M&A

B C Partners consortium to acquire US pet food retailer PetSmart for $8.7 bn

15 Dec 2014

The sell-off comes after the company came under pressure from two of its biggest shareholders who said the company was under-performing

Pacific Equity in talks to sell Australian cinema chain The Hoyts Group to China's ID Leisure for $743 mn

13 Dec 2014

Carlyle and Warburg Pincus in advanced talks to buy credit rating agency DBRS

13 Dec 2014

Terra Firma plans to sell German highway rest-stop chain Tank & Rast for around €2 bn

13 Dec 2014

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy Charter Brokerage

13 Dec 2014

Bain Capital in the race to buy German elevator components maker Wittur

13 Dec 2014

Mastek subsidiary Majesco to acquire Agile Technologies

12 Dec 2014

Chinese construction giant CCCI to buy Australia’s John Holland for $951 mn

12 Dec 2014

Joma Industrial to buy the rest of C. A.T. oil AG, for $925 mn

12 Dec 2014

M&M likely to acquire stake in Swedish auto maker Saab Automotive

12 Dec 2014

Mahindra & Mahindra is acquiring a stake in National Electric Vehicle Sweden, the company that owns Swedish auto maker Saab Automotive

Adobe Systems to buy stock photography company Fotolia for $800 mn

12 Dec 2014

Adobe Systems Inc, the maker of Acrobat and Photoshop software, yesterday struck a deal to buy privately-held stock photography company Fotolia for $800 million

Canadian oil producer Talisman says in talks over its acquisition

10 Dec 2014

BG Group sells Australian LNG pipeline to APA Group for $5 bn

10 Dec 2014

BG expects to make a profit of $2.7 billion through the sale, although it will be partly offset by impairment charges on its Australian subsidiary Queensland Curtis Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline projet

Cable king Patrick Drahi’s Altice seals $9.1 bn buyout of Oi’s Portuguese assets

10 Dec 2014

Altice, a multinational cable and telecommunications company with a presence in France, Israel, Belgium and Luxembourg, Portugal, French West Indies / Indian Ocean Area and Dominican Republic and Switzerland beat a rival bid by PE firms Apax Partners and Bain Capital

Merck & Co to buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $8.4 bn

10 Dec 2014

Merck expects the acquisition to add more than $1 billion of revenue after closing in the first quarter, but will be neutral to non-GAAP earnings per share until 2016

Reliance’s ‘Only Vimal’ half sold to China’s Shandong Ruyi

09 Dec 2014

RIL’s textile business, which operates under the well-known brand ‘Vimal’, is the founding business of RIL while Ruyi is a leading textile company in China with revenues in excess of $3 billion and a global presence

Carlyle Group acquires majority stake in Newgen KnowledgeWorks

09 Dec 2014

Sun Pharma, Ranbaxy merger deal gets conditional CCI nod

09 Dec 2014

The CCI has asked the two companies to sell off seven brands with combined sales of less than Rs50 crore and market share of 60 to 80 per cent, which the regulator felt, would adversely affect competition

Sharp to sell US solar business to Canadian firm for $250 mn

08 Dec 2014

Singapore’s Global Logistic, GIC to invest $8.1 bn in US logistics portfolio

08 Dec 2014

Global Logistic is the leading provider of modern logistics facilities in China, Japan and Brazil

Aurobindo Pharma completes $132.5-m acquisition of US firm Natrol

06 Dec 2014

Merck & Co in talks to buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals for more than $7 bn

06 Dec 2014

Cubist Pharmaceuticals develops drugs for potentially life-threatening infections caused by dangerous bacteria categorised as serious and urgent public health threats

ICICI Bank to exit Russia with sale of banking unit to lender Sovcombank

06 Dec 2014

ICICI Bank, India’s largest private-sector lender, plans to sell its Russian subsidiary ICICI Bank Eurasia Limited Liability Company to Sovcombank, a mid-sized Russian bank, for an undisclosed sum