management > M&A/restructuring M&A Software firm Novell rejects Elliott’s $2-billion unsolicited takeover offer 22 March 2010 Shell, Petro China seal Arrow Energy acquisition with $3.2 billion revised offer 22 March 2010 South Africa awards ArcelorMittal’s disputed Sishen mine stake to Imperial Crown 22 March 2010 Bharti ties up $8.3 billion debt for Zain Africa buy 22 March 2010 Indian Oil may hike its £400 million unsolicited bid for Gulfsands Petroleum 20 March 2010 Asarco sues Sterlite for backing out from acquisition agreement in 2008 20 March 2010 Fortis Healthcare closes acquisition of Parkway Holdings 19 March 2010 Further expansion of branded generics, OTC and dermatology portfolio 19 March 2010 Dalmia Cement to spin off cement, power and refractory businesses 19 March 2010 The story behind Rio's $1.35-billion Saimandou deal with Chinalco 19 March 2010 Teva to acquire Germany's Ratiopharm for $5 billion 18 March 2010 Tata Tale sells tower business to Quippo-WTTIL for Rs1,318 crore 18 March 2010 CBH Resources revises Toho offer over Nyrstar bid 18 March 2010 Bharti overcomes hurdle on way to acquire Zain’s African assets 17 March 2010 Pegasystems to acquire Chordiant Software for $161.5 million 17 March 2010 OSI Pharmaceuticals rejects Astellas $3.5-billion hostile bid 17 March 2010 Singapore’s ST Telemedia to acquire 33-per cent stake in Malaysia’s U Mobile for $303 million 17 March 2010 Massey Energy to acquire coal producer Cumberland for $960 million 17 March 2010 Citigroup raises stake in Chilean bank to 50 per cent 17 March 2010 Apax Partners to sell Tommy Hilfiger to Phillips-Van Heusen for $3 billion 15 March 2010 China’s report on failed Chinalco bid clears Australia, Rio, not BHP 15 March 2010 Arrow may reject $3 billion PetroChina - Shell takeover offer 15 March 2010 Phillips-Van Heusen in talks to acquire Tommy Hilfiger for $3 billion: report 15 March 2010 Infotech eyeing more buys on investor pressure 15 March 2010 HCC to acquire majority stake in Swiss construction firm Karl Steiner 15 March 2010 Vedanta mulls spinning off aluminium division 15 March 2010 Godrej moves into new terrain; buys Nigeria's Tura brand 13 March 2010 Fortis aims at 1:1 debt-equity ratio after Parkway deal: Malvinder Singh 13 March 2010 Sanofi-Aventis concludes Chattem acquisition 13 March 2010 Bharti may receive funding from SingTel for Zain acquisition' 12 March 2010 Nyrstar raises bid for Australian zinc miner CBH Resources 12 March 2010 Fortis Healthcare acquires 23.9-per cent stake in Parkway Holdings for $685.3 million 12 March 2010 Kinross Gold plans to buy Underworld Resources for $136 million 12 March 2010 BP to buy Devon Energy’s LatAm, Azerbaijan oil and gas assets for $ 7 billion 11 March 2010 CA Inc to acquire Nimsoft Inc for $350 million to augment cloud-computing products 11 March 2010 Lone Star Funds to sell Korean bank stake worth $3.9 billion 11 March 2010 Australia’s Atlas Iron to acquire Aurox Resources for A$149 million 10 March 2010 Abbott Laboratories to acquire Facet Biotech for $450 million 10 March 2010 Aditya Birla Minacs acquires UK-based Compass BPO 10 March 2010 UK Coal eyes £350 million merger offer 10 March 2010 Chevron to sell downstream assets, cut 2,000 jobs 09 March 2010 GlaxoSmithKline on the prowl for acquisitions in India 09 March 2010 Santander leads race for RBS’ Williams & Glyn’s brand 09 March 2010 CCMP Capital Advisors to acquire Infogroup for $463 million 09 March 2010 Eli Lilly’s Elanco takes over Pfizer’s European animal health portfolio 09 March 2010 SUUTI sells 9.42 per cent stake in NSDL to NSE 08 March 2010 PetroChina, Royal Dutch Shell bid $3 billion for Australia's Arrow Energy 08 March 2010 Daimler divesting $429 million worth of shares in Tata Motors: Sources 08 March 2010 AIG sells American Life unit to Metlife for $15.5 billion 08 March 2010 NMDC in overseas consortium for majority stake in Australia's Atlas Iron mine 08 March 2010 Essar in deal to acquire US coal miner Trinity for $600 million 08 March 2010 Abry Partners to acquire broadband ISP RCN for $1.2 billion 08 March 2010 Suzuki ups stake in Maruti to 55 per cent: report 08 March 2010 Glencore to buy back Colombian coal mine from Xstrata for $2.25 billion 06 March 2010 Essar Global in talks to acquire US coal miner Trinity Coal for $600 million 05 March 2010 Orbital Sciences to pay $55 million for General Dynamics subsidiary 05 March 2010 Strides Arcolab buys back divested Brazillian facility from Aspen for $75 million 05 March 2010 Canaccord acquires Genuity Capital for $314 million 05 March 2010 Valmont to acquire UK metals group Delta for $430 million 05 March 2010 RIL abandons Lyondell bid; no plan to sweeten offer: report 04 March 2010 Reliance ADAG hikes stake in Fame to 13.79 per cent, shouts at Fame recasting board 04 March 2010 Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group enters healthcare business 04 March 2010 Astellas sues OSI Pharmaceuticals for adopting poison pill tactics 04 March 2010 Nortel gets court nod to sell internet telephony business to Genband 04 March 2010 Pfizer in bid to snap up Germany’s Ratiopharm 04 March 2010 ZF-Lemforder forms JV with Hero Motors, takes 50 per cent stake in Hero Chassis Systems 03 March 2010 Google takes photo editing website Picnik in its fold 03 March 2010 Elliott Associates makes $2 billion unsolicited bid for Novell 03 March 2010 Dow sells Styron division to Bain Capital for $1.63 billion 03 March 2010 Hindustan Dorr Oliver acquires UK-based heavy engg company DavyMarkham 02 March 2010 Apollo may gain as LyondellBasell rejects Reliance's $14.5 billion bid: report 02 March 2010 Astellas launches $3.5-billion hostile bid for OSI Pharmaceuticals 02 March 2010 MSCI to acquire RiskMetrics for $1.55 billion 02 March 2010 Merck KGaA beats Thermo Fisher to acquire Millipore for $7.2 billion 02 March 2010 Rio Tinto ups stake in Mongolian JV to 22.4 per cent 02 March 2010 Shell to offload LPG, North Sea assets to fund capex 02 March 2010 Citigroup to offload Egg unit, say reports 02 March 2010 AIG sells Asian assets to Prudential for $35.5 billion 02 March 2010 RR Donnelley to acquire Bowne for $481 million 26 February 2010 CA To Acquire Cloud Computing Solution Provider 3Tera 25 February 2010 Bharti in talks with SBI for Zain deal 24 February 2010 Microchip Technology raises bid for Silicon Storage 24 February 2010 News Corporation takes 9.1 per cent stake in Saudi’s Rotana Group for $70 million 24 February 2010 Sale of Gatwick airport adds to heavy BAA losses 23 February 2010 Wal-Mart to acquire digital entertainment provider VUDU 23 February 2010 Airgas rejects Air Products' $7 billion buyout offer 23 February 2010 Religare acquires majority stake in Northgate Capital 23 February 2010 Japan's Dai-ichi Life plans $11.8 billion IPO to fund acquisitions 22 February 2010 RIL in deal with LyondellBasell for super-voting power: reports 22 February 2010 Schlumberger acquires rival Smith International for $11.3 billion 22 February 2010 Canada’s Agrium extends bid for CF Industries 22 February 2010 South Africa’s Gold Reef Resorts and rival Tsogo Sun agree for $2.7 billion merger 20 February 2010 Bharti may sell shares to help fund Zain buy: report 19 February 2010 S&P downgrades Bharti on Zain bid 19 February 2010 Fairfax to acquire Zenith National Insurance for $1.4 billion 19 February 2010 Barrick spins off Africa unit; reports 118 per cent jump in Q4 net 19 February 2010 Kinross Gold to shed 25-per cent stake in Cerro Casale 19 February 2010 Battle for CIMPOR continues: Votorantim hikes stake to 21.21 per cent 19 February 2010 EU, US clear Microsoft, Yahoo! deal 19 February 2010 Silliker Expands into India through Investment in MicroChem Laboratory 18 February 2010 US drugstore chain operator Walgreen to acquire rival Duane Reade for $1.08 billion 18 February 2010 Mobile retail chain Global Access acquired by Spice Retail 17 February 2010 Abbott bids for 20 per cent of Solvay India 17 February 2010 LyondellBasell-creditor deal hampers RIL's acquisition plans 17 February 2010 Government willing to help Bharti on Zain bid if required: Khurshid 17 February 2010 Simon Property makes hostile $10-billion offer for General Growth Properties 17 February 2010 Sumitomo launches tender offer for J:Com shares 17 February 2010 Sempra Energy, RBS to sell some assets to J P Morgan Chase for $1.7 billion 16 February 2010 Anglo American to sell Tarmac Europe for $400 million 16 February 2010 Bharti tapping foreign currency loans for Zain buy: report 16 February 2010 SBI may pick up 49 per cent in Tata Motors Finance: report 16 February 2010 Aditya Birla Finance to acquire 75 per cent shareholding of ABML 16 February 2010 Grupo Televisa acquires 30-per cent stake in Nextel de Mexico for $1.44 billion 16 February 2010 PVR drops bid to acquire DLF’s cinema business 16 February 2010 Norway’s Yara to acquire US rival Terra for $4.1 billion 16 February 2010 Bharti all set to acquire Zain Africa BV 15 February 2010 VAS provider Telenity acquires Construia 15 February 2010 Tube Investments acquires French industrial products maker Sedis Geroup 15 February 2010 Hanwha Securities to buy Prudential’s 2 Korean units 15 February 2010 US regulator gives tentative nod for British Airways and American Airlines alliance 15 February 2010 Buffett's Berkshire completes $26 billion acquisition of BNSF 13 February 2010 Bharti bids $10.7 billion for Zain's African assets: report 13 February 2010 Essar group to sell mobile tower business to ATC for Rs1973 crore 13 February 2010 Brazil’s CSN back in the race for CIMPOR; ups ante by 7.5 per cent 13 February 2010 Private-Equity firms to acquire SkillSoft for $1.1 billion 12 February 2010 Regulator plays truant as NAB proposes to AXA Asia Pacific 12 February 2010 Motorola plans to split early next year 12 February 2010 SunPower acquires European solar energy firm SunRay for $277 million 12 February 2010 Lloyds sells Esure stake to Woods for £185 million 12 February 2010 Infosys mulls growth through acquisitions; to hire 15,000 12 February 2010 FirstEnergy to acquire Allegheny Energy for $4.7 billion in an all-stock deal 11 February 2010 AMG to acquire private equity fund manager Pantheon for $775 million 11 February 2010 Former Cadbury chairman calls for UK to tighten takeover rules 10 February 2010 BSkyB offloads 10.4-per cent stake in ITV for £196 million 10 February 2010 Telenor raises stake in Unitech JV to 67.5 per cent 10 February 2010 Welspun India ups FII investment limit to 49 per cent 10 February 2010 Micron Technology to acquire Swiss chipmaker Numonyx Holdings for $1.27 billion 10 February 2010 Morningstar acquires financial blog website Footnoted.org 10 February 2010 Chinese company denies signing $60-billion coal deal with Australia’s Resourcehouse 09 February 2010 Bajaj Electricals to take controlling stake in Starlite Lighting 09 February 2010 Oracle acquires AmberPoint 09 February 2010 Mukesh Ambani says not in race for Liverpool football club 09 February 2010 New York's Cuomo files fraud charges against BofA over Merrill deal 06 February 2010 Istithmar divests bulk of 13.4-per cent stake in SpiceJet 06 February 2010 Inox Leisure hikes stake in Fame India by 7.21 per cent 05 February 2010 Tullow Oil sells stake in Uganda’s oil fields to CNOOC for $2.5 billion 05 February 2010 Air Products launches $5.1 billion unsolicited bid for Airgas 05 February 2010 Abu Dhabi wealth fund to acquire 15-per cent stake in Gatwick airport 05 February 2010 Battle for CIMPOR: Votorantim buys Lafarge’s 17.28-per cent stake 05 February 2010 Mongolia scraps $2-billion Tavan Tolgoi coal auction, favours contract mining 05 February 2010 European fuel retailer Delek bids for BP's French retail fuels unit 04 February 2010 Advanta India subsidiary acquires US sorghum products company CSC 04 February 2010 IBM to acquire Initiate Systems to expand into IT healthcare services 04 February 2010 Broadcom to acquire optical network chipsets maker Teknovus for $123 million 04 February 2010 Monster to acquire Yahoo HotJobs for $225 million 04 February 2010 Microchip Technology to acquire Silicon Storage Technology for $284 million 04 February 2010 Kraft to raise $4 billion through bond sale for Cadbury acquisition 04 February 2010 UK’s competition regulator seeks review of T-Mobile/Orange merger 04 February 2010 Shareholders approve Kraft's acquisition of Cadbury 03 February 2010 Dubai World to sell Inchcape for $700 million: report 03 February 2010 Ineos Group sells fluorochemicals unit to Mexichem Fluor 03 February 2010 Inox becomes India’s largest multiplex operator with Fame stake acquisition 03 February 2010 China’s CNNC plans to acquire Mongolian uranium resources for $53 million 03 February 2010 Rio Tinto closes sale of Alcan Packaging to Amcor for $1.948 billion 03 February 2010 ArcelorMittal hikes stake in Uttam Galva to over 34 per cent 02 February 2010 Bank of New York Mellon to acquire PNC unit for $2.1 billion 02 February 2010 Suzlon not to divest stake further in Hansen now: WSJ 02 February 2010 South Korea's pension fund to acquire 12-per cent stake in Gatwick airport 02 February 2010 Brazil's Braskem to acquire Sunoco unit for $350 million 01 February 2010 Spice Televentures, Spice Mobiles to merge from 1 January 2010 01 February 2010 Zylog acquires Canadian IT firm Brainhunter 01 February 2010 Citigroup reportedly planning to sell its $10-billion Citi Private Equity unit 01 February 2010 Mitsui & Co to acquire 10 per cent stake in TPV for $154 million 30 January 2010 PetroBakken acquires Result Energy for C$480 million 30 January 2010 Rolls-Royce acquires remaining share of Europea Microfusioni Aerospaziali from Finmeccanica 29 January 2010 BHP Billiton acquire Canada’s Athabasca Potash for $320 million 29 January 2010 Enzon stockholders approve sale of specialty pharmaceutical business 28 January 2010 Aptech to acquire Maya Entertainment for Rs76 crore 28 January 2010 Sony Electronics acquires Convergent Media Systems 28 January 2010 US review site Yelp secures $100 funding from Elevation Partners 28 January 2010 Vale acquires Bunge’s Brazilian fertilizer assets for $3.8 billion 28 January 2010 Orient Global exits two year old investment in India Infoline 27 January 2010 KKR acquires Pets at Home for £955 million 27 January 2010 EU regulator investigates Rio, BHP iron ore venture 27 January 2010 Spyker bags GM’s Saab brand for $500 million 27 January 2010 Quad/Graphics to acquire World Color Press for about $1.4 billion 27 January 2010 India Resources signs A$500 million deal to mine coal in West Bengal 27 January 2010 Edelweiss Capital acquires Lalbhai Group's Anagram Capital for Rs164 crore 27 January 2010 Cochlear, Synthes seen front runners for Siemens’ hearing aid unit 27 January 2010 KNOC to invest $6.5 billion in Canadian energy firms: report 27 January 2010 Medtronic to acquire Invatec for $350 million 25 January 2010 Duke Energy to acquire first commercial solar power project 25 January 2010 Jet Airways to invest up to 26 percent in MAS GMR Aero 25 January 2010 After Hershey, Ferrero rules out counterbid to Kraft's offer for Cadbury 25 January 2010 Bain Capital to acquire Domino's Pizza franchise business in Japan 25 January 2010 Japan’s KDDI to acquire Jupiter Telecom stake for $4 billion 25 January 2010 Moller-Maersk calls off $1.3 billion acquisition of two oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico 25 January 2010 NAB completes due diligence on Axa 23 January 2010 Reliance-ADAG in race to acquire MGM: report 23 January 2010 Google founders to sell 10 million shares worth $5.5 billion 23 January 2010 Hershey rules out a counterbid for Cadbury 23 January 2010 Brazil’s Braskem acquires rival Quattor Petroquimica for $478 million 23 January 2010 Coca-Cola eyes Russian juice maker Nidan Soki: report 22 January 2010 Martek Biosciences to acquire Amerifit Brands for $200 million 22 January 2010 Deutsche Bank takes 8-per cent stake in Denmark’s Eurogiro 22 January 2010 GM shuts Belgian Opel plant, cuts 2600 jobs 21 January 2010 Oracle finally gets the EC nod for Sun Microsystems acquisition 21 January 2010 T Rowe Price becomes biggest UTI shareholder with 26 per cent 21 January 2010 IBM to acquire US intelligence and security solutions firm NISC 21 January 2010 Kinross Gold to buy gold mine, assets in Russia for $368 million 21 January 2010 Canada’s Hydro-Québec inks C$3.2-billion deal with NB Power 21 January 2010 Alcon directors deride Novartis offer as grossly inadequate 20 January 2010 Air France-KLM eyeing stake in Polish airline LOT: reports 20 January 2010 Molina Healthcare to acquire Unisys Medicaid unit for $135 million 20 January 2010 Mastek acquires kognito's data migration business 20 January 2010 Tahera Diamond gets court nod to sell Jericho Mine 20 January 2010 Buffett to increase Posco stake: report 20 January 2010 CapitaLand acquires Oriental Overseas’ China property for $2.2 billion 20 January 2010 Hyderabad IT firm Infotech acquires US-based Daxcon Engineering in all-cash deal 19 January 2010 Cadbury finally falls to Kraft’s sweetened bid 19 January 2010 Tyco to acquire Broadview Security from Brinks for $2 billion 19 January 2010 Castle Harlan to acquire two plastic container firms for $200 million 19 January 2010 Egypt’s EFG Hermes sells stake in Lebanese bank for $913 million 19 January 2010 Buffett acquires part of of Swiss Re's US business 19 January 2010 No plan to sell Indian operations, clarifies Target 18 January 2010 Bombay HC rejects plea to block Wockhardt deal with Abbott 18 January 2010 MediaNews Group to file for bankruptcy protection 18 January 2010 Race for CIMPOR: Camargo given 10 days to submit counterbid 18 January 2010 Eastman acquires specialty polymers company in China 16 January 2010 ANZ in talks to buy IOOF Holdings: report 16 January 2010 CSR spurns Bright Food’s offer; prefers demerger 16 January 2010 Vale in talks to acquire Bunge’s Brazilian fertilizer business for $3.8 billion 16 January 2010 Pearson mulls IDC sale for $1.5 billion 15 January 2010 Japanese cosmetics maker Shiseido to acquire Bare Escentuals Inc. for $1.7 billion 15 January 2010 Suzuki to take stake in Volkswagen, bolster alliance 15 January 2010 MGM bid opens today; Reliance Entertainment may enter race 15 January 2010 Hershey prepares to bid for Cadbury: report 14 January 2010 CA acquires IT service level management firm Oblicore 14 January 2010 M&A activity declines 34 per cent in 2009 14 January 2010 Apache buys 51 per cent stake in Canada LNG export plant 14 January 2010 GTL Infra set to buy Aircel’s tower business for Rs8,500 crore 14 January 2010 Symantec to acquire Gideon Technologies 13 January 2010 Cadbury makes a last ditch effort to thwart Kraft hostile bid 13 January 2010 Bharti Airtel rating unaffected by proposed stake acquisition in Warid Telecom: S&P 13 January 2010 Chinese steel makers Shougang, Tonghua plan merger 13 January 2010 VMware to buy Yahoo’s Zimbra software division 13 January 2010 No government pressure on banks to merge, says official 12 January 2010 HCL Technologies to merge with HCL Technoparks 12 January 2010 Bharti to take 70 per cent stake in Bangladesh’s Warid Telecom 12 January 2010 China's Bright Foods bids $1.4 billion for CSR's sugar business 12 January 2010 Heineken beats SABMiller to acquire Femsa's beer unit for $7.6 billion 11 January 2010 Siemens Healthcare shareholders, creditors to approve merger with Siemens 11 January 2010 Sanofi-Aventis commences tender offer for Chattem 11 January 2010 PE investments in India decline for second straight year to $4 billion 11 January 2010 Government to hire experts for bank mergers: report 11 January 2010 Australian zinc miner CBH weighs A$148 million Nyrstar offer 11 January 2010 Santos to sell Gladstone LNG stake to fund growth projects 11 January 2010 No plan to merge BSNL and MTNL: Pitroda 09 January 2010 Viceroy to divest 49-per cent stake to JP Morgan to finance new Bangalore hotel 09 January 2010 GSK inching closer to deal with Dr Reddy's? 08 January 2010 GM gets last minute bids for Saab 08 January 2010 Reliance hikes offer for LyondellBasell to $13.5 billion 08 January 2010 Independent Liquor scotches takeover speculation 08 January 2010 Google sweetens bid for On2 Technologies to $132 million 08 January 2010 Hutchison Whampoa to privatise Hutchison Telecom for $538 million 08 January 2010 Jindal cuts stake in Australia’s RCI despite bidding war with Meijin 08 January 2010 Government to offload 10 per cent in BSNL; lines up 60 PSUs for stake sale 07 January 2010 NTT Communications acquires 29.7-per cent stake in goFLUENT Group 07 January 2010 Chinese state firm to buy £153-million stake in African Minerals 07 January 2010 Reliance MediaWorks acquires UK’s film processing firm ilab 07 January 2010 Apple challenges Google by acquiring mobile ad firm Quattro Wireless 06 January 2010 Britain’s Prudential acquires UOB’s insurance unit for £191 million 06 January 2010 Kraft raises cash offer for Cadbury with sale of pizza unit to Nestle 06 January 2010 UK insurer Aviva to acquire US equity manager, River Rock 06 January 2010 Research firm Gartner acquires Burton Group for $56 million 06 January 2010 Berkshire Hathaway slams Kraft bid for Cadbury 06 January 2010 Aussie state energy minister rules out Griffin Coal bailout 06 January 2010 Ceat picks up majority stake in Sri Lankan JV 05 January 2010 Bangladesh regulators clear Bharti Airtel's acquisition of Warid 05 January 2010 Kraft's $3.7-billion sale of pizza unit to Nestle may fund Cadbury acquisition 05 January 2010 Dow Jones merging WSJ and News Wire businesses 05 January 2010 Murdoch’s IGN sells Rotten Tomatoes to Flixster 05 January 2010 Marico buys Colgate Palmolive's Malaysian business 04 January 2010 Germany's Merz Pharmaceuticals to acquire BioForm Medical for $253 million 04 January 2010 Total signs $2.25 billion shale gas deal with Chesapeake Energy of US 04 January 2010 WorleyParsons to acquire Brazilian engineering group CNEC 04 January 2010 Jindal again matches Meijin's takeover offer for Australia's Rocklands 04 January 2010 MCB bank's plan to buy RBS Pakistan assets lapse on time overrun 02 January 2010 Sun fails to dislodge Taro directors at general body 01 January 2010 CNPC consortium wins $9.7 billion Turkmenistan gas contract 01 January 2010 VLCC sets sights on three mid-sized firms for takeover 31 December 2009 Cox and Kings acquires Australian travel firms 31 December 2009 US government to inject $3.8 billion into GMAC, hike stake to 56 per cent 31 