M&A
Canary Wharf majority owner Songbird rejects QIA - Brookfield’s £2.18 bn bid
07 Nov 2014
Songbird Estates Plc, majority owner of London’s prestigious Canary Wharf estate, today rejected a proposed takeover bid by Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners for undervaluing the company
Qatar Investment Authority seeks control of Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates
07 Nov 2014
The Qatar Investment Authority is already one of London’s biggest landmark property owners, holding stakes in London’s tallest building The Shard, Chelsea Barracks, luxury department store Harrods earlier owned by Mohamed al-Fayed, and the Olympic Village in Stratford East London
Botox maker Allergan in talks with new suitor
07 Nov 2014
Allergan did not name the proposed new suitor, which some media reports speculated might be Actavis Inc
Perrigo Co to buy Belgian pharmaceutical firm Omega Pharma for $4.5 bn
06 Nov 2014
US private-label over the counter medicines maker Perrigo today struck a deal to buy Belgian pharmaceutical company Omega in a bid to expand in Europe
ONGC eyes stake in Tullow Oil's African assets
06 Nov 2014
A successful deal, if it finally materialises, would come four years after ONGC lost out to CNOOC, China's third-largest oil company, in acquiring a 50-per cent interest in Tullow Oil’s oil fields in Uganda
Carlyle Group to buy financial data firm Dealogic for $700 mn
06 Nov 2014
PE firm Carlyle, along with Euromoney Institutional Investor, Randall Winn, the co-founder and former CEO of the data provider Capital IQ is buying Dealogic from its managers and founders, who will also invest equity in the deal
French government approves $15.6 bn GE-Alstom power business deal
05 Nov 2014
The French government would, however, take around 20 per cent Alstom stake from shareholder French conglomerate Bouygues SA after the closing of the GE-Alstom deal
Airtel dumps Rs700 crore Loop Mobile deal as DoT sits on proposal
05 Nov 2014
Under the deal, signed in February, Loop Mobile’s three million subscribers in Mumbai were supposed to join Airtel’s over four million subscribers, making it largest network in Mumbai
RIL, partner Pioneer pursuing exit from US shale gas JV
05 Nov 2014
Pioneer said it planned to close the sale of 5.75 million shares of its common stock on or about 10 November 2014, ahead of Reliance selling its stake in the JV
AstraZeneca strikes three oncology deals
04 Nov 2014
British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca today struck three deals to strengthen its oncology business
US medical testing firm LabCorp to buy Covance for $6.1 bn
04 Nov 2014
The acquisition will provide LabCorp with immediate scale and a comprehensive platform in the $141-billion biopharmaceutical research and development market
Bharti SoftBank acquires stake in ScoopWhoop
03 Nov 2014
EXL acquires Overland Solutions
31 Oct 2014
Japan’s SoftBank pushes $10-bn India online market plans
28 Oct 2014
Japanes telecom firm SoftBank, which has already invested $627 million in Snapdeal, is looking for investment opportunities in India’s telecom and e-commerce space
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