Sumitomo Mitsui Finance & Leasing Co. agreed to buy General Electric Co.’s Japanese leasing business for about $4.8 billion, rounding off the country’s biggest year for acquisitions since 2012. The unit of...
Shell’s Record Takeover of BG Clears Final Antitrust Hurdle
Royal Dutch Shell Plc got clearance from antitrust authorities in China for the takeover of BG Group Plc, removing the final regulatory hurdle for its biggest-ever deal. The clearance from China’s Ministry of Commerce...
Newell Rubbermaid to Acquire Jarden for $15.4 Billion
Newell Rubbermaid Inc. agreed to buy Jarden Corp. for about $15.4 billion, creating a consumer-products giant with a sprawling portfolio that will use its increased size to cut costs and bolster investment in its most...
Draghi’s Plan to Buy Regional Bonds Seen as Mere Side Dish
The European Central Bank’s decision to buy regional and municipal debt may do little to enhance its quantitative-easing program. The lion’s share of those bonds come from Germany’s 16 Federal states and Spain’s...
Raymond James to Buy Deutsche Bank U.S. Private-Client Unit
Raymond James Financial Inc. agreed to buy Deutsche Bank AG’s U.S. private-client services unit, adding offices in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region. Haig Ariyan, co-head of wealth management in the Americas for...
Motorola Agrees to Buy U.K.’s Airwave for $1.2 Billion
Motorola Solutions Inc. agreed to buy Airwave Solutions Ltd., a U.K. communication services provider, for about $1.2 billion to help build out its software and services business. Motorola expects to make a net cash...
Teva to Sell $6.75 Billion in Stock to Buy Allergan Unit, Rimsa
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is selling about $6.75 billion worth of ordinary and preferred shares to fund its takeover of Allergan Plc’s generic-drug business as well as other acquisition-related expenses. The...
Expobank to Buy RBS’s Russian Assets as Foreign Banks Retreat
Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc agreed to sell its Russian banking assets to Expobank LLC for an undisclosed amount as it joins an increasing number of foreign financial firms leaving the country. Expobank will...
General Atlantic, Warburg Buy Stake in U.A.E. Payments Firm
General Atlantic LLC and Warburg Pincus LLC, two U.S. private equity firms, acquired a 49 percent stake in United Arab Emirates-based payments processing company Network International LLC. Emirates NBD, which...
Greencoat U.K. Wind Acquires Scottish Wind Farm for $128 Million
Greencoat U.K. Wind Plc, a London-based listed fund, bought the Stroupster wind farm in Scotland from BayWa r.e. Renewable Energy GmbH for 85 million pounds ($128 million). The onshore wind farm has a capacity of 30...
M&A Leaks Fall to Lowest in Six Years in Regulatory Crackdown
The number of times investors found out about takeovers before deal announcements fell to the lowest level in six years in 2014 as stronger regulation discouraged gossip, according to a report that examines suspicious...
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...
