for $195 mn
22 March 2012
Watson Pharmaceuticals close to buying Actavis for around $7 bn: report
22 March 2012
Glencore to acquire Canadian grain handler Viterra for $6.2 bn
22 March 2012
Vedanta offers Rs17,000 crore for govt stake in 2 units
22 March 2012
Despite SC ruling, Vodafone unlikely to evade taxman
22 March 2012
Hewlett Packard to merge printing and PC divisions
21 March 2012
Tech Mahindra - Mahindra Satyam merger: marriage made in heaven, honeymoon to start
21 March 2012
UTV may sell Irish TV rights after boardroom coup
21 March 2012
Roche asks Illumina investors to accept its $5.7-bn bid
21 March 2012
Tech Mahindra, Mahindra Satyam to merge at a swap ratio of 2:17
21 March 2012
Staffing provider On Assignment to buy rival Apex Systems for $600 mn
21 March 2012
Online retailer Amazon.com to acquire Kiva Systems for $775 mn
21 March 2012
Mahindra Satyam, Tech Mahindra to decide on merger tomorrow
20 March 2012
SC rejects government’s review petition in Vodafone tax case
20 March 2012
Consumer sector M&As slowed by eurozone crisis: KPMG
20 March 2012
Barclays in court battle over London hotels
20 March 2012
Covidien to buy Israeli medical device maker superDimension for $300 mn
20 March 2012
UPS to acquire European rival TNT Express for $6.85 billion
19 March 2012
US internet services firm Zayo Group to acquire rival AboveNet for $2.2 bn
19 March 2012
Vista Equity Partners to acquire Misys for £1.27 bn
19 March 2012
UPS said to raise offer for TNT Express to $6.8 billion: report
19 March 2012
Thomas Cook rallies after rejection of rescue package
17 March 2012
UPS still in talks with TNT Express on $6.43-bn takeover
17 March 2012
Bell Canada to acquire Astral Media for $3.4 billion
17 March 2012
Sanofi to acquire US medical device company Pluromed to expand in biosurgery
16 March 2012
KKR, Apollo Global, Harry Winston eye BHP Billiton’s Ekati diamond mine
15 March 2012
GSK to sell most European OTC drugs to Omega Pharma
15 March 2012
Cisco in talks to buy NDS for $5 billion: report
15 March 2012
Avaya to acquire Israeli video conferencing firm Radvision for $230 mn
15 March 2012
KKR, Carlyle Group join race for Thomas Cook (India): report
15 March 2012
Buy Telenor stake or opt out of JV, CLB tells Unitech
14 March 2012
Swiss banking software firm Temenos walks away from £2 bn merger with Misys
13 March 2012
Chinese car parts maker Hebei Lingyun to buy German peer Kiekert
13 March 2012
Azim Premji Trust to sell 1.4% Wipro stake; net Rs1,500 cr
13 March 2012
CNN in talks to buy technology news site Mashable for $200 mn: report
13 March 2012
News Corp arm sells stake in Hathway for Rs360 crore
12 March 2012
Anil Ambani sells 8 % in NICE for Rs300 crore, nets 10-fold return
12 March 2012
Khazanah sells entire Yes Bank stake for Rs527 crore
12 March 2012
Chinese online video firms Youku.com, Tudou in $1-bn all stock merger
12 March 2012
Government lifts cotton export ban, but under conditions
12 March 2012
Varroc Group to buy automotive lighting unit of Visteon for Rs457.7 crore
12 March 2012
UK’s GKN emerges frontrunner for Volvo's $1.3-bn aircraft business
12 March 2012
Asahi Kasei makes $2.2-bn bid for Zoll Medical
12 March 2012
London Stock Exchange to buy controlling stake in LCH.Clearnet for $612 mn
10 March 2012
Dutch dairy FrieslandCampina to acquire Philippines Alaska Milk for $457 mn
10 March 2012
Insight Venture to acquire Quest Software for $2 bn
10 March 2012
Iceland Foods sold to founder Malcolm Walker, investors for $2.45 bn
10 March 2012
AT&T in talks to sell Yellow Pages business to Cerberus Capital for $1.5 bn: report
09 March 2012
Western Digital completes $4.3 bn acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage
09 March 2012
Boston Scientific to acquire Cameron Health in a potential $1.35-bn deal
09 March 2012
Molycorp to acquire Canadian rare earth firm Neo Material for $1.31 bn
09 March 2012
Xstrata to buy Sukunka coal deposit from Talisman Energy for $500 million
09 March 2012
Sale of waste energy unit may fetch E.ON $2.4 billion: report
09 March 2012
CVC Capital, ValueAct in takeover bid for Misys
06 March 2012
Virgin upset at regulator's decision not to review IAG-BMI merger
06 March 2012
ONGC sale shows govt using LIC as last-resort buyer
06 March 2012
SingTel to buy mobile advertising firm Amobee for $321 million
05 March 2012
Anheuser-Busch, two Chinese brewers in race to buy stake in Kingway Brewery
03 March 2012
Canada's uranium miner Cameco to buy Areva’s stake in Millennium project
03 March 2012
IDBI Bank to raise up to Rs5,294 crore
03 March 2012
Hero MotoCorp eyes Italian motorcycle maker Ducati
03 March 2012
Analjit Singh exits EIH in favour of RIL
03 March 2012
Canada’s First Uranium to sell two South African assets for $405 million
03 March 2012
Online recruitment firm Monster Worldwide explores sale
02 March 2012
Supreme Court bench recuses itself from petition against Cairn-Vedanta deal
02 March 2012
Japan’s Asahi is front runner for East European brewer StarBev: report
02 March 2012
GM, Peugeot Citroën form European alliance to cut costs
01 March 2012
Vedanta offers Rs16,000 crore for government stake in HZL, and Balco
01 March 2012
After power assets, Ananda Krishnan in talks to divest satellite unit Measat Global
01 March 2012
Japan's Dainippon Sumitomo to acquire Boston Biomedical for $200 mn
01 March 2012
AMD to buy startup SeaMicro for $334 mn
01 March 2012
CVC Capital seals Ahlsell deal with Goldman Sachs, Cinven for $2.4 bn
29 February 2012
Australia’s Rapid Nutrition to acquire 74 % stake in Cheminnova Remedies
29 February 2012
Micron Technology to buy Intel’s stake in NAND flash JV for $600 million
29 February 2012
NEC in talks to acquire a controlling stake in Hexaware Technologies: report
28 February 2012
Goldman Sachs, Cinven plan to sell Sweden’s Ahlsell to CVC Capital for $2.42 bn
28 February 2012
Surfwear giant Billabong says TPG Capital's revised $904 mn bid still too low
28 February 2012
Vijay Mallya weighs selling 49% in Whyte & Mackay to reduce debt: report
28 February 2012
OVL, GAIL to outbid Shell and PTT for Cove Energy with $2 bn offer
28 February 2012
3i acquires majority stake in German cosmetic packaging firm Geka
27 February 2012
Roche extends hostile $5.7-billion offer for Illumina
27 February 2012
Netherlands' Royal Ahold acquires online retailer Bol.com for $470 million
27 February 2012
Malaysia's Ananda Krishnan’s Tanjong Energy attracts 12 bids
27 February 2012
Australia's surfwear giant Billabong rejects $820-mn bid from TPG Capital
27 February 2012
Quick facts for investors on the creation of Sesa Sterlite
25 February 2012
Sterlite Industries to be merged with Sesa Goa to reduce Vedanta debt
25 February 2012
Sprint Nextel board torpedoes launching $8 billion bid for MetroPCS
25 February 2012
PE firm Apollo Global to buy E&P of El Paso for $7.15 billion
25 February 2012
Thailand’s PTT outbids Shell with $1.76 billion offer for UK’s Cove Energy
25 February 2012
Ranbaxy may hand over Latin American marketing to Daiichi Sankyo
25 February 2012
Memory chip maker Promos plans to sell wafer fab to Global Foundries
24 February 2012
Bidding war escalates for Ludowici as Weir Group matches FLSmidth offer
24 February 2012
Brazil’s Cosan acquires minority stake in America Latina Logistica for $523 mn
24 February 2012
Vedanta set to merge Sesa Goa with Sterlite
24 February 2012
Dong Energy to sell stake in offshore wind farm to KIRKBI, Oticon for $840 mn
24 February 2012
Bharti denies SA firm’s $3.1 bn damages claims
23 February 2012
Citigroup to sell entire stake in HDFC for around Rs10,353 crore: report
23 February 2012
British utility Centrica to buy Total’s North Sea assets for $388 million
23 February 2012
Ananda Krishnan, Malaysia's second-richest man, to sell power portfolio worth $2 bn
23 February 2012
J&J offers EU concessions for $21.3 bn takeover of medical device firm Synthes
23 February 2012
Bunge to acquire UK’s Climate Change Capital
23 February 2012
Shell's $1.57 bn offer outbids OVL, GAIL for UK's Cove Energy
22 February 2012
Vedanta mulls Sesa Goa, Sterlite merger
22 February 2012
Alibaba Group to take Alibaba.com private for $2.5 billion
22 February 2012
Ericsson to buy Canadian WiFi technology firm BelAir Networks
22 February 2012
Mexico’s Genomma to buy Prestige Brands for $834 million
22 February 2012
Canadian utility Fortis to acquire New York rival CH Energy for $1 billion
22 February 2012
Vista Equity Partners to scupper Temenos-Misys merger with £1.2bn offer
