M&A
CNN in talks to buy technology news site Mashable for $200 mn: report
13 Mar 2012
If the CNN-Mashable deal goes through, it would be CNN’s biggest acquisition to date, since its acquisition of popular news reader app for Apple’s iPad, Zite in 2011.
UK’s GKN emerges frontrunner for Volvo's $1.3-bn aircraft business
12 Mar 2012
GKN has appointed investment bank Gleacher Shacklock to lead negotiations to buy the Volvo business and to raise about £130 million through the sale of its wheels business
Asahi Kasei makes $2.2-bn bid for Zoll Medical
12 Mar 2012
Under the deal that has been approved by the board of both companies, Tokyo-based Asahi Kasei will pay $93 per share, a 23.8 per cent premium over the closing price of Zoll on 9 March 2012
Insight Venture to acquire Quest Software for $2 bn
10 Mar 2012
Insight, which raised over $5 billion to invest in the software and internet verticals, will pay a premium of 19 per cent to Quest's closing stock price