Jan 07, 2017
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc and teen apparel store chain Forever 21 Inc are among the companies weighing offers to acquire bankrupt American Apparel LLC, people familiar with the talks said on Wednesday.
Dec 30, 2016
Britain avoided a collapse in mergers and acquisitions activity after the shock Brexit vote as foreign companies used sterling's spectacular devaluation against the U.S. dollar to snap up British companies, Thomson Reuters data shows.
Dec 28, 2016
Fuelled by a consolidation wave and rising confidence in the country's economic growth prospects, merger, and acquisition (M&A) activity increased to $69.75 billion across 1,195 announced transactions in 2016, beating the previous record of $66.96...
Dec 26, 2016
GMR Enterprises Pvt. Ltd, holding company of the infrastructure conglomerate GMR Group, has raised Rs220 crore in structured debt financing from Russian bank VTB Capital, said two people aware of the development.
Dec 22, 2016
Nobody will disagree that the past 12 months have been among the most difficult that India's start-ups, especially those vested with lofty billion-dollar valuations on paper, have experienced in a while.
Dec 16, 2016
Burgers and coffee: It's not the worst thing in the world, but it probably wouldn't be your first choice for a meal either, right? That's how I feel about the merger between Burger King and Tim Hortons, which was engineered by Brazilian private equity...
Dec 14, 2016
The mastermind behind the biggest overseas acquisition by a South African mining company for 15 years promises more to come. "There must be more expansion," Sibanye Gold Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Neal Froneman, 56, said in an interview.
Dec 12, 2016
Healthcare group Paras Healthcare, which runs Paras Hospitals in north India, has started talks with private equity (PE) funds to raise about Rs350-400 crore to finance expansion, two people aware of the matter said.
Dec 09, 2016
Russia sold a €10.2-billion ($11 billion) stake in its largest oil producer to commodity trader Glencore Plc and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund in a triumph for President Vladimir Putin, who announced the deal on state television personally.
Dec 07, 2016
As the currency demonetisation announcement, last month occupied both mind as well as news space, one far-reaching development in the banking sector slipped under the radar.