21 February 2012
Shriram to foray into cement via Jayajothi takeover
21 February 2012
Universal Music seeks EC approval on $1.9 bn acquisition of EMI recorded music unit
21 February 2012
Swiss energy group Addax & Oryx in sale talks with Emerging Capital for African downstream assets
21 February 2012
URS Corp to acquire Canadian oilfield services firm Flint Energy for $1.25 bn
21 February 2012
Carlsberg to buy remaining 15 per cent of Baltika Breweries for $1.2 bn
20 February 2012
Wal-Mart to increase stake in Chinese e-commerce firm Yihaodian
20 February 2012
Heineken bids for Brazilian brewer Grupo Petropolis: report
20 February 2012
Dubai's Dragon Oil weighs bid for Cameroon-focused Bowleven
20 February 2012
Billabong rebuffs TPG Capital bid, sells stake in Nixon for $464 million
20 February 2012
Groupon acquires location-based technology start-up Hyperpublic
18 February 2012
Virgin Atlantic urges regulator to stop BMI-British Airways merger
18 February 2012
Warren Buffett's jewellery unit offers to buy Italian rival UnoAErre
18 February 2012
TNT Express rejects UPS's $6.43-bn takeover offer
18 February 2012
Advent, Goldman Sachs to acquire TransUnion Corp for over $3 bn
18 February 2012
FLSmidth outbids Weir Group for Australian mining equipment firm Ludowic
17 February 2012
Shanghai launches $7.9-bn yuan fund to aid overseas acquisitions
17 February 2012
Mitsubishi Corp acquires IFC’s stake in Peruvian copper project Quellaveco
17 February 2012
Australia’s CBD Energy to acquire Westinghouse Solar
17 February 2012
TPG Capital tables $820-mn bid for Australian surfwear giant Billabong
17 February 2012
ConocoPhillips to sell Vietnam assets to Perenco for $1.29 billion
17 February 2012
Carl Icahn launches $2.6-bn bid for CVR Energy
17 February 2012
Telenor raises stake in VimpelCom to 36.36 per cent; drops arbitration claim
16 February 2012
Grupo Elektra acquires Advance America Cash in $655 million deal
16 February 2012
Marico stock up 4 per cent on Paras Pharma
16 February 2012
Deutsche Telekom mulls selling UK joint venture
16 February 2012
Merck, Brazil’s Supera Farma to form JV for generic drugs
16 February 2012
Former Olympus chairman, six others arrested in Japan
16 February 2012
BP cuts book value of its RIL holding by over 10%
16 February 2012
Telenor aims to dump Unitech
16 February 2012
New panel to study Justice Dharmadhikari Committee report on AI-IA merger
15 February 2012
Kellogg to buy Pringles brand from Procter & Gamble for $2.695 billion
15 February 2012
Warren Buffett hikes stake in media and tech, exits from ExxonMobil
15 February 2012
New York Life in talks to sell stake worth Rs3,500 crore in Indian JV: report
15 February 2012
Carlyle Group to sell Talaris to Japan's Glory for $1 billion
15 February 2012
Pharma company Aptuit Laurus raises Rs200 cr from Fidelity Growth Partners
14 February 2012
Ducati Motorcycles owner seeks €1 bn from potential buyers
14 February 2012
Valeant to acquire Macugen anti-VEGF inhibitor maker Eyetech Inc
14 February 2012
Chesapeake Energy announces $12-bn asset sale to reduce debt
14 February 2012
EU and US regulators approve Google-Motorola merger
14 February 2012
Japan’s Kintetsu to invest Rs2,68 crore in logistics JV with Gati
13 February 2012
China's Winsway closer $1-bn Grand Cache Coal acquistion closure
13 February 2012
Vodafone eyes UK's telecom network operator Cable & Wireless Worldwide
13 February 2012
IDG, SAIF invest Rs68 crore in BrainBees
13 February 2012
NYSE CEO eager for megers despite Deutsche Boerse fiasco
11 February 2012
Scotland’s Weir Group launches A$294 mn takeover bid for Australia’s Ludowici
11 February 2012
Mahindra Satyam to take minority stake in Dion Global Solutions
11 February 2012
DuPont Co to auction vehicle paint unit; expects $4 bn
11 February 2012
E-commerce site Flipkart acquires electronics goods peer Letsbuy
11 February 2012
Oracle to acquire cloud-based software firm Taleo for $1.9 billion
10 February 2012
Deutsche Bank exits Lodha Developers with over Rs900 crore gain
09 February 2012
Batelco sells stake for Rs925 crore; is first telco to exit India
09 February 2012
Thomas Cook to sell stake in Indian unit
08 February 2012
Illumina rejects Roche's $5.7- bn hostile bid
08 February 2012
Mexico’s Mexichem to acquire Dutch rival Wavin for $703 million
08 February 2012
Investors voice opposition to Glencore-Xstrata merger
08 February 2012
Brazian bank Itau Unibanco buys card payment processor Redecard for $6.81 bn
07 February 2012
Xstrata and Glencore agree on $90-billion all-share merger
07 February 2012
Daiichi Sankyo seeks to buy three mid-sized Indian pharma firms: report
07 February 2012
MillerCoors acquires Crispin Cider Co
07 February 2012
Private equity firms buy Fannie Mae foreclosures
06 February 2012
Vodafone’s Greek unit terminates merger talks with Wind Hellas
06 February 2012
Pakistani billionaire Alshair Fiyaz to bid for UK's bankrupt Peacocks Stores
06 February 2012
NMDC looking at more overseas acquisitions
04 February 2012
Indonesia’s Bakries keen to oust Rothschild from PT Bumi Resources
04 February 2012
China, Oman acquire 40 % in Portuguese utility firm for $778 million
04 February 2012
Piramal Healthcare to buy additional 5.5% in Vodafone India for Rs3,007 cr
04 February 2012
Germany’s TUI AG looks to offload stake in Hapag-Lloyd
04 February 2012
SC ruling paves way for consolidation of telecom sector
04 February 2012
Mahindra Satyam receives provisional attachment order from IT Department
03 February 2012
National Oilwell Varco to buy Denmark’s NKT Flexibles for $673.4 million
03 February 2012
British banking software firm Misys in merger talks with Swiss rival Temenos
03 February 2012
Hutchison to acquire Orange Austria from France Telecom for $1.7 bn
03 February 2012
China’s Youngman to bid again for Saab: report
03 February 2012
SEBI opens new private placement window for PSU divestment
02 February 2012
Swiss giants Xstrata, Glencore in talks for $80-billion "merger of equals"
02 February 2012
PetroChina to buy 20 % of Shell’s Canadian Groundbirch shale gas project
02 February 2012
Rio Tinto sells its Kalahari stake to China’s nuclear reactor builder CGNPC
02 February 2012
Aanjaneya Lifecare acquires Apex Drugs in a Rs250-crore deal
02 February 2012
Binani Industries acquires Belgian fibreglass company 3B, for Rs1,781 crore
02 February 2012
SandRidge Energy to buy Gulf of Mexico-focused Dynamic Offshore for $1.28 bn
02 February 2012
Lufthansa to sell no-frills brand Bmibaby to unnamed UK-based firm
02 February 2012
International Paper reconstitutes board of Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills
01 February 2012
Fortis acquires majority stake in Singapore’s RadLink-Asia for Rs245 crore
01 February 2012
Yara, Apache take control of Oswals' Burrup Fertilisers
01 February 2012
Walt Disney to acquire controlling stake in UTV
01 February 2012
ThyssenKrupp to sell Inoxum stainless steel to Finland’s Outokumpu for $3.55 bn
31 January 2012
McKesson Corp to acquire Katz Group Canada’s pharmacy assets for $918 mn
31 January 2012
PE firm Gores Group to acquire US auto parts chain Pep Boys for $791 mn
31 January 2012
Subrata Roy’s Sahara Group bids Rs5,808 cr for UK Marriot Hotels: report
30 January 2012
ABB to acquire US electrical components maker Thomas & Betts for $3.9 bn
30 January 2012
Renewable energy M&A rose 40 per cent last year: PWc
30 January 2012
Cambridge's Trinity College buys 50 % stake in Tesco stores for £450 mn
30 January 2012
Intel to buy about 190 patents from RealNetworks for $120 million
28 January 2012
Jyothy Laboratories raises Rs550 crore from Axis Bank to refinance debt
28 January 2012
Inbound M&A deal volumes surge by 30% in 2011
27 January 2012
Fresh summons issued against Essar on Loop Telecom promoters
27 January 2012
DP World, ABP sell stake in Tilbury Container Services to Forth Ports
27 January 2012
Sara Lee to acquire Philips' stake in Senseo coffee brand for $223 million
27 January 2012
Nokia sells media advertising business to US startup Matchbin
27 January 2012
AZB & Partners, E&Y top transaction advisors in 2011
27 January 2012
Amgen to buy leukemia drug developer Micromet for $1.16 billion
27 January 2012
Japan's NTT Com to acquire 74 % stake in Mumbai-based Netmagic
25 January 2012
Delhi High Court asks Essar, Loop to seek clarification from Supreme Court
25 January 2012
Cairn-Vedanta deal finally through after cabinet nod
25 January 2012
Global power sector M&A deals worth $174.4 billion: PwC
24 January 2012
