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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
Charter reaches out to Time Warner Cable over potential merger
04 May 2015
The move comes a few days after TWC and Comcast Corp abandoned their $45.2-billion merger over opposition from consumers and the federal regulator
Aditya Birla Group merges apparel brands into Rs5,290-cr business
04 May 2015
The company said the move would enable Aditya Birla Nuvo to unlock value for the shareholders by consolidating its branded apparels businesses
GE to meet EC objections over proposed Alstom SA takeover
02 May 2015
The European Commission last month announced an extension of its investigation over concerns the takeover would see an increase in gas turbine prices
Fortis to sell Singapore subsidiary to Fullerton for Rs530 crore
02 May 2015
After having been thwarted by the Malaysian regulator in its attemptt to sell RadLink-Asia to IHH Healthcare, Fortis has struck a sale deal with Singapre's Fullerton Healthcare
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