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Carlyle acquires majority stake in UK minicab firm Addison Lee for $459 mn
20 Apr 2013
Founded in 1975 by cab driver John Griffin and investor Lenny Foster with one car Addison Lee has grown to a fleet of over 4,500 vehicles
PE firms in talks to acquire stake in Reliance Globalcom
20 Apr 2013
A consortium of private equity firms, led by Samena Capital, is in advanced stages of negotiations to acquire a majority stake in Reliance Globalcom
Barrick Gold to sell three Australian mines
19 Apr 2013
Lenovo in talks to buy IBM’s x86 business
19 Apr 2013
IBM’s server business has been underperforming, but still managed to generate $9.7 billion in the fourth quarter last year
Blackstone backs out from pursuing Dell bid
19 Apr 2013
Carl Icahn agrees to limit Dell stake to under 10%
17 Apr 2013
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn yesterday agreed to Dell's condition not to raise his stake in the PC maker to over 10 per cent, while scouting for an alternative to Michael Dell's $24.4-billion privatisation bid
$76-bn Glencore-Xstrata merger wins Chinese conditional approval
17 Apr 2013
The Chinese regulators were concerned on the merged entity's hold on global copper resources as both companies currently account for around 7 per cent of worldwide copper supply
Dish Network launches $25.5-bn bid for Sprint Nextel
16 Apr 2013
US satellite-TV provider Dish Network yesterday launched a $25.5-billion unsolicited bid for Sprint Nextel, beating an agreed $20.1 billion offer from Japan's third-biggest telco, SoftBank
Kazakhstan may edge out ONGC to hand over Kashagan oilfield to China
By By Ravi Kunder | 16 Apr 2013
Kazakhstan could edge out ONGC from its largest foreign acquisition — ConocoPhillips 8.4-per cent stake in the giant Kashagan oilfield — only to sell it to a Chinese state-owned giant, reports Ravi Kunder
Liberty Global's $22.5 bn Virgin Media deal gets EU green light
15 Apr 2013
The US cable firm, which operates the largest cable network in the EU outside the UK, will now be pitted against Rupert Murdoch's British satellite TV operation BSkyB
Centrica, Qatar Petroleum to buy Suncor Energy’s Canadian hydrocarbon assets for $987 mn
15 Apr 2013
Thermo Fisher nears $12.8-bn takeover of Life Technologies: report
15 Apr 2013
A successful deal would be the biggest acquisition for Thermo Fisher, the world's second-largest maker of lab instruments, since the 2006 merger of Thermo Electron and Fisher Scientific International for $12.8 billion
Komatsu to exit joint venture L&T Komatsu
13 Apr 2013
Komatsu, however, would continue to meet Indian market requirements till the Japanese company sets up its own manufacturing units in the country
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