December 2009 Chinese bank, Kazakh trust to jointly invest $2.7 billion in Kazakh copper mine 31 December 2009 Nufarm dumps Sinochem's offer, accepts Sumitomo investment 30 December 2009 Goldcorp sweetens Canplats offer to $265 million 30 December 2009 China Construction Bank buys ING's stake in Pacific Antai Life 30 December 2009 International Royalty dumps Franco-Nevada offer after Royal Gold's $749 million bid 29 December 2009 Chinese companies to acquire Canada's Corriente Resources for $651 million 29 December 2009 China's Meijin Energy outbids Jindal again for Australia's Rocklands 29 December 2009 Amicas agrees to $217 million bid by buy-out firm Thoma Bravo 28 December 2009 RBS to raise £3 billion through asset sale in 2010 28 December 2009 Abu Dhabi, Canada funds to jointly bid £5 billion for EDF UK network 28 December 2009 RIL raises offer for LyondellBasell by $5-6 billion: report 26 December 2009 RFG acquires Big Dad franchise system 26 December 2009 Carlyle confirms interest in European waste management group, Shanks 26 December 2009 Satellite radio policy invisible 26 December 2009 Music-lovers jarred as WorldSpace downs shutters 26 December 2009 Spain’s Gas Natural divests Mexican assets worth $1.2 billion 26 December 2009 Bunge acquires Brazilian sugar producer Moema Par for $896 million 26 December 2009 LyondellBasell announces $18-billion creditor-supported reorganisation plan 24 December 2009 Teva-Kowa Pharma to acquire majority stake in Japanese genrics maker Taisho 24 December 2009 HMV set to take over live music joint venture partner Mama 24 December 2009 USFTC seeks more information on Google’s AdMob acquisition 24 December 2009 AstraZeneca to acquire Novexel for $350 million, expand alliance with Forest Labs 24 December 2009 Nortel to sell CVAS gear to Genband Inc for $282 million 24 December 2009 Zee merges with ETC Networks in consolidation drive 24 December 2009 State Street buys Intesa's securities business for $1.87 billion 24 December 2009 Shriram Transport acquires GE’s Indian transport finance unit 24 December 2009 Novartis acquires Corthera, gets global rights to new heart drug 23 December 2009 Ford clears the path for Volvo's sale to Geely 23 December 2009 Cash-only deals most successful: KPMG 23 December 2009 Glass Lewis supports Sun in Taro battle 23 December 2009 Maersk acquires Devon Energy’s Gulf of Mexico oil stakes for $1.3 billion 23 December 2009 CA Bancorp board urges shareholders to spurn Maxam's bid 23 December 2009 888 acquires online game Wink Bingo for $96 million 23 December 2009 EU approves Canon's takeover of Oce 23 December 2009 Ticketmaster - Live Nation merger receives UK regulator nod on revised ruling 22 December 2009 Templeton cold to Taro’s plea for protection against Sun 22 December 2009 Nigeria opposes Shell's plans to divest holdings 22 December 2009 Sinochem lowers bid for Nufarm by A$2 million 22 December 2009 Limelight Networks to acquire EyeWonder for $110 million 22 December 2009 UK’s Hammerson and Canada Pension Plan buys Scottish mall for $476 million 22 December 2009 Macarthur Coal set to take over Gloucester Coal 22 December 2009 Seattle Genetics in antibody development deal with GSK 22 December 2009 Sanofi-aventis to acquire Chattem for $1.9 billion 21 December 2009 Google to acquire reviews site Yelp for over $500 million: report 21 December 2009 Bucyrus to acquire Terex mining unit for $1.3 billion 21 December 2009 London Stock Exchange to acquire rival Turquoise: report 21 December 2009 Spyker makes new improved offer for Saab 21 December 2009 US radio broadcaster Citadel files for bankruptcy 21 December 2009 Shell to divest Nigerian assets worth $5-billion 21 December 2009 Brazil’s CSN bids $5.5 billion for Portugal cement maker CIMPOR 21 December 2009 Jetstar, AirAsia in talks for cost saving, consolidation 19 December 2009 Deutsche Telekom's IT arm acquires S African IT major arivia.kom 19 December 2009 GM to close Saab as talks with Spyker collapse 19 December 2009 Fortis completes deal to pocket 10 Wockhardt hospitals 19 December 2009 SBS merger with SBI formalised as RS passes bill 19 December 2009 Lebedev in ‘advanced talks’ to buy Independent: reports 19 December 2009 Sun Pharma advises Taro shareholders against voting at AGM 18 December 2009 Icahn says Take-Two ‘undervalued’, ups stake 18 December 2009 NAB to acquire AXA Asia Pacific’s Aussie, NZ units for A$4.6 billion 18 December 2009 Russia’s Digital Sky to lead $180 million investment in Zynga 18 December 2009 Iconix to call off Playboy acquisition talks 17 December 2009 J&J to buy ENT device maker Acclarent for $785 million 17 December 2009 Bharti to acquire 70-per cent stake in Bangladesh’s Warid 16 December 2009 Godrej keen to acquire majority stake in JV with Sara Lee 16 December 2009 Hospira of US buys Orchid’s injectables business 16 December 2009 Banks workers go on strike against mergers; services hit 16 December 2009 Sweden’s Tele2 acquires Kazakh’s NEO for $77 million 16 December 2009 Shree Renuka offers Rs175-180 a share for 36.67 per cent in Balrampur Chini 15 December 2009 E&Y survey moots M&As in low-growth environment 15 December 2009 M&M acquires majority stake in two Australian aerospace companies 15 December 2009 FIIs, NRIs can buy up to 74 per cent in Dhanalakshmi Bank: RBI 15 December 2009 Amcor receives EC nod fro Alcan packaging acquisition 15 December 2009 Abbott to acquire Starlims Technologies for $123 million 15 December 2009 Ruia takes over troubled German auto parts maker Henniges 15 December 2009 Oracle pledge may break Sun Microsystems logjam at EC 15 December 2009 RIL adopts wait-and-watch policy on LyondellBassel bid 15 December 2009 ExxonMobil to acquire XTO Energy for $41 billion 15 December 2009 Alberto Culver to acquire Simple Health & Beauty for $390 million 15 December 2009 ON Semiconductor to acquire California Micro Devices for $108 million 14 December 2009 GM sells parts of Saab to Beijing Automotive 14 December 2009 Woodside Petroleum to raise A$2.5 billion to finance LNG projects 14 December 2009 AMP-Axa SA sweeten bid for Axa Asia Pacific Holdings to end stalemate 14 December 2009 Terra Firma sues Citigroup on EMI acquisition 14 December 2009 Dragon Oil shareholders reject ENOC’s $1.9 billion buy-out bid 14 December 2009 Balrampur Chini promoters in talks to sell stake to Renuka Sugars 12 December 2009 GSK and Intercell to develop innovative needle-free patch-based vaccines 12 December 2009 GE and Fanuc dissolve GE Fanuc Automation Corporation 12 December 2009 Taro again warns shareholders to stay away from Sun 12 December 2009 P&G to acquire air freshner brand Ambi Pur 12 December 2009 Pluribus acquires eight brands from Nielsen 12 December 2009 Microsoft to acquire healthcare software specialist Sentillion 11 December 2009 Facet Biotech rejects Biogen Idec’s sweetened takeover offer 11 December 2009 MOL Global acquires world’s oldest social networking site Friendster 11 December 2009 ONGC to raise $1 billion to refinance Imperial Energy deal 11 December 2009 Glaxo targets emerging markets for acquisitions, tie-ups 11 December 2009 Grupo Mexico regains control of US copper mine Asarco, after Sterlite loses legal battle 10 December 2009 Panasonic acquires majority stake in Sanyo for $4.6 billion 10 December 2009 First Quantum acquires BHP's Australian nickel mine for $340 million 10 December 2009 PNB nets Rs216 crore through housing finance arm stake sale 10 December 2009 Simon Property to acquire Prime Outlets for $2.33 billion 09 December 2009 New York Times Co shelves plan to sell the Worcester newspaper 09 December 2009 Cameco sells stake in Centerra Gold for $820 million 09 December 2009 HSBC set to acquire RBS’s Indian operations: report 09 December 2009 NDTV sells Imagine to Time Warner unit for Rs546 crore 09 December 2009 Apax Partners funds acquire clinical trial logistics firm Marken 08 December 2009 Volkswagen buys 49.9 per cent in Porsche for $5.8 billion 08 December 2009 CF Industries raises offer for Terra to $4.58 billion 08 December 2009 Celgene to acquire Gloucester Pharmaceuticals for $640 million 08 December 2009 Canadian gold miner Franco-Nevada offers $608 million for International Royalty 08 December 2009 Heineken ties up with Kingfisher to bring its beers 07 December 2009 ANZ acquires RBS’ Vietnam business 07 December 2009 AsiaInfo and Linkage Technologies announce $733-million merger deal 07 December 2009 Cadbury once again to reject Kraft’s “unappealing” offer 07 December 2009 GVK acquires L&T's 17 per cent stake in Bangalore airport for Rs686 crore 07 December 2009 General Motors Canada buys out Suzuki stake in CAMI 05 December 2009 Government prepares to sell 8.4 per cent stake in SBI 05 December 2009 Cisco receives 89 per cent of Tandberg, waives 90 per cent condition 04 December 2009 Battle for JAL: American Airlines ups the ante to $1.1 billion 04 December 2009 Mitsubishi Motors in talks with Peugeot to increase cooperation 03 December 2009 GE in deal to sell NBC to Comcast 03 December 2009 Nufarm extends talks on Sinochem $2.5-billion takeover offer 03 December 2009 BSNL cool to Zain acquisition: Goyal 03 December 2009 Agrium to nominate directors for CF board in 2010 03 December 2009 GE-Comcast deal expected today 03 December 2009 Templeton switches sides; backs Sun on Taro takeover 02 December 2009 Cisco closes in on Tandberg with 84-per cent stake 02 December 2009 ABG Shipyard drops out of Great Offshore race 02 December 2009 Dubai World unwilling to part with ‘crown jewels’ 02 December 2009 Nokia sells Venyon stake to Giesecke & Devrient 01 December 2009 IBM acquires Israeli company Guardium 01 December 2009 Stryker to acquire Ascent Healthcare Solutions for $525 million 01 December 2009 China's Zijin Mining to acquire Australia's Indophil Resources for $500 million 01 December 2009 Broadcom to acquire Dune Networks for $178 million 01 December 2009 China’s WISCO to invest $400 million in Brazilian iron ore miner MMX 01 December 2009 Siemens to acquire diagnostics arm 30 November 2009 Tata Motors snubs UK’s loan offer 30 November 2009 GE-Vivendi progress on NBC stake sale 27 November 2009 IDBI Bank scraps IDBI Home Finance sale, looks at acquisitions 26 November 2009 ITC still keen to hike stake in Oberois’ EIH, but rules out hostile moves 26 November 2009 France Telecom, TDC merge Swiss businesses for $2.3 billion 26 November 2009 Swedish carmaker Koenigsegg calls off Saab acquisition 25 November 2009 Koenigsegg’s pull out from Saab deal could hit BAIC’s plans 25 November 2009 China’s Ansteel to jointly develop Karara Iron Ore Project with Aussie miner 25 November 2009 Windstream to acquire Iowa Telecommunications for $1.1 billion 25 November 2009 RIL de-merger invalid if gas pact not implemented: RNRL 25 November 2009 IL&FS offer for 20 per cent in Matyas Infra opens on Wednesday 24 November 2009 Citigroup to sell Diners Club North America to BMO Financial (BMO) 24 November 2009 General Atlantic may buy stake in Strides Arcolab 24 November 2009 Rio Tinto to buy Iron Ore Holdings' Iron Valley deposit 24 November 2009 Reports on interst in Actis’ stake in Swaraj Mazda speculative: Tata Motors 24 November 2009 RIL move on LyondellBassel enthuses market 24 November 2009 Heritage Oil to sell its Ugandan oil blocks to Eni for $1.5 billion 24 November 2009 Ciena trumps Nokia Siemens to acquire Nortel’s ethernet assets for $769 million 24 November 2009 DoT clears Russian government's plan for 20 per cent in Shyam Sistema 23 November 2009 Nestle also interested in Cadbury 23 November 2009 No immediate impact on RIL from LyondellBasell offer: Fitch 23 November 2009 Reliance makes a bid for Dutch petrochem major LyondellBasell 23 November 2009 Hershey reportedly mulling $17 billion solo bid for Cadbury 21 November 2009 Dutch government to invest $6.6 billion more in ABN AMRO-Fortis 20 November 2009 Reckitt Benckiser may merge with Colgate-Palmolive: report 19 November 2009 JP Morgan buys rest of Cazenove joint venture for $1.7 billion 19 November 2009 Hershey, Ferrero to rival Kraft’s bid for Cadbury 19 November 2009 Public sector bank consolidation discussed at bankers' meet 19 November 2009 Bosch announces one US acquisition, two in Germany 18 November 2009 L&T sells petrol dispenser business to Gilbarco of US 18 November 2009 Devon Energy plans to raise up to $7.5 billion through asset sales 18 November 2009 Goodrich Corporation signs agreement to acquire Atlantic Inertial Systems 17 November 2009 Canon to acquire Dutch printer maker Océ for $1.1 billion 17 November 2009 Citigroup to sell stake in Bellsystem24 to Bain Capital for $1.12 billion 16 November 2009 Bristol-Myers to divest Mead Johnson for $7.69 billion 16 November 2009 Vodafone-Essar buys controlling stake in Dhabi’s African operations 16 November 2009 Emami acquires Lakshmibilas 16 November 2009 Sterlite loses Asarco as US judge rules in favour of Grupo Mexico 16 November 2009 Vivendi trumps Telefonica on GVT buyout with $4.2 billion offer 16 November 2009 Hollywood’s MGM puts itself up for sale 14 November 2009 Cox & Kings keen to consolidate through global acquisitions 14 November 2009 GM repays €200 million Opel loan to Germany 14 November 2009 HDFC buys Credila stake for education loans foray 14 November 2009 Korea’s GS Home Shopping buys 15-per cent stake in HomeShop18 14 November 2009 PVR to acquire DLF’s DT Cinemas in cash and stock deal 13 November 2009 Motorola explores three-way split 13 November 2009 JP Financial Services' open offer for Golden Tobacco due on 30 December 13 November 2009 US cable operator Liberty Global to acquire Germany’s Unitymedia for $3 billion 13 November 2009 L&T sells 2.31 per cent of its Mahindra Satyam holding 13 November 2009 United Technologies to acquire GE Security for $1.82 billion 13 November 2009 Playboy again reportedly up for sale 13 November 2009 British Airways and Iberia agree to $7 billion merger 13 November 2009 Aurbindo to merge subsidiary Trident Life Sciences Ltd 13 November 2009 KOEL to exit joint ventures with stake sale to Kirloskar Systems 12 November 2009 TVS Logistics to acquire Multipart Holding of UK, plans IPO 12 November 2009 Essar becomes largest cold steel roller with completion of Shree Precoated Steel acquisition 12 November 2009 Infosys BPO to acquire outstanding interests of McCarmish Systems 12 November 2009 Shree Renuka Sugars to acquire Brazilian Vale Do Ivai Rs1,112 crore 12 November 2009 HP to acquire networking-gear maker 3Com for $2.7 billion 12 November 2009 Google to acquire ad firm AdMob 11 November 2009 Thomson Reuters under EC's monopoly abuse probe 11 November 2009 RIL scouts for global acquisitions 11 November 2009 Logitech acquires LifeSize Communications for $405 million 11 November 2009 E.ON sells German power grid to TenneT for $1.65 billion 11 November 2009 Tandberg shareholders want Cisco to sweeten bid 10 November 2009 EU regulator lists objections to Oracle-Sun merger 10 November 2009 Kraft goes hostile with original offer 10 November 2009 Electronic Arts buys Playfish for $400 million 10 November 2009 Enzon to sell specialty pharma business 09 November 2009 Northrop Grumman to sell TASC for $1.65 billion to fund share repurchase 09 November 2009 Infosys sets up second LatAm centre; eyes acquisitions in Europe, US 09 November 2009 Suncor plans to sell assets worth $3.7 billion 09 November 2009 RIM announces $1.2 billion share buyback 07 November 2009 Skype founders wrangle 14 per cent stake in settlement deal with eBay 07 November 2009 CIC to take 15-per cent stake for $1.58 billion in US power producer AES 07 November 2009 L N Mittal's daughter-in-law Megha to acquire fashion house Escada 06 November 2009 Scripps Networks Interactive to acquire controlling interest in Travel Channel 06 November 2009 Buy out firms TPG, CPP to acquire IMS Health for $5.2 billion 06 November 2009 After GVT bid, Telefonica to acqire HanseNet for $1.34 billion 06 November 2009 GVK buys 12 per cent in Bangalore airport from Swiss company 05 November 2009 Bitter legal battle for Skype technology likely to end: report 05 November 2009 TVS Shriram Growth Fund to acquire 25-per cent stake in Landmark 05 November 2009 Octant Interactive acquires Esha News Monitoring 05 November 2009 Australian regulator approves China’s investment in Centrex Metals 05 November 2009 Wipro buys Yardley lines in area-specific deal 05 November 2009 Telefonica eclipses Vivendi's bid for Brazil’s GVT with $4 billion offer 05 November 2009 Berkshire Hathaway in transition to an industrial conglomerate 04 November 2009 EU regulator may block Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems: report 04 November 2009 Kraft confirms $9-billion loan for Cadbury acquisition 04 November 2009 GM says ‘No’ to Magna; decides to keep Opel 04 November 2009 Dubai’s ENOC to acquire Dragon Oil for $1.9 billion 04 November 2009 Berkshire Hathaway to acquire BNSF for $34 billion 03 November 2009 Cisco acquires set-top box business of DVN Holdings for $44.5 million 03 November 2009 Bayer CropScience acquires Athenix or Bayer $365 million 03 November 2009 Merck - Schering-Plough merger approved bu US, Swiss and Canadian regulators 30 October 2009 KPIT Cummins buys out American IT firm Sparta 30 October 2009 PNB to buy majority stake in Kazakh’s Dana Bank 30 October 2009 Ford names China’s Geely Group as preferred bidder for Volvo 29 October 2009 ConocoPhillips plans to sell $10-billion in assets 29 October 2009 CIC to invest $500 million for 15-per cent stake in Canadian coal miner Mongolian assets 28 October 2009 Cisco to acquire ScanSafe for $183 million 28 October 2009 Dassault Systemes to acquire IBM’s PLM sales operation for $600 million 27 October 2009 Barclays acquires Standard Life Bank for £226 million 27 October 2009 Tech Mahindra merger with Satyam next year 27 October 2009 Galleon sells part stake in Shriram EPC to pay off investors 26 October 2009 Lloyds unit in talks to buy outsourcing firm CPA Global 26 October 2009 Anglo American to sell non-core assets worth $7 billion 26 October 2009 Australia flip-flops on Chinese investments, approves Yanzhou's $3.5-billion bid for Felix 24 October 2009 GM delays Opel sale to Magna till 3 November 24 October 2009 Foster’s to spin off 13 less profitable brands in joint venture 23 October 2009 HSBC to increase stake in Vietnam's largest insurance and financial services group 22 October 2009 MeadWestvaco sells Paxonix business to Persistent Systems 22 October 2009 Renault-Nissan likely to dump M&M as partner 22 October 2009 Equinix takes over rival Switch & Data for $689 million 22 October 2009 Korea National Oil acquires Canada's Harvest Energy for $3.95 billion 22 October 2009 Bank of America to sell First Republic Bank for $1 billion 22 October 2009 LIC raises equity holding in Tata Tea to 13.93 per cent 21 October 2009 Volkswagen lifts initial Porsche stake to 49.9 per cent 21 October 2009 Australia’s Moly mines secures $700-million Chinese investment 21 October 2009 Tata Motors buys out Spanish coach maker Hispano Carrocera 20 October 2009 Lion-Asia raised bid price for Aussie mining firm Polaris 20 October 2009 Venture capital investments in India down 74 per cent in Q3 20 October 2009 Swiss HR firm Adecco acquires MPS Group for $1.3 billion 20 October 2009 Morgan Stanley sells asset management unit to Invesco for $1.5 billion 20 October 2009 Sprint Nextel’s acquisition of iPCS to end row over iDEN 20 October 2009 Telenor allowed to hold up to 74 per cent in Unitech Wireless 19 October 2009 Etisalat acquires Millicom's Sri Lanka business for $207 million 19 October 2009 Energy Developments rejects Pacific Equity's $380-million bid 19 October 2009 CVC-Cosmen consortium pulls out of bid for National Express; Stagecoach bids £1.7 billion 19 October 2009 Pfizer completes Wyeth acquisition 16 October 2009 BHP Billiton lobbied to torpedo Chinalco-Rio Tinto deal 16 October 2009 BHP Billiton to acquire iron ore miner UMC for A$204 million 16 October 2009 Google ready for acquisitions after spectacular 3Q 16 October 2009 Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton junk Pilbara ore marketing plan 16 October 2009 Xstrata abandos Anglo bid, for now 16 October 2009 RHJ acquires Kleinwort Benson for £225 million 16 October 2009 Lloyds to sell HBOS portfolio management unit to Rathbone 16 October 2009 Singapore's OCBC to acquire ING Asia private bank for $1.5 billion 15 October 2009 Polaris Software acquires Laser Soft Infosystems 15 October 2009 NDTV to buy back 26 per cent NBC Universal stake 15 October 2009 Government approves sale of Andrew Yule JV stake to Continental Conti Tech 15 October 2009 Cognizant acquires UBS India service center; enters into long-term service agreement 15 October 2009 RIL eyeing assets in EU: reports 15 October 2009 AB InBev sells East European beer operations to CVC for $2.2 billion 15 October 2009 Thomson Reuters to acquire financial commentary site Breakingviews 15 October 2009 Canadian miner Pan American Silver to acquire Aquiline Resources for $608 million 15 October 2009 Cliffs Natural to acquire Wabush Mines stake from ArcelorMittal, US Steel 14 October 2009 Telstra opposes split, terms government plan ‘unnecessary and damaging’ 14 October 2009 McGraw-Hill sells BusinessWeek to Bloomberg 14 October 2009 Cisco in deal to buy Starent Networks for $2.9 billion 14 October 2009 Merck KGaA acquires Banagalore bioscience firm 13 October 2009 Novartis enters into $265-million schizophrenia drug deal with Vanda 13 October 2009 Onyx Pharmaceuticals to acquire Proteolix for $276 million 13 October 2009 Xstrata sells Chilean copper-gold project stake to Barrick Gold for $465 million 13 October 2009 AIG sells Taiwan life insurance unit to Primus for $2.15 billion 13 October 2009 Venture Capital fundraising dives to lowest levels in 6 years 13 October 2009 Kuwait’s Securities Group joins BSNL, MTNL in hunger for Zain 12 October 2009 Qatar sovereign fund acquires majority stake in Canary Wharf 12 October 2009 Trinity College acquires O2 Arena for £24 million 10 October 2009 Kimberly-Clark acquires I-Flow for $276 million 10 October 2009 GM finalises Hummer sale deal with China’s Tengzhong 10 October 2009 Novartis acquires global marketing rights for new drug from Paratek 09 October 2009 Australian regulator asks Baosteel to resubmit application for Aquila Resources 09 October 2009 Spain, Britain refuse aid to German-backed Opel sale to Magna 09 October 2009 Blackstone Group clinches $2.7-billion deal to acquire theme parks from