Watson acquires Strides Arcolab’s Australian generic unit for Rs1,983 crore
24 January 2012
Canada’s Latin America focussed Pan American to acquire Minefinders for $1.49 bn
24 January 2012
Apache Corp to buy Cordillera Energy Partners for $2.85 billion
24 January 2012
California University's health unit acquires Nevada Cancer Institute
24 January 2012
Mitsubishi Electric acquires Pune's Messung Group
23 January 2012
Tokyo Electric Power may spin off or sell thermal power plants: report
23 January 2012
News Corp mulls bid for Turkey’s Calik Holding's media assets
23 January 2012
Essar seeks $883-mn refund from Vodafone: Report
23 January 2012
Temasek to pick up a 4.9 % stake in Godrej Consumer Products for Rs685 crore
23 January 2012
United Spirits receives shareholder nod to raise $225 million through FCCB
21 January 2012
Twitter acquires Canada’s startup news aggregator Summify
21 January 2012
Vodafone wins tax case in Supreme Court
20 January 2012
China’s Zhejiang Youngman to bid for Saab again
20 January 2012
Warren Buffett increases stake in UK supermarket chain Tesco
20 January 2012
Chinese sovereign wealth fund acquires stake in Britain’s utility Thames Water
20 January 2012
Nippon Life buys 26 per cent in Reliance Cap’s mutual fund arm
19 January 2012
GDF Suez eyes E.ON’s natural gas transmission grid
19 January 2012
Foreign carriers evince interest in investing in Indian counterparts
19 January 2012
Reliance Com seeks to list undersea cable arm in Singapore
19 January 2012
DLF to raise Rs1,800-crore through non-core asset sale: report
19 January 2012
Kingfisher in talks with SC Lowly for Rs1,442cr funding
19 January 2012
Tata Steel bags multi-million pound European order for Siemens' wind project
19 January 2012
PE firm Cinven to acquire patent management firm CPA Global for $1.46 bn
18 January 2012
Samsung denies interest in buying RIM
18 January 2012
DS Smith to acquire Sweden’s SCA Packaging for $2 billion
18 January 2012
Kraft Foods to eliminate 1,600 North American jobs ahead of spin-off
18 January 2012
Aviation ministry backs 49 per cent FDI in Indian carriers
17 January 2012
Dishman Pharma acquires French contract research firm Creapharm Parenterals
17 January 2012
Posco to buy additional 11.5% of Australian iron ore miner Roy Hill for $1.6 bn
17 January 2012
Panel clears KPMG, Ernst & Young of wrongdoing in Olympus scandal
17 January 2012
Sumitomo Mitsui to acquire RBS's aircraft-leasing business for $7.3 bn
17 January 2012
Valeant Pharmaceuticals raises offer for opthalmic drugs maker ISTA
17 January 2012
German dairy giant Muller to acquire UK’s Robert Wiseman for $427 mn
17 January 2012
Dalmia Cement to acquire 50 per cent stake in Calcom Cement for Rs238 crore
16 January 2012
Fossil Inc to acquire Skagen Designs
16 January 2012
Toshiba denies reports of Olympus tie-up
16 January 2012
Khazanah to sell stake in car maker Proton to DRB-Hicom for $411.9 mn
16 January 2012
RIL in talks with cable operators to buy minimum 26 % stake: report
16 January 2012
Oil India eyes US shale gas acreage
16 January 2012
Delta Airlines eyes AMR Corp: Reports
13 January 2012
Daikin Industries continues to put on hold Goodman Global acquisition talks
13 January 2012
Thomas Cook India denies stake sale reports
13 January 2012
LIC prepares Rs10,000-cr war chest for SUUTI stake
13 January 2012
Raymond James Financial to acquire Morgan Keegan for $930 mn
12 January 2012
Chinese cross border M&A’s rise in 2011
12 January 2012
E.ON to buy 10 % of Brazil’s MPX Energia, form JV for power plants in South America
12 January 2012
Thomas Cook pledges stake worth Rs557 crore in Indian arm with RBS
12 January 2012
Exxaro launches A$338-mn bid for Republic of Congo focused African Iron
11 January 2012
Muthoot to divest upto 6 per cent with private placement to raise Rs500 crore
11 January 2012
KKR in talks to acquire Australian apparel maker Pacific Brands
11 January 2012
Germany’s Linde to buy Air Products' European homecare unit for $750 mn
11 January 2012
Canada’s Teck Resources to acquire oilsands partner SilverBirch for $435 mn
10 January 2012
Shandong Heavy to buy controlling stake in Italian luxury yachtmaker Ferretti
10 January 2012
AkzoNobel to take 100 % control of Metlac Group
10 January 2012
Optare approves Ashok Leyland's bid to raise stake to 75.1%
09 January 2012
Bristol-Myers to acquire hepatitis C oral drug developer Inhibitex for $2.5 bn
09 January 2012
Sinochem to buy 10% in five Brazilian offshore blocks from Perenco
07 January 2012
Joy Global to buy rest of China International Mining Machinery for $437.80 mn
07 January 2012
Praj acquires majority stake in Neela Systems
06 January 2012
China’s Shandong eyes majority stake in Italian luxury yachtmaker Ferretti
06 January 2012
Hochtief in talks to acquire majority stake in Coastal Projects
06 January 2012
China Development Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui in race to buy RBS Aviation Capital
05 January 2012
Oil sector leaders keen on BG Group's stake in Gujarat Gas
05 January 2012
Fiat gets additional five per cent stake in Chrysler
05 January 2012
RIL in talks to buy El Paso’s E&P unit worth $8.1 bn
05 January 2012
PetroChina gets control of Canada’s MacKay River oil sands project
04 January 2012
China’s Sinopec invests $2.2 bn in US shale deal
04 January 2012
3M to acquire Avery Dennison's office, consumer business
04 January 2012
Network18 board approves deal to acquire RIL stake in ETV
03 January 2012
TRF acquires rest of Dutch Lanka Trailer Manufacturers for $8.33 million
03 January 2012
PE firm Jacob Ballas to invest Rs200 crore in Religare's NBFC arm Religare Finvest
03 January 2012
RIL to invest over Rs1500 cr in TV18 Group: report
03 January 2012
Varroc Group acquires majority stake in Italy’s TriOM SPA
02 January 2012
Mahindra eyes bankrupt Swedish carmaker Saab: report
31 December 2011
Zuari-Mitsubishi JV acquires 30 per cent stake in Peru phosphate firm
30 December 2011
Spain’s Repsol to acquire Russian oil and gas explorer Eurotek for $230 mn
30 December 2011
Russian bank VTB acquires 20 % of iron ore miner Metalloinvest for $2.5 bn
30 December 2011
Alexion Pharma to acquire Enobia for around $1.08 bn
29 December 2011
Chesapeake Energy to sell pipeline system to affiliate for $865 million
29 December 2011
Citigroup to sell Belgian consumer unit to French bank Credit Mutuel Nord Europe
29 December 2011
GMR to divest 30-% stake in energy arm to Petronas
28 December 2011
Alexander Dennis to upset Ashok Leyland’s bid for UK bus maker Optare
28 December 2011
DLF Ackruti Info Parks in Pune sold to Blackstone group for Rs810 crore
28 December 2011
Walt Disney to launch open offer for UTV Software on 16 January
28 December 2011
Warren Buffett's General Re to bid for South Korea's Tong Yang Life: report
28 December 2011
The New York Times Co to sell 16 publications to Halifax Media
28 December 2011
Varun Group sells 51-per cent stake in Madagascar oil block to Chinese firm for $150 million
27 December 2011
ConocoPhillips to sell stake in three North Sea oil fields to Endeavour for $330 mn
27 December 2011
Western Digital's proposed acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage will hurt competition: China
27 December 2011
Tata Power buys out BP's stake in Tata BP Solar
27 December 2011
US firms acquiring assets from distressed European banks
27 December 2011
Kyocera to acquire automotive LCD panel maker Optrex for $256 mn
27 December 2011
Too early to predict Fujifilm move on Olympus: Fujifilm executive
26 December 2011
Mexichem raises takeover offer for Dutch rival Wavin to €505 million
26 December 2011
Singapore's Changi Airports in talks to buy 26% in GVK Airport Holdings
26 December 2011
Malaysia's Khazanah to pay $945 mn for 75 % of Turkish hospital group Acibadem
24 December 2011
Aditya Birla Group potential buyer of Lafarge’s S African cement unit
24 December 2011
Chinese sovereign fund CIC buys 25 % in Shanduka for $245 mn
24 December 2011
China’s Yanzhou acquiring Australia’s Gloucester Coal for $2.23 bn
23 December 2011
PE firm Actis Advisors invests $71 mn in auto component maker Endurance
23 December 2011
Indonesia’s Energi Mega Persada to buy CNOOC’s stake in offshore gas block
22 December 2011
Yahoo mulls sale of Asian assets worth around $17 billion: report
22 December 2011
Investment group Wrapports to acquire Chicago Sun-Times Media Holdings
22 December 2011
Total to buy ExxonMobil's stake in Belgian chemicals plant Fina Antwerp Olefins
22 December 2011
