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Tepco to sell KDDI stake for ¥186.3 billion
29 Nov 2011
China's Cnooc closes C$2.1-bn acquisition of oil sands operator Opti Canada
29 Nov 2011
Cnooc will get a 35-per cent stake in the project, which can produce 58,500 barrels of oil per day
Steelmaker Ternium to buy 27.7% of rival Usiminas for $2.66 billion
28 Nov 2011
Ternium SA, Latin America's second-largest steelmaker, will fund the acquisition with a mixture of cash and debt for a stake in Brazil's second biggest steelmaker
Rio Tinto-Chinalco copper JV gets Beijing’s nod
28 Nov 2011
SABMiller's $10.2-bn acquisition of Foster's gets Australia's conditional approval
25 Nov 2011
Among the conditions is the stipulation that SABMiller will not relocate Foster's facilites to other countries to make beer for Australian consumption
AT&T to take $4-bn charge as $39-bn T-Mobile merger nears collapse
25 Nov 2011
AT&T has acknowledged that its proposed acquisition faces an uphill task with the regulators, rivals and politicians dead-set against the deal
Microsoft signs confidentiality agreement with Yahoo
24 Nov 2011
Microsoft provides its Bing search engine technology to Yahoo and also has an advertising alliance with it, both of which might be endangered if an IT or internet major were to acquire Yahoo
KKR-led consortium to buy US energy company Samson for $7.2 bn
24 Nov 2011
The deal is the second-largest leveraged buyout by a PE firm this year after Blackstone's $9.4-billion acquisition of 600 shopping malls from Australia's Centro Properties
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