M&A
Equinox Minerals bids $4.9-bn for Lundin Mining
01 Mar 2011
The offer from Equinox came about six weeks after Lundin agreed to a merger with fellow copper miner Inmet Mining to create a C$9-billion copper company Symterra Corp through an all-stock transaction
Tata Steel to sell Corus Teesside assets to Thailand’s Sahaviriya Steel for $469 million
25 Feb 2011
Valeo to acquire Japanese auto supplier Niles
23 Feb 2011
State Bank to merge remaining 5 associate banks in 18 months
23 Feb 2011
SBI chairman O P Bhatt says the merger of subsidiaries is a systematic process and all assocaite banks will offer products, services and processes of similar nature and will be migrated to the same core banking technology
BP to shed UK upstream assets
23 Feb 2011
Forest Laboratories to acquire Clinical Data for $1.2 billion
23 Feb 2011
The acquisition will allow Forest to leverage its existing presence in the anti-depressant category through the launch of Viibryd.
Russia's Sollers signs MoU with Ford, dumps Fiat
21 Feb 2011
BP picks up 30 per cent stake in Reliance's oil and gas blocks for $7.2 bn
21 Feb 2011
The two companies will also form a 50:50 joint venture for sourcing and marketing of gas in India
UK's CSR to buy Zoran Corp for $679 million
21 Feb 2011
Diageo to acquire Turkish distiller Mey Icki for $2.1 billion
21 Feb 2011
The maker of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Baileys among others, will now add Turkey’s popular drink Raki to its stable of alcoholic beverages
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