H B Fuller to buy Forbo's industrial adhesives business for $395 mn
22 December 2011
Bunge to acquire Amrit Banaspati's edible oil, fats business
22 December 2011
ONGC to buy Cairn’s 10 per cent stake in KG gas block
21 December 2011
Zydus Cadila acquires Biochem Pharmaceuticals
21 December 2011
Investigators raid three Olympus subsidiaries in Tokyo
21 December 2011
Medical device maker C R Bard acquires Lutonix
21 December 2011
Tokio Marine to buy US rival Delphi Financial for $2.7 bn
21 December 2011
HSBC to sell $2.7-bn Japanese private banking unit to Credit Suisse
21 December 2011
BHP Billiton to sell Chidliak project to Peregrine Diamonds
21 December 2011
Ashok Leyland raises stake in British bus maker Optare to 75.1 %
21 December 2011
GSK to sell some North American OTC drugs to Prestige Brands for $661 mn
21 December 2011
Qatar royals take majority stake in Dexia’s private bank BIL
20 December 2011
Olympus to issue new shares to up low finance levels: reports
20 December 2011
Infosys BPO to acquire Australia’s Portland Group for around A$37 million
20 December 2011
US retail chain Bi-Lo to buy Winn-Dixie Stores for $560 million
20 December 2011
New York Times Co in talks to sell 16 regional newspapers
20 December 2011
AT&T drops proposed $39-bn T-Mobile USA takeover
20 December 2011
Accel Partners acquires minority stake in Indian digital media company
19 December 2011
Toyota to raise 2012 production to record high; plans merger of three group entities
19 December 2011
Coromandel International takes 67.75 per cent stake in Sabero Organics
19 December 2011
ExxonMobil mulls $10.9-bn takeover of Gulf Keystone: report
19 December 2011
Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal acquires $300-mn stake in Twitter
19 December 2011
Datanet Systems to acquire printer business of WeP Peripherals for Rs17 crore
19 December 2011
Laphroaig, Teacher's whisky maker Beam Inc to buy Ireland's Cooley brands
19 December 2011
UK insurer Old Mutual to sell Nordic unit to Sweden’s Skandia Liv for £2.1 bn
17 December 2011
Apollo Global acquires Belgian chemicals firm Taminco for €1.4 bn
17 December 2011
United Rentals to buy RSC Holdings for $4.2 billion
16 December 2011
Anadarko to sell some midstream assets to Western Gas for $483 mn
16 December 2011
ANZ to sell Oswal stake in Burrup Fertilisers to Apache for $560 mn
16 December 2011
L'Oréal completes acquisition of skin care devices maker Pacific Bioscience
16 December 2011
Covidien plans to spin off pharmaceuticals business
16 December 2011
Glencore acquires 80.08% of Namibia’s Rosh Pinah Zinc Corp
15 December 2011
Fujifilm to buy medical equipment maker SonoSite for $753 mn
15 December 2011
Chinese, Mid East giants in talks to buy stake in Frac Tech for $2.2 bn: report
15 December 2011
Saint Gobain to buy iron pipes business from Electrotherm (India) for Rs950 crore
15 December 2011
Lam Research to acquire Novellus Systems for $3.3 bn
15 December 2011
Thomas Cook sells Spanish hotel chain for €72.2 mn; to close 200 shops
14 December 2011
Kazakhstan pays $1 bn for 10% of Karachaganak oil and gas field project
14 December 2011
Caterpillar to sell part of Bucyrus to Malaysia's Sime Darby for $360 mn
14 December 2011
Wolters Kluwer Health acquires Indian open access STM journal publisher
13 December 2011
Nokia Siemens sells fixed-line broadband access unit to Adtran
13 December 2011
Vale to buy out minority shareholders in Vale Fertilizantes for $1.22 billion
12 December 2011
Firodias to merge KEL and KMCL
10 December 2011
PE firm Thoma Bravo to acquire Blue Coat Systems for $1.3 billion
10 December 2011
IL&FS arm is first Indian firm to acquire stake in a Chinese state firm
09 December 2011
IBM acquires cloud software firm DemandTec for $440-mn
09 December 2011
China Guangdong Nuclear launches $993-mn bid for Kalahari Minerals
09 December 2011
Chinese nuclear firm offers $2.2 bn for Australian uranium miner Extract
09 December 2011
Sesa Goa completes Vedanta’s acquisition of Cairn Energy’s India operations
08 December 2011
Barclays to stop lending in India: Report
08 December 2011
AstraZeneca to buy China’s generic maker Guangdong BeiKang Pharma
08 December 2011
Battle brewing for control of scam-tainted Olympus
08 December 2011
Canadian gas giant Encana to sell two gas plants to Veresen for $920 mn
08 December 2011
Warren Buffett buys one of world's top two solar projects
08 December 2011
China approves Nestlé $1.7-bn acquisition of local candy maker Hsu Fu Chi
07 December 2011
Pantaloon denies sale of financial services units
07 December 2011
Banco Santander to sell Colombian unit to Chile’s CorpBanca for $1.16 bn
07 December 2011
Dutch pipe maker Wavin rejects Mexichem’s sweetened $610 mn offer
07 December 2011
Icahn goes hostile with his $1.73-billion offer for Commercial Metals
07 December 2011
ONGC gives nod for Cairn India stake sale to Vedanta
06 December 2011
SuccessFactors to buy privately held Jobs2web for $110 million
06 December 2011
Royal Vopak in race to buy East India Petroleum from GIP
06 December 2011
DLF buys out Hilton Hotels stake in JV for Rs120 crore
06 December 2011
Cairn-Vedanta deal gets security clearance, but concerns remain
05 December 2011
Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala plans to sell stake in Aptech: report
05 December 2011
Metals recycler CMC rejects Carl Icahn's $1.73-bn buyout offer
05 December 2011
Bank of China to buy Pang Da’s stake to rescue Saab: report
05 December 2011
Australian coal miners Whitehaven, Aston discuss A$4.65 bn merger
05 December 2011
SAP to buy Success Factors for $3.4 bn
05 December 2011
Bank of India to buy 51-% stake Bharti AXA Investment Managers, paves way for Bharti Enterprises' exit
05 December 2011
M&M to resume bookings for XUV500 in January
03 December 2011
United Technologies acquires two Chennai-based firms
03 December 2011
Sony to shed Ericsson tag; focus on smartphones
03 December 2011
Heineken buys 918 UK pubs from RBS for $646 million
03 December 2011
Rio Tinto gets control of Canadian uranium miner Hathor Exploration
01 December 2011
PE firms Blackstone Group, Bain Capital eye Yahoo: report
01 December 2011
Warren Buffett acquires hometown newspaper for $150 million
01 December 2011
Three firms bid to explore CIL’s Mozambique block
01 December 2011
Samsung C&T, KNOC to buy US-based Parallel Petroleum for$780 million
30 November 2011
Tyco spinoff TE Connectivity to buy Deutsch Group for $2.06 bn
30 November 2011
Japan’s cosmetics maker Pola Orbis to buy Australia’s Jurlique for $300 mn
30 November 2011
Cameco exits from bidding war with Rio Tinto over uranium miner Hathor
29 November 2011
Canada's Nexen to sell 40-% stake in shale gas assets to Japan’s Inpex for C$700 mn
29 November 2011
Tepco to sell KDDI stake for ¥186.3 billion
29 November 2011
Carl Icahn offers to buy struggling Commercial Metals for $1.73 billion
29 November 2011
KKR to buy UK safety harness maker Capital Safety for $1.12 bn
29 November 2011
China's Cnooc closes C$2.1-bn acquisition of oil sands operator Opti Canada
29 November 2011
Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods to buy 74% in Hong Kong affiliate for $2.1 bn
29 November 2011
Reinsurer Validus Holdings withdraws $3.5-bn offer for rival Transatlantic
28 November 2011
Akamai Juniper Networks, AT&T eye Israeli start-up Cotendo Ltd
28 November 2011
AT&T to offer more sops to save $39 billion T-Mobile USA merger: report
28 November 2011
Russian steelmaker Magnitogorsk to buy Australia’s Flinders Mines for $538 mn
28 November 2011
Steelmaker Ternium to buy 27.7% of rival Usiminas for $2.66 billion
28 November 2011
Rio Tinto-Chinalco copper JV gets Beijing’s nod
28 November 2011
RIL ends talks to acquire Bharti's stake in insurance JVs
25 November 2011
Polaris Software to take full control of Indigo Tx Software
25 November 2011
SABMiller's $10.2-bn acquisition of Foster's gets Australia's conditional approval
25 November 2011
Noida-based Dion Global acquires UK broking software firm Investmaster
25 November 2011
AT&T to take $4-bn charge as $39-bn T-Mobile merger nears collapse
25 November 2011
Dutch retailer Jumbo to buy rival supermarket chain C1000
24 November 2011
Lloyds Engineering buys Lindab’s industrial shed in Czech Republic
24 November 2011
Microsoft signs confidentiality agreement with Yahoo
24 November 2011
Oilfield services firm Oceaneering to buy Norway’s ASA's unit for $240 mn
24 November 2011
KKR-led consortium to buy US energy company Samson for $7.2 bn
24 November 2011
