Mergers and Acquisitions
Mergers and Acquisitions Articles
Discount store operator Dollar Tree has entered a definitive merger agreement with Family Dollar Stores under which the former will acquire the latter.
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ThinkstockWith all the news and hope around SodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA), it may be of little surprise that news has surfaced that the company could be taken private at $40 per share....
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ThinkstockCIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) may have delivered on beating its earnings expectations, but this is just a tiny fraction of the story here. CIT’s acquisition of the parent company of OneWest...
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In a sharply worded press release Monday morning, Valeant Pharmaceuticals said that it "can no longer tolerate" statements from Allergan that are "attempts to mislead investors."
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ThinkstockHedge fund manager John Paulson spoke at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha conference on Wednesday, offering keen insight in the current merger environment. Paulson signaled...
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Wikimedia CommonsThe General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) operations of today are becoming far different from the old General Electric operations of the prior generations. The company is already in the...
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Reports Wednesday morning that Twenty-First Century Fox made an $85 per share offer to acquire Time Warner sent shares of Time Warner soaring in Wednesday morning trading.
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Reports that Twenty-First Century Fox made an $85 per share offer to acquire Time Warner sent shares of Time Warner soaring Wednesday morning. We might be on the lookout for more offers like this.
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Tuesday morning's announcement of the $27.4 billion acquisition by Reynolds American of follow tobacco products maker Lorillard did not light up investors' spirits.
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Investors are waiting to hear how LinkedIn is going to grow, and that is very likely one of the motivators behind the company's announced acquisition of privately held Newsle.
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PetSmart may be trading more on outside forces than it is off of fundamentals. That is the take of Bank of America Merrill Lynch at any rate.
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Add one more to the litany of pharmaceutical company mergers that are being made to avoid U.S. taxes. Mylan's existing business with part of Abbott's generic drug business.
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Savings and scale appear to be the primary reasons behind the impending merger of Kodiak Oil & Gas and Whiting Petroleum, that he two exploration and production companies announced Sunday.
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thinkstockThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has named its investigative teams to review whether or not the massive media mergers that have been announced are actually in the public interest...
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Agricultural products giant Archer Daniels Midland announced Monday morning that it will acquire Switzerland-based WILD Flavors for about $3 billion in cash and about $136 million in debt.
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