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Saudi Aramco eyes expansion into India with 25% in Reliance
17 Apr 2019
Reports citing sources said the Saudi oil giant, which claims spare capacity of 2 million barrels per day, is planning to invest heavily in Indian fuel retail and petrochem market
Publicis to acquire US data firm Epsilon in $4.4 billion deal
16 Apr 2019
Publicis Groupe sees Epsilon as the ideal cultural and strategic fit that will help drive its own transformation in a data-driven digital world
Six bidders express interest in Jet Airways
09 Apr 2019
Buy-out firms such as TPG Capital, KKR and Blackstone and international airlines such as Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Delta-Air France-KLM are among the entities are believed to have shown interest in the airline
Barring PE Asia to acquire 53% in NIIT Tech for Rs4,890 cr
08 Apr 2019
NIIT Technologies, on its part, will acquire Wishwork IT Consulting, besides selling its entire 88.99 per cent stake in Esri India Technologies Ltd to other equity shareholders of Esri, Inc
LVB-Indiabulls Housing Fin merger has no RBI sanction
08 Apr 2019
The All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) has, meanwhile, urged RBI governor Shakthikanta Das to not allow the proposed merger of Lakshmi Vilas Bank with Indiabulls Housing Finance Ltd and instead merge LVB with one of the public sector banks
Vijaya Bank, Dena Bank to function as Bank of Baroda from Monday
01 Apr 2019
Customers of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank may get new passbooks, cheque books, debit and credit cards, and even new account numbers and customer IDs
Saudi Aramco to buy 70% stake in SABIC for $69 billion
29 Mar 2019
The transaction, while helping to enhance Saudi Aramco’s downstream capacity and expanding the market for SABIC, will unlock significant capital for Saudi wealth fund PIF’s continued long-term investment strategy
Tata, GIC and SSG Capital to buy 45% in GMR Airports for Rs8,000 cr
27 Mar 2019
At closing, GMR Infrastructure Ltd and its subsidiaries will hold 54 per cent stake in GMR Airports Ltd, Tata will hold 20 per cent, GIC 15 per cent and SSG will hold 10 per cent stake
Inmarsat gets $3.3 bn takeover offer from buy-out funds
26 Mar 2019
The transatlantic consortium of private investment funds includes Apax Partners LLP of the UK, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and Warburg Pincus International LLC of the US
Jet Airways founder-chairman Naresh Goyal steps aside
25 Mar 2019
Twenty-five years after founding Jet Airways, Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal will exit the board of the airline, allowing lenders led by State Bank of India to infuse Rs1,500-crore funds into the beleaguered carrier
Mindtree board rejects L&T’s Rs10,733-cr hostile bid
19 Mar 2019
The board of Mindtree said they saw no strategic advantage in the transaction and believed that it would be “value destructive for all shareholders,” but said it would deliberate over the L&T proposal tomorrow
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