Anheuser-Busch InBev 09 October 2009 MTNL seeks to establish offshore presence with bids for Kuwaiti and African telcos 09 October 2009 HSBC re-enters negotiations to acquire Asian assets of RBS and ING: report 08 October 2009 Norwegian sovereign fund demands termination of VW's Porsche acquisition 08 October 2009 Compuware acquires Gomez Inc for $295 million 08 October 2009 Securities Tribunal asks Daiichi to offer Rs160 per Zenotech share 08 October 2009 Ciena puts in play Nortel’s ethernet assets with $521 million stalking horse bid 07 October 2009 Citigroup to divest energy-trading unit Phibro: reports 07 October 2009 Essar and Jindal in bidding war for Australian coal producer Rocklands 07 October 2009 Julius Baer to acquire ING Swiss private bank for $505 million 07 October 2009 PE firms invest $763 million in Indian companies in Q3 ‘09 07 October 2009 Bharti to add 100 million users, may bid for wi-max: Sunil Mittal 07 October 2009 L&T likely to sell Mahindra Satyam stake with expiry of lock-in 07 October 2009 Birlas’ UltraTech Cement to absorb Samruddhi Cement 07 October 2009 Exxon to acquire Kosmos Energy’s stake in Ghana oil field for $4 billion 07 October 2009 Emerson Electric to acquire Avocent for $1.2 billion 06 October 2009 No revival talks with MTN: Bharti 06 October 2009 Cambridge Tech to divest Global Solutions 06 October 2009 Baosteel bids $1.59 billion for 30-per cent stake in Anglo American’s Minas mine 05 October 2009 CIL prepares to import coal, sell local mines 05 October 2009 BSNL, MTNL back Vavasi consortium's bid for Zain stake 05 October 2009 GE to merge all healthcare units into Wipro JV 03 October 2009 EDF to cut €4 billion debt with sale of UK electricity distribution business 03 October 2009 Blackstone in talks to acquire Anheuser-Busch theme parks: report 03 October 2009 Anglo hopes to rid Xstrata’s $68-billion merger bid by 20 October 03 October 2009 GM to close Saturn as buyout deal collapses 01 October 2009 Cisco to acquire Norway’s Tandberg for $3 billion 01 October 2009 Despite reports, Comcast denies $35-billion NBC Universal takeover talks 01 October 2009 Bank of America to sell unit to Ameriprise for $1 billion 01 October 2009 Bharti calls off merger talks with South Africa's MTN 30 September 2009 Great Offshore battle heads for Diwali climax 30 September 2009 CIC acquires stake in Kazakh Energy for $939 million 30 September 2009 UK regulator sets 9 November deadline for Kraft's Cadbury bid 30 September 2009 HSBC takes over Jessops in restructuring 30 September 2009 MindTree buys Kyocera Wireless’ Indian unit 29 September 2009 China keen to acquire $30-billion oil stake in Nigeria: FT 29 September 2009 Lupin buys US rights for cholesterol drug Antara 29 September 2009 Sinochem makes $2.5-billion takeover bid for Australia's Nufarm 29 September 2009 Xerox to acquire outsourcing firm ACS for $6.4 billion 29 September 2009 Abbott to acquire Belgian drug company Solvay for $6.6 billion 29 September 2009 Nokia acquires "social atlas" Dopplr 29 September 2009 L&T Finance buys DBS Cholamandalam for Rs45 crore 26 September 2009 Mahindra to buy out Kirloskar Oil stake in Swaraj Engines: report 25 September 2009 Wipro seeks buyer for French unit 25 September 2009 Asarco judge dumps sweetened Sterlite offer; backs Grupo Mexico bid again 25 September 2009 Unilever to acquire Sara Lee personal care business for $1.88 billion 25 September 2009 Australia rejects another Chinese investment 25 September 2009 BSNL may rope in MTNL for Zain deal 25 September 2009 ANZ buys out joint ventures with ING for A$1.76 billion 25 September 2009 Rebel investor proposes alternative rescue plan for Independent News & Media 24 September 2009 Microsoft says it is not interested in Electronic Arts 24 September 2009 Australia rejects large mining deal with China 24 September 2009 Bharti-MTN deal may trigger open offer, FIPB intervention 23 September 2009 Chinese soveregn fund acquires 15 per cent of Noble Group for $850 million 23 September 2009 Nortel to sell its carrier network business as well 23 September 2009 Pfizer, Wyeth to sell animal drugs business to Boehringer 23 September 2009 Japan’s Suntory to enter Europe with $3.8-billion Orangina deal 23 September 2009 Magna plans drastic job cuts with Opel takeover 22 September 2009 Singapore's GIC pares Citi stake; nets $1.6 billion profit 22 September 2009 Zandu shareholders approve merger with Emami 22 September 2009 Cadbury tells Kraft to “put up or shut up” 22 September 2009 IBM acquires customer management firm RedPill Solutions 22 September 2009 BHP Billiton on the prowl for acquisitions: report 22 September 2009 Rio Tinto sells Alcan Composites to Schweiter Technologies 22 September 2009 JP Morgan may takeover alliance with Cazenove 22 September 2009 Bharti-MTN deal hinges on Manmohan-Zuma talks 22 September 2009 Goldman fund plans to invest $250 million in China’s Geely 22 September 2009 Thomson Reuters buys PR agency Hugin Group 22 September 2009 Dell to acquire Perot Systems for $3.9 billion 22 September 2009 Reliance eyes bankrupt Dutch company LyondellBasel: report 19 September 2009 Department of justice, FBI probe into BoA’s Merrill Lynch acquisition 19 September 2009 Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation to acquire Camec for $960 million 19 September 2009 Warburg Pincus fails to sell its stake in WNS 19 September 2009 S African unions may block Bharti Airtel-MTN deal: report 19 September 2009 Dabur readies war chest of $250-500 million for acquisitions 19 September 2009 Glaxo seeking stake in Dr Reddy’s: report 18 September 2009 Punjab National Bank may buy stake in Kazakh Metrokombank 18 September 2009 Millicom rejects BSNL’s Lankan bid; Bharti Airtel still in fray 18 September 2009 SBI to ramp up overseas business; plans $1 billion acquisitions 18 September 2009 Warren Buffett warns Kraft not to overbid for Cadbury 17 September 2009 Canada may replace Australia as China’s favourite investment destination: study 17 September 2009 Bharati Shipyard raises bid price for Great Offshore, ABG Shipyard still a contender 17 September 2009 Skype sale in cloud as Joltid files lawsuit 17 September 2009 ENRC in talks to acquire cobalt major Camec for $1 billion 17 September 2009 Corning buys Axygen BioScience for $400 million 17 September 2009 BSNL eyes Luxembourg telecom firm's Sri Lanka unit, Celltel 17 September 2009 Adobe agrees to acquire Omniture for $1.8 billion 17 September 2009 GE plans wind turbine unit in India; acquires Norway's ScanWind 16 September 2009 Macquarie Airports sells stake in Bristol; hikes Copenhagen stake 16 September 2009 Hit by losses JAL to cut 6,800 jobs in three years, hints chief 16 September 2009 Bharti-MTN deal: officials dismiss dual listing rumour, but Pranab says it’s possible 16 September 2009 Rio Tinto sell 56-per cent stake in Alcan cable division 15 September 2009 IOC to buy 5 per cent in Oil India for Rs1,100 crore 15 September 2009 CA to acquire NetQoS for $200 million in all-cash transaction 15 September 2009 Shipping ministry backs dilution of stake in Cochin Shipyard 15 September 2009 Bharti-MTN deal may face SA regulatory hurdles 15 September 2009 Magna likely to shed 10,500 Opel, Vauxhall jobs in Europe 15 September 2009 AMR Corp joins fray for JAL stake, after Delta, Air France-KLM 15 September 2009 Yahoo to offload entire stake in Alibaba.com 14 September 2009 RBS to sell Williams & Glyn's to quell EU competition concerns 14 September 2009 Avaya bags Nortel’s telecom unit with $900 million bid 14 September 2009 BASF India board okays Ciba India merger 14 September 2009 Deutsche Telekom eyes US’s Sprint Nextel 14 September 2009 Alcon to acquire Swiss biotech firm, ESBATech for $589 million 14 September 2009 Kraft’s low growth business model unappealing: Cadbury 14 September 2009 UK’s 3i Group sells venture portfolio for £130 million 14 September 2009 After failed Anglo American bid, Xstrata eyes Lonmin once again 12 September 2009 Dr Reddy's scotches stake sale rumours 11 September 2009 Magna, Sberbank win GM’s Opel, Vauxhall units 11 September 2009 National Express board likely to endorse CVC-Cosmen bid 11 September 2009 L&T Finance may buy stake in mutual fund business 10 September 2009 Hershey's, Nestle may counterbid for Cadbury 10 September 2009 Fears of weakening competition greet merger news of Orange, T-mobile in the UK 10 September 2009 Network 18 Holdings gets ‘valid acceptance’ to up stake in TIFC to 80.4 per cent 10 September 2009 China arms CNPC with $30-billion loan for overseas acquisitions 10 September 2009 Barrick Gold to raise up to $4 billion through equity sale 10 September 2009 Japan’s Suntory in talks to buy French rival Orangina 10 September 2009 China’s CNPC pulls out of Verenex Energy takeover 10 September 2009 India-Malaysia group to buy 46 per cent in Kuwait's Zain for $13.7 billion 09 September 2009 French telecom giant Vivendi to launch $2.9 billion bid for Brazil’s GVT 09 September 2009 Roamware to boost presence in mobilr banking with Macalla acquisition 09 September 2009 Chinese firm acquires stakes in two Australian mining FearrAus 09 September 2009 Facet Biotech spurns Biogen’s buyout bid 09 September 2009 Barrick Gold in $625 million deal with Silver Wheaton 09 September 2009 SEBI chief hints at reviewing takeover norms 09 September 2009 Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom UK arms to merge 08 September 2009 L&T Finance in race for Cholomandalam DBS: reports 08 September 2009 Australian takeover panel blocks Bolton bid on Multiplex Prime Property Fund 08 September 2009 British Airways in talks to buy BMI from Lufthansa: report 08 September 2009 China Unicom and Telefonica in $1-billion share swap 08 September 2009 After failed Anglo American bid, Xstrata eyes Lonmin once again 07 September 2009 Sigma acquires Bristol-Myers Sqibb’s brands 07 September 2009 Morgan Stanley may sell Indian back operations: report 07 September 2009 Cadbury rejects Kraft Foods' $16.7 billion merger offer 07 September 2009 AIG sells fund units to Pacific Century for $500 million 07 September 2009 HSBC scouts for ING’s Asian assets: report 07 September 2009 Abu Dhabi's ATIC to acquire Singapore's Chartered Semi 07 September 2009 Two more in fray for Nortel's enterprise business 05 September 2009 Moog likely to acquire GE Aviation subsidiary 05 September 2009 CVC-Cosmen consortium sweetens National Express offer 05 September 2009 Deutsche Telekom mulls sale of T-Mobile UK 05 September 2009 ArcelorMittal to take 35 per cent stake in Uttam Galva 05 September 2009 Axis IT&T acquires 51-per cent stake in Cades Digitech 05 September 2009 Toshiba, China wealth fund eye stake in Areva T&D 04 September 2009 Australia delays ruling on Chinese takeover of Lynas 04 September 2009 Sun-Oracle deal hits EU hurdle 04 September 2009 MTNL in fray to acquire 75 per cent in Nigerian Telecom 03 September 2009 RHJ hikes bid for GM's Opel 03 September 2009 Berkshire, Leucadia join hands to acquire Capmark's mortgage arm 03 September 2009 LEO Pharma to Acquire Peplin for $287.5 million 03 September 2009 BNY Mellon signs definitive agreement to acquire Pinnacle Arbitrage Compliance 03 September 2009 Bayer acquires two prescription dermatology product lines from SkinMedica in the US 03 September 2009 EMC to acquire eDiscovery software vendor Kazeon 03 September 2009 Dainippon Sumitomo close to buy US drug maker Sepracor 03 September 2009 Danaher acquires MDS division for $1.1 billion 03 September 2009 Tata Group mulls diluting stake in Infiniti Retail 03 September 2009 Abbott expands vision care portfolio; buys Visiogen 03 September 2009 Lukoil acquires 45-per cent stake in TRN; Dow divests refinery stake for $800 million 02 September 2009 TCG Lifescience acquires lab informatics company 02 September 2009 Roche buys Lonza’s Singapore unit for $360 million 02 September 2009 Asian Paints arm sells stake in Berger Paints China 02 September 2009 Ashland Inc. completes sale of Drew Marine to J.F. Lehman & Co. 01 September 2009 US bankruptcy judge backs Grupo Mexico's bid for Ascaro 01 September 2009 EMC acquires California's FastScale Technology 01 September 2009 Sony hives-off Mexican LCD plant 01 September 2009 eBay to sell Skype to a consortium of private investors 01 September 2009 Disney acquires Marvel for $4 billion 01 September 2009 Petrochina buys 60 per cent stake in Canada’s oilsands for $1.7 billion 01 September 2009 Jag, Rover drive Tata Motors deep into red 01 September 2009 Huntsman signs “Stalking Horse” deal with Tronox 31 August 2009 Oilfield service provider Baker Hughes to acquire BJ Services for $5.5 billion 31 August 2009 Re-audited Satyam accounts by December end 31 August 2009 SAT throws out plea against Bharti-MTN merger terms 29 August 2009 Edingburgh-based law firm McGrigor to merge with Irish firm 29 August 2009 FSA inquiry hits Heritage-Genel deal 29 August 2009 EU approves Lufthansa’s Austrian Airlines acquisition 29 August 2009 PetroChina plans to acquire assets worth $3.22-billion from CNPC 29 August 2009 Australian timber company Gunns halts trading pending acquisition talks outcome 29 August 2009 Orange acquires UK digital advertising network Unanimis 29 August 2009 National Express rejects CVC-Cosmen takeover bid 29 August 2009 Tata Motors pledges entire stake in Tata Steel 28 August 2009 Mahindra plans US assembly for `Scorpio' to skirt import curbs 28 August 2009 Contours of Bharti Airtel deal may change: MTN chief 28 August 2009 Baosteel acquires 15-per cent stake in Australian iron ore miner Aquila Resources 28 August 2009 Lake Shore Gold to buy West Timmins for $292 million 28 August 2009 Bondholders seek probe into Zell’s $8.3-billion LBO 27 August 2009 Maryborough to make $90.4 million offer for Tully Sugar 27 August 2009 Maytas Infra sells its stake in UP project to joint venture partners 27 August 2009 Oz Minerals to build shareholder value to fend off potential takeover 27 August 2009 Eldorado to acquire Sino Gold for $1.8 billion 27 August 2009 Precision Castparts buys Carlton Forge for $850 million 27 August 2009 Nasdaq, Brazilian exchange Bovespa in tie up talks 27 August 2009 Yahoo! buys Arabic web portal Maktoob 26 August 2009 Packer's ConsMedia sells Seek stake for $441 million 26 August 2009 Bharti, MTN framework agreement by weekend likely 26 August 2009 Mcleod Russel's UK arm acquires 75 per cent in US tea company Olyana 25 August 2009 Oil Search to sell stake in Exxon's PNG LNG to Abu Dhabi firm 25 August 2009 Centrica bags Venture 25 August 2009 NRS and IRS to merge 25 August 2009 Warner Chilcott acquires P&G's global pharmaceuticals business for $3.1 billion 25 August 2009 Close Brothers in the race for Commerzbank arm 25 August 2009 Woolworths, Lowe’s join hands; to take over Danks 25 August 2009 German chancellor blames GM for Opel sale delay 25 August 2009 Lloyds mulls sale of Clerical Medical to Resolution for $6.6 billion 24 August 2009 Fortis acquires 10 Wockhardt hospitals for Rs909 crore 24 August 2009 M&A deals drop in first half '09: report 24 August 2009 Oracle's acquisition of Sun approved by US justice dept 24 August 2009 Dubai's Nakheel sells Mirvac stake for $171 million 24 August 2009 Tribune to sell Chicago Cubs for $845 million 24 August 2009 Opel talks prolong as GM undecided on Magna offer 22 August 2009 MTN raising $4.5 billion loan for merger with Bharti: report 21 August 2009 McNally arm to acquire German firm KHD Humboldt Wedag 21 August 2009 Oberoi denies receiving proposal from ITC 21 August 2009 Bharti not to raise MTN offer: Sunil Mittal 21 August 2009 Swiss government sells 9-per cent stake in UBS for $6.8 billion 21 August 2009 Wockhardt completes sale of veterinary business to Vétoquinol 20 August 2009 Tata Chemicals becomes largest shareholder in Rallis after stake buy 20 August 2009 Bharti-MTN again extend merger talks to 30 September 20 August 2009 GE, Fanuc to dissolve 22-year joint venture by year end 20 August 2009 DoCoMo-Tata Tele JV looks to gobble up new entrants 20 August 2009 Sterlite raises Asarco offer to $2.1 billion 20 August 2009 Macquarie acquires Lincoln’s asset management unit for $428 million 20 August 2009 Berger sells losing Malaysian arm to Royalton Holdings 19 August 2009 Rallis India-Tata Chemicals merger in the offing : Analysts 19 August 2009 GM confirms deal to sell Saab to Koenigsegg 19 August 2009 Foreign banks lining up to fund Bharti-MTN deal: report 18 August 2009 Rio Tinto to sell Alcan packaging to Amcor for $2.025 billion 18 August 2009 Reliance Communications in talks to acquire African assets of Zain 18 August 2009 MSNBC.com picks up Chicago-based web site EveryBlock 18 August 2009 Air China to buy 12.5 per cent Cathay stake for $820 million 18 August 2009 NAB acquires Challenger’s mortgage management business 18 August 2009 Aurobindo Pharma to acquire Trident Life Sciences 17 August 2009 Quippo to raise Rs900 crore to fund Wireless TT Info Services merger 17 August 2009 Religare bids for ING’s Asian assets 17 August 2009 Commonwealth Bank eyes acquisitions in India, Indonesia 17 August 2009 Southwest gives up Frontier bid; Republic wins 17 August 2009 Amcor close to announcing Alcan's packaging unit purchase 17 August 2009 BB&T assumes charge of Colonial Bank; toll touches 77 17 August 2009 IL&FS renamed HSBC InvestDirect after takeover 14 August 2009 MTN seeks $1 billion more for merger with Bharti: report 14 August 2009 Magna submits revised offer to GM for Opel 14 August 2009 VW acquires 42-per cent stake in Porsche for $4.7 billion 14 August 2009 Yanzhou Coal to acquire Felix Resources for $2.9 billion 14 August 2009 UK's Mitie acquires Dalkia Technical Facilities Management for £130 million 13 August 2009 Hutchison sells Israel's Partner Com stake for $1.38 billion 13 August 2009 Lloyds to spin off Insight for £235 million to Bank of New York Mellon 12 August 2009 IT firm Mphasis buys AIG’s Indian operations 12 August 2009 Mahindra group floats private equity fund Mahindra Partners 12 August 2009 China eyes Canadian Royalties for $148.5 million 12 August 2009 VMware acquires SpringSource for $420 million 12 August 2009 UK’s Friends Provident unable to refuse Resolution offer 11 August 2009 Flush with Irish funds, Tata Motors spurns UK bailout for Jaguar 11 August 2009 Barnes & Noble to buy back College Booksellers in $596 million deal 11 August 2009 Sterlite ups Asarco bid to $1.5 billion; Grupo Mexico outbids with $2 billion 11 August 2009 Dynegy sells assets to LS Power for $1 billion 11 August 2009 Southwest boosts Frontier bid by 50 per cent to $170 million 11 August 2009 RBS sells Pakistan operations to MCB Bank 11 August 2009 Village Roadshow to consider privatisation proposal 10 August 2009 Chinese group to offload part stake in Lenovo parent 10 August 2009 China’s Yanzhou Coal in talks to acquire Australia’s Felix Resources for $2.8 billion 10 August 2009 Microsoft sells Razorfish to Publicis for $530 million 10 August 2009 Essar among bidders for UK’s oil refinery: Report 10 August 2009 Merck, Schering-Plough shareholders approve $41-billion deal 10 August 2009 Platinum Equity bids $35 million for Boston Globe: report 08 August 2009 Global M&A activity down 38 per cent amidst downturn 08 August 2009 Kirin Holdings closer to acquiring Lion Nathan 07 August 2009 Agrium may raise its $4.1-billion bid for CF 06 August 2009 Google to acquire video firm On2 for $106.5 million 06 August 2009 S&P downgrades Tata Motors rating at critical time 05 August 2009 Myer Group mulls $1.5 billion IPO after good result 05 August 2009 Alcoa completes deal to acquire to BHP Billiton’s Suriname stake 05 August 2009 Essar Steel inks deal with Shree Precoated Steels 05 August 2009 ABG Shipyard ups offer for Great Offshore to Rs520 a share 04 August 2009 Despite profit drop, Xstrata pursues Anglo American merger 04 August 2009 Malaysia’s Astro buys additional stake in Sun’s FM network 04 August 2009 Unitech looking to sell telecom tower business: report 04 August 2009 Ybrant Digital enters APAC region with Max Interactive acquisition 04 August 2009 Trinity College rocks: may buy London’s O2 04 August 2009 UK Sports Media Group sells men’s magazine Front 04 August 2009 Ausssie hotel operator Stella to cut ties with Octaviar 04 August 2009 ANZ acquires RBS’s Asian assets for $550 million 04 August 2009 Australia’s GPT Group sells tourism assets for A$84.9 million 04 August 2009 Britannia Building completes mega merger with Co-op Financial 04 August 2009 Godrej Consumer readying Rs1,000-crore war chest to expand operations 04 August 2009 Suspense continues: Bharti, MTN extend talks till 31 August 03 August 2009 NAB to acquire Goldman Sachs’ Aussie wealth management unit 03 August 2009 ANZ plans returning to India by acquiring RBS assets: reports 03 August 2009 Petronas acquires Optimal Group for $660 million 01 August 2009 Telenor proposal to up stake in Unitech gets security clearance: reports 31 July 2009 Alstom, Schneider Electric weigh joint bid for Areva T&D 31 July 2009 Cablevision to spin off Madison Square Garden 31 July 2009 Southwest offers $113.6 million for Frontier 31 July 2009 McAfee expands SaaS domain; buys MX Logic for $170 million 31 July 2009 Elders sells insurance business to QBE for A$315 million 31 July 2009 Citigroup to sell Nikko Asset to Sumitomo Trust for $1.26 billion 30 July 2009 Hello, Yahoo - Microsoft, what about the regulators? 