M&A
Exor ups the ante for PartnerRe to $6.8 bn
13 May 2015
DTZ to acquire Cushman & Wakefield for $2.04 bn
12 May 2015
Syngenta rejects $45 billion Monsanto takeover offer
09 May 2015
The offer comes less than a month after EU took a landmark decision to allow its 28 member states the freedom to decide whether to allow the planting of genetically modified crops
Wal-Mart to buy some Target Canada stores
08 May 2015
Hutchinson Whampoa raises £3.1 bn to fund O2 takeover
08 May 2015
The company agreed to the acquisition of O2 from its Spanish owner Telefoìnica for £9.25 billion in March
Blackstone and KKR to be early bidders for GE Capital Sponsor Finance: Report
08 May 2015
GE's commercial lending segment has assets worth $74 billion and currently has 260,000 customers
Tesla acquires Riviera Tool
07 May 2015
US Supreme Court favours Barclays in $4-bn dispute with Lehman
05 May 2015
The disputed assets relate to Barclays's acquisition of the bulk of Lehman's brokerage business at the height of the 2008 global financial crisis
€41-bn Holcim-Lafarge merger gets conditional US, Canadian nod
05 May 2015
The merger of two of the world's biggest cement companies, Switzerland's Holcim and Paris-based Lafarge, will create the world's biggest cement maker with a market cap of $50 billion and annual sales of nearly $43 billion
Future Retail and Bharti Retail announce merger
04 May 2015
The merger will create one of India’s foremost retail networks with a national footprint of over 570 retail stores in multiple formats across 243 cities