Archer Sells SCF Stake to ICG, Management

Shares of Sin Heng Heavy Machinery Ltd fell asmuch as 17 percent after Toyota Tsusho Corp acquired a27 percent stake in the Singapore heavy lifting services firm ata discount to the last traded price.Toyota, ...

Xstrata is this week set to reveal a bonus package worth tens of millions of pounds in an effort to retain its chief executive ahead of its merger with Glencore , the Financial Times reported on Monday. ...

Allegis, Morgan & Banks to Takeover Talent2

MELBOURNE, May 28 (Reuters) - India's Jindal Steel & Power has agreed to buy a 9 percent stake in Gujarat NRECoking Coal for A$25 million ($24 million) and agreedto buy 5 million tonnes of coal over 10 ...

Buy NetApp: Valuations And Balance Sheet Make The Stock Ripe For A Takeover

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Glencore will this week move into the final stage of its long-awaited $30 billion takeover of miner Xstrata, as shareholders are sent detailed documents on the deal, kicking off a last charm offensive ...

Bankia's chairman said on Saturday that a merger of the troubled bank with its parent group BFA was not on the table for now. The two entities asked for a 19 billion euro state bailout on Friday to cope ...

MADRID, May 26 (Reuters) - Bankia's chairman saidon Saturday that a merger of the troubled bank with its parentgroup BFA was not on the table for now.The two entities asked for a 19 billion euro ($23.77billion) ...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn revealed he had bought a 7.6 percent stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp and called for the natural gas producer to replace at least four directors, saying the board has failed ...

MADRID, May 26 (Reuters) - Spain's Bankia said onSaturday that it could sell its stakes in Spanish companies infuture, a day after it asked the state for a 19 billion euro($23.77 billion) bailout, the ...

(Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn revealed he had bought a 7.6 percent stake in Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK.N: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) and called for the natural gas producer ...

Hong Kong telecommunications billionaire Richard Li, the younger son of Asia’s richest man Li Ka-shing, is in acquisition talks with “several sizeable companies,” the elder Li said at a press conference on Friday, according to a front-page report in today’s South China Morning Post.  The businesses hold “long-term” prospects …

Italy has approved a decree forcing energy group Eni to sell a stake of at least 25.1 per cent in Snam, the national gas transmission network, in the latest move by Mario Monti, prime minister, to increase ...

The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service will offer buyouts this summer to nearly all of its 45,000 mail handlers, part of a plan to consolidate operations at 140 mail-processing facilities in the next year. ...

Postal Service offers buyouts to 45,000 mail handlers

By David Ljunggren and Euan Rocha OTTAWA/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada will boost the threshold at which it will review proposed foreign takeovers of Canadian companies, the industry minister said on Friday, ...

Icahn Buys Stake in Chesapeake, Seeks Board Replacements

Icahn buys stake in Chesapeake, seeks board shake-up, say reports

By Jed Horowitz(Reuters) - The slow market for merger deals is driving big-name investment banks into combat with smaller rivals for business from companies they usually ignore.Goldman Sachs Group Inc ...

The slow market for merger deals is driving big-name investment banks into combat with smaller rivals for business from companies they usually ignore. Goldman Sachs Group Inc , Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan ...

May 25 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitionsand disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies werereported by 2000 GMT on Friday:** Saudi Aramco and Sumitomo Chemical Co have agreed ...

Duke Energy, Progress Energy dispute high merger cost estimate

A proposed $770 million buyout of the oil company Venoco has many lessons on how much influence a chief executive can have on a management-led deal.

DDi stockholders approve $282 million merger with Viasystems

For a firm that largely grows inorganically through business acquisition, future returns are no doubt related to the price paid for those acquisitions.  The hypothesis is easily understood: a simple increase ...

A look at the day's most searched trends on the Web, Talbots after Sycamore Partners backed out of the $3.05 per share deal to acquire the company.

Late yesterday, Facebook launched "Facebook Camera", an iOS mobile app for pictures.  Facebook users can take, enhance with filters, upload, view and comment on friend's pictures.  Sound familiar?  It should after Facebook's $1B  acquisition of Instagram.  Facebook Camera affirms that the Instagram acquisition puts all …

American Airlines Doesn’t Need Merger, AMR Lawyer Says

Thomas H. Lee’s Schoen Leaves Buyout Firm After 26 Years

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Spectrum extends tender offer for Allos Therapeutics amid FTC inquiry

* Sale of stake in Brazil lacks basis, Santander says* Mulls 30 pct-40 pct stake sale in Brazil unit-report* Estado says Bradesco, Banco do Brasil seen as bidders* Shares of Santander Brasil, parent lender ...

Li Ka-shing Says He’ll Back His Son Richard’s Acquisition Plans

BRUSSELS, May 25 (Reuters) - The following are mergers underreview by the European Commission and a brief guide to the EUmerger process:APPROVALS AND WITHDRAWALS-- British packaging company DS Smith to ...

MILAN, May 25 (Reuters) - Italian holding company Premafin is sticking to a planned four-way merger with itsFondiaria-SAI and Milano Assicurazioni insurance units and peer Unipol, a Preamfin boardmember ...

CalSTRS to buy $820m stake in development firm

THE DEAL: Bank of America Corp. and Barclays Bank PLC are selling their 26.5 percent stake in the apartment building owner Archstone to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate for $1.58 billion. ...

SAP Cloud Acquisitions Mask Cultural On-Premise Bias

Goldman Pharma View: Buy AGN, Sell FRX, MRX A Takeover Target

Bank of America Corp. and Barclays Bank PLC are selling their stake in the apartment building owner Archstone to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate for $1.58 billion.The transaction disclosed ...

NBC Seeking To Buy Out Microsoft Stake In MSNBC.com

NBC in talks to buy Microsoft's MSNBC stake

Talbots Sinks 35% As Sycamore Buyout Falls Through

Shares of Talbots tumble on Friday after the women's clothing retailer says the private equity firm Sycamore Partners walked away from talks over a proposed $215 million buyout of the women's clothing ...

NBC looks to buy out Microsoft stake in MSNBC.com

Talbots acquisition off; Sycamore walks from buyout deal