M&A Analysis
Canada
Canadian food and retail conglomerate George Weston has purchased the US frozen bakery producer Keystone Bakeries for US$185mn. The deal comes 18 months after George Weston sold a US...
2010-09-01United States
US-based regional fixed-line telecommunications operator Windstream Corporation has agreed to acquire privately owned fibre network operator Q-Comm Corporation for around US$782mn....
2010-08-24United States
US biotechnology company Emergent BioSolutions has signed a definitive US$98mn agreement to acquire Trubion Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company specialising in protein therapeutics....
2010-08-18United States
US independent Apache is struggling to seal a deal with BP to acquire half of the British major's stake in the Prudhoe Bay field on the Alaskan North Slope. Talks between the two...
2010-07-21United States
Hugh Hefner has announced a plan to take Playboy Enterprises, Inc. private by offering to purchase the shares he does not already own in the iconic media company. Another in a long...
2010-07-20United States
The announcement that Sprint Nextel may be considering adding LTE has led to some speculation of a merger with fourth-ranked T-Mobile USA. With the memories and long-term effects of...
2010-07-13United States
Switzerland-based offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation announced a US$2.16bn acquisition of privately-held FDR Holdings (Frontier Drilling) on June 28 2010.
2010-06-30United States
India's Reliance Industries is set to announce that is taking a stake in a Texas shale gas play for US$1.35bn from US independent Pioneer Natural Resources.
2010-06-23