Scotland’s Weir Group to acquire wellhead specialist Seaboard for $675 mn
24 November 2011
Microsoft acquires video search engine VideoSurf
23 November 2011
Mexican plastic pipe maker Mexichem bids $580 mn for Dutch rival Wavin
23 November 2011
China’s Shanda Interactive to be taken private by Tianqiao Chen family
23 November 2011
Russian steelmaker Magnitogorsk Steel eyes Australian iron miner Flinders Mines
23 November 2011
Pfizer to buy skin scarring drugmaker Excaliard Pharmaceuticals
23 November 2011
Gilead Sciences to acquire hepatitis C drug developer Pharmasset for $11 bn
21 November 2011
MAN to acquire majority stake in joint venture with Force Motors
21 November 2011
Pearson Plc to buy China's Global Education for $155 million
21 November 2011
Canada's Valeant to acquire Australia's iNova Pharmaceuticals for $623 mn
21 November 2011
BMW buys 15.6% stake in Germany’s SGL Carbon for $622 mn
19 November 2011
Nestlé buys Oscar stocks and sauces business from Finland’s Paulig Group
18 November 2011
Bidding war for uranium miner Hathor intensifies after Rio Tinto raises offer
18 November 2011
Medtronic to sell Physio-Control to Bain Capital for $487 mn
18 November 2011
Nestlé completes acquisition of 60-% stake in China's Yinlu Foods
18 November 2011
Motorola Mobility shareholders approve merger with Google
18 November 2011
Peabody Energy gets full control of Macarthur Coal
17 November 2011
iGate to de-list Patni shares from Indian bourses
17 November 2011
UK government to sell Northern Rock to Virgin Money in a £1 billion deal
17 November 2011
Ternium offers to buy 26-% stake in Brazil's Usiminas: report
17 November 2011
Lupin to acquire Japan’s I'rom Pharmaceutical
17 November 2011
China’s Shandong Gold Group offers to buy Jaguar Mining for $785 million
17 November 2011
Titan to acquire Swiss watch brand Favre Leuba for Rs13.7 crore
17 November 2011
ConocoPhillips to sell two US pipeline assets for $2 billion
17 November 2011
Kodiak Oil & Gas to buy Williston Basin acreage for $590 mn
16 November 2011
Cellphone market growth down sharply in third quarter - Gartner
16 November 2011
Aditya Birla Capital Advisors invests Rs95 crore in Alphion India
15 November 2011
Vedanta to bid for Australian thermal coal miner New Hope Corp: report
15 November 2011
US exchange regulator allows Buffett to keep his investment secret
15 November 2011
SK Telecom to acquire 21.05-% stake in Hynix for $3 bn
15 November 2011
Uranium producer Cameco raises hostile offer for Hathor to $625 million
15 November 2011
SAP open to acquisitions in Asia, to hire more in India and China: report
14 November 2011
Bank of America to sell stake in China Construction Bank for $6.6 bn
14 November 2011
AB Sciex acquires Labindia's Mass Spectrometry unit to expand in India
14 November 2011
Credit card swipe machine maker VeriFone to buy Point for $824 million
14 November 2011
Universal Music, Sony to buy EMI from Citigroup for $4.1 billion
14 November 2011
ConAgra Foods to acquire National Pretzel from Brookstone Holdings
12 November 2011
PE firms Blackstone, Carlyle in talks to buy Reliance tower unit
11 November 2011
Sinopec to pay $3.54 bn for 30% of Galp Energia’s Brazilian deep-sea oil asset
11 November 2011
Starbucks expands into juices with Evolution Fresh acquisition
11 November 2011
Caterpillar offers to buy China’s ERA Mining Machinery for $885 million
11 November 2011
Germany's largest retailer Edeka in race to buy Dutch retail chain C1000 for €1-bn
11 November 2011
PepsiCo acquires Brazil's cookie and cracker producer Grupo Mabel
11 November 2011
Sweden’s SCA to buy Georgia-Pacific’s European tissue operations for $1.8 bn
10 November 2011
Anglo American sells 24.5% of Chilean copper assets to Mitsubishi for $5.39 bn
10 November 2011
Everstone Capital invests Rs150 crore in Crystal Crop Protection
10 November 2011
Goldman Sachs to sell stake worth $1.54 billion in China's ICBC
10 November 2011
Mylan to acquire Pfizer’s generic version of Advair with inhaler technology
10 November 2011
Hewlett-Packard mulls selling webOS unit: report
09 November 2011
Adobe to cut 750 jobs amid major business re-jig
09 November 2011
Thailand's Mitr Phol Sugar launches $324 mn bid for Australia's MSF Sugar
09 November 2011
Salix Pharmaceuticals to buy Oceana Therapeutics for $300 million
09 November 2011
RIL acquires 38.5-% stake in Extramarks Education
09 November 2011
Zijin Mining spends $408 mn in acquiring gold projects in China
08 November 2011
Buffett acquires stock worth $20 bn as markets tumble
08 November 2011
PE firm JLL Partners to buy American Dental Partners for $398 million
08 November 2011
Camera-maker Olympus admits to window-dressing books
08 November 2011
HMS Holdings to acquire HealthDataInsights for $400 mn
08 November 2011
BofA to sell Pizza Hut franchisee stake for $755 mn
08 November 2011
ONGC board approves acquisition of ADB stake in Petronet
07 November 2011
Sara Lee gets €115 mn offer for French unit EuroDough from Sagard
07 November 2011
Defence contractor General Dynamics to buy rival Force Protection for $360 mn
07 November 2011
PE firms look to acquire broadband solutions firm Tekelec for $780 mn
07 November 2011
BP’s $7.06-billion PAE stake sale deal with Cnooc, Bridas collapses
07 November 2011
Canada’s DragonWave pays €110 million for Nokia Siemens microwave business
05 November 2011
Siemens Healthcare to acquire healthcare technology company MobileMD
05 November 2011
Time Warner launches $1.37-bn unsolicited bid for Dutch TV producer Endemol
05 November 2011
PE firm Sagard emerges final bidder for Sara Lee's French refrigerated dough unit
05 November 2011
Plains Exploration to sell some US oil and natural-gas assets for $785 million
05 November 2011
Anglo American to buy Oppenheimer family’s stake in De Beers for $5.1 bn
04 November 2011
British Airways owner IAG confident of buying out bmi
04 November 2011
Bharti Airtel to spend $1.5 bn on Africa operations
04 November 2011
Japan’s Kirin Holdings pays $1.4 bn for the rest of Brazilian brewer Schincariol
04 November 2011
Sesa Goa to acquire Goa Energy from Videocon Industries for Rs53.72 crore
04 November 2011
Encana Corp to sell North Texas gas assets to EnerVest for $975 million
03 November 2011
PepsiCo acquires Brazil's cookie and cracker producer, Mabel
03 November 2011
Aditya Birla mulls bidding for Australian thermal coal miner New Hope
03 November 2011
ThyssenKrupp holds roadshow for PE firms for stainless steel business
03 November 2011
WNS acquires Paxys's stake in Philippines JV
02 November 2011
Arvind sells stake in VF Arvind Brands to partner VF Mauritius for Rs257 crore
02 November 2011
Kavveri Telecom completes Rs134-cr acquisition of Spain’s Rymsa Telecom
02 November 2011
Marathon Oil plans to divest stake in Block 32 Angola
02 November 2011
Cnooc plans $7-bn bid for BP’s stake in Argentina’s Pan American Energy
02 November 2011
Anadarko Petroleum seeks buyers for offshore Brazilian assets
02 November 2011
Yahoo to buy online advertising firm Interclick for $270 million
02 November 2011
Fortis Healthcare acquires Singapore arm for $665 million
01 November 2011
BHP Billiton, Mitsubishi to invest $4.2 bn in Australian coking coal projects
01 November 2011
Unilever sells Culver Speciality Brands division to B&G Foods for $325 mn
01 November 2011
TNK-BP confirms deal to buy 45-% stake in Brazilian exploration blocks for $1 bn
01 November 2011
Indonesia's Bakrie family to sell part stake in Bumi Plc for $800 mn to repay loan
01 November 2011
Valero Energy stock plummets after RIL denies acquisition rumours
01 November 2011
Winsway, Marubeni to acquire Canada's Grande Cache Coal for $1 bn
01 November 2011
Japanese premier expresses concern over Olympus scam
31 October 2011
PetroVietnam launches $1.5-bn bid for ConocoPhillips' South China Sea oil assets
31 October 2011
TNK-BP close to buying 45-% stake in 21 Brazilian exploration blocks for $1 bn
31 October 2011
Omnicom acquires 51-% stake in Anil Ambani's Mudra Group
31 October 2011
DuPont Co mulls $4 billion sale of auto and vehicle paint division: report
29 October 2011
Tide Water Oil acquires BP's Veedol lubricants brand
28 October 2011
Samsung to sell iMarketKorea to InterPark led consortium for $378.4 mn
28 October 2011
PE firm Sterling Partners outbids Wi-Lan for patent licensing company Mosaid
28 October 2011
Hertz withdraws from buying smaller rival Dollar Thrifty
28 October 2011
Marriott International to spin off Marriott time share business
27 October 2011