30 July 2009 Microsoft and Yahoo: together at last 30 July 2009 Sanofi-Aventis to acquire Merck's Merial stake for $4 billion 30 July 2009 ABG Shipyard ups ante for Great Offshore; Bharti may follow suit 30 July 2009 US-Canadian courts clear Nortel-Ericsson deal 30 July 2009 Macquarie Group sells stake in Japan’s Haneda airport 30 July 2009 US government to acquire 34-per cent stake in Citigroup 30 July 2009 Nutreco to acquire Cargill’s animal nutrition operation in Spain and Portugal 29 July 2009 Microsoft, Yahoo! agree on joint search 29 July 2009 Magna ups the ante; raises GM's Opel bid 29 July 2009 UAE’s Aabar to buy a 32-per cent stake in Virigin Galactic for $280 million 29 July 2009 Microsoft, Yahoo! near deal on search partnership: Report 29 July 2009 CVC to bid for AB InBev CEE assets with $2.1 billion offer: report 29 July 2009 IBM acquiring software firms SPSS, Ounce Labs 28 July 2009 Telecom mergers: Sprint Nextel to buy Virgin Mobile in $483 million deal 28 July 2009 Wockhardt sells its nutrition businesses to Abbott for $130 million 28 July 2009 Time Warner buys back Google’s stake in AOL for $283 million 28 July 2009 Agilent to acquire rival Varian for $1.5 billion 28 July 2009 CVC-Cosmen consortium eyes National Express 28 July 2009 Friends Provident rejects Resolution’s sweetened offer 28 July 2009 Nokia to acquire German address book vendor Cellity 27 July 2009 Sanofi-Aventis to acquire Shantha Biotech for Rs3,757 crore 27 July 2009 China's Sinochem approaches Nufarm with takeover offer 25 July 2009 SingTel seeking $3 billion to fund Bharti-MTN merger: report 25 July 2009 Ericsson acquires Nortel’s CDMA business for $1.13 billion in auction 25 July 2009 Fiat-Chrysler deal gets EU nod 25 July 2009 IRDA finalising merger and acquisition norms for insurance firms 24 July 2009 Amazon to acquire rival Zappos for $847 million 24 July 2009 Macquarie Airports to buy management rights for $281 million 24 July 2009 VW to take over Porsche in reverse bid 24 July 2009 Bristol-Myers to acquire biotechnology company Medarex for $2.4 billion 23 July 2009 Lightspeed Venture Partners invests Rs500 million in Essel Group’s Itz Cash Card 22 July 2009 Chinese wealth fund acquires stake in British distiller Diageo 22 July 2009 Exelon backs away from NRG Energy bid 22 July 2009 Sunil Mitra takes over as divestment secretary 22 July 2009 Raja to review BSNL's financial position ahead of stake sale 21 July 2009 WPP acquires Saffron Hill Research 21 July 2009 HK’s Li & Fung takes 26 per cent of Biyani’s Future Logistics 21 July 2009 GRD board asks shareholders to back agreement with AMEC 20 July 2009 Dioro says Canadian deal offers better value than Avoca bid 20 July 2009 IFCI acquires 5-per cent stake in MCX-SX 20 July 2009 Maytas Infra to sell its stakes in expressway projects 20 July 2009 DLF may divest wind power business to Gaz de France 20 July 2009 Marathon sells 20-per cent stake in Angola to Sinopec, CNOOC for $1.3 billion 18 July 2009 EC approves Pfizer's $68-billion acquisition of Wyeth 18 July 2009 HCL Axon acquires UCS Group's enterprise software business 17 July 2009 Lanco buys DEG's stake in its upcoming Chhattisgarh power project 17 July 2009 Tata Steel hikes stake in Australia's Riversdale Mining to 19.38 per cent 17 July 2009 Daiichi's 'low' bid for Zenotech faces new hurdles 16 July 2009 China turns the heat on Rio Tinto and Australia 16 July 2009 Germany’s MAN acquires 25-per cent stake in China’s Sinotruk for €560 million 15 July 2009 Digital Sky's stock purchase values Facebook at $6.5 billion 15 July 2009 Abu Dhabi’s Aabar takes a stake in electric car maker Tesla 14 July 2009 Centrica told by Venture shareholders to hike its offer to over 900 pence a share 13 July 2009 Belgium's RHJ nearer to Opel deal 13 July 2009 Porsche family members discuss future of firm ahead of July 23 meeting 13 July 2009 China Eastern acquires Shanghai Airlines for $1.3 billion 13 July 2009 Nomura acquires 35 per cent stake in LIC Mutual Fund 13 July 2009 NYT defers bid deadline for The Boston Globe 11 July 2009 Philip Morris to acquire Columbian cigarette maker for $452 million 11 July 2009 Government to support Tech Mahindra on US class action suits 11 July 2009 Dioro board asks shareholders to take no action of Avoca offer 10 July 2009 Tata Group firm TRF acquires Dutch Lanka Trailer Manufacturers for $17 million 10 July 2009 Broadcom abandons $912 million hostile bid to acquire Emulex 10 July 2009 Aegis acquires South African BPO group CCN 10 July 2009 Seven Network chief Kerry Stokes speculated to be eyeing CMH 09 July 2009 EMC wins $2.1-billion bidding war for Data Domain 09 July 2009 NRG Energy rejects Exelon’s sweetened $7.45 billion hostile bid 08 July 2009 Mahindra Satyam gets CLB nod for preferential issue to Tech Mahindra 08 July 2009 Public offer not mandatory in Bharti-MTN deal: SEBI 08 July 2009 Boeing to buy 787 Dreamliner parts maker for $580 million 08 July 2009 Essar Steel close to acquiring Ajmera’s steel unit for Rs700 crore 08 July 2009 Satyam to issue fresh shares to Tech Mahindra 07 July 2009 EMC escalates bidding war for Data Domain with $2.1-billion offer 07 July 2009 ONGC in race for stake in Repsol -YPF's Argentinean arm 07 July 2009 Deutsche Post exits from Deutsche Bank 07 July 2009 Rio Tinto sells Alcan packaging unit for $1.2 billion 06 July 2009 Government tells SBI to go slow on mergers 04 July 2009 Vale may hike stake in Thyssenkrupp's Brazilian steel plant 04 July 2009 Beijing automotive bids for GM’s Opel 04 July 2009 Areva to sell T&D business; Indian arm on the block 04 July 2009 China’s CIC fund to invest $1.5 billion in Canadian miner 04 July 2009 Four government nominees on Mahindra Satyam board to quit 03 July 2009 Debt-ridden INM sells 7.3 per cent stake in Jagaran Prakashan 03 July 2009 J&J to invest $1.5 billion in Elan’s Alzheimer’s drugs 03 July 2009 Kavveri Telecom buys majority stake in Canadian co 03 July 2009 Exelon raises hostile takeover bid for NRG Energy to $7.45 billion 02 July 2009 Coal unions oppose Coal India divestment 02 July 2009 Robin Hood of internet, Pirate Bay sold to Global Gaming for $7.5 million 02 July 2009 Broadcom raises hostile takeover offer for Emulex to $912 million 01 July 2009 Carlyle earmarks $400 million investment in India 01 July 2009 GM's Opel sale in trouble 01 July 2009 Fortis takes over management of S L Raheja Hospital 30 June 2009 Chinalco to participate in Rio Tinto’s rights issue 30 June 2009 Towers Perrin, Watson Wyatt to form Towers Watson 30 June 2009 Bombay HC clears RIL-RPL merger 29 June 2009 Vodafone mulls acquiring T-Mobile UK 29 June 2009 Microsoft to spin-off Razorfish: reports 29 June 2009 Cash-strapped Wockhardt sells veterinary arm to France’s Vetoquinol 29 June 2009 Anglo American builds defenses should Xstrata’s merger proposal turn hostile 29 June 2009 US court clears S Kumars' acquisition of Hartmarx Corp 27 June 2009 EMC Corp extends Data Domain offer period to 10 July 27 June 2009 Tata Motors reports Rs2,505 core consolidated loss in FY09; sees more job losses at JLR 26 June 2009 Hummer acquisition blocked by Chinese authorities 26 June 2009 Kirloskar Brothers eyes acquisitions in the US, Europe 26 June 2009 E&Y may advise Bharti, PwC for MTN: report 26 June 2009 Gurnani to work for transparency, ‘happy staff’ at Tech Mahindra 26 June 2009 US software firm SunGard to expand in India 25 June 2009 BAE Systems acquires South African designed Iguana Light Armoured Vehicle 25 June 2009 Bangalore law firms J Sagar Associates, M&C Partners merge 25 June 2009 Pfizer sweetens bid for India arm to Rs830 per share 25 June 2009 Sinopec to acquire Addax Petroleum for $7.2 billion 24 June 2009 Satyam may sack 8,500 staffers after all 24 June 2009 Pearson acquires stakes in e-portals EduComp, TutorVista 24 June 2009 Bharati raises Great Offshore offer price to Rs403 per share 24 June 2009 Xstrata proposes `merger of equals' as Anglo dumps $68 billion deal 23 June 2009 Corus to sue consortium executives for breaking contract 23 June 2009 Anglo American rejects Xstrata’s $68-billion deal 23 June 2009 BSNL earmarks $6 billion for overseas acquisitions; eyes IPO 23 June 2009 Bharti Shipyard, ABG continue battle for Great Offshore stake 23 June 2009 Lufthansa buys 45-per cent stake in Brussels Airlines 23 June 2009 Lufthansa to acquire British Midland Airways 23 June 2009 HC order on Jet-Sahara case likely on 2 July 22 June 2009 Xstrata proposes $68 billion merger deal with Anglo American 22 June 2009 Satyam is now Mahindra Satyam 22 June 2009 State Bank of Indore to merge with SBI; workers plan stir 20 June 2009 Nokia Seimens to acquire Nortel wireless unit for $650 million 20 June 2009 NYSE Euronext buys 20 per cent stake in Qatar Exchange 20 June 2009 Satyam puts 400 benched staff back to work 20 June 2009 Emami to merge Zandu’s FMCG business, hive off realty arm 20 June 2009 Chinalco in a fix on Rio Tinto’s share issue 19 June 2009 OZ assets mark China's largest Australian acquisition 19 June 2009 PricewaterhouseCoopers complete acquisitions of BearingPoint for $44 million 18 June 2009 SBI to acquire two small subsidiaries: report 18 June 2009 Wockhardt sells German arm to Mova Pharma 18 June 2009 Watson Pharmaceuticals to acquire Arrow Group for $1.75 billion 17 June 2009 Federal Bank, Catholic Syrian closer to merger 17 June 2009 Apollo Hospitals dumps plan to acquire Wockhardt assets 17 June 2009 Bosch offers to acquire remaining stake in Pacifica amidst GM's bankruptcy 17 June 2009 Private equity firms lining up to acquire First Republic Bank 17 June 2009 Russia’s Rosatom to buy 16.6-per cent stake in Canada’s Uranium One 17 June 2009 General Motors to sell Saab to Sweden’s Koenigsegg 17 June 2009 LIC MF to sell 35 per cent stake to Nomura: reports 16 June 2009 Hyderabad-based SoftPro acquires S African Cura Risk Management Software 16 June 2009 Sterlite ups bid for Asarco by $170 million 16 June 2009 EMC likely to up Data Domain stake with improved offer 15 June 2009 Zylog plans overseas buying spree 15 June 2009 CEMEX to sell Australian operations to Holcim Group 15 June 2009 GIC Housing to offload stake in LIC-run companies 15 June 2009 Troubled Boston Globe has three buyers: report 13 June 2009 Taj Group acquires Sea Rock Hotel for Rs680 crore 13 June 2009 Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev in talks to acquire Independent 13 June 2009 Global Payments acquires HSBC stake in joint venture 13 June 2009 Swedish car firm Koenigsegg may acquire GM's Saab: report 12 June 2009 Sinopec in talks to acquire Addax Petroleum for $8 billion 12 June 2009 Minmetals raises bid to seal OZ Minerals deal 12 June 2009 Sesa Goa buys out Dempo's mining assets for Rs1,750 crore 12 June 2009 China eases forex rules for overseas investment 12 June 2009 HotMail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia’s SabSe Technologies acquires Jaxtr 12 June 2009 AMEC bid for GRD may provide exit door for Seven 12 June 2009 Thomas Cook refutes sale reports as parent files for bankruptcy 11 June 2009 L&T exits UltraTech Cement; sells 11.49 per cent stake for Rs1,036 crore 11 June 2009 Quebecor rejects Donnelley’s $1.55 billion ‘sweetened’ bid 11 June 2009 Fiat completes acquisition of Chrysler assets 10 June 2009 Steelmakers see red as BHP-Rio sign deal to form iron ore mining giant 10 June 2009 SBI seeks to take over six associate banks 10 June 2009 Macquarie resubmits OZ Minerals recapitalisation proposal 10 June 2009 BPP-Apollo Global in £303.5 milllion deal talks 09 June 2009 Qantas, BA refute merger talks 09 June 2009 OZ Minerals scraps RBC-RFC bid, favours Minmetal 09 June 2009 Archer-led consortium bids for Energy Developments 09 June 2009 Biotech major CSL withdraws from $3.1-billion Talecris takeover 09 June 2009 US Supreme Court to rule on Chrysler-Fiat sale 08 June 2009 Barclays in talks with BlackRock to sell BGI for approximately $13 billion 08 June 2009 Suzlon buys out Martifer stake to up REpower holding to 90.72 per cent 06 June 2009 WPP acquires stake in MDS, China 06 June 2009 General Motors to sell Saturn to Penske 06 June 2009 Royal Bank of Canada-RFC combinethreatens Minmetal's bid for OZ Minerals 06 June 2009 Tech Mahindra extends open offer for Satyam till 9 June 05 June 2009 OZ Minerals refutes ‘superior bid’ reports 05 June 2009 General Dynamics to acquire Axsys for $643 million 05 June 2009 Rio terminates Chinalco deal; to raise $15.2 billion through rights issue 05 June 2009 Gujarat NRE launches hostile bid for Australia’s Rey Resources 04 June 2009 NHPC, Oil India may hit market by August: reports 04 June 2009 NetApp ups offer for Data Domain with $1.9 billion 04 June 2009 Intel to acquire Wind River Systems for $884 million 04 June 2009 OZ Minerals-Minmetal deal gets final Chinese nod 04 June 2009 ITI likely to lead PSU divestment: report 04 June 2009 SEBI okays Spice Tele offer for Spice Mobile stake 04 June 2009 US firm Norwest buys 2.11 per cent stake in NSE 04 June 2009 GE and Plutonic Power may acquire of largest wind project in British Columbia 03 June 2009 Japan's Nomura seen buying 35-per cent stake LIC Mutual Fund 03 June 2009 South African state pension fund seeks higher price for Bharti merger 03 June 2009 GM's Hummer sold to Chinese company 03 June 2009 GM to sell Hummer; gets court nod for vehicle protection and incentive programmes 02 June 2009 Adcock Ingram drops plans to acquire Cipla Medpro SA 02 June 2009 Abu Dhabi investor to sell Barclay’s stake with windfall profits 02 June 2009 Vodafone–Hutchison merger gets ACCC nod 02 June 2009 SBI hikes stake in Nepal joint venture to 55 per cent 01 June 2009 Government to thwart Satyam lay offs: Salman Khursheed 01 June 2009 CVC Partners beats TNT’s bid for Royal Mail 01 June 2009 Bristol-Myers Squibb may acquire minority stake in Irish biotech firm 01 June 2009 Bharati to submit open offer for 20 per cent more in Great Offshore 01 June 2009 Oman Oil seeks to buy 26-per cent stake in BPCL's Bina refinery for $250 million 30 May 2009 UK banks restructure Tata Steel UK debt 30 May 2009 Molson Coors buys out Cobra Beer in JV deal with Bilimoria 30 May 2009 Mikati clan renews backing to Bharti-MTN merger 30 May 2009 GMR buys out Singapore's Island Power 29 May 2009 Fiat pulls out of Opel talks over funding demands, asserts not withdrawing bid 29 May 2009 Time Warner-AOL demerger good for both companies, say analysts 29 May 2009 Time Warner to spin off AOL as an independent company 28 May 2009 Telecom firm Etisalat-Swan buys out Allianz Infratech 28 May 2009 Novartis ups offer price for Indian arm to Rs450 per share 28 May 2009 Caltex to acquire Mobil service stations for $300 million 28 May 2009 Shell's new CEO's restructuring plans put at stake 24,000 jobs 28 May 2009 Opel talks fail on further cash demand; final round set for Friday 28 May 2009 Four Tech Mahindra directors on Satyam board 27 May 2009 Former Aussie treasury head Stone weighs in against Chinalco deal, terms curbs “worthless” 27 May 2009 Digital Sky deal values Facebook at $10 billion 27 May 2009 Wary SA unions ‘wait and watch’ 27 May 2009 Bharti Airtel-MTN deal risks FIPB hurdles 27 May 2009 Bharti-MTN deal may leave SingTel cold 26 May 2009 Markets cheer Malvinder’s exit from Ranbaxy 26 May 2009 Bharti-MTN: India's largest cross-border corporate merger 26 May 2009 Pranab Mukherjee welcomes Bharti-MTN deal 26 May 2009 Bharti-MTN: Innovatively structured deal 26 May 2009 Pension Corporation's bid to acquire rival Paternoster fails 26 May 2009 Opel bankruptcy may be best course of action: German economy minister 25 May 2009 US FTC blocks CSL’s $3.1-billion acquisition of Talecris Biotherapeutics 25 May 2009 Lloyds plans to sell stake in about 60 companies 25 May 2009 PetroChina to buy 45.5 per cent stake in SPC for $1 billion 25 May 2009 Malvinder Singh relinquishes charge of Ranbaxy; Daiichi takes over 25 May 2009 Satyam denies reports on plans to sack 8000 ‘non-billable’ staff 25 May 2009 Russian firm Digital Sky to invest in Facebook: WSJ 23 May 2009 Russian government bailout boosts Sistema’s Indian plans 23 May 2009 J&J plans buyout of Cougar Biotech for $1 billion 23 May 2009 Rio-Chinalco deal takes a twist as Merrill enters 23 May 2009 ‘Overstaffed’ Satyam seeks ways to avoid job cuts 22 May 2009 Vale’s exit from Kalgoorlie nickel leaves Heron with full control 22 May 2009 Italy's Parmalat to acquire National Foods' Australian dairy units 22 May 2009 Chrysler bankruptcy court to begin hearing on 27 May 22 May 2009 Ranbaxy acquires rights for Ochoa Labs’ skincare products 22 May 2009 Google decides against newspaper acquisition 21 May 2009 Dr Reddy’s reorganises drug discovery operation; receives approval for three INDs 21 May 2009 Macquarie Airport in bid to offload stake in Japan Airport Terminal 21 May 2009 Tata Steel holds off plan to sell Teesside plant in UK 21 May 2009 Rio may issue $7.2 billion bonds to existing shareholders 21 May 2009 ABB Grain-Viterra combine likely to boost Australian grain industry 21 May 2009 PNB to sell 26 per cent in housing finance arm to US firm 20 May 2009 GIP's bid for Gatwick rejected 20 May 2009 Daimler picks up stake in electric-vehicle manufacturer Tesla 20 May 2009 Uncertainty over Porsche’s financial health stalls VW- Porsche merger talks 19 May 2009 SBI eyes merger of associate banks; restates results 19 May 2009 KKR, Diageo may buy piece of United Spirits: report 19 May 2009 Former US envoy to spearhead KKR’s buyout operations in Middle East 19 May 2009 Minmetals’ $1.2 billion deal with OZ Minerals gets NDRC nod 19 May 2009 Gloucester board favours Noble's revised $7 per share bid 19 May 2009 AIG plans to spin off Asian arm to repay Treasury money 19 May 2009 Titagarh Wagons amalgamates steel unit 18 May 2009 BWIR to acquire Italian software firm think3's engineering services unit 18 May 2009 Apollo Tyres completes acquisition of Dutch tyremaker 18 May 2009 Barclays mulls sale of asset management unit for $12 billion 18 May 2009 Emulex once again rejects Broadcom’s $764 million hostile bid 16 May 2009 Lysander elimination leaves GIP and MAG in face off over Gatwick 15 May 2009 Aegis to acquire Australian BPO UCMS for A$454 million 15 May 2009 Eveready to acquire 80 per cent in French firm Uniross for EUR10 million 15 May 2009 Rio Tinto may not tango with Chinalco 14 May 2009 Lehman mulls spinning off assets: WSJ 14 May 2009 UTI AMC open to domestic fund house acquisition 14 May 2009 Donnelley bids $1.35 billion to takeover rival Quebecor 14 May 2009 Verizon selling wirelines in 14 states to Frontier for $6.8 billion 13 May 2009 Stobart Group posts strong results, plans Carlisle airport acquisition 13 May 2009 Alpha to acquire Foundation in all-stock deal 13 May 2009 Channel 4-BBC deal ‘likely within weeks’ 13 May 2009 Suzlon bosses sell 2 per cent stake for $47 million 13 May 2009 JSW Steel to hang on to its US units 13 May 2009 BankAm sells China Construction Bank stake to raise $34 billion 12 May 2009 Pepsi sues PBG over poison-pill tactics 12 May 2009 JLR's immediate plans in place, future may be difficult 12 May 2009 Religare in race for AIG's fund management unit 12 May 2009 PCCW deal ‘dishonest’, rules HK appeals court 11 May 2009 Centrica to take 20 per cent stake in British Energy 11 May 2009 Carphone buys Tiscali's UK assets for £236 million 09 May 2009 Shareholders sue Sun over Oracle deal 09 May 2009 Verizon, AT&T swap assets in mandatory deal 09 May 2009 Ansteel gets nod to increase stake in Gindalbee 09 May 2009 After dumping UK guarantee terms, Tata Group to raise funds for JLR revival 09 May 2009 Leading dissidents okay Chrysler restructuring plan 09 May 2009 Fiat plans to emerge world's second-largest automaker 08 May 2009 Tata Sons sells 1.05 per cent of holding in TCS 08 May 2009 Micro Focus to buy Borland in acquisition spree 07 May 2009 LDV rescued in a last minute deal by Malaysian Weststar Group 06 May 2009 Court approves Chrysler's sale to Fiat 06 May 2009 Industry watchers deny Apple-Twitter deal talk 06 May 2009 Satyam allots 31 per cent equity to Tech Mahindra subsidiary 05 May 2009 EDF mulls selling UK electricity distribution business 05 May 2009 SEBI study warns against an Indian sovereign wealth fund 05 May 2009 Pepsi Bottling Group says Pepsi’s $4.2 billion takeover proposal has no fizz 05 May 2009 Rio considering amendment to Chinalco deal: Reports 05 May 2009 Fortescue Metals misled market, Federal court told 05 May 2009 Suzlon rethinking FCCB offer terms 05 May 2009 Kirin acquisition to be finalised soon: Lion Nathan 05 May 2009 Nestle, Nissan, CIBA to stick with Satyam 05 May 2009 Post-Chrysler Fiat eyes GM’s Opel, Vauxhall units 04 May 2009 Chrysler to launch ad campaign to reassure nervous buyers 04 May 2009 Chrysler seeks to speed up bankruptcy deal with Fiat 04 May 2009 China’s CNMC to acquire Australia’s Lynas for A$505 million 02 May 2009 EDF, E.ON and RWE npower acquire sites to build nuclear reactors in UK 30 April 2009 Toshiba and Fujitsu conclude final agreement on HDD business transfer 30 April 2009 Bharti plans joint venture with Alcatel for managed services 30 April 2009 Chevron exits Reliance Petro; sells 5 per cent stake to RIL 30 April 2009 The son also rises: Lachlan Murdoch buys stake in Aussie media company 30 April 2009 Workers union to own 55 per cent in Chrysler 29 April 2009 Qatar’s interest in Porsche sparks speculation 29 April 2009 Viterra in bid to buy Australian grain company, ABB 29 April 2009 Lenders likely to bail out Chrysler: reports 29 April 2009 Fortescue hit by revelations in Australian court 29 April 2009 GE Security to sell unit to SAFRAN for $580 million 27 April 2009 Japan's Kirin to buy out Australian brewer Lion Nathan 27 April 2009 Coca-Cola keen on at least minority stake in Huiyuan Juice: report 24 April 2009 Satyam sale to Tech Mahindra gets German approval 24 April 2009 US court okays Sterlite’s Asarco acquisition 24 April 2009 Gazprom Neft acquires 16-per cent stake in Sibir Energy 24 April 2009 Caltex Australia plans to buy more oil refineries 24 April 2009 Dutch government backs Fortis sale to BNP Paribas ahead of vote 24 April 2009 Fiat plan to acquire GM's Opel baffles analysts 24 April 2009 Diageo in informal talks with LVMH for Moët Hennessy 23 April 2009 Amtek may buy R H Dalmia’s OCL 23 April 2009 Marico profits rise 8.9 per cent; Sundari stake to divested to Wellness Systems 23 April 2009 Sesa Goa eyes Brazilian iron ore mine 23 April 2009 Rodgers & Hammerstein’s legacy sold to Imagem 22 April 2009 Broadcom launches $764-million hostile bid for Emulex 22 April 2009 Satyam share offer to open on 12 June: Tech Mahindra 22 April 2009 Oracle, Sun merger to shake up hardware market 22 April 2009 Wipro acquires Nokia's mobile TV unit 21 April 2009 Four Tech Mahindra representatives set to join Satyam board 20 April 2009 Oracle trumps IBM, acquires Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion 20 April 2009 Pepsi offers to buy out its two bottlers for about $6 billion 20 April 2009 UBS exits Banco Panctual in bid to strengthen bottom line 20 April 2009 Tech Mahindra may buy up to 70 per cent stake in Satyam 20 April 2009 Tech Mahindra must wait for full control of Satyam 20 April 2009 GSK close to acquiring Stiefel Lab for $3 billion 20 April 2009 Canada's UTS rejects Total's improved bid of $685 million 18 April 2009 Anand Mahindra to address Satyam employees on Monday 18 April 2009 Electronics major Tyco sells off Wireless Systems unit to IT firm Harris Corp. for $675 million 18 April 2009 Minority shareholder IFFCO in bid to stall AACo's deal 17 April 2009 GSK, Pfizer to merge HIV businesses into a new company 17 April 2009 eBay plans Skype public