M&A News

The British Airport Authority (BAA) is likely to attract massive interest from any number of infrastructure companies, after the UK's Competition Commission called for the divestment... 2008-08-21

Yet more moves in the steel industry this week, as one of Russia's leading steel makers, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), agrees to pay US$3.5bn for US rival John Maneely Company, in a bid... 2008-08-13

On August 5 Russian billionaires Mikhail Prokhorov and Vladimir Potanin announced a US$10bn swap of cash and stock which will entail Potanin buying a 16.7% stake in Russia's biggest... 2008-08-07

Sweden's Modern Times Group (MTG) has agreed to purchase Nova TV Bulgaria for EUR620mn (US$966mn). The all cash deal will expand MTG's reach into Europe. It already has a stake in... 2008-07-30

Anglo-South African brewer SABMiller has announced that it has completed its acquisition of Ukrainian brewer CJSC Sarmat. SABMiller reached an agreement to purchase 99.84% of the... 2008-07-17

Hungarian oil and gas company MOL stated on July 14 that it would launch a public offer for all of the shares in Croatian oil company INA Industrija Nafte that are not owned by the... 2008-07-16

Russian mobile services provider VimpelCom has increased its stake in Kazakhstan-based telecoms operator Kar-Tel to 75%, in a bid to increase its share of the booming Kazakhstan market.... 2008-07-10

German global healthcare group Fresenius SE made a big step into the US generics on July 7, by agreeing to buy US generics specialist APP Pharmaceuticals in a deal worth an estimated... 2008-07-08

Boris Zilbermints, Deputy General Director of Russia's Gazprom Neft, has confirmed that the company is looking to acquire shares in Kazakhstan's MangistauMunaiGaz (MMG), alongside... 2008-07-07

On June 30 the United Arab Emirates' Dubai World and Russia's Roskummunenergo jointly bid US$5.34bn for OGK-1. The company is the last of Russia's wholesale power producers for sale... 2008-07-02