Infosys looking for acquisitions upto $700 million
27 October 2011
AIG plans to offload half its stake in Asian unit AIA Group
27 October 2011
French defence group Thales in exclusive talks to sell IT business to GFI Informatique
27 October 2011
Sara Lee to sell majority of coffee business to J M Smucker for $350 mn
25 October 2011
Carlyle, General Atlantic in talks to invest upto Rs900 crore in Flipkart
25 October 2011
Peabody, ArcelorMittal acquire majority stake in Macarthur Coal
25 October 2011
US health insurer Cigna to buy medicare firm HealthSpring for $3.8 bn
25 October 2011
GAIL looking to acquire more shale gas assets in US
24 October 2011
Oracle to acquire cloud-based customer service firm RightNow for $1.5 bn
24 October 2011
Israel Chemicals buys out partner's 50-% stake in Belgium's Nutrisi
24 October 2011
Mattel to buy Hit Entertainment from Apax Partners for $680 mn
24 October 2011
Gazprom eyes German alternative energy company Envacom: report
24 October 2011
China Mengniu Dairy plans to bid for Pfizer Nutrition: report
24 October 2011
Telecom ministry may announce new M&A policy within six months
24 October 2011
Japanese camera maker Olympus forced to probe high M&A advisory payments
22 October 2011
Banco Santander to sell 35-% stake in Santander Consumer USA for $1.15 bln
22 October 2011
Liberty Global offers sops on $4.4-bn takeover of German cable group Kabel BW
22 October 2011
Bank of Nova Scotia to buy majority stake in Colombia's Banco Colpatria for $1 billion
20 October 2011
Oil India, Indian Oil eye stake in French oil firm Maurel et Prom's Gabon fields
20 October 2011
UK defence contractor Cobham to sell Sparta to Parsons Corp for $350 million
20 October 2011
Technology patent firm Wi-LAN raises hostile bid for Mosaid to $524.5 million
20 October 2011
SABMiller in $1.9-billion alliance with Turkish brewer Anadolu Efes
20 October 2011
Peabody Energy, ArcelorMittal extend offer for Macarthur Coal till 11 November
20 October 2011
Permira may acquire Genesys from Alcatel-Lucent for $1.5 bn in cash
20 October 2011
Abott to split into two
19 October 2011
South Africa’s KAP to buy Steinhoff’s industrial assets for $1.1 billion
19 October 2011
China's Haier to buy Sanyo’s Southeast Asian white goods business
19 October 2011
Sun Pharma to buy remaining stake in Israeli unit Taro for Rs1,810 crore
19 October 2011
Bumi dumps $2.07-bn acquisition of Indonesian miner Bumi Resources Minerals
18 October 2011
Mattel close to buying Hit Entertainment for $789 mn: report
18 October 2011
China’s Shanda Interactive receives $740-mn management buyout offer
18 October 2011
Roche to buy hepatitis C drug developer Anadys for $230 million
18 October 2011
Norway’s Statoil bids $4.4 bn for Brigham Exploration
18 October 2011
Energy Transfer sells propane operations to AmeriGas for $2.9 bn
18 October 2011
Reliance suspends drilling at blocks covered under BP deal
18 October 2011
UK security group G4S to acquire Denmark’s facilities company ISS for $8.2 bn
17 October 2011
Cash-rich RIL to scout for overseas energy acquisitions
17 October 2011
Australia’s Super Retail to acquire sports goods chain Rebel Group for A$610 mln
17 October 2011
Netcore acquires multi-modal mobile marketing service firm Ravience
17 October 2011
Rio Tinto to sell around $8-bn worth global aluminium assets
17 October 2011
HMV in talks to sell 50-% stake in digital music company 7digital: report
17 October 2011
LN Mittal-backed Ophir Energy to acquire Dominion Petro acquisition
17 October 2011
NIIT sells entire stake in Element K to SkillSoft for Rs540 crore
17 October 2011
Weak European demand forces ArcelorMittal to optimise assets to save $1 bn
15 October 2011
International Paper acquires majority stake in AP Paper Mills for Rs1,660 crore
15 October 2011
Unilever to buy Russian skincare company Concern Kalina for $694 million
15 October 2011
S Korean mobile operator KT in talks to buy 20% of S Africa’s Telkom for $600 mn
14 October 2011
Century Textiles-UltraTech merger all but finalised: reports
14 October 2011
DB Hospitality to raise Rs1,000 crore by selling stake in properties
14 October 2011
PE firms Carlyle, Advent to bid for BT's stake in Tech Mahindra: report
14 October 2011
Hewlett-Packard rethinks spinning-off PC unit
14 October 2011
LVMH, HNA Group, Middle Eastern fund in race for DLF's Amanresorts
14 October 2011
PE firms hire Citigroup to sell Japanese drugmaker Showa Yakuhin Kako
14 October 2011
Alcatel-Lucent to sell Genesys for $1.5 billion to PE group Permira: report
13 October 2011
China clears Peabody, ArcelorMittal's A$4.83-bn takeover of Macarthur Coal
13 October 2011
Infosys denies talks over Thomson Reuters healthcare business
13 October 2011
Pratt & Whitney to pay $1.5 billion for Rolls-Royce stake in IAE jet venture
13 October 2011
S Africa's Life Healthcare to acquire 26-% in Max Healthcare for Rs516 crore
13 October 2011
Teekay, Marubeni to buy AP Moller-Maersk's LNG shipping unit for $1.4 bn
13 October 2011
Infosys keen to buy Thomson Reuters healthcare vertical
13 October 2011
Mallya sells 42.5-% stake in Force India F1 team to Subroto Roy for $100 million
13 October 2011
Telecommunications firm NeuStar to buy Targus for $650 million news
12 October 2011
99 Cents Only Stores to be acquired by Ares and CPPIB for $1.6 billion
12 October 2011
Murata Manufacturing to buy Finland's VTI Technologies for $261 million
11 October 2011
ENRC to buy Kazakh coal producer Shubarkol Komir for $600 million
11 October 2011
Packaging company Sonoco Products to buy rival Tegrant for $550 million
11 October 2011
Mystery bidder withdraws from takeover battle for cancer drugmaker Allos
11 October 2011
Jerry Yang enters race to take Yahoo private: report
11 October 2011
China Guangdong Nuclear Power plans to acquire uranium miner Kalahari Minerals
10 October 2011
MRF looking at acquisitions overseas
10 October 2011
TTK Prestige to acquire ailing Indian unit of Italy's Bialetti
10 October 2011
Qatar’s Precision Capital to buy Belgian bank KBC’s unit for €1.05 billion
10 October 2011
Superior Energy to buy Complete Production Services for $2.7 billion
10 October 2011
Alibaba seeks funding from Temasek to buy back stake from Yahoo
10 October 2011
European Commission approves Microsoft's $8.5-bn acquisition of Skype
10 October 2011
Sinopec to buy Canadian oil, shale-gas explorer Daylight Energy for $2.1 bn
10 October 2011
Nomura Research enters India with 25.1-% stake in Market Xcel
08 October 2011
Research In Motion to buy Ireland's NewBay for reported $100 million
08 October 2011
Brazil’s Iochpe-Maxion to buy US-based Hayes Lemmerz for $725 mn
07 October 2011
Australian thermal coal miner New Hope invites bids
07 October 2011
Medical diagnostics firm Axis-Shield bows to Alere’s raised offer of £235 mn
07 October 2011
Japan’s Holdings to buy US-based Caris Life Sciences for $725 million
07 October 2011
Walt Disney to acquire all of Indiagames in $80-100 mn deal
07 October 2011
Carlyle, Hellman & Friedman to buy drug research firm PPD for $3.9 bn
05 October 2011
IBM targets $94-bn security software market through Q1 Labs acquisition
05 October 2011
Fortune Brands renamed Beam Inc after splitting businesses
05 October 2011
Israel Chemicals unit acquires Hammond 's Halox division
05 October 2011
Hewlett-Packard completes $10.3-bn Autonomy acquisition
04 October 2011
US chemical firm PolyOne to buy ColorMatrix for $486 million
04 October 2011
Scripps to buy McGraw-Hill broadcast unit for $212 mn
04 October 2011
Sweden’s Getinge to acquire Atrium Medical for $680 million Medical technology group
04 October 2011
China’s Hanlong to acquire Australia's Sundance Resources for $1.57 bn
04 October 2011
Alibaba evinces interest in taking over Yahoo
03 October 2011
Duke Energy's acquisition of Progress hits regulatoy roadblock
03 October 2011
Intel to buy Israel-based mobile navigation software maker Telmap
03 October 2011
Imperial Holdings to buy German logistics firm Lehnkering for $366 million
01 October 2011
HP's fear of Oracle takeover forced it to replace CEO: report
01 October 2011
PE firms Bain Capital, Carlyle and Pamplona eye TI Automotive
30 September 2011
No takers for LyondellBasell's French refinery
30 September 2011
Barclay brothers buy London’s three five-star hotels for $1.09 bn
30 September 2011
Reliance Capital gets RBI nod for 26-% stake sale to Nippon Life
30 September 2011
Singapore and London exchanges to jointly bid for London Metal Exchange: report
30 September 2011