offering in 2010 17 April 2009 AIG sells off auto unit for $1.9 billion 17 April 2009 Kimberly-Clark acquires privately held safety products company Jackson Products 16 April 2009 NEC and Renesas reportedly in merger talks to create world’s No.3 chipmaker 16 April 2009 Rio Tinto’s majority shareholders oppose Chinalco deal at UK AGM 16 April 2009 eBay offers $1.2 billion for Korean online auctioneer Gmarket 16 April 2009 CLB okays Satyam sale to Tech Mahindra 16 April 2009 FT owner Pearson buys English language training firm from Carlyle 16 April 2009 Fiat keen on Chrysler deal, but sees union resistance 16 April 2009 Court rules Grupo Mexico to pay Asarco $6.88 billion in cash, share 16 April 2009 Sanofi to buy US cancer drug firm for about $500 million 15 April 2009 Satyam to delist ADS from Euronext Amsterdam post acquisition 14 April 2009 Pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts buys peer NextRx for $4.68 billion 14 April 2009 Corporate India happy about ‘quick’ Satyam resolution 14 April 2009 Pakistan’s top two banks compete for RBS’s local assets 14 April 2009 Barclays considering offers for asset management arm 14 April 2009 eBay buys 34.2-per cent stake in Gmarket for $413 million 13 April 2009 CNPC to buy 49 per cent in Kazakh oil major for $10 billion 13 April 2009 Pfizer seeks to increase stake in Indian arm 13 April 2009 Tech Mahindra edges out L&T to acquire Satyam 13 April 2009 New Satyam owner to be decided today 13 April 2009 Satyam race: Experts' take on the endgame 11 April 2009 Satyam board confident of getting good price 11 April 2009 Microsoft, Yahoo reportedly in talks for advertising partnership 11 April 2009 Cisco to buys software company Tidal for $105 million 11 April 2009 US builders Pulte Homes, Centex merge amid housing slump 09 April 2009 Standard Chartered in race to buy RBS’ India operations 09 April 2009 ArcelorMittal SA acquires 16.3-per cent stake in Coal of Africa 08 April 2009 PNC Financial sells 57 branches to First Niagara 08 April 2009 Innocent-Coke tie up raises eyebrows 07 April 2009 Shareholders, creditors approve Reliance Petroleum merger with Reliance Industries 07 April 2009 Rio Tinto mulls $8 billion rights issue as ‘Plan B’ 07 April 2009 Danone to sell Britannia stake to Wadias 07 April 2009 Court orders Mobinil sale to France Telecom 06 April 2009 Canadian miner Teck Cominco sells stake in Chilean mine for $300 million 06 April 2009 Sun Micro rejects IBM's $9.40 a share takeover offer 06 April 2009 Bankrupt photography pioneer Polaroid sold for $59.1 million 04 April 2009 German house clears decks for Hypo takeover 04 April 2009 PPDI sells Piedmont R&D center; acquires Magen BioSciences 04 April 2009 GE, Intel in $250-million home healthcare tie up 04 April 2009 Google reportedly in talks to buy Twitter 03 April 2009 IBM set to acquire Sun Micro for about $7 billion: report 03 April 2009 Satyam to go for open auction if bids fall with in 90 per cent of top bid 03 April 2009 British Land sells property to Banco Santander for $169 million 03 April 2009 Satyam sale likely before elections 02 April 2009 Minmetals to buy OZ assets for $1.2 billion 02 April 2009 Dow Chemical sells off newly acquired Morton Salt for $1.675 billion 02 April 2009 Hutch-Vodafone merger plans stalled by regulators 02 April 2009 Rackable Systems acquires special-effects pioneer Silicon Graphics for $25 million in cash 02 April 2009 Toshiba buys out Panasonic in LCD JV for $20.2 million 01 April 2009 Wockhardt CMD Khorakiwala quits; Fortis takeover likely 01 April 2009 Fortis seeks nod for rights issue; may acquire Wockhartdt 31 March 2009 MindTree plans restructuring, management rejig 31 March 2009 With $12-billion debt, Porsche hesitates to raise Volkswagen stake 31 March 2009 Barclays in talks to sell iShares asset management unit for $4.3.billion 31 March 2009 China Minmetals submits revised bid for OZ Minerals 31 March 2009 Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne thanks Obama for facilitating Chrysler deal 31 March 2009 Financial Technologies refutes reports on MCX stake sale 30 March 2009 CF Industries rejects yet another Agrium bid 30 March 2009 US consulting firm ICF International buys peer Macro International for $155 million 30 March 2009 Glaxo, Sanofi in talks for Shanta Biotch takeover 30 March 2009 Rio Tinto stock soars on LSE on BHP Billiton takeover talk 28 March 2009 IL&FS Financial Services acquires 14.5 per cent in Maytas Infra 28 March 2009 GSK eyes push into emerging markets through Asken buy 28 March 2009 Fidelty sells major stake in MCX to Reliance MF 28 March 2009 After Matrix who will be delisted next? 28 March 2009 Australia rejects China's bid for OZ Minerals 27 March 2009 Novartis's open offer for Indian arm to begin on 14 May 27 March 2009 China's Geely buys bankrupt Australian parts maker 27 March 2009 Skykon buys Vestas wind turbine unit for £45 million 27 March 2009 Two bidders start due diligence on Satyam; IBM one of them 27 March 2009 Essar Oil to acquire 50 per cent in Kenya Petroleum Refinery 26 March 2009 IBM retains interest in Satyam 26 March 2009 Tata Tea, EBRD to jointly acquire 51 per cent in Russia's Grand 26 March 2009 GAIL to hive off marketing business 26 March 2009 B K Modi can challenge Satyam bid, says legal expert 26 March 2009 Nokia takes minority stake in mobile phone payment application developer 25 March 2009 GoAir denies merger talks with SpiceJet 25 March 2009 Novartis makes open offer for 39 per cent in Indian arm 25 March 2009 Tata Communications sells Rs424-crore worth stake in Tata Tele to NTT Docomo 25 March 2009 After iGate, Spice Group may pull out of Satyam bidding 25 March 2009 Lenders may give OZ time amid Minmetals bid 24 March 2009 Africa’s No 1 fixed-line phone operator Telkom may sell off cable TV unit 24 March 2009 BG Energy acquires control of Pure Energy after acquiring Arrow Energy's stake 24 March 2009 Oracle to buy drug software maker for undisclosed sum 24 March 2009 CF Industries nixes Agrium’s improved offer; sweetens own offer to Terra 24 March 2009 Washington Mutual Inc sues US bank regulator for over $13 billion 23 March 2009 Vedanta to pay $34 million to raise Malco stake to 93 per cent 23 March 2009 Satyam shortlists L&T, Spice for stake sale as CBI alleges Rs9,600 crore fraud 23 March 2009 M&M to bid for UK van maker LDV 23 March 2009 Canadian oil-sands firm Suncor to acquire Petro-Canada for $13.7 billion 23 March 2009 Hikal plans to take over its own pharma co 23 March 2009 Satyam to shortlist bidders soon 21 March 2009 J&J, GSK, Novartis eye world's top dermatologist Stiefel 21 March 2009 Fiat not to assume Chrysler's debt 21 March 2009 iGate opts out of Satyam bid 20 March 2009 China’s knockout punch to Coke may floor Chinalco in Australia 20 March 2009 Cisco diversifies into video with $590 million acquisition of Pure Digital 20 March 2009 Microsoft still keen on slice of Yahoo: Ballmer 20 March 2009 Telenor takes 33.5 per cent in Unitech Wireless for Rs1,250 crore 20 March 2009 China defends refusing Coke deal 19 March 2009 Valero Energy outbids rivals for VeraSun assets 19 March 2009 Cash-strapped UPC Solar sells assets to Recurrent Energy 19 March 2009 Russian government may buy stake in Sistema's Indian JV: report 18 March 2009 Asarco seeks to settle lawsuits ahead of Sterlite takeover 18 March 2009 M&M hikes stake in South African joint venture to 91 per cent 18 March 2009 US retailer Target finds itself target of proxy fight by activist investor 18 March 2009 Guardian Media Group comes out strongly against Channel 4 - BBC Worldwide merger 18 March 2009 Pfizer raises $13.5-billion debt to part finance Wyeth acquisition 18 March 2009 Chinalco-Rio Tinto deal fuels political storm 18 March 2009 China trips Coke on Huiyuan Juice acquisition 18 March 2009 L&T may team up with buy-out firms for Satyam bid: report 17 March 2009 Telenor to get 67.25 per cent stake in Unitech Wireless 17 March 2009 Bank Muscat to sell its entire stake in HDFC Bank 17 March 2009 LIC raises IOB stake to 9.96 per cent 16 March 2009 Astellas withdraws from race to acquire CV Therapeutics 16 March 2009 AIG discloses bailout recipients 16 March 2009 Cadbury sells Schweppes Beverages to Asahi for $796 million 14 March 2009 China offers Rio Tinto $20-billion loan if Chinalco deal is passed 14 March 2009 Sara Lee stock soars on talks of possible unit sale 14 March 2009 Hill & Knowlton acquires remaining stake in Feedback Hill & Knowlton 14 March 2009 ADAG’s Reliance Money buys 51-per cent stake in No1 Currency 13 March 2009 iGATE registers interest in buying majority stake in Satyam 13 March 2009 Allcargo acquires 5.97-per cent stake in rival Distriparks 13 March 2009 Crayon and HS&P to merge 13 March 2009 Gilead Sciences to acquire CV Therapeutics for $1.4 billion 13 March 2009 Roche clinches Genentech deal for $47 billion 12 March 2009 L&T, M&M, Spice Corporation in race for Satyam 12 March 2009 BNP Paribas plans to give up Fortis brand 12 March 2009 Peter and Indrani Mukerjea to quit INX Media 12 March 2009 Roche calls Genentech’s $112 a share demand unreasonable, may reach agreement on $95 a share 10 March 2009 New Fortis deal will have ‘stable’ impact: BNP Paribas 10 March 2009 Social networks Stardoll and Piczo unite 10 March 2009 CF Industries reject Agrium bid, to continue to pursue Terra 09 March 2009 Merck to acquire Schering- Plough for $41 billion 09 March 2009 Rio Tinto sells US mine for $761 million 09 March 2009 Pfizer sells insulin assets to Anti-diabetes drugmaker MannKind for $33 million 09 March 2009 China’s Valin raises stake in Australian Fortescue Metals 09 March 2009 Satyam kick-starts bidding process for 51 per cent equity sale 09 March 2009 We are clean, Maytas tells BSE 07 March 2009 GAIL takes 9 per cent stake in ONGC Petro-additions 07 March 2009 Brazil and China led in mining M&A deals in 2008: PwC report 07 March 2009 Sterlite to buy US copper mining company Asarco for $1.7 billion 07 March 2009 SEBI puts Satyam bidders net assets at Rs750 crore 07 March 2009 Roche raises Genentech offer from $86.50 to $93 a share 07 March 2009 UK government may raise Lloyds stake to 77 per cent 07 March 2009 Government clears Satyam sale, but bidders await details 07 March 2009 M&M proposes to spin off land, sea defence units 06 March 2009 Satyam gets SEBI nod to sell 51 per cent stake via global bidding 06 March 2009 AB InBev to shed more assets as profits drop 41 per cent 06 March 2009 Helen of Troy to buy out P&G’s hair care division 05 March 2009 Internet services provider VeriSign sells off unit for $230 million 04 March 2009 NRC Handelsblad, De Volkskrant, Het Algemeen Dagblad and Trouw 04 March 2009 General Motors looking to buy Delphi steering unit 03 March 2009 AMD closes The Foundry Company transaction 03 March 2009 AMD spins off manufacturing operations; names new chairman 03 March 2009 First Solar buys OptiSolar projects for $400 million in stock to expand portfolio 03 March 2009 Sterlite likely to slash Asarco bid to $1.5 billion 03 March 2009 Satyam pares its salary bill ahead of bidding 03 March 2009 No hasty decision on Opel, says minister 02 March 2009 Insurance majors IPC Holdings and Max Capital agree to merge 02 March 2009 Beckman to acquire Olympus unit for $800 million 02 March 2009 Merger with Reliance Petro has no rating impact on Reliance Industries: S&P 02 March 2009 Merger to create mammoth refinery; RIL - RPL swap at 1:16 02 March 2009 Satyam bidding to get under way soon: minister 02 March 2009 BG likely to acquire Australia’s Pure Energy after upping bid 28 February 2009 Opel set to break away from GM, Vauxhall also part of the deal 28 February 2009 Panasonic, Sanyo deal runs into rough weather 28 February 2009 Cephalon opens bid for Aussie bio-technology firm Arana 28 February 2009 Japan’s No.2 drugmaker Astellas makes $1-billion hostile bid for US firm CV Therapeutics 28 February 2009 US drug firm Cephalon makes $329 million offer for Australia's Arana 27 February 2009 Reliance Industries to merge Reliance Petroleum 27 February 2009 JPMorgan to eliminate 2,800 WaMu jobs; total rises to 12,000 27 February 2009 TUI rescues Hapag-Lloyd deal with increased stake, sees shares soar 27 February 2009 China National Petroleum to acquire Canada's Verenex Energy for $357 million 27 February 2009 Exelon claims 51 per cent merger approval from NRG shareholders 27 February 2009 Daiichi, Ranbaxy form team to face FDA charges 27 February 2009 Biogen in talks to acquire Acorda for multiple sclerosis pill 25 February 2009 Hostile bid for Terra lands CF Industries in Agrium's crosshairs 25 February 2009 Monnet enters race for Orissa Sponge; agrees to buy 27 per cent 25 February 2009 TNS and Research International combine strengths in custom research 25 February 2009 Abu Dhabi’s IPIC to acquire ailing Canadian chemical maker Nova Chem 25 February 2009 GMR buys 33.5-per cent stake in Canada’s Homeland Energy 25 February 2009 Genentech tells shareholders to reject Roche bid 24 February 2009 Cabinet clears NTT DoCoMo's acquisition of Tata Tele stake 24 February 2009 China invests heavily in Australian miner-Fortescue 24 February 2009 CF Industries launches $2.37-billion hostile bid for rival fertiliser maker Terra 24 February 2009 AC Milan deny stake sale to Manchester City’s Arab owners 24 February 2009 Enel secures $10.34-billion loan for its Endesa bid 24 February 2009 Medtronic buys CoreValue, Ventor Technologies for $1.03 billion 24 February 2009 Satyam board approves bid process 21 February 2009 US senator pushes for Chrysler-Fiat merger 21 February 2009 Government wants to sell 51 per cent in Satyam 21 February 2009 Rio Tinto shareholders plan board room coup; want Jim Leng back 19 February 2009 CLB allows Satyam to start auction for stake sale 19 February 2009 Greens see red in Rio Tinto-Chinalco deal 18 February 2009 Hyundai and Kinetic form Joint Venture for elevators, escalators and parking systems 17 February 2009 US heart pump maker Thoratec acquires Australian counterpart HeartWare for $282 million 16 February 2009 Chinalco-Rio Tinto deal may run into rough weather 14 February 2009 SEBI amends takeover rules for Satyam 13 February 2009 Chinalco invests $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto to raise stake to 18 per cent 12 February 2009 Mobile2win announces merger with Altruist Technologies 12 February 2009 WPP, world's leading marketing communications group, acquires stake in Smart Media 12 February 2009 UTS Energy fights against Total bid 11 February 2009 Mitsubishi UFG, Morgan Stanley to merge Japan brokerages: report 11 February 2009 NTT DoCoMo to launch open offer for TTML on 19 February 11 February 2009 Bluetooth maker CSR to buy out GPS major SiRF 11 February 2009 PPF ends opposition to Zentiva sale; Sanofi takeover likely 11 February 2009 Government may defer Satyam sale 10 February 2009 Tata Sons pledges shares in 5 group firms to raise Rs6,500 crore 10 February 2009 Danish drugmaker Lundbeck to acquire Ovation of US for $900 million 09 February 2009 GM contemplating taking over Delphi assets: Report 09 February 2009 WPP acquires 90-per cent stake in Italy's H-art 09 February 2009 Piramal Healthcare denies reports of Glaxo, Sanofi bid 07 February 2009 Carl Icahn attempts to get nominees on Biogen board after blockbuster drug drags 07 February 2009 RBS abandons sale of insurance business 06 February 2009 UB may sell bigger chunk to Diageo 06 February 2009 BASF to increase focus on India; may sell leather chemicals business 05 February 2009 Potential buyers await new rules to assess Satyam worth 04 February 2009 Troubled MDS may sell of divisions 03 February 2009 Glam Media to open offices in Mumbai 02 February 2009 $14.4-billion in debt, Schaeffler fails to get government succour 31 January 2009 Rio Tinto sells North American assets to Vale for $1.6 billion 31 January 2009 Amylin shares up as Icahn consolidates stake 31 January 2009 Roche lowers Genentech bid to $42 billion 30 January 2009 Several companies interested in Satyam buyout 30 January 2009 Spice Group offers Rs2,000 crore for 51-per cent Satyam stake 30 January 2009 SABMiller acquires 71 per cent stake in Romanian brewer Bere Azuga 29 January 2009 Satyam gets more suitors; Fidelity picks up 2.5 per cent 29 January 2009 Corus may sell majority stake in UK steel plant for $450 million 29 January 2009 Satyam appoints Goldman Sachs and Avendus as investment bankers 27 January 2009 UB to sell nearly 15 per cent in USL to Diageo 27 January 2009 Pfizer-Wyeth create $68-billion blockbuster deal 27 January 2009 Satyam stake raised to protect investment: A M Naik 27 January 2009 Shareholders see red in BoA-Merrill deal; sue bank 24 January 2009 Hannover Re buys ING-written life portfolio from Scottish Re 24 January 2009 Supreme Court dismisses Vodafone's plea against IT department 23 January 2009 Pfizer in talks to acquire Wyeth for $60 billion 23 January 2009 L&T trebles Satyam stake to 12 per cent as iGATE shows interest 23 January 2009 British software firm Autonomy acquires American peer Interwoven for $775 million 23 January 2009 British government favours Channel 4’s merger with BBC 22 January 2009 L&T denies Satyam proposal reports 22 January 2009 Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev buys London’s Evening Standard newspaper 21 January 2009 Microsoft exits Comcast 21 January 2009 Japan's Kirin buys 43-per cent stake in San Miguel 21 January 2009 HP rewards Mark Hurd with compensation package of $42.5 million for 2008 21 January 2009 Fiat in technology for stock swap deal with Chrysler 21 January 2009 Satyam approached by potential buyers: Tarun Das 20 January 2009 Qualcomm acquires AMD’s handheld business for $65 million 20 January 2009 Chrysler - Fiat small car deal reports spark speculation 20 January 2009 Tata Communications becomes controlling shareholder in Neotel 19 January 2009 UBS to sell commodities business to Barclays 19 January 2009 Ranbaxy affiliate Zenotech objects to open offer pricing 19 January 2009 Bahrain Telecom buys 49% in Chennai-based S Tel 19 January 2009 Though divided Satyam board approved Maytas deal in December 17 January 2009 Citi to split into two after $8.29 billion fourth-quarter loss 16 January 2009 Fertiliser maker CF Holdings makes $2.1 billion bid for rival Terra Industries 16 January 2009 Russian billionaire Lebedev eyeing the London Standard: Reports 16 January 2009 Nuance sells 7 per cent stake to Warburg Pincus 16 January 2009 Chrysler debunks rumours of assets sale 15 January 2009 Rolta falls prey to rumours 15 January 2009 Siemens hammered on sale of IT subsidiary 15 January 2009 Infosys mulling consulting, ERP acquisitions 15 January 2009 Bank of Montreal acquires AIG's Canadian business for $375 million 14 January 2009 Citigroup hives off brokerage unit to Morgan Stanley 14 January 2009 RBS sells Bank of China stake for £1.7 billion 14 January 2009 Toshiba may buy Fujitsu’s hard-disk drive business to emerge as top manufacturer in the world 14 January 2009 Dewan Housing likely to take over IDBI Home Finance 14 January 2009 Exact Sciences rebuffs Sequenom's $41 million buyout offer 13 January 2009 Abbott Laboratories acquires Advanced Medical Optics in $2.8 billion cash-and-debt deal 12 January 2009 German power utility RWE to buy Dutch counterpart Essent for $13.4 billion 12 January 2009 Verizon completes Alltel deal; to surpass AT&T as US’s largest mobile phone company 10 January 2009 Hearst looking for buyer for Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper 10 January 2009 Radware looking to acquire Nortel unit 09 January 2009 Lehman Brothers looking to spin-off private equity arm 09 January 2009 INX News channel sold 09 January 2009 Cash-strapped Dow Chemical gets EC regulator's nod for Rohm and Haas acquisition 09 January 2009 American pharma major Wyeth looking to acquire Dutch vaccine maker Crucell 08 January 2009 Online broker TD Ameritrade acquires rival thinkorswim for $606 million 08 January 2009 RBS to disinvest in Bank of China 08 January 2009 Taro asks Sun to raise bid; proposes shareholder referendum 06 January 2009 Endo to acquire biopharma firm Indevus for $370 million 06 January 2009 Tech Mahindra eyes Satyam 06 January 2009 NTT DoCoMo awaiting SEBI nod for Tata Tele open offer 05 January 2009 Sun offers to buy Taro shares at a premium 05 January 2009 Daiichi Sankyo announces valuation loss for Ranbaxy acquisition of 359 billion yen 05 January 2009 SBI invests in Mayfair Hotels 05 January 2009 Tata Tele merges tower arm with Quippo in a Rs2,400 deal; plans GSM launch 05 January 2009 Satyam may opt for a merger 05 January 2009 Suzlon sells 10-per cent in Belgian subsidiary 02 January 2009 TCS closes Citi's BPO CGSL acquisition, sees strong pipeline 02 January 2009 Wells Fargo-Wachovia merger completed 01 January 2009 TCS completes acquisition of Citigroup Global Services 31 December 2008 Gati eying small cargo firms in China 31 December 2008 Dow Chemicals attempts to keep $15 billion bid for Rohm & Haas alive: report 31 December 2008 Does Satyam have a suitor? 