Norway

VimpelCom shareholder, Oleg Kiselev, has sold his 6% stake in the operator to Ukrainian tycoon Viktor Punchuk. Pubchuk owns EastOne, which controls Ukraine's biggest steel pipe... 2012-01-17

CFW View: A US$1.6bn transaction between Statoil and Centrica is likely to be accretive for both companies. For Centrica, the deal represents further upstream expansion as well as an... 2011-11-21

With Shell divesting its stake in the Norwgian mid-stream gas venture Gassled it allowed yet another major public Canadian pension fund to get a foothold in the European energy infrastructure... 2011-09-06

Anglo-Dutch major Royal Dutch Shell is to sell its stake in Norway's Gassled natural gas pipeline to Infragas Norge, a subsidiary of Canada's Public Sector Pension Investment Board... 2011-09-02

Scandinavian retailer ICA, which is 60%-owned by Netherlands-based Ahold, plans to sell its Norwegian hypermarket business in an effort to stem falling profits in the market. The firm... 2011-08-18

CFW View: Transocean's US$2.4bn bid to acquire Aker Drilling demonstrates that M&A activity in the services sector continues to show some rigour. Although company valuations have... 2011-08-16

Norway's Statoil has agreed to sell a 24.1% direct and indirect stake in Gassled, the formal owner of Norway's gas-transportation system, to Solveig Gas Norway for NOK17.35bn (US$3.25bn).

Norway's Statoil has agreed to sell a 24.1% direct and indirect stake in Gassled, the formal owner of Norway's gas-transportation system, to Solveig Gas Norway for NOK17.35bn (US$3.25bn).

Aspiro, a vendor of hosted TV and music streaming services, has announced its financial and operating results for Q111, reporting 26% y-o-y revenue growth to SEK64.5mn although it continued... 2011-05-12

The Nordic region appears to have finally accepted its invite to the global IPO party. Indeed, an increasing amount of Nordic corporates are filing to go public after more than three... 2011-05-10