M&A
BT Group in talks to buy O2 mobile network from Telefonica for $7.5 bn
25 Nov 2014
British telecom giant BT Group Plc today confirmed media reports that it is in talks with Spain's Telefonica to acquire its O2 mobile network
After Nigerian sale, Bharti to sell towers in Brazil to ATC
25 Nov 2014
Bharti Airtel Ltd, India's biggest telecom operator, has struck a deal to sell its towers across Nigeria and Brazil to American Tower Corp. (ATC) in two separate deals for more than $2.2 billion
Canadian PE firm Onex to acquire Swiss carton maker SIG Combibloc for $4.66 bn
25 Nov 2014
Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp yesterday struck a deal to acquire SIG Combibloc Group, the world’s second-largest maker of drink cartons
Devices maker Stryker mulls $16-bn bid for British peer Smith & Nephew
25 Nov 2014
US medical device maker Stryker Corp is considering structuring the transaction as a tax inversion move, allowing it to move its base to the UK, where the taxes are lower than in the US
Blackstone to buy GE’s real estate business in Japan for $1.6 bn
22 Nov 2014
Blackstone will acquire GE Capital Real Estate’s 200 residential properties, with more than 10,000 rental units, primarily in the major cities of Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, in Japan’s largest property deal this year
British insurance company Aviva plans to buy Friends Life for $8.8 bn
22 Nov 2014
A merger of Aviva and Friends Life would create the UK’s largest insurance, savings and asset management business by number of customers and a net worth of about £20 billion ($31.4 billion).
Biyani’s Future Group buys out Nilgiris supermarket chain
21 Nov 2014
Nilgiris operates a franchisee-operated convenience store chain with 140 outlets in key urban centres in the four southern states and also owns a portfolio of brands in dairy, bakery, chocolates and staples along with their manufacturing facilities in Bangalore
Apache Corp eyes $1.4 bn through sale of oil and gas assets
21 Nov 2014
Houston-based Apache will sell its working interest in approximately 90,000 net acres in mature southern Louisiana fields, which are characterised by high decline rates and short reserve lives
Kotak Mahindra Bank to acquire ING Vysya Bank
20 Nov 2014
Upon merger, the combined Kotak will have 1,214 branches, with a wide-spread pan-India network, getting both breadth and depth given the strong geographic complementarities between Kotak and ING Vysya
Halliburton to acquire rival Baker Hughes for $34.6 bn
18 Nov 2014
Oil services giant Halliburton will acquire its rival Baker Hughes for about $34.6 billion, leading to a merged entity worth $67 billion
JSW Energy to buy 2 Jaiprakash hydropower units in Himachal for Rs9,700 crore
17 Nov 2014
The acquisition of the 300 MW of Baspa II hydro-electric project and the 1,091 MW Karcham Wangtoo hydro project will make JSW Energy the largest private sector hydro-power generator in the country
BSkyB crops name to SkyTV after European deal
14 Nov 2014
Amec and Foster Wheeler merge in friendly $3.2-bn deal
14 Nov 2014
Gas and engineering project management company Amec has acquired its Swiss rival Foster Wheeler AG in a friendly $3.2 billion deal to form Amec Foster Wheeler PLC
Halliburton and Baker Hughes in merger talks
14 Nov 2014
US oilfield services providers Halliburton & Co and Baker Hughes Inc are in merger talks in a deal that will value the merged company at around $67 billion
Warren Buffett to buy Duracell from P&G in a stock swap deal worth $3 bn
14 Nov 2014
The divestment is part of Procter & Gamble's strategy to improve its financial performance by focusing on about 80 brands that generate 95 per cent of its profits
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