31 December 2008 Chemicals firm Huntsman Corp. receives last tranche of billion-dollar settlement 31 December 2008 M&M sells 14 per cent Swaraj Mazda stake to Sumitomo for Rs40 crore 30 December 2008 PCCW chairman raises buyout offer for largest HK telecom firm 30 December 2008 Blackstone to pick up 20-25 per cent in NSL Seeds for Rs250-300 crore 30 December 2008 Rolta acquires Piocon Technologies of US 30 December 2008 ONGC completes acquisition of Imperial Energy 30 December 2008 Suzlon raises REpower stake to 73.71 per cent 30 December 2008 Packer set to sell family cattle stations for A$425million 30 December 2008 Change in Satyam's management likely as 3 directors quit 30 December 2008 Core Projects acquires part of Princeton Review for $20 million 29 December 2008 Investors may dump scandal-hit Satyam 27 December 2008 Oil drilling maker FMC acquires stake in deep-ocean robotics company for $116 million 26 December 2008 NTT DoCoMo defers open offer for Tata Teleservices 26 December 2008 Cadbury sells Australian drinks business for $808 million 24 December 2008 GE Money sells Wizard to Aussie Home Loans, Commonwealth Bank to buy $2.7 billion in mortgages 24 December 2008 Fortis Healthcare plans rights issue to raise Rs2,000 crore for acquisitions 24 December 2008 Denver-based ProLogis sells Chinese operations, Japanese stake for $1.3 billion 24 December 2008 A year of failed mergers and acquisitions 24 December 2008 Piramal buys US-based Minrad to strengthen its position in anesthetics 24 December 2008 Morgan Stanley Private Equity acquires minority stake in Biotor India 24 December 2008 Indian tea company Sapat eyes UK tea and coffee retailer Whittard 23 December 2008 Wipro acquires Citi Technology Services for $127 million 23 December 2008 Top P E fiirms reported to be in Sulzon stake deal: report 23 December 2008 Bajaj family dispute nears settlement 23 December 2008 Check point to acquire Nokia's security appliance business 23 December 2008 UK government in dilemma over JLR bailout 23 December 2008 Alcoa emerges top aluminum producer after Swedish stake-swap 23 December 2008 Aer Lingus rejects Ryanair's Euro 750 million bid 22 December 2008 UBS sells off units to JPMorgan 22 December 2008 EDF obtains antitrust approval of British Energy acquisition 22 December 2008 GlaxoSmithKline acquires Bristol-Myers Squibb Pakistan 22 December 2008 Munich Re to buy AIG unit for a bargain price of $742 million 22 December 2008 Malvinder gets additional charge of chairman in reconstituted Ranbaxy board 20 December 2008 Wal-Mart to acquire biggest Chilean retailer 20 December 2008 Dispute on stake ownership led to collpse of BA-Qantas merger talks 20 December 2008 Panasonic to acquire Sanyo for $9 billion 19 December 2008 Dassault Aviation picks up Alcatel-Lucent's Thales Stake 19 December 2008 Yahoo acquires stake in Indian tele-information service provider 19 December 2008 Hasbro drops Scrabulous lawsuit against Agarwallas 19 December 2008 Wyeth acquires British biotech firm 19 December 2008 Tata Group hikes stake in Steel Strip Wheels to 13.5 per cent 18 December 2008 EDF Group acquires controlling stake in US nuclear giant Constellation Energy 18 December 2008 Australia’s AWB and ABB Grain call off merger talks 18 December 2008 Panasonic to acquire Sanyo stake from Goldman Sachs, Daiwa, Sumitomo Mitsui for ¥131 18 December 2008 British Airways, Qantas fail to agree on merger terms 18 December 2008 EDF close to sealing deal with Constellation Energy trumping Buffett’s offer 17 December 2008 UK government to sell part stake of Royal Mail to TNT 17 December 2008 Shareholder revolt forces Satyam to dump Maytas bid 17 December 2008 Colgate buys supplier to improve control on supply chain 17 December 2008 Suzlon gets a new repayment schedule 17 December 2008 Possible consolidation in steel sector likely in 2010, say analysts 17 December 2008 HCL completes Axon acquisition 16 December 2008 MAN acquires Brazil-based VW Truck & Bus 16 December 2008 Kerkorian sells Las Vegas casino-hotel property for $500 million 16 December 2008 EMS Technologies acquires in-flight internet provider for $40 million 16 December 2008 UK Sugar maker ABF buys Spanish sugar unit for $519 million 16 December 2008 SRF Polymers to sell businesses to SRF for Rs151.60 crore 15 December 2008 Tata Steel to merge Corus by Sept '09: report 15 December 2008 Grupo Bimbo acquires US subsidiary of Canada’s George Weston for $2.4 billion 11 December 2008 Largest private-equity deal called off on solvency measures 11 December 2008 CRISIL divests stake in UK subsidiary Gas Strategies Group 10 December 2008 M&As to stall at a third in 2009; government-sponsored deals to dominate 10 December 2008 OVL gets cabinet nod for Imperial bid 09 December 2008 Speculation persists on China Petro's interest in Santos 09 December 2008 InBev slashes US workforce a month after completing Anheuser-Busch buy 09 December 2008 Bain Capital may acquire Reed Elsevier arm for $1 billion 08 December 2008 IOC-BRPL merger expected to be cleared soon 08 December 2008 Merger talks to create world’s largest exchange group inconclusive 08 December 2008 Santos denies takeover move by CNPC 08 December 2008 Lufthansa acquires debt-ridden Austrian Airlines 08 December 2008 Chinese coal miner eyes Australia’s Felix Resources 08 December 2008 Vodafone could see $3-billion evaporate 06 December 2008 Resolution raises £600 million war chest for acquisitions 06 December 2008 Vodafone verdict to impact other M&A deals 06 December 2008 Insurance company Prudential looking to sell off stake in brokerage JV with Wachovia 05 December 2008 Capital One wards off Citigroup to acquire Chevy Chase Bank for $520 million 04 December 2008 Sinopec extends $1.8 billion takeover bid for Tanganyika Oil 04 December 2008 Vodafone loses petition over $2-billion tax claim 03 December 2008 EDF bids $4.5 billion for 50 per cent of Constellation nuclear assets 03 December 2008 New suitor eyes Yahoo 03 December 2008 British Airways, Qantas in merger talks 02 December 2008 Ryanair renews bid for Aer Lingus 02 December 2008 IAG raises general insurance stake in Malaysian joint venture 01 December 2008 Viacom promoter Sumner Redstone sells controlling stake in Midway Games to ease debt pressures 01 December 2008 J&J buys breast implant maker Mentor Corp for $1.07 billion 01 December 2008 Blackstone forms new unit with CMS; appoints Former Actis partner Rajiv Kaul as head 01 December 2008 Aon Corporation announces major restructuring after Benfield acquisition 01 December 2008 Citigroup fund to acquire road operator arm of Spanish construction major for $10 billion 01 December 2008 AIG offloads private banking arm for $254 million 01 December 2008 American electronics distributor Avnet buys Japanese firm Nippon Denso Industry 01 December 2008 Plethico to take 20 per cent stake in CIS drug maker 29 November 2008 Collapsed retailer Woolies’ stores to be sold off by Christmas 29 November 2008 Icahn raises stake in Yahoo 29 November 2008 Australia’s AWB, ABB Grain talk merger 29 November 2008 Suzuki launches high-end bikes in India; plans to buy out JV partner 28 November 2008 Schaeffler in talks to sell Continental AG stake 28 November 2008 Fed approves Bank of America’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch 27 November 2008 BCE's buyout deal in jeopardy as KPMG audit ups debt load 27 November 2008 BHP Billiton bullish despite crisis 27 November 2008 Cerberus wants to sell back Chrysler; asks Daimler to repay $7.2 billion 27 November 2008 Sun Pharma's US arm acquires Chattem 27 November 2008 Porsche puts Volkswagen acquisition plans on hold 27 November 2008 NRG tells shareholders to reject Exelon's $6 Billion bid 26 November 2008 Dabur acquires Fem Care for Rs203 crore 26 November 2008 Rio may sell stakes in key projects to China to shed debt 25 November 2008 `Russia not seeking stake in Imperial Energy' 25 November 2008 Johnson & Johnson acquires Omrix Biopharmaceuticas for $465 million 25 November 2008 BHP Billiton abandons bid for Rio Tinto 25 November 2008 King Pharma to acquire Alpharma for around $1.6 billion 25 November 2008 Udvar-Hazy led management group to re-acquire ILFC from AIG 24 November 2008 Philips India buys X-ray machines manufacturer Meditronics 22 November 2008 IBM, Wipro eye a piece of Polaris: report 21 November 2008 Coca-Cola Amtel fails to realise bid's real value: Lion Nathan 19 November 2008 Yin, Yang and Yahoo! 19 November 2008 EU antitrust authorities concerned over proposed BHP-Rio Tinto merger 19 November 2008 Bank of America to nearly double China Construction Bank stake 18 November 2008 Godrej eying acquisitions in emerging markets 18 November 2008 US mining companies Cliffs and Alpha call off merger 18 November 2008 Lion Nathan makes $4.9-billion abortive bid for Coca-Cola Amatil 17 November 2008 Russia's Novolipetsk Steel backs out of John Maneely deal; faces law suit 17 November 2008 Applied Materials ends bid to acquire ASM International 15 November 2008 InBeV asked to sell Labatt before acquiring Anheuser-Busch 15 November 2008 DoCoMo to buy 26 per cent in Tata Tele for $2.7 billion 12 November 2008 Mitsubishi Rayon acquires American rival Lucite for $1.6 billion 12 November 2008 Sirius XM Radio takes a $4.8 billion hit on new acquisition, blames sluggish auto sales 11 November 2008 Cemex sells plant in Canary Islands to reduce debt frrom Rinker acquisition 11 November 2008 Rebuffed by Wachovia, Citigroup looks to acquire regional bank 10 November 2008 Sun Pharma extends offer for Taro till 19 December 10 November 2008 NRG Energy rejects $6.2 billion unsolicited bid from Exelon Corp. as undervalued 10 November 2008 Panasonic looking to acquire Sanyo to create Japan’s largest electronics company 08 November 2008 AT&T to buy rural rival Centennial for $944 million 08 November 2008 Daiichi Sankyo completes Ranbaxy acquisition 07 November 2008 Once spurned Microsoft plays hard-to-get after Yahoo offer 07 November 2008 Happy with Novelis despite downturn: Kumar Mangalam Birla 07 November 2008 Russian regulators clear ONGC bid for Imperial Energy 07 November 2008 SanDisk cuts 15 per cent of its workforce 07 November 2008 Hindalco raises $982 million overseas to repay Novelis loan 07 November 2008 National Lampoon acquires BarackObamaJokes.com 06 November 2008 Corn Products rethinks acquisition by Bunge 06 November 2008 Suzlon seeks new payment schedule for Martifer's REpower stake 05 November 2008 EU regulators file objections to BHP - Rio Tinto merger 05 November 2008 GM-Chrysler merger talks hinge on US Presidential elections 04 November 2008 UK power utility Centrica launches £2.2 billion to fund proposed stake purchase in British Energy 04 November 2008 Panasonic in talks to acquire its rival, Sanyo 03 November 2008 Logitech to acquire net video communications services provider SightSpeed 30 October 2008 PepsiCo to acquire Canadian seed firm Spitz to expand frito-Lay range 30 October 2008 HIG Capital acquires specialty chemicals company Petroferm 30 October 2008 Outbound M&A deals lose 76 per cent valuation between April-August '08 29 October 2008 AMD divests digital TV business to Broadcom for $141.5 million in cash 29 October 2008 CenturyTel acquires Embarq for $11.6 billion in all-stock deal 27 October 2008 Chrysler axes 5,000 jobs amid merger talks with GM 27 October 2008 Volkswagen shares surge on news of Porsche’s intent to increase stake 27 October 2008 Russian authorities block Google’s acquisition of online advertising company 27 October 2008 Suntory to acquire Frucor from Danone for €600 million 25 October 2008 Hanwha to take 50.4 per cent in Daewoo Shipbuilding for around $4.5 billion 25 October 2008 JPMorgan chief receives death threats over WaMu deal 24 October 2008 European regulators may object to BHP-Rio merger 24 October 2008 MeadWestVaco acquires Ranjangaon-based Wadco Packaging 24 October 2008 PE firms still interested in Australian transport infrastructure group Asciano 23 October 2008 Australian energy group Aviva merges with Canadian mining company NEMI 23 October 2008 Austrian Airlines stake sale doubtful as potential investors seek time to evaluate bids 23 October 2008 Sierra Nevada Corporation to acquire rocket motor maker SpaceDev for $38 million 22 October 2008 Toshiba's SanDisk deal forces Samsung to abandon $5.85-billion bid 22 October 2008 Glaxo acquires oral care product Biotene for $170 million 22 October 2008 GM looks at overseas funds to finance Chrysler acquisition: report 22 October 2008 Sarkozy calls for European sovereign funds to buy European stocks 22 October 2008 UK insurance giant Prudential confirms interest in AIG’s Asian assets 22 October 2008 Roche confirms plans to acquire remaining 44 per cent in Genentech 21 October 2008 HSBC to acquire 89 per cent in Indonesia's Bank Ekonomi for $680 million 21 October 2008 SanDisk fends off Samsung advances with $1 billion Toshiba deal 20 October 2008 Daiichi acquires 52.5 per cent in Ranbaxy 20 October 2008 PE firm CVC and Swiss Re come to bid for RBS insurance Direct Line: Report 20 October 2008 Shree Renuka Sugars acquires majority stake in Gokak Sugars 20 October 2008 Exelon offers to acquire NRG Energy in $6.2-billion all-stock deal 20 October 2008 EDF abandons $6.24 billion bid for American utility Constellation Energy 17 October 2008 Emami buys out Parikh stake for Rs243 crore; raises Zandu stake to 50 per cent 16 October 2008 IBM opens ILOG tender offer 15 October 2008 Unions to oppose GM-Chrysler alliance 15 October 2008 GMR acquires 50-per cent stake in InterGen for $954 million 15 October 2008 Tata Motors acquires majority stake in Norwegian electric car firm Miljø Grenland 14 October 2008 Hapag-Lloyd sold for $6 billion to German investors; Kuehne takes 25.1 per cent 14 October 2008 Iberia ups stake in British Airways 14 October 2008 Chipmaker Vishay abandons hostile $1.7 billion bid for International Rectifier 14 October 2008 Credit squeeze ends WM's $6.73-billion hostile bid for Republic 14 October 2008 Tatas in the running for Ford's proposed Mazda stake sale 13 October 2008 Wells Fargo’s buyout of Wachovia cleared 11 October 2008 Mahindra & Mahindra to acquire Australian aerospace firm: Report 11 October 2008 GM in talks with Chrysler, Ford 11 October 2008 Citigroup abandons fight for Wachovia; will press lawsuit against Wells Fargo 10 October 2008 Tata Consultancy Services to acquire Citigroup Global Services for $505 million 08 October 2008 Heinz acquires Australian food company for $288 million 07 October 2008 Scotiabank buys Sun Life's mutual fund stake for C$2.3 billion 07 October 2008 TNS gives in to WPP’s offer 07 October 2008 eBay spends $1.3 billion on acquisitions but cuts 1000 jobs 07 October 2008 Citi seeks $60-billion damages from Wells Fargo 06 October 2008 Eli Lilly to acquire ImClone for $6.5 billion 06 October 2008 Reliance Big Entertainment acquires stake in US Willow TV 06 October 2008 Fed intervenes as Wachovia gets Citi’s stay overruled 06 October 2008 China calls for Europe to reject BHP Billiton - Rio Tinto merger 06 October 2008 Orbotech completes acquisition of Photon Dynamics 04 October 2008 AIG to refocus on property, casualty 04 October 2008 McLeod Russel group to acquire Vietnam tea company for Rs32 crore 04 October 2008 Nomura to buy Lehman's India back office operations, retain staff 04 October 2008 Delayed approval of Ranbaxy deal brings $445 million windfall for Daiichi 04 October 2008 Mystery buyer Eli Lilly reported to outbid Bristol-Myers with $6.1 billion for ImClone 04 October 2008 Citi fumes as Wells Fargo steals Wachovia 04 October 2008 Wells Fargo edges Citi to grab Wachovia for $15.1 billion 03 October 2008 Emami woos Zandu shareholders by increasing offer price to Rs16,500 03 October 2008 Tata Steel buys stake in Canadian miner for $22 million 03 October 2008 HCL sidelines Infosys in Axon acquisition 03 October 2008 Credit squeeze takes its toll on Xstrata, Roche acquisition bids 03 October 2008 Hewlett-Packard in LeftHand acquisition for $360 million 02 October 2008 BHP's $114 billion bid for Rio gets Australia regulatory nod 01 October 2008 Polaris Software to acquire US-based insurance technology firm SEEC 01 October 2008 British Sky Broadcasting might have to sell more of its stake in ITV 01 October 2008 Private equity firms Bain, Hellman buy Lehman investment unit for $2.15 billion 01 October 2008 Court orders Hexion to conclude Huntsman merger 30 September 2008 InBev to become Anheuser-Busch InBev; chareholders approve hiking capital 29 September 2008 Citi to acquire Wachovia assets in a US government-backed rescue 29 September 2008 AIG may sell over 15 businesses to repay $85 billion Fed loan 29 September 2008 BPL sells minority stake to Deutsche Bank 29 September 2008 Boeing to acquire tracking equipment manufacturer Tapestry Solutions 27 September 2008 Alpharma rejects King Pharmaceuticals’ $1.55 billion offer as inadequate 27 September 2008 HCL Tech makes $811 million counterbid for UK's Axon 26 September 2008 Wrigley shareholders vote for $23 billion sale to Mars 26 September 2008 Federal Reserve seizes WaMu; auctions it to JPMorgan for $1.9 billion 26 September 2008 Sterlite set to acquire Ascaro for $2.6 billion 26 September 2008 Alitalia rescue efforts strengthen - Air France – KLM to take 20 per cent 26 September 2008 Delta – Northwest Airlines merger approved 26 September 2008 Medtronic buys CryoCath Technologies for $380 million to expand cardiac treatment portfolio 26 September 2008 Sinopec buys Tanganyika Oil in Syria for $2 billion 25 September 2008 Autoline acquires Italian design firms 25 September 2008 US IP licensor Transmeta puts itself up for sale 25 September 2008 Nestle in talks to acquire US confectioner Hershey: report 24 September 2008 Warren Buffett invests $5 billion in Goldman Sachs 24 September 2008 Gap to acquire women's active wear maker Athleta 23 September 2008 Waren Buffet to acquire Tungaloy Corp from Nomura subsidiary 23 September 2008 Nomura to buy Lehman's banking, equities units in Europe, Middle East 23 September 2008 Barclays to employ 10,000 Lehman US staff; no respite for holders of $110 billion bonds 23 September 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb raises bid for ImClone to $4.7 billion 23 September 2008 US FAA approves plan for Delta/Northwest merger 23 September 2008 UAE's Etisalat buys 45 per cent in Swan Telecom 23 September 2008 EDF teams up with KKR, TPG to make $6.2 billion counter bid for Constellation 23 September 2008 McAfee acquires Secure Computing for $465 million 23 September 2008 French pharma Sanofi-Aventis acquires Zentiva for $2.6 billion 23 September 2008 Nomura acquires Lehman's Asia arm for $225 million 22 September 2008 HSBC dumps Korea Exchange Bank acquisition plan 20 September 2008 Reliance Entertainment completes deal with Spielberg's DreamWorks 20 September 2008 Legal concerns over Russian carrier S7's bid for Austrian Airlines 20 September 2008 Hindalco to invest Rs19,800 croes in multi-location expansion 20 September 2008 Mukta Arts acquires majority stake in Coruscant Tec 20 September 2008 Cisco announces purchase of instant messaging technology provider Jabber 20 September 2008 Nortel shares plunge to 25-year low on gloomy forecast; looking to sell off major unit 19 September 2008 Acquisition by Chinese banks creating opportunities for foreign banks: The Boston Consulting Group 19 September 2008 HCL Technologies eyes major acquisitions in US 19 September 2008 WL Ross in talks with Jet, Kingfisher to evaluate merge opportunities for SpiceJet: Report 19 September 2008 BPCL, Videocon JV to acquire Brazil’s EnCana Brasil Petroleo for $283 million 19 September 2008 Warren Buffett's MidAmerican Energy bids $4.7 billion for Constellation Energy 19 September 2008 BHP signs iron ore deal with BlueScope to clear way for Rio merger 18 September 2008 Investor group CAI withdraws Alitalia offer: Reports 18 September 2008 Morgan Stanley, WaMu, seek mergers 18 September 2008 Lupin acquires majority stake in South Africa's Pharma Dynamics 18 September 2008 Greenberg tries a second coming at AIG 17 September 2008 Morgan Stanley weighing merger option? 17 September 2008 SanDisk rejects Samsung's $5.85-billion bid 17 September 2008 Porsche acquires controlling stake in Volkswagen 17 September 2008 Barclays to pick select parts of Lehman for $1.75 billion 17 September 2008 Bayer acquires German biotech drug developer Direvo Biotech AG 16 September 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb files IPO registration for Mead Johnson 16 September 2008 Temasek's notional gains on Merrill Lynch investment may still evaporate 16 September 2008 Barclays in talks to acquire Lehman's securities business 16 September 2008 Electronics retailer Best Buy to acquire Napster 16 September 2008 State Bank of Indore, State Bank of Patiala to merge with SBI 16 September 2008 HP to lay off 24,600 in EDS integration 16 September 2008 Tata Group may gain as Orient Express votes on annulling promoters' veto powers 15 September 2008 BASF plans to acquire Ciba Holding AG for approximately €3.8 billion 15 September 2008 TBWA Worldwide acquires 49-per cent cent stake in Omnicom's TBWA India 15 September 2008 Bank of America buys Merrill Lynch 15 September 2008 Emami doubles offer price to Rs15,000 per Zandu share 15 September 2008 Crompton Greaves acquires US heavy transmissions equipment maker MSE Power Systems 15 September 2008 Mahindra eying Italian two-wheeler maker Malaguti: report 13 September 2008 Uncle Sam to the rescue of Lehman Brothers 12 September 2008 Textron to divest fluid business to Clyde Blowers 12 September 2008 Alitalia unions mull proposal, weigh concessions 12 September 2008 Suntory, Diageo, Pernod Ricard and Bacardi eye United Spirits stake 11 September 2008 Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim acquires 6.4 stake in New York Times 11 September 2008 Microsoft to sell Greenfield Online's internet survey solutions to ZM Capital 11 September 2008 British government completes controversial privatisation of defence group QinetiQ 11 September 2008 Infosys target Axon may invite rival bids from Fujitsu, NTTSoft, HCL 11 September 2008 ImClone rejects Bristol-Myers Squibb's $4.3 billion bid; cites $6.1 billion fresh offer 10 September 2008 Tata Teleservices to offer strategic stake to DoCoMo 10 September 2008 S7 plans renewed fleet and a 'sensational' offer for Austrian stake 10 September 2008 Ruias sell 17 per cent in BPL for $80 million amidst arbitration 10 September 2008 Air France - KLM seeks a share of the in consolidation pie through minority stakes in Austrian, Alitalia 10 September 2008 French equipment maker acquires US-based Gehl 09 September 2008 Eni SpA to acquire First Calgary in order to beef up reserves 09 September 2008 Marlboro maker Altria to acquire UST for $10.4 billion 08 September 2008 French energy giant EDF gets closer to acquiring British Energy 08 September 2008 ONGC Videsh to conclude Imperial deal in 4-5 weeks: Deora 06 September 2008 Marlboro-maker Altria looking to buy smokeless tobacco company UST for $10 billion 06 September 2008 No.2 Russian steelmaker NLMK buys US steel producer Beta for $400 million in cash 06 September 2008 Lehman Brothers may split to tide over current crisis 05 September 2008 Tata Power loses Senoko bid; Marubeni to buy it for $2.5 billion 05 September 2008 Flash memory maker SanDisk on Samsung’s takeover radar 05 September 2008 Linux vendor Red Hat buys Israeli virtualisation company for $107 million 05 September 2008 Tata Power to acquire 10 per cent in Australia's Geodynamics 04 September 2008 Sun extends offer for Taro by a month as Israeli SC stays acquisition 04 September 2008 EC puts review of BHP's $160 billion bid for Rio on hold; seeks more data 04 September 2008 Coke pulls-off biggest ever acquisition of Chinese firm with $2.4-billion buy of Huiyuan Juice 04 September 2008 Tata Power to bid for Senoko; SBI to underwrite $1 billion loan 02 September 2008 HC seeks copy of Ambani family MoU on RIL-RNRL gas supply issue 02 September 2008 Sir Richard Branson mulling $2.6 billion bid for London’s Gatwick 02 September 2008 Temasek offers optional financial arrangement to Senoko bidders 02 September 2008 Tata Motors' Rs4,200 crore rights issue to open this month-end 02 September 2008 BP buys American shale assets for $1.9 billion 02 September 2008 Air France - KLM may seek minority stake in Alitalia 02 September 2008 Brazil’s No.1 steelmaker Gerdau to invest $1.4 billion in Peru 02 September 2008 LVMH acquires Dutch yacht maker 02 September 2008 Japanese drug maker Shionogi to acquire American rival for $1.1 billion 02 September 2008 Suzlon buys out Martifer; raises REpower stake to 90 per cent 01 September 2008 Vodacom buys Gateway for $700 million 30 August 2008 Bain, Carlyle in shortlist for PCCW stake after first round of bidding 30 August 2008 Lufthansa in talks for equity stake in Brussels Airlines 30 August 2008 Microsoft to acquire price comparison site Ciao's parent, Greenfield Online 29 August 2008 Russia's President Medvedev backs OVL's bid for Imperial Energy takeover 29 August 2008 PepsiCo, Pepsi Bottling buy 75 per cent in Russian juice leader JSC Lebedyansky for $1.4 billion 29 August 2008 Aditya Birla Group acquires majority stake in brokerage firm Apollo Sindhoori Capital Investments 28 August 2008 Cisco to aquire PostPath 28 August 2008 Ricoh to acquire US office equipment distributor Ikon Office Solutions for $1.62 billion 28 August 2008 GfK gives up, WPP expected to win TNS: Reports 27 August 2008 Sun Pharma wins Taro takeover case in Israel 27 August 2008 ONGC finalises Imperial Energy acquisition terms 27 August 2008 Hyundai Heavy Industries, Posco join race for Daewoo Shipbuilding 27 August 2008 Counterbid rumours boost Axon shares by 21 per cent, Infosys pares gains 27 August 2008 HP completes $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS 27 August 2008 Cabinet likely to clear Daiichi-Ranbaxy deal next month 26 August 2008 GM looking to Gulf Arab buyers for Hummer: report 26 August 2008 GE Capital to delist transportation financial services arm 26 August 2008 ONGC trumps Sinopec with $2.6-billion bid for UK's Imperial Energy 26 August 2008 Broadcom acquires AMD’s digital television business for $192.8 million in cash 26 August 2008 Essar Group to invest $500 million in Kenyan telecom business 26 August 2008 Tata Motors plans big promotion of Jaguar, Land Rover in India 25 August 2008 Canada’s largest oilfield-services provider Precision buys American peer for $2.02 billion 25 August 2008 HCL Technologies to acquire Control Point Solutions, Inc 25 August 2008 Norsk Hydro seeks 30-per cent stake in ONGC gas block 25 August 2008 Infosys to acquire UK's Axon for $753 million 25 August 2008 BHP-Rio merger would push up iron ore prices, says Australian regulator 25 August 2008 ONGC close to acquiring Imperial Energy, says London paper; possible roadblock on GOI investment norms 25 August 2008 British Energy's largest private shareholder favours its merger with Centrica 25 August 2008 Genentech Says Employee Plan May Cost $371 Million 23 August 2008 Heinekin raises S&N acquisition's synergy benefits target 23 August 2008 Tata Tea to divest plantation stake to workers; eyes overseas acquisitions 23 August 2008 Korea Development Bank eyeing Lehman Bros 23 August 2008 Sun Microsystems a takeover target: report 23 August 2008 Russian steelmaker Severstal buys American coal miner for $1.3 billion 23 August 2008 Continental agrees to conditional sale to Schaeffler 22 August 2008 ONGC arm lead race for Imperial Energy: report 22 August 2008 STMicroelectronics to acquire NXP's stake in joint venture and strike new JV with Ericsson 22 August 2008 India emerging a net exporter of takeover deals: KPMG 21 August 2008 Decline in global deal activity predicted 21 August 2008 Monsanto sells milk-hormone business to Eli Lilly for $300 million 21 August 2008 Lupin acquires stake in Australian pharma firm Generic Health 21 August 2008 Germany moves law to block takeovers by foreign funds 21 August 2008 ArcelorMittal announces major investments in Brazil 20 August 2008 Kirloskar Electric to acquire two German companies 20 August 2008 Balaji Telefilms and Star call it quits 20 August 2008 Google sued for patent infringement by California-based software developer 19 August 2008 $8.3 billion NYMEX acquisition strengthens world's No1 derivatives market CME 19 August 2008 CNPC, Sinopec in joint bid for Peruvian oil and gas firm Petro-Tech 19 August 2008 General Dynamics acquires support services provider, Jet Aviation, for $2.25 billion 19 August 2008 UTV acquire 80% stake in True Games Interactive 19 August 2008 Origin may opt for LNG joint venture, dump BG's $11.9-billion offer 19 August 2008 Symantec acquires PC for undisclosed amount 19 August 2008 Citi may sell India BPO arm to TCS as it rejigs Asia Pacific operations 19 August 2008 Mahindra takes majority stake in China's Yancheng Tractor 18 August 2008 Finance ministry clears SBI-SBS merger; bank employees plan protest 14 August 2008 ArcelorMittal signs JV with Valin Steel Group of China 14 August 2008 Sun Pharma gets US regulator's approval for Taro open offer 14 August 2008 eBay seeks stake in South Korean online retailer Gmarket 14 August 2008 Genentech rejects Roche’s $43.7-billion takeover offer as too low 13 August 2008 Novolipetsk Steel to acquire John Maneely Company from The Carlyle Group for $3.53 billion 13 August 2008 Australian pharma firm CSL buys US rival Talecris for $3.1 billion 13 August 2008 Tata Capital ties up with Mitsubishi UFJ 13 August 2008 Voltas acquires majority stake in projects contractor Rohini Industrial Electricals 13 August 2008 Genpact looking at acquisitions in India, US 12 August 2008 Tata Steel to double borrowings to Rs40,000 crore 12 August 2008 K K Birla's Texmaco to become holding company for heavy engineering, foundry units 12 August 2008 DoT asks Idea to return licences in Punjab or Karnataka for Spice merger 11 August 2008 Sprint may divest Nextel's iDen business 11 August 2008 ArcelorMittal takes 49 per cent in Brazilian miner 11 August 2008 Virgin wants McCain, Obama to oppose American Air-BA-Iberia link-up 11 August 2008 Centrica adds $7.7 billion cash part to all-share offer for British Energy stake 11 August 2008 UPS eyes TNT for a $15 billion acquisition 11 August 2008 General Motors to pay $277 million in lawsuit settlement 09 August 2008 Rio Tinto contemplating divestment of US assets 09 August 2008 Tata Steel looks at mining acquisitions in the US, Africa, Australia: reports 08 August 2008 TransAlta rejects $7.8 billion takeover bid by American hedge funds 07 August 2008 Google sells Performics search-marketing unit to advertising giant Publicis 07 August 2008 CBaySystems acquires majority stake in MedQuist from Philips 07 August 2008 South Africa's Lonmin rejects Xstrata's $10 billion hostile bid 06 August 2008 Finance ministry clears Daiichi-Ranbaxy deal among 24 FDI proposals 06 August 2008 Siemens plans to pull out of joint venture with Fujitsu 06 August 2008 Tata Power shortlisted to bid for Senoko Power-Singapore 06 August 2008 Coal India looks at mines in Mozambique, Indonesia; invites EoIs for reviving old mines 06 August 2008 Sony takes up sole ownership of Sony BMG; buys out Bertelsmann for $1.2 billion 06 August 2008 Major Yahoo shareholder demands vote recount 05 August 2008 Essar group's Aegis buys US BPO firm for $250 million 05 August 2008 Daiichi to launch open offer for Ranbaxy on 16 August 05 August 2008 Booz Allen Hamilton divests government business to The Carlyle Group 05 August 2008 Carl Icahn finds Bristol-Myers' offer for ImClone Systems low 04 August 2008 Chinese regulators stall ArcelorMittal's takeover of Chinese steel firm 04 August 2008 China's Sinopec competes with ONGC's $2.5-billion bid for UK’s Imperial Energy 04 August 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb completes sell-off of ConvaTec to PE firms 04 August 2008 Anil Ambani bids for UK's Newcastle United football club 04 August 2008 Chinese competition authorities may reject BHP bid for Rio 02 August 2008 Emami eyes healthcare acquisitions in the UK, South Africa 02 August 2008 British retailer Kingfisher sells Italian unit Castorama for $872 million 02 August 2008 Forrester acquires JupiterResearch 02 August 2008 Yahoo board wins vote of confidence 02 August 2008 WPP launches sixth and formal hostile bid for TNS 02 August 2008 Johnson & Johnson (China) Investment Co., Ltd. Acquires Beijing Dabao Cosmetics Co., Ltd. 01 August 2008 Tata Steel sets up overseas holding arm in Singapore; plans to raise funds for acquisitions 01 August 2008 Japan's TDK to acquire Germany's Epcos for $1.9 billion 01 August 2008 GE Energy Financial Services acquires stake in Spain's largest solar power firm 01 August 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb to acquire ImClone Systems for $4.5-billion 31 July 2008 ITC Infotech to acquire US IT company 31 July 2008 Bidding war for British publisher Informa in offing as it receives competing takeover proposal 31 July 2008 Kinetic Motors to retire debt with M&M cash 31 July 2008 Siemens divests SEN to private US equity group, Gores 30 July 2008 Zinc miner Teck Cominco to acquire world's second largest coal producer for $14.1 billion 30 July 2008 Minining firm Bradken to acquire AmeriCast from PE firm Castle Harlan 30 July 2008 Sun set for a long battle for Taro 30 July 2008 M&M in aquisition deal with Kinetic Motors 30 July 2008 Lupin enter Europe with acquisition of German pharma marketing agency Hormosan 30 July 2008 Estee Lauder's investment in India's top spa brand to spur retail strategy 30 July 2008 Temasek takes a 10-per cent stake in Merrill Lynch for $900 million 29 July 2008 IBM acquires French software firm ILOG for $340 million 29 July 2008 Unilever to sell North American detergents business to Vestar for $1.45 billion 29 July 2008 Rolta acquires Chicago based WhittmanHart Consulting 29 July 2008 Private equity giant KKR to go public 28 July 2008 US regulators approve Sirius-XM merger to create satellite radio monopoly 26 July 2008 Origin Energy petitions Takeovers Panel from letting BG take its bid to shareholders 26 July 2008 South African authorities charge Vodacom executive with perjury 26 July 2008 HP Announces European Commission Approval of EDS Acquisition; Agrees to Settle Litigation Relating to Acquisition 26 July 2008 ArcelorMittal buys 70 per cent in Brazilian steel processor Manchester Tubos 25 July 2008 Times of India group eyes UK’s Trinity Mirror: report 25 July 2008 GE Healthcare to acquire Vital Signs, Inc., expanding GE’s monitoring, anesthesia and respiratory care offerings 25 July 2008 Roche bids for Genentech on Monday, acquires Mirus on Tuesday and Arius on Wednesday 25 July 2008 China vetoes Carlyle’s acquisition of machinery maker Xugong Group 25 July 2008 Cabinet clears merger of State Bank of Saurashtra with SBI 24 July 2008 Centrica to take 51-per cent stake in Belgian business SPE 24 July 2008 GE focuses on Middle East with $8-billion carbon-neutral city 24 July 2008 Cisco announces $120-million acquisition to strengthen home consumer section 23 July 2008 American hedge funds make $7.8 billion bid for Canada’s largest power utility 23 July 2008 Dr Reddy’s to buy back Perlecan Pharma stake from ICICI Ventures and Citigroup 22 July 2008 Global M&A environment to deteriorate in H2 08: KPMG 22 July 2008 Jordan LP acquires Harvey Gulf International Marine 22 July 2008 XM Radio - Satellite Radio closer to merger as FCC set to approve deal conditionally 22 July 2008 Inmarsat stock declines in London after Harbinger breaks off takeover talks 21 July 2008 Bilcare Ltd, MeadWestVaco jointly acquire US pharmaceuticals packaging firm International Labs 21 July 2008 Icahn to join Yahoo! board; calls-off proxy slate 21 July 2008 US equity firms shop for stake in Huawei unit 21 July 2008 Tata Power buys 26 per cent stake in Bhutan power project 21 July 2008 Sanofi-aventis to acquire Symbion Holdings for $544 million 21 July 2008 ArcelorMittal acquires US coal producer Concept Group 21 July 2008 Roche makes a $43.7-billion bid for Genentech 21 July 2008 UltraTech looking for coal mines in Indonesia, South Africa 19 July 2008 Gazprom buys 25 per cent stake in Rosneft's gas project 19 July 2008 MTN may go back to Bharti for an alliance: reports 19 July 2008 Major shareholder supports Yahoo CEO against Carl Icahn 19 July 2008 No1 generic drugs maker Teva acquires rival Barr Pharma for $7.46 billion 18 July 2008 IFFCO takes a stake in Australian phosphate miner 18 July 2008 BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance to acquire The New Saraji Coal Project 18 July 2008 Merrill Lynch to sell 20 per cent Bloomberg stake for $4.5 billion 17 July 2008 Suez, GDF shareholders agree to $159-billion merger 17 July 2008 Korea’s SK Telecom in talks to acquire Sprint Nextel 17 July 2008 Iron ore producer Cleveland-Cliffs buys coal supplier Alpha Natural for $10 billion 16 July 2008 ArcelorMittal buys out scrap metal firm Rolanfer 16 July 2008 Continental rejects Schaeffler's $17.8 billion takeover offer 16 July 2008 SRF to acquire South Africa's Industex Technical Textiles 16 July 2008 Sun Pharma extends Taro tender offer 16 July 2008 Mark Mobius objects to Sun's acquisition of Taro 16 July 2008 Goldman - PAI acquire German building materials firm Xella 16 July 2008 Kazakhmys dismisses talk of Metalloinvest reverse takeover 16 July 2008 Microsemi acquires semiconductor firm Semicoa for $25 million 16 July 2008 MTN denies going back to Bharti 15 July 2008 Imperial confirms interest in a possible £12.90 a share offer from ONGC 15 July 2008 Waste Management tries to scuttle Republic-Allied Waste deal with $6.2 billion offer for the latter 15 July 2008 Royal Dutch Shell to buy Canada’s Duvernay Oil Corp. for $5.87 billion 15 July 2008 ArcelorMittal buys out partner Primex in Turkish JV Uginox 14 July 2008 Hong Kong’s PCCW seeks to sell 45 per cent stake in HKT Group for $2.5 billion 14 July 2008 Continental AG in talks with parts maker Schaeffler for a $19 billion sale 14 July 2008 ONGC in bid to acquire Russia's Imperial Energy 14 July 2008 Tata Steel eyes iron ore mine in Western Australia 14 July 2008 Yahoo rejects Microsoft - Icahn plan; moots full acquisition 14 July 2008 ArcelorMittal takes over its stainless service joint venture with Primex 14 July 2008 InBev acquires Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion; Budweiser to be flagship brand 14 July 2008 Google CEO Eric Schmidt bats for “independent” Yahoo, slams Microsoft’s bid 12 July 2008 Sinosteel acquires controlling stake in Australian miner Midwest 12 July 2008 Spice Mobile on a high as reports ring in takeover rumours 11 July 2008 InBev and Anheuser-Busch cease fire; in friendly talks 11 July 2008 Chemicals maker Ashland buys peer Hercules for $3.3 billion 11 July 2008 Citigroup sells German unit to France's Credit Mutuel for $7.8 billion 11 July 2008 Taro advises shareholders against Sun's open offer 11 July 2008 DSM acquires Valley Research to strengthen food enzymes activities 11 July 2008 GE extends appliances divestment to entire consumer and industrial group 11 July 2008 Novartis to buy Swiss biotech company Speedel for $880 million 11 July 2008 Canada’s Agrium buys 70-per cent stake in CMF for $50 million-plus 11 July 2008 Dow Chemical acquires Rohm & Haas for $18.8 billion 10 July 2008 Tata-Birla row over Idea goes for arbitration 10 July 2008 GfK mulls sweetened all-cash bid to rescue TNS from hostile bid by WPP 10 July 2008 AGL acquires stake in geothermal power firm Torrens Energy; inks JV pact 10 July 2008 UAE fund completes purchase of majority stake in New York’s Chrysler Building 10 July 2008 HC reserves ruling on Vodafone-IT dispute for next week 10 July 2008 American drugmaker Eli Lilly buys biotech company SGX Pharma for $64 million 09 July 2008 KPIT Cummins acquires mechanical design services business of Harita TVS Technologies 09 July 2008 UK energy utility Centrica buys stakes in Norwegian gas and oil fields for $416 million 09 July 2008 NBC ties up with private equity partners to buy The Weather Channel for $3.5 billion 09 July 2008 Hedge fund Harbinger makes multi-billion dollar bid for satellite operator Inmarsat 09 July 2008 PPG to sell controlling interest in auto glass business to Kohlberg & Company 09 July 2008 Reliance Communications, MTN extend talks till July 21 09 July 2008 Anheuser-Busch drags InBev to court 09 July 2008 Ahmedabad-based Veeda Oncology acquires International Oncology Network Clinical Research 08 July 2008 Idea acquires over 281 million shares in Spice for Rs2,176 crore 08 July 2008 Icahn spearheads new move to enable acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft 08 July 2008 MTN-Reliance Comm deal may be lost in the Mukesh-Anil feud 08 July 2008 Abu Dhabi's Masdar Cleantech Fund and London's Virgin Green Fund acquire US waste recyler DuraTherm 08 July 2008 Canadian miner Inmet bids for partner Petaquilla Coppers' stake for $338 million 08 July 2008 Novartis completes first step acquisition of 25-per cent stake in Alcon from Nestlé 08 July 2008 China Oilfield to acquire Awilco for $2.5 billion 07 July 2008 Fresenius to acquire APP Pharmaceuticals in $3.7-billion deal 07 July 2008 VVF Ltd acquires Henkel’s soap manufacturing plant in Poland 07 July 2008 Suzlon-Arcapita Bk JV to buy Honiton Energy 07 July 2008 MTN-Reliance exclusivity period may be extended 07 July 2008 L&T bags power order worth Rs446 crore; to demerge ECC division into four 07 July 2008 UB to to raise brewing capacity by 20 per cent; Shaw Wallace integration underway 07 July 2008 Microsoft to acquire entire stake in its Israel-specific portal 07 July 2008 Renault-Nissan CEO sees consolidation in auto industry 07 July 2008 BSkyB eyeing $3.9-billion bid for Digital+ 05 July 2008 Panacea Biotec takes 75 per cent in Umkal to enter healthcare sector 05 July 2008 Carborundum to take 51 per cent in South Africa's Foskor Zirconia 05 July 2008 Cadila Healthcare to demerge consumer products division into Carnation, merge Zydus Hospitals with itself 05 July 2008 EU warns of tough scrutiny of BHP's takeover of Rio Tinto 05 July 2008 Bell Canada in world’s largest leveraged buyout 05 July 2008 Battle for market research firm TNS heats up; GfK approves merger while WPP threatens to go hostile 05 July 2008 Sony spins-off Field Emission Technologies, looks to acquire Pioneer's plasma panel factory in Japan 05 July 2008 GE Aviation buys Czech turboprop engine maker for $70 million odd 05 July 2008 Origin Energy spurns BG's $13.3 billion hostile bid 04 July 2008 UK's Shire acquires maker of Firazyr, Jerini AG 04 July 2008 Archies in stake-sale talks with Videocon 04 July 2008 BHP clears US regulatory hurdle for Rio deal; doubles iron ore prices 04 July 2008 $6.1-billion Penn Gaming leveraged buyout called off 04 July 2008 Vodafone acquires 70 per cent in Ghana Telecom for $900 million 03 July 2008 Huntsman files counterclaims; extends deadline for $11-billion Hexion deal 03 July 2008 RCOM evaluates other means to merge with MTN 03 July 2008 Piramal Healthcare acquires PlasmaSelect's polygeline product Haemaccel 03 July 2008 British Airways acquires French business-class carrier L’Avion for $107 million 02 July 2008 Starbucks reverses expansion; to close 600 company-operated stores in the US 02 July 2008 Glenmark acquires 7 pharmaceutical brands in Poland 02 July 2008 Modern Dairies to sell 4.65 million shares to IFC for Rs28 crore 02 July 2008 Microsoft buys internet start-up Powerset for around $100 million 02 July 2008 Amtek Auto may acquire Germany's KSM Castings 02 July 2008 Fortune 500 lender CIT Group sells off units for $1.8 billion to exit home lending 02 July 2008 Hedge fund shareholder DE Shaw & Co to try to rescue Huntsman – Hexion deal 01 July 2008 OnMobile acquires European speech technology and language processing software provider Telisma 01 July 2008 The UK government mulling stake sale in defence research company QinetiQ: Report 01 July 2008 American food company Del Monte offloads seafood business for $363 million 01 July 2008 Tyson Foods acquires controlling stake in Godrej Foods 30 June 2008 France Telecom drops bid for Sweden’s TeliaSonera, sees shares rise 13 per cent 30 June 2008 Corus moves EC against Rio bid as ArcelorMittal eyes stake 30 June 2008 French cosmetics maker's majority stakeholder makes $3.6-billion buyout offer 30 June 2008 Posco acquires 10 per cent in Australian miner Macarthur; blocks ArcelorMittal's take-over chances 30 June 2008 Idea to launch open offer for Spice on 22 August 30 June 2008 Unitech to sell 26 per cent in telecom arm; raise Rs11,000 crore from market 28 June 2008 Momentum behind forest, paper and packaging deals set to continue driven by sustainability trends: PwC 28 June 2008 NEC to Acquire NetCracker, a Leader in Operations Support Systems 28 June 2008 Doughty Hanson to acquire wind turbine brakes maker Svendborg Brakes for €460 million 28 June 2008 Toyota increases stake in carmaker Subaru 28 June 2008 Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp takes set-top box maker NDS private in multi-part deal 28 June 2008 Virgin Mobile acquires Helios to enter postpaid zone 28 June 2008 InBev talks tough after Anheuser-Busch rejects overtures; may increase offer 27 June 2008 Yahoo shakes up management structure ahead of shareholders’ meet 27 June 2008 Bank of America-Countrywide merger to cost 7,500 jobs 27 June 2008 Morgan Stanley acquires majority stake in Learning Care Group 27 June 2008 Microsoft to acquire MobiComp 27 June 2008 Esmark falls for Severstals' revised $775 million bid; Essar withdraws offer 26 June 2008 MTN aims to become a major internet player by acquiring Verizon South Africa 26 June 2008 Sun goes ahead with Taro acquisition; files suit in US court 26 June 2008 Anheuser-Busch may reject $46.3 billion InBev bid 26 June 2008 Yahoo stock rises on news of renewed Microsoft talks 25 June 2008 Singapore fund to buy 25.4 per cent in S Kumar's Reid & Taylor for Rs900 crore 25 June 2008 M&M's used car arm First Choice sells 10 per cent to Phi Advisors for Rs80 crore 25 June 2008 Tata Communications to hike stake in South Africa's Neotel to 56 per cent 25 June 2008 GMR Infrastructure acquires 50-per cent stake in InterGen N V for $1 billion 25 June 2008 Idea to buy 40.8 per cent in Spice Communications for