M&A
Heineken launches $4.1-bn bid for Fraser & Neave’s stake in Tiger beer maker
20 Jul 2012
The Amsterdam-based brewer said on successful closing of the deal, it would spend a further S$2.4 billion to buy out the minority shareholders in APB according to Singapore takeover rules
Israel’s Taro rejects Sun Pharma’s $367-mn buyout offer
20 Jul 2012
Mumbai-based Sun Pharma, India's largest pharmaceutical company by market capitalisation, already owns 66.3 per cent of Taro
Chevron acquires RIL's Kurdistan blocks
20 Jul 2012
SAIL disinvestment gets CCEA nod
20 Jul 2012
Canada’s Cogeco Cable to buy US-based Atlantic Broadband for $1.36 bn
19 Jul 2012
Through its two-way broadband cable networks, Cogeco Cable provides to residential customers with audio, analogue and digital television, as well as high speed Internet (HIS) and telephony services
Biocon plans merger with biopharma subsidiary
18 Jul 2012
Microsoft faces EC fine for failure to comply with browser undertaking
18 Jul 2012
Regulators have threatened to penalise Microsoft for its failure to offer 28 million European customers the ability to choose their web browser
Human Genome Sciences agrees to GSK's revised $3-bn offer
17 Jul 2012
US biopharmaceutical company Human Genome Sciences yesterday agreed to be acquired by GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) for a sweetened $3 billion