Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions Articles

Catamaran, a provider of pharmacy benefit management services and technology solutions, announced Monday morning that it has agreed to merge with OptumRx.
Dow Chemical announced that it has decided to split off and sell its chlorine business to Olin, which will make Olin the largest chlorine producer in the world.
Perhaps it was one of those marriages that was inevitable. That is what the announced merger between Kraft Foods and H.J. Heinz seems to amount to.
Reports that renewed takeover chatter has surfaced around Rite Aid have sent shares higher.
24/7 Wall St. takes a look at six potential mergers that investors and activist investors would love to see in the months or years ahead.
Vitesse Semiconductory has announced that it will be acquired by Microsemi in an all-cash offer of $5.28 per share.
Salix Pharmaceuticals and Valeant Pharmaceuticals have announced that they had entered into an agreement on their plan to merge based on a new price for Salix shares.
Stocks are still very close to all-time highs, and this bull market is now six years old. It turns out that some stocks made unusual moves last week.
A new bid from Endo International has made the merger situation around Salix Pharmaceuticals much more complicated.
Whiting Petroleum shares have taken a huge jump in Monday's trading session on reported rumors that it is shopping for a buyout.
Alcoa announced Monday morning that it would acquire RTI International Metals in a stock-for-stock transaction that values RTI at $1.5 billion.
Here are three biotech stocks that a SunTrust analyst feels could be buyout candidates, in the wake of the Pharmacyclics acquisition.
Wikimedia CommonsStaples Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLS) is scheduled to report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings Friday morning before the markets open. Thomson Reuters has consensus estimates of $0.30 in...
News finally broke late Wednesday that there was an official buyout of Pharmacyclics in the works by AbbVie for $21 billion.
Shareholder Starboard Value has released a letter to Staples commending its turnaround efforts, but also asking for more.