Rs3,240 crore 25 June 2008 Intel Spins off Solar Energy Technology; Intel Capital Invests in SpectraWatt 25 June 2008 Nokia to buy out Symbian partners for $410 million 25 June 2008 NYSE Euronext to buy 25 per cent in Doha exchange for $250 million 24 June 2008 Lone Star chief cleared of stock manipulation, may accelerate HSBC purchase of KEB 24 June 2008 BG goes hostile with its $13.15 billion bid for Australia's Origin Energy 24 June 2008 Ospraie-led investor gropup acquires ConAgra Trade Group; supplemental share buyback authorised 24 June 2008 Hellman and Friedman part of Informa bid consortium 24 June 2008 Oracle to acquire insurance software company Skywire Software 24 June 2008 Safran bid for Digimarc Division challenges L-1 24 June 2008 Struggling Norwegian newsprint maker Norske Skog sells two Korean paper mills to PE funds 24 June 2008 GMR group to acquire ONGC stake in Kakinada refinery 23 June 2008 Expro defends keeping out Halliburton 23 June 2008 Hutch deal not taxable in India, claims Vodafone 23 June 2008 Xstrata matches Crosby's $540 million bid for Indophil stake 23 June 2008 Bunge to acquire Corn Products in $4.8-billion share swap deal 23 June 2008 Nokia buys social networking company Plazes 23 June 2008 No 3 US waste haulier Republic to acquire larger rival Allied Waste in $6.24-billion deal 23 June 2008 Reliance acquires polyester plant in US; plans to invest $215 million 23 June 2008 Imperial Tobacco to cut 2,400 jobs as it integrates Altadis's operations 23 June 2008 Singapore shipping company Neptune seeks $5 loan to buy German firm 23 June 2008 Zentiva turns down PPF subsidiary Anthiarose as Sanofi makes rival bid 23 June 2008 Johnson & Johnson Nordic AB acquires Åmic 23 June 2008 World's largest leveraged buyout gets Canadian Supreme Court nod 21 June 2008 France Telecom may sweeten bid for TeliaSonera, but only just 21 June 2008 Advanta acquires seed business of US firm Limagrain 20 June 2008 Taro sues Sun Pharma again; alleges plan to block sale of Irish arm 20 June 2008 Telenor exploring acquisition opportunities, figures among Top 2 in Pakistan 20 June 2008 Monsanto to acquire Central American corn seed company Semillas Cristiani Burkard 20 June 2008 Bain Capital to buy Denon and Marantz maker D&M Holdings 20 June 2008 China's largest mobile handsets maker Huawei considers divesting stake to US private equity firms 20 June 2008 Rumours of takeover bid lifts Anglo American, other mining stocks 19 June 2008 Microsoft acquires Navic Networks 19 June 2008 Huntsman says Hexion management trying to scuttle merger 19 June 2008 LIC may offload Ranbaxy stake as it rejigs investment portfolio 19 June 2008 Hexion files suit to cancel its $10.6 billion Huntsman deal 19 June 2008 Top two shareholders, including Sanofi-Aventis, launch competing bids for Czech drugmaker Zentiva 19 June 2008 Providence private equity group tries for Informa after merger talks with UBM fall through 19 June 2008 Private equity firm Accel-KKR sponsors software acquisitions arm 18 June 2008 SAP to acquire Visiprise 18 June 2008 Ashok Leyland may divest stake in Nissan joint venture 18 June 2008 Anil Ambani eyeing 40 per cent in MTN: Report 18 June 2008 Tata Communications to acquire 50-per cent stake in China Enterprise Communications 18 June 2008 Boehringer Ingelheim to acquire Actimis Pharmaceuticals 18 June 2008 Reliance Steel & Aluminum to acquire PNA Group for $1.1 billion 18 June 2008 SPI may sell its $3 billion Stolichnaya vodka brand 17 June 2008 Daiichi to make open offer for Ranbaxy on August 8 16 June 2008 Siemens acquires third largest Spanish electrical installations company 16 June 2008 Icahn coming around to Google-Yahoo deal? 16 June 2008 ArcelorMittal buys Bayou Steel of the US; hikes stake in Turkey's Erdemir 16 June 2008 Microsoft opposes Yahoo-Google deal, reveals another rejected stake plus search offer 14 June 2008 Ambanis brawl over RCom's MTN deal 14 June 2008 InBev’s bid for Budweiser parent ignites nationalist sentiments in the US 14 June 2008 Report on Pfizer move buoys Ranbaxy stock to a 3-year high 13 June 2008 SABMiller acquires Russia's LLC Vladpivo 13 June 2008 Yahoo strikes $800-million ad deal with Google, ends talks with Microsoft 13 June 2008 Esmark rejects Severstal bid, accepts Essar's revised $750 million offer 13 June 2008 Abu Dhabi fund looking to buy New York’s iconic Chrysler Building for $800 million 13 June 2008 Biotechnology giant Invitrogen plans to acquire peer Applied Biosystems for $6.7 billion 12 June 2008 Sterlite has US government backing for Asarco acquisition 12 June 2008 Behind the Ranbaxy sale 12 June 2008 InBev bids for US brewer Anheuser-Busch for $46.3 billion 12 June 2008 Nuon buys ConocoPhillips's stake in 35 gas field's through acquisition of Burlington Resources 12 June 2008 Essar to trump Severstal with a $19 per share offer for Esmark 12 June 2008 3M buys German dental care company for undisclosed sum 12 June 2008 Goldman Sachs buys 93,000 German apartments for $1.2 billion to give out on rent 12 June 2008 Gammon India takes controlling stakes in two Italian firms 11 June 2008 Staples to acquire Corporate Express for $2.65 billion; form world's top office supplier 11 June 2008 This is the start of a much larger game 11 June 2008 Esmark to decide on Severstal's $1.24-billion offer by 13 June 11 June 2008 Ranbaxy struck deal at appropriate time: PwC 11 June 2008 Japan's Daiichi Sankyo to acquire majority stake in Ranbaxy 11 June 2008 Shareholders offer to sell half of Ford Motor's stock to Kerkorian 11 June 2008 Cisco to acquire Danish video technology company DiviTech for undisclosed sum 11 June 2008 Grasim to sell sponge iron unit to Welspun Power for Rs1,030 crore 11 June 2008 XTO Energy to buy Hunt Petroleum in $4.19 billion cash-stock deal 10 June 2008 Medical equipment manufacturer Hologic buys Third Wave for $580 million 10 June 2008 Tata Motors plans more acquisitions; to raise $1 billion overseas 10 June 2008 Severstal arranges $900 million bridge loan for Esmark bid 09 June 2008 Cognizant acquires Strategic Vision Consulting, strengthens consulting capabilities in media, entertainment 09 June 2008 Applied Materials offers up to $500 million for part of Netherland's ASMI 09 June 2008 Spencer’s partners UK-based Woolworths for Chad Valley toy retail brand 09 June 2008 RComm, MTN in share-swap talks: Reports 09 June 2008 Icahn asks Yahoo to sell to Microsoft for $49.5 billion 07 June 2008 Essar to raise offer for Esmark 07 June 2008 Idea Cellular to help Modi's exit from Spice Communications 07 June 2008 Regulators begin review of BHP's proposal to merge Rio Tinto 07 June 2008 Taro selling Irish assets to thwart merger: Sun Pharma 06 June 2008 Telekom Malaysia may gain management control of Spice 06 June 2008 SABMiller and Molson Coors get antitrust approval for MillerCoors joint venture 06 June 2008 Deere to become world's third largest irrigatipon system maker after Plastro acquisition 06 June 2008 Verizon Wireless signs $28.1-billion acquisition agreement for Alltel 06 June 2008 Disney bridges digital divide, combines digital media and gaming divisions 06 June 2008 Bank of America’s $4-billion acquisition of mortgage lender Countrywide cleared 06 June 2008 Mahindra to acquire Italian engineering and design firm Engines Engineering 05 June 2008 France Telecom makes $42-billion bid for TeliaSonera to become Europe’s No.1 05 June 2008 CVC buys over 25 per cent stake in Evonik for $3.71 billion 05 June 2008 Verizon eyes Alltel in a $27-billion deal 05 June 2008 P&G sells Folgers coffee to J M Smucker in reverse transaction 04 June 2008 Reliance Communications may rope in PE firms for MTN link-up: report 04 June 2008 Novartis buys US drug firm Protez for around $400 million 04 June 2008 Spice Communications looking at options 04 June 2008 Vodafone offers $2.5 billion to increase its stake by 12.5 per cent in South Africa’s Vodacom 04 June 2008 Emami makes open offer for Zandu Pharma at Rs7,315 a share 03 June 2008 Spice willing for Telekom Malaysia raising stake to 74 per cent 03 June 2008 Punj Lloyd acquires 74 per cent stake in UK's Technodyne International 03 June 2008 Yahoo had spurned Microsoft's $40 bid: unsealed court papers 03 June 2008 Bosch to take 50.5 per cent in solar cell maker Ersol for $847 million 02 June 2008 China Unicom to buy fixed line operator Netcom for $23.9 billion in stock 02 June 2008 Mylan Inc. acquires Merck KGaA's central eastern European generics businesses 02 June 2008 Tata Motors becomes new owner of Jaguar, Land Rover 02 June 2008 Crompton Greaves buys French firm Sonomatra for Euro 1.3 million 02 June 2008 Times of India group buys Virgin Radio in UK for $105 million 02 June 2008 Harris Corporation denies offering itself for acquisition 02 June 2008 DP World completes buyout of Chennai Container Terminal 02 June 2008 Sterlite to acquire third-largest US copper producer Asarco for $2.6 billion 31 May 2008 Rocket maker Khrunichev takes control of US-Russian satellite launch firm ILS 31 May 2008 Australia’s Origin Energy rejects A$13.6 billion offer from UK’s BG Group 31 May 2008 United Airlines calls off merger talks with US Airways, looking at Continental alliance 31 May 2008 Kerkorian reasserts faith in Ford; goes ahead with tender offer without escape clause 30 May 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb to buy anti-cancer drug maker Kosan Biosciences for $190 million 30 May 2008 Deere acquires leading drip irrigation company; expands water technologies business 30 May 2008 Zydus Cadila acquires Spanish drug firm Laboratories Combix 30 May 2008 After six months, IFCI looking to sell, again 30 May 2008 MTN eyes 74 per cent in RComm in stock-and-cash deal 30 May 2008 Learning Tree up for sale 29 May 2008 Sun Pharma warns of legal action against Taro for stalling merger 29 May 2008 Yahoo is willing to partner Microsoft, says Yang 29 May 2008 UAE's Ithmar Capital to raise $1 billion for buy-outs 28 May 2008 Tata Motors to raise Rs9,770 crore to fund Jaguar-Land Rover acquisition 28 May 2008 LG, Haier frontrunners for GE appliances unit: Immelt 28 May 2008 SRF to acquire Thai tyre-cord maker Thai Baroda Industries 28 May 2008 Chemtura in talks with PE firms Blackstone, Apollo 28 May 2008 ArcelorMittal may bid $4 billion for full control of Macarthur Coal 28 May 2008 Tatas, Essar among 5 global steel makers still in fray for Indonesia’s Krakatau Steel 27 May 2008 Ranbaxy's Religare completes 97-per cent acquisition of UK broking firm Hichens for £56 million 27 May 2008 Murchison trumps Sinosteel's A$1.36 billion bid for Australia's Midwest Corp 27 May 2008 Overseas funding for global M&As by Indian corporates raises insolvency regime issues 27 May 2008 HSBC pushes for $6.3-billion Korean deal with warning to pull out 27 May 2008 Hitachi president rules out buying GE's appliances unit 26 May 2008 Reliance Communications acquires UK network operator Vanco for $77 million 26 May 2008 Marubeni acquires KMA Manufacturing to diversify into steel mills maintenance in the US 26 May 2008 Reliance Communications in acquisition talks with MTN after Bharti withdraws 26 May 2008 Geojit exits commodities businesses for acquisition by BNP 24 May 2008 Videocon in talks to acquire Motorola's handset business 24 May 2008 Videocon weighs probable bid for GE's appliance business 24 May 2008 Daiichi Sankyo to acquire German biotech firm for $235 million 23 May 2008 Digital entertainment firm Electronic Arts acquires Korea's Hands-On Mobile 23 May 2008 Yahoo postpones meeting 23 May 2008 Del Monte says might offload StarKist 23 May 2008 Philips sells majority stake in medical transcription company to CBay 23 May 2008 ArcelorMittal: Two years after the mega merger 23 May 2008 BCE buyout hits another bump as court upholds debt-holders' claim 22 May 2008 NRG Energy offers to acquire Calpine for $11.3 billion 22 May 2008 Corporate Express to buy out Lyreco, form world's top office products supplier 21 May 2008 Suzlon Energy may offload part stake in REpower 21 May 2008 FMC Corp. acquires hydrocolloids business of International Specialty Products for undisclosed sum 21 May 2008 Russia's Severstal makes rival bid to Essar's bid for Esmark 21 May 2008 Deutsche Telekom, Russia's Vimpel eying MTN: report 21 May 2008 Jet Airways ties up with American major United Airlines 21 May 2008 Record venture capital and heated deal environment propel global biotechnology industry forward in 2007 20 May 2008 Microsoft proposes to buy Yahoo's search business 20 May 2008 Bharti plans new venture with SingTel to acquire MTN: report 20 May 2008 Private equity firm Carlyle Group acquires government business of Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 billion 19 May 2008 Manitowoc trumps ITW's $2 billion bid for kitchen equipment maker Enodis 19 May 2008 Media giant AOL grabs networking site Bebo for $850 million 19 May 2008 USA: denimXworks Inc acquires Habitual 19 May 2008 Champagne Indage acquires Darlington Wines in UK 19 May 2008 Microsoft returns with alternative offer for Yahoo! 19 May 2008 Champagne Indage makes its third Australian acquisition; buys premium winery VineCrest 17 May 2008 Motorola's chief strategy and technology officer becomes the latest senior executive to quit 17 May 2008 German copper company Norddeutsche Affinerie buys Cumerio for about $770 million 17 May 2008 McNally to take 68 per cent in Sayaji for Rs68 crore 17 May 2008 Vodafone acquires social networking company ZYB for €31.5 million ($48.7 million) 17 May 2008 HSBC to acquire 73.21 per cent stake in brokerage IL&FS for Rs1000 crore 17 May 2008 Tata Teleservices looking to sell 49 per cent of tower business for Rs8,200 crore; SREI's Quippo may be likely buyer 17 May 2008 GE confirms options for appliances business 16 May 2008 British Energy receives takeover bids valuing it at more than $21 billion 16 May 2008 EC clears TomTom's $4.5 billion Tele Atlas buyout; may have a different yardstick for Nokia’s proposed $8.1 billion acquisition of Navteq 16 May 2008 German-Indian consortium to buy 70 per cent in state-run Bulgarian shipping company 16 May 2008 Text of Carl Icahn's letter to Yahoo! Inc. chairman Roy Bostock 16 May 2008 Icahn seeks FTC clearance to acquire $2.5 billion worth Yahoo! stock; threatens proxy fight 16 May 2008 Australia's Indophil rejects Xstrata's $399 million offer 15 May 2008 Media giant CBS acquires Internet content firm CNET for $1.8 billion 15 May 2008 HP snaps at IBM's heels with EDS merger 15 May 2008 General Electric to sell appliance business: report 15 May 2008 Delta-Northwest merger comes under US Congress scanner 15 May 2008 L&T sells ready-mix concrete business to Lafarge for Rs1,480 crore 15 May 2008 AC coil manufacturer Lloyd Electric makes Czech acquisition for undisclosed sum 14 May 2008 Kinetic Motor spurts on news of M&M's buyout talks 14 May 2008 Sunil Mittal may opt for merger rather than a takeover of MTN 14 May 2008 Intercell to acquire Iomai Corporation for $189 million 13 May 2008 Bharti seeks Gulf funds for MTN bid as UAE's Etisalat plans to join race 13 May 2008 Italian defence giant Finmeccanica acquires US-based DRS Technologies for $5.2 billion 13 May 2008 Chinese steelmakers close in on Australian iron ore giant Fortescue 13 May 2008 HP set to acquire EDS for over $12 billion 13 May 2008 Etisalat, Telcel, Altimo vie for $1 billion stake in Tata Tele 13 May 2008 Vodafone refuses to pursue MTN bid much to Bharti’s relief 12 May 2008 Cablevision looks to acquire Newsday as News Corp withdraws bid 12 May 2008 Bajaj Auto, Renault-Nissan alliance to build ultra-low cost cars at Chakan plant 12 May 2008 GM and Isuzu form new joint venture to boost Chevrolet sales in Colombia 12 May 2008 Carlyle buys Greek chemicals business Neochimiki for $1.15 billion 10 May 2008 US bank Sovereign looking to raise $1.5 billion; may lose management control to Santander 10 May 2008 Heidelberg to merge itself and Indorama with Mysore Cements 10 May 2008 ArcelorMittal files suit against Esmark / E2 over failed Sparrows Point sale 10 May 2008 Blockbuster looking to acquire Circuit City for $1.35 billion 10 May 2008 Italy's Finmeccanica looking to buy US defence electronics contractor DRS Technologies for $3 billion 10 May 2008 Bharti closer to $20-billion MTN deal as major shareholder Mikati expresses confidence 10 May 2008 IBM to acquire arsenal Digital Solutions 09 May 2008 Bharti’s proposed acquisition of MTN runs into pre-condition hurdle 09 May 2008 Jubilant Organosys acquires Speciality Molecules for about Rs20 crore 08 May 2008 Enzon Pharma to spin off biotechnology business 08 May 2008 Microsoft looks at Facebook after losing Yahoo! 08 May 2008 American British Continental: easy as ABC, but does it add up in the sky, asks CAPA 07 May 2008 ArcelorMittal weighs tie-up with China's Angang Steel 07 May 2008 Bharti in talks for a controlling stake in South Africa's MTN 06 May 2008 Yahoo says open to takeover; blames Microsoft chief for aborting talks 06 May 2008 Adlabs acquires majority stake in Malaysian cinema chain 06 May 2008 Freescale acquires SigmaTel for $110 million cash payment 05 May 2008 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's letter to Yahoo! co founder and CEO Jerry Yang 05 May 2008 Microsoft withdraws from Yahoo!; shareholders restive with Yang 05 May 2008 Divested from Pfizer, Esperion Therapeutics completes $22.75-million series A financing 03 May 2008 Bristol-Myers Squibb sells ConvaTec to PE firms for $4.1 billion 03 May 2008 Engineering design firm Autodesk to acquire moulding software company Moldflow 03 May 2008 Citi, State Street Sell Joint Venture CitiStreet for $900 million 03 May 2008 Microsoft to raise bid for Yahoo! to $33 per share 03 May 2008 Former off-highways unit returns to Daimler fold 03 May 2008 MindTree to acquire majority stake in Aztecsoft 02 May 2008 Reliance Power acquires three Indonesian coal mines in novel payment deal 02 May 2008 Essar Steel to acquire American steelmaker Esmark for $669 million 01 May 2008 Reliance takes 90 per cent stake in Peruvian oil block 30 April 2008 BG bids $12.9 billion for Australia's Origin Energy 30 April 2008 Dr Reddy's acquires BASF's contract manufacturing business in US 30 April 2008 Honeywell to acquire Metrologic Instruments from Francisco Partners 30 April 2008 HSBC gets more time to acquire Lone Star stake in Korea Exchange Bank 29 April 2008 3i Infotech to acquire largest independent remittance provider Regulus Group 29 April 2008 Tata Power refinances bridge loan taken for acquisition of 30 per cent stake in Indonesian coal miners Kaltim, Arutmin 29 April 2008 Dubai Group acquires 40-per cent in Chiranjjeevi Wind Energy 28 April 2008 Warren Buffet, Mars acquire Wrigley for $22 billion 28 April 2008 Perot Systems expands European footprint; acquires Germany's HighQ-IT 26 April 2008 New York Daily News owner matches Murdoch's $580 offer for Newsday 26 April 2008 Bharti Airtel may bid for South Africa's MTN for overseas expansion 26 April 2008 Shaw Wallace shareholders approve merger with United Spirits 25 April 2008 Rusal acquires 25 per cent stake in Norilsk 25 April 2008 Microsoft reports declining sales; sticks to original Yahoo offer 25 April 2008 Muruguppa Group offloads Parryware Rocca stake to JV partner for Rs705 crore 25 April 2008 Cabinet approves Bharat Refractories merger with SAIL 25 April 2008 Berlusconi promises rescue - and also job cuts - at Alitalia 24 April 2008 CVC Capital to buy 73 per cent in Dutch retailer Schuitema for $1.1 billion 24 April 2008 Apple to buy chip maker PA Semi for $278 million; US military may object to deal 24 April 2008 Reliance Globalcom acquires 90 per cent in UK WiMAX operator eWave 24 April 2008 Bombay Rayon to acquire `Guru' brand in Italy for €33 million 24 April 2008 GlaxoSmithKline acquires Sirtris Pharmaceuticals 24 April 2008 Private equity firm TPG divests leather products maker Bally 23 April 2008 Microsoft's Ballmer unimpressed by Yahoo results; won't raise price, can live without deal 23 April 2008 General Electric CEO resists calls to sell of company units in face of record losses 23 April 2008 Murdoch keeps option to join Microsoft for Yahoo bid 22 April 2008 Ranbaxy forces Orchid into an alliance 22 April 2008 Biocon close to finalising AxiCorp acquisition; establishes cardiology division 22 April 2008 France Telecom looking to acquire TeliaSonera in $38 billion deal 21 April 2008 Global M&As cross 11,000 deals valued at with $1 trillion in Q1 2008 21 April 2008 1 June 2008 to be cut-off date for Kingfisher-Deccan merger 21 April 2008 Dabur Pharma to sell majority stake to Singapore-based Fresenius Kabi Pte Ltd 19 April 2008 Berlusconi puts Aeroflot back into the reckoning for Alitalia 18 April 2008 Israeli telecom firm Koor intends to buy stake in Tata Teleservices 18 April 2008 Semiconductor war hots up: Sumitomo committed to acquire Axcelis 18 April 2008 Bhuwalka Steel acquires Benaka Sponge Iron for Rs10 crore 17 April 2008 Delta Airlines-Northwest deal merger announcement raises some questions 17 April 2008 Thomson completes Reuters acquisition; forms Thomson Reuters 17 April 2008 Delta-Northwest merger: Just the tip of the iceberg? 17 April 2008 Majority shareholder offers to buy out Corel; offer criticized as being too low 17 April 2008 Delta-Northwest merger to affect India services of both airlines 16 April 2008 The Delta - Northwest merger 16 April 2008 Nicholas Piramal buys two Khandelwal Laboratories brands for Rs116 crore 16 April 2008 Chinese fund buys into BP 15 April 2008 Delta, Northwest merger decision to create world's largest airline 15 April 2008 Sify to raise $57 million through stake sale to Ananda Vegesna's Infinity Satcom Universal 15 April 2008 Why Ranbaxy fancies Orchid 14 April 2008 Russia's largest steel maker Severstal to split into threeunits; plans acquisitions overseas 14 April 2008 Aditya Birla Group increases stake in AV Cell Inc, AV Nackawic Inc. 14 April 2008 Reliance in talks with Chevron, Exxon, BG for KG field stake sale 14 April 2008 Ranbaxy group closer to 15 per cent stake in Orchid 14 April 2008 Emami seeks mid-size acquisitions for growth 14 April 2008 STMicro and Philips unit NXP to merge $3 billion wireless chip operations 12 April 2008 JK Tyre buys Mexican tyre maker Tornel for Rs270 crore 12 April 2008 Atlas Copco acquires stake in two drilling technology companies in India 12 April 2008 Tata Steel offers to acquire Brazilian ore miner AVG 11 April 2008 Ranbaxy's Solrex picks up 1 per cent more in Orchid Chemicals 11 April 2008