3i Group has made an irrevocable offer to Barclays Bank to acquire Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management (BIFM), its European infrastructure fund management business, in what would be a 'significant ...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer speaks in New York, May 20, 2013. Yahoo! pressed on with its shopping spree on Thursday with the acquisition of a startup that powers games played on smartphones, tablets, consoles ...

Elan rejected Royalty Pharma's increased $6.4 billion bid on Thursday, shortly after the U.S. firm cut the acceptance bar for its latest offer to 50 percent plus one share. Royalty raised its hostile cash ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) (Elan) today announced that its Board of Directors, after careful review and consideration and with the assistance of its executive management ...

OSLO, May 23 (Reuters) - Norwegian fish farmer Cermaq said on Thursday it had initiated talks with bigger rival Marine Harvest about a potential deal, but that it also established dialogue with other interested ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Carrefour , Europe's largest retailer, is in advanced talks to divest its remaining 25-percent stake in its Middle Eastern joint venture to local partner Majid Al Futtaim (MAF), two sources ...

West Africa-focused miner Afferro has agreed to a $190 million cash-and-paper offer from investment group IMIC that could pave the way for development of its flagship iron ore project. The deal is unique ...

Shares in chip designer ARM Holdings were under heavy selling pressure on Wednesday following the group's investor day this week, with a number of brokers choosing to remain cautious on the name given ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao staked his reputation on selling the group's prized stake in U.S. operator Verizon Wireless at the right time and right price, saying on Tuesday he would ...

By Sinead Carew (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp (S.N) raised its buyout offer for wireless service provider Clearwire Corp (CLWR.O) to $3.40 per share, but the new bid was not high enough to impress some ...

OSLO (Reuters) - Marine Harvest , the world's biggest fish farmer, may raise its $1.7 billion bid for rival Cermaq if the target company's shareholders drop plans to take over Peruvian fish feed maker ...

* Marine Harvest says ready to improve offer * Urges Cermaq shareholder to reject Copeinca deal * China Fishery says may raise its Copeinca offer OSLO, May 21 (Reuters) - Marine Harvest, the world's biggest ...

By Mari Saito TOKYO (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp said its Japanese suitor SoftBank Corp granted it a waiver allowing it to consider a $25.5 billion rival bid by Dish Network Corp, as pressure mounts ...

Generic photo for illustration shows an employee filling blister packs with capsules at a laboratory in Forbach, eastern France on March 13, 2013. US pharmaceutical company Actavis has agreed to an all-stock ...

Generic photo for illustration shows an employee filling blister packs with capsules at a laboratory in Forbach, eastern France on March 13, 2013. US pharmaceutical company Actavis has agreed to an all-stock ...

By Caroline Humer (Reuters) - Generic drugmaker Actavis Inc (ACT.N), itself the subject of takeover speculation, said on Monday it would buy specialty pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott Plc (WCRX.O) ...

Generic photo for illustration shows an employee filling blister packs with capsules at a laboratory in Forbach, eastern France on March 13, 2013. US pharmaceutical company Actavis has agreed to an all-stock ...

DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESSWIRE)-- Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG), the largest retail drugstore chain in the United States, and Alliance Boots GmbH, a leading international pharmacy-led health and ...

British healthcare property owner Assura Group said on Friday it had received a takeover approach from rival MedicX Fund, sending its shares higher. Assura said that MedicX had proposed an all-share deal ...

Morrisons has announced a 25-year deal with Ocado that will allow the supermarket chain to launch an online grocery service by January.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Independent western U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp may take ownership of BP Plc's 240,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery in Carson, California, as early as June 1, sources familiar ...

Independent western U.S. refiner Tesoro Corp may take ownership of BP Plc's 240,000 barrel per day refinery in Carson, California, as early as June 1, sources familiar with the transaction said on Thursday. ...

By Clara Ferreira-Marques and Emma Farge LONDON/ZUG, Switzerland (Reuters) - A shareholder coup at newly merged commodities group Glencore Xstrata ousted its chairman and all former Xstrata directors on ...

AIM-listed mineral resource company Ormonde Mining has reported that the option period for a possible agreement with the Spanish company Nueva Tharsis SA relating to the potential divestment of the company's ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will decide by June 20 whether to clear a bid by Delta Air Lines for a 49 percent stake in Virgin Atlantic, which would help Delta to better compete with rivals ...

By Soyoung Kim and Olivia Oran NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dish Network Corp has lined up four banks to finance its $25.5 billion (16.7 billion pounds) bid for Sprint Nextel Corp, escalating the bidding war against ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Severn Trent rejected a takeover offer on Wednesday that sources with direct knowledge of the bid valued at just under 20 pounds per share, setting the scene for an extended battle for ...

Water company Severn Trent has rejected a takeover from a consortium of foreign and British buyers. "The board of Severn Trent has reviewed the proposal with its advisers and concluded that it completely ...

By Anjuli Davies LONDON (Reuters) - Severn Trent (SVT.L) rejected a preliminary takeover offer from a consortium including Borealis infrastructure and the Kuwait Investment Office, saying the offer undervalued ...

Medical devices maker Smith & Nephew is to hand back cash to shareholders through a $300 million share repurchase programme. The supplier of artificial hips and knees announced the buyback on Thursday ...

By John Irish and Leila Abboud PARIS (Reuters) - France's industry minister said he had blocked Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) plan to buy a majority stake in online video website Dailymotion because the U.S. group ...

By Greg Roumeliotis and Soyoung Kim NEW YORK (Reuters) - A private equity group made up of Bain Capital LLC and Golden Gate Capital Corp has emerged as the lead contender to buy BMC Software Inc (BMC.O) ...

By Mari Saito and Sinead Carew TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - SoftBank Corp (9984.T) President Masayoshi Son came out swinging on Tuesday against Dish Network Corp's (DISH.O) rival bid for Sprint Nextel Corp ...