M&A
Canada's biggest retailers Loblaw and Shoppers Drug Mart in $11.9 bn merger
15 Jul 2013
Loblaw Cos Ltd, Canada's biggest food retailer, will spend$11.9 billion to buy Canada's largest pharmacy chain Shoppers Drug Mart Corp to compete with Wal-Mart Stores and Target Corp
GE prepares to counter Schneider's bid for Invensys
15 Jul 2013
GE is gearing up to take on France's Schneider Electric for control of Invensys Plc, which would see a bidding war erupt between two of the world's biggest industrial giants
AT&T to acquire Leap Wireless for $1.2 bn
13 Jul 2013
Hulu owners abandon sale, to infuse $750 mn
13 Jul 2013
Icahn raises bid in last-ditch effort to thwart Michael Dell
13 Jul 2013
Activist investor Carl Icahn yesterday raised his bid for personal computer maker Dell Inc in a last-ditch attempt to scuttle founder Michael Dell's offer to take the company private
Schneider Electric in talks to buy UK’s Invensys for around $5 bn
12 Jul 2013
French energy management company Schneider Electric yesterday said it was in early talks to buy Invensys Plc in a deal that values the British engineering and software group at about £3.3 billion $5 billion
Carl Icahn urges Dell shareholders to get shares appraised in Delaware Court
11 Jul 2013
Activist investor Carl Icahn makes a last-ditch attempt to prevent Dell founder Michael Dell from succeeding in a management buyout of the PC firm he founded in 1984