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.
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....
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...
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."
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.