M&A
Qatar Holding buys stake in British airport operator BAA in $1.4 bn deal
18 Aug 2012
Qatar Holding, which has bought out Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial S A, will buy another 10 per cent from Britannia Airport Partners and Singapore’s GIC, taking a fifth of the airport operator’s equity for €1.144 billion ($1.4 billion)
Heineken raises bid for Asia Pacific Breweries to $4.5 billion
18 Aug 2012
At S$53 per share, the offer is still S$2 less than the price offered by Thai Beverage for a partial stake in Singapore-listed APB
Sharp denies plan to sell Sakai solar cell plant
16 Aug 2012
TCS acquires Pune-based strt-up for Rs188 crore
16 Aug 2012
Carlyle Group to buy Getty Images for $3.3 bn
16 Aug 2012
Carlyle Group, the world’s second-largest private-equity firm, has teamed up with the management of Getty Images Inc to buy the world's biggest stock-photo agency from Hellman & Friedman
Google to buy Frommer brand of travel guidebooks
14 Aug 2012
Pfizer files IPO for animal health unit Zoetis Inc
14 Aug 2012
Pfizer yesterday filed for an initial public offering (IPO) for its animal health unit Zoetis Inc, as part of its plan to pay off debt and focus on its core busines
BP to sell California refinery to Tesoro Corp for $2.5 billion
13 Aug 2012
BP will sell the ARCO retail brand rights and exclusively license the rights from Tesoro for Northern California, Oregon and Washington and continue to produce transportation fuels at its Cherry Point, Washington refinery
RIM looking to sell NewBay: report
13 Aug 2012
Sun Pharma to buy out Israel’s Taro for $571 million
13 Aug 2012
Taro Pharmaceutical Industries has agreed to a new offer of Sun Pharma, which already owns 66.3 per cent of Taro, to pay $39.50 per share for the remaining stake held by Taro’s minority shareholders