Tide Water was founded almost 90 years ago by an eponymous US company in partnership with Andrew Yule. The US parent went through several takeovers until it ceased to exist by that name in the 1950’s. Hostile...
ON Semiconductor to Buy Fairchild for $2.4 Billion in Cash
ON Semiconductor Corp. agreed to buy Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. for $2.4 billion, the latest in a spate of more than $90 billion of deals in the global chip industry in the past year as companies combine...
Pfizer Said Near Agreement to Buy Allergan in Biggest Deal
Pfizer Inc. is in advanced talks to buy Allergan Plc for as much as $380 per share, according to people familiar with the matter, valuing the Botox maker at as high as $150 billion in what would be the drug industry’s...
Pfizer Said Near Agreement to Buy Allergan in Biggest Deal
Pfizer Inc. is in advanced talks to buy Allergan Plc for as much as $380 per share, according to people familiar with the matter, valuing the Botox maker at as high as $150 billion in what would be the drug industry’s...
Billionaire Louis-Dreyfus to Weigh Selling a Stake in Firm
The billionaire who controls Louis Dreyfus Commodities BV is considering selling a minority stake in the trading house to external investors as she weighs options for financing the buyout of remaining family...
Amtek Auto may sell Tekfor for Rs 6,000 crore
Debt-ridden Amtek Auto might end up selling Tekfor, the German forging company it acquired in 2013, for Rs 6,000 crore. The Delhi-based automobile component maker is looking to receive bids from about a dozen bidders...
Cipla, Glenmark in race for hived-off Teva-Allergan generics in US
Indian drug makers such as CiplaBSE 0.87 % and GlenmarkBSE 0.16 % are among some 30 companies bidding for tens of products to be hived off in the US, the world’s biggest pharma market, as part of Teva’s...
Warburg Pincus to invest up to $300 mln in Vertice Pharma
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC said on Tuesday it had agreed to invest up to $300 million in Vertice Pharma, a British pharmaceuticals company that will focus on buying drug makers and their products. Vertice...
France’s Air Liquide to buy U.S. peer Airgas in $13.4 bln deal
France’s Air Liquide said on Tuesday it will buy U.S. peer Airgas Inc in a $13.4 billion deal including debt that will boost its footprint in the U.S. market, the world’s top industrial gases market. The...
Piper Jaffray to Acquire Simmons for Energy Dealmaking Push
Piper Jaffray Cos., the investment bank founded in 1895, agreed to buy Simmons & Co. for dealmaking in the energy industry. Piper Jaffray will add more than 170 professionals offering merger-and-acquisition advice...
Piramal Abbott Story : Deal Impact
In 2010, Ajay Piramal promoted Piramal Healthcare sold off its main formulation business to Abbott India for over INR 17,000 crore and announced a buy-back of up to 20% of outstanding share capital of the company at INR...
Canadian gold miner Kirkland Lake to buy St Andrew Goldfields
Kirkland Lake Gold Inc agreed on Monday to purchase fellow Canadian gold miner St Andrew Goldfields Ltd in an all-share deal valued at around C$178 million ($133.54 million) to create a mid-sized, Ontario-focused gold...