Japan's Toyo Seikan to buy US-based can machinery maker Stolle for $775 mln
30 September 2011
China's Minmetals Resources offers to buy Anvil Mining for $1.28 billion
30 September 2011
GAIL forms JV with Carrizo to acquire stake in US shale gas asset
29 September 2011
Monsanto acquires targeted-pest control technology start-up Beeologics
29 September 2011
Merck & Co sells OTC joint venture to Johnson & Johnson for $175 million
29 September 2011
HCC sells 14.5 per cent stake in subsidiary to Xander Group
29 September 2011
Japan’s Sony acquires US Micronics Inc
29 September 2011
Tata Metaliks sells Redi pig iron unit to Fomento
29 September 2011
RIL may take over some of BP’s foreign assets: Dudley
29 September 2011
Melrose blinks, makes way for Colfax's £1.5-bn takeoverof Charter
28 September 2011
LCH.Clearnet board backs LSE takeover offer
28 September 2011
Cairn-Vedanta deal set to go through as ONGC gives its nod
28 September 2011
Cognizant acquires SAP retail software developer Zaffera
28 September 2011
Rio Tinto enters potash business via JV with Russia’s JSC Acron's Canadian unit
28 September 2011
Arrow Energy to acquire Australian gas explorer Bow Energy for A$535 million
28 September 2011
Anglo American shareholders seek control of De Beers
27 September 2011
GMR Infrastructure sells 30-% stake in GMR Energy
27 September 2011
Merger could impact US’ first wind farm
26 September 2011
NMDC close to acquiring coking coal mine in Russia
24 September 2011
Varkey Group to acquire additional 20 per cent stake in Everonn
24 September 2011
Acquirers hovering over Yahoo
24 September 2011
London Metal Exchange considers selling itself in a potential $1.5 billion deal
24 September 2011
Centrica Plc to buy Texas-based power producer First Choice for $270 million
24 September 2011
NMDC acquires stake in Legacy Iron Ore, eyes Mozambique coal project
23 September 2011
PE firm Permira to buy 61 % of Israel’s drip irrigation company Netafim
22 September 2011
Goodrich agrees to merge with UTC in $18.4-bn cash deal
22 September 2011
Foster's finally accepts SABMiller's $10.2-bn takeover offer
21 September 2011
Thailand’s Siam Cement to buy 30 % of Indonesia’s PT Chandra Asri for $442 mn
21 September 2011
Apache Corp to buy ExxonMobil's North Sea assets for $1.75 bn
21 September 2011
Coal India plans more acquisitions in Mozambique
21 September 2011
HSBC to sell Canadian brokerage unit to National Bank of Canada
21 September 2011
Everonn to sell stake to Varkey Group for Rs 138 crore
20 September 2011
Investcorp acquires US specialty cookware retailer Sur La Table
20 September 2011
Subex signs deal to sell activation business to NEC's NetCracker
20 September 2011
Government clears Vodafone's acquisition of overseas stakes in Essar JV
19 September 2011
Canadian gold miner Agnico-Eagle to buy Grayd Resource for C$275-mn
19 September 2011
Reliance Capital gets IRDA nod for sale of 26 % Reliance Life to Nippon Life
19 September 2011
Tyco International to split into three public firms
19 September 2011
Fortis Healthcare to acquire buy Singapore-based group firm
19 September 2011
Sun Capital Partners in fray for 632 Lloyds bank branches
19 September 2011
ICVL, China’s Henan Coal among bidders for Australia’s Aquila’s coal mine
19 September 2011
United Technologies in talks to acquire rival Goodrich in $11 bln deal: report
17 September 2011
GVK acquires majority stake in Australia's Hancock Coal for $1.26 billion
17 September 2011
Delta selling stake in East African JV to World Bank
16 September 2011
Axis Bank board approves merger of Enam securities
16 September 2011
Essar Energy in talks to buy oil, gas assets of global oil majors
16 September 2011
Mahindra & Mahindra to divest 8.09 per cent stake in Mahindra Holidays
15 September 2011
Infosys may acquire Thomson Reuters' healthcare business
15 September 2011
NMDC submits bid for 50 per cent of Australia’s Legacy Iron Ore
15 September 2011
Cairn India shareholders' accept government terms for stake sale
14 September 2011
Bharti Airtel Africa revenue to touch $5 billion by May 2013
14 September 2011
CSC acquires software testing firm AppLabs Technologies
14 September 2011
S Africa’s Aspen Pharma targets $800-mn foreign acquisitions
14 September 2011
Oaktree Capital launches $670-mn hostile bid for toy maker Jakks Pacific
14 September 2011
StanChart, SBI Card in the fray to buy Barclays' India credit cards business
14 September 2011
Infosys seeking to buy US healthcare, services firm
14 September 2011
Hewlett-Packard extend its $11.7 billion offer for UK’s Autonomy
13 September 2011
Broadcom to acquire NetLogic with 700 patents for $3.7 bn
13 September 2011
NMDC to make formal bid for 50 per cent in Australia's Legacy Iron Ore soon
13 September 2011
J P Morgan Chase to buy nearly 20-% stake in SKIL for Rs1,900 crore: report
13 September 2011
Future Group eyes stake sale in non-core biz
13 September 2011
HAL to be third defence PSU to see divestment
13 September 2011
Thai coal miner Banpu to buy Hunnu Coal in Mongolia for $443 mn
13 September 2011
Maran to raise stake in SpiceJet to 43 % by October
13 September 2011
French oil services firm Technip to buy US rival Global for $937 mn
12 September 2011
EmCare acquires management services of Acute Surgical Care Specialists
10 September 2011
AOL, Yahoo talk merger: report
10 September 2011
Ultratech scouting for overseas acquistion
10 September 2011
RBI okays Enam Securities merger with Axis Bank
10 September 2011
TRAI says it never sought auction of 2G spectrum
10 September 2011
Indian companies reported 86 M&A deals worth Rs9,672.6 crore in August: Grant Thornton
09 September 2011
Bank of Nova Scotia to buy 19.99-% stake in Bank of Guangzhou for $735 mn
09 September 2011
Nestle in talks to acquire Russian juice and baby food producer Progress OAO
09 September 2011
Tommy Hilfiger acquires Murjani Group’s Indian sub-licence
09 September 2011
Google buys restaurant review guide Zagat
09 September 2011
ICICI Ventures-backed Casino owner Delta Corp may sell stake
09 September 2011
PerkinElmer to buy Caliper Life Sciences for about $600 million
08 September 2011
Yahoo may be up for sale after Bartz firing
08 September 2011
Anglo American weighs $120 a share takeover of Walter Energy: report
08 September 2011
Regulator rejects SABMiller’s plea to review Foster’s financials
08 September 2011
Hitachi acquires US-based network storage company BlueArc Corp
08 September 2011
LeapFrog buys 10% stake in Shriram Capital for Rs67 cr
08 September 2011
Bombay Burmah to sell springs division to NHK Spring of Japan
07 September 2011
Yahoo up for sale: reports
07 September 2011
Halliburton to acquire production chemicals company Multi-Chem Group
07 September 2011
Indian consortium bids for Afghanistan's Hajigak Iron Ore Mines
07 September 2011
Jaiprakash Associates in talks to rope in strategic partner for cement business
07 September 2011
Glencore hikes stake in takeover target - South Africa’s Optimum Coal
06 September 2011
Luxury group LVMH likely to bid for DLF’s Amanresorts
06 September 2011
Hero Group buys Gurgaon luxury hotel in new venture
06 September 2011
Rio Tinto, Anglo to offload entire stake in South Africa’s copper miner Palabora
06 September 2011
Telefónica announces restructuring, to create new digital division in the UK
06 September 2011
Google acquires digital coupons and incentives company Zave Networks
05 September 2011
Tata Consultancy launches $500-million bid for Lufthansa Systems: report
05 September 2011
Colfax in fray for engineering group Charter
05 September 2011
Reliance Comm to merge three divisions, 10 % staff to be redundant
05 September 2011
Chinese consortium acquires 15-% stake in Brazilian niobium producer CBMM for $1.95 bn
05 September 2011
US government blocks AT&T's takeover bid for T-Mobile
02 September 2011
Rothschild takes 5-% stake in China CYTS Tours Holding
02 September 2011
Japan’s Itochu to buy 30% of China's Shangdong Ruyi
02 September 2011
Tesco to sell off its Japanese business
02 September 2011
CNN acquires Zite
02 September 2011
HP may float PC unit as new entity
31 August 2011
JPMorgan, KKR, Piramal eye Kishore Biyani’s Future Capital Holdings: report
31 August 2011
Government clears 5 per cent stake sale in BHEL
31 August 2011
RIL, BP start strategic alliance in India
30 August 2011
BankAm halves its stake in China’s CCB, nets $8.3 bn
30 August 2011
IDFC likely to buy DLF’s IT park at Noida
30 August 2011
Fabindia invites bids from investors; plans to raise Rs200 crore
29 August 2011
Greece's Alpha Bank and Eurobank merger awaits final nod
29 August 2011
Kiri Dyes take over SSP plant of Bodal Chemicals
29 August 2011
Reliance Broadcast in talks with PE firms to raise Rs 300-400 crore
29 August 2011
Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi sweetens offer for Australia's Coal & Allied Industries
27 August 2011
Canada's uranium producer Cameco launches $528-million takeover bid for Hathor
26 August 2011
Repro acquires Macmillan's India printing operations for Rs25 crore
26 August 2011
Indian insurance promoters can dilute stake anytime: ministry
26 August 2011
Glencore eyes South Africa’s Optimum Coal
26 August 2011
Bloomberg to acquire specialty legal publisher BNA for $990 million
26 August 2011
Baxter International to buy Baxa Corp for $380 million
26 August 2011
Cabot Corp to sell supermetals business to Australia’s GAM for $400 million
26 August 2011
Rio Tinto pays C$529.5 million for 2 % of Ivanhoe Mines
25 August 2011
Par Pharmaceutical to buy generic drug maker Anchen for $410 million
25 August 2011
NMDC to complete due diligence for Australia's Legacy this week
25 August 2011
Google yet to seek China’s regulatory approval on Motorola deal
24 August 2011
Glencore offers to buy 27-% stake in Minara
24 August 2011
BankAm likely to sell part stake in China Construction Bank
24 August 2011
Tata Chemicals to boost its stake in Canada’s EPM Mining Ventures to 30.6 per cent
24 August 2011
Lincoln Electric likely suitor for Charter International
23 August 2011
Japan's JFE looking to raise stake in JSW Steel
23 August 2011
Accenture buys Zenta to expand in mortgage and realty space
23 August 2011
Cairn bows to govt conditions on stake sale to Vedanta
23 August 2011
Sanofi plans Rs450-cr OTC deal with Universal Medicare
23 August 2011
PwC completes acquisition of PRTM
23 August 2011
Electrolux to buy Chilean appliance company CTI for $691 million
22 August 2011
Shell, PetroChina owned Arrow Energy bids $543 million for Bow Energy
22 August 2011
Dollar Thrifty seeks "best and final" offers from Hertz, Avis
22 August 2011
Tight funding market derails MediaNews, Freedom Communications’ merger
22 August 2011
Micro Focus ends takeover talks, to go for share buyback
22 August 2011
Medical devices maker ConvaTec outbids Apax for Kinetic Concepts: report
22 August 2011
S Korea’s Samsung C&T mulls buying Parallel Petroleum for around $919.6 mn
22 August 2011
Bain Capital bags Australian software firm MYOB for about A$1.3billion: report
20 August 2011
Anglo American mulling counter bid for Australia’s Macarthur Coal: report
20 August 2011
Bank of America axes 3,500 jobs
19 August 2011
Proposed spinoff of PC unit marks HP's shift to software
19 August 2011
2011 to be record year for Chinese overseas acquisitions: PwC
19 August 2011
TCS in race for Lufthansa IT subsidiary
19 August 2011
Government eyes stake sale in BHEL, Nalco
19 August 2011
Cash-strapped DLF to sell 13-acre Gurgaon plot: report
19 August 2011
Liberty Media abandons takeover, buys 16.6 % of Barnes & Noble
19 August 2011
Hewlett-Packard to acquire UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7 billion
19 August 2011
HP may spin off PC business, may buy UK’s Autonomy for $10 bn
19 August 2011
Noble Energy to buy part of Consol's stake in Marcellus for $3.4 billion
18 August 2011
China's Bright Food buys majority stake in Australia's Manassen Foods
18 August 2011
Axiata hikes stake in Idea Cellular to 19.98%
18 August 2011
Foster’s once again rejects SABMiller bid
18 August 2011
Hotel Leelaventure to sell Kovalam hotel to Travancore Enterprises for Rs500 crore
18 August 2011
Microsemi takes $548.7 million cash bid to Zarlink’s shareholders
18 August 2011
Major FMCG players to continue acquisitions to fuel growth: Crisil
17 August 2011
BBC Worldwide to exit print magazines
17 August 2011
SABMiller takes its $10-bn bid to Foster's shareholders
17 August 2011
Kyocera Mita India acquires copier division of Kilburn Office Automation
17 August 2011
Dutch insurer Aegon to sell UK Guardian life insurance to Cinven for £275mn
17 August 2011
GE Healthcare to acquire cell culture products developer PAA Laboratories
17 August 2011
NIIT buys Spain’s software firm Proyecta
16 August 2011
Virgin Media exits TV by selling stake in UKTV to Scripps in a £339 million deal
16 August 2011
China’s TFG Radiant to invest in US photovoltaic cell maker Ascent Solar
16 August 2011
Time Warner Cable to buy Insight Communications from Carlyle for $3 bln
16 August 2011
US crop giant Cargill to pay $2.17 billion for Netherlands' Provimi
16 August 2011
Google to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion
16 August 2011
Transocean to acquire Norway’s drilling-rig operator Aker Drilling for $1.43 bn
16 August 2011
Saint-Gobain to acquire Solar Gard Specialty Films from Belgium’s Bekaert
13 August 2011
Pipavav Defence to buy 51 % stake in ship design services firm
13 August 2011
Hinduja Global Solutions acquires 3i Infotech's HRO business
13 August 2011
Ralcorp Holdings once again rejects ConAgra's sweetened takeover offer
13 August 2011
SABMiller talks to banks to launch fresh assault on Foster's
13 August 2011
PE firm Bridgepoint to acquire wind farms from Spain’s ACS for $851 million
13 August 2011
GMR Energy buys 30 % of Indonesian coal miner GEMS
12 August 2011
Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi to buy remaining of Coal and Allied for $1.55 billion
11 August 2011
Fortis to buy 65-% stake in Vietnam hospital chain for $64 million
11 August 2011
Leela Group to sell Kovalam property for Rs500 crore to ease debts
11 August 2011
Piramal Healthcare acquires 5.5-% Vodafone Essar stake for $640 million
11 August 2011
CIC in talks to invest €2.3-bn in GDF Suez’s E&P business
10 August 2011
Mahindra Satyam may consider re-listing on NYSE post merger
10 August 2011
Bombay Dyeing to sell Sunmica division to AICA Laminates for Rs100 crore
10 August 2011
HSBC to sell US credit card, retail services to Capital One for $2.6 billion
10 August 2011
India eyes upto 25-% stake stake in Belarus's Belaruskali
10 August 2011
ABB India to acquire Pune-based Baldor Electric India for Rs35.7 crore
10 August 2011
BHP Billiton, Nyrstar in talks to acquire Canadian miner Lundin Mining: report
10 August 2011
Rio Tinto, Mitsubishi offer to buy out minority investors in Australia’s Coal & Allied
09 August 2011
Reinsurer Transatlantic rejects Warren Buffett's $3.24-bn bid
09 August 2011
Ralcorp Holdings to buy Sara Lee's refrigerated dough business
09 August 2011
Ipca Labs buys UK-based Onyx Research Chemicals
09 August 2011
Accel Ltd acquires 51 per cent stake from BT in Accel Frontline
09 August 2011
RIL – BP deal gets government approval
09 August 2011
Jayant Agro buys out Mitsui stake in Ihsedu Speciality Chemicals
08 August 2011
Sesa Goa to buy 51 % stake in Liberian iron ore mining co for Rs400 crore
08 August 2011
Aircraft parts maker TransDigm to buy Schneller for $288.5 million
06 August 2011
British medical diagnostics firm Axis-Shield rejects Alere’s $375.4-million bid
05 August 2011
ICBC to spend $600 mn for stakes in Standard Bank Argentina, affiliates
05 August 2011
Blackstone Group to invest $3.5-bn in Germany's Meerwind offshore wind farms
05 August 2011
Kraft Foods to split into two companies
04 August 2011
ValueClick to buy display advertising company Dotomi for $295 million
04 August 2011
Japan’s JS Group to buy Italy’s Permasteelisa for €573 million
04 August 2011
Web.com to acquire domain company Network Solutions for $560.9 million
04 August 2011
Hitachi, Mitsubishi plan merger of infrastructure businesses
04 August 2011
Hedge fund MSMB Capital launches $378-million takeover of Amag Pharma
04 August 2011
Vodafone questions I-T department's jurisdiction as tax case opens in Supreme Court
04 August 2011
EMI sale may fetch more than $4 billion: report
03 August 2011
S1 Corp rejects ACI Worldwide’s $540-mn takeover offer
03 August 2011
Danone to buy Wockhardt's nutrition business for Rs1,576 crore
03 August 2011
Hinduja Global acquires Canada-based OLS for enterprise value of C$74.85 million
03 August 2011
Yanzhou Coal buys two Australian coalmines for A$202.5 million
02 August 2011
Germany's Fresenius Medical makes 2 acquisitions worth $2.09 billion
02 August 2011
Japan's Kirin buys controlling stake in Brazilian brewer for $2.56 billion
02 August 2011
Ybrant Digital to merge with LGS Global in a Rs2,475-crore deal
02 August 2011
Cooper abandons takeover bid for Laird
02 August 2011