Canada

On December 16 Agropur, Canada's largest dairy co-operative, confirmed that it had agreed to acquire Minnesota-based milk-processing company Schroeder Milk in a bid to expand its... 2008-12-29

Bay Street has seen a raft of fundraising activity in recent months, and on December 15 Bank of Montreal (BMO) became the latest Canadian financial services provider to raise capital,... 2008-12-16

The long-awaited buyout of Canada's largest telecoms operator, BCE, has finally collapsed after the firm failed a solvency test that was a key condition of the agreement. The acquisition,... 2008-12-12

Mexican bread maker Grupo Bimbo has revealed it is in talks to acquire the bread-making unit of Dunedin Holdings, a subsidiary of Canada-based food and retail conglomerate George... 2008-12-05

Mexican miner Fresnillo, the world's largest silver miner and Mexico's second-largest gold miner, announced on December 2 that it will make a formal offer to acquire Toronto- and... 2008-12-03

Taking advantage of investment gains from its positions on credit default swaps over the last few quarters , Toronto-based Fairfax Financial Holdings announced on December 1 that... 2008-12-03

Canada's banks been have been widely seen as having avoided much of the subprime fallout that has cut such a swathe through financial services in the US and Europe, but a wide range... 2008-11-26

Christmas came early for the banks underwriting the record leveraged buyout of Canadian telecoms giant Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) on November 26, when BCE confirmed that it was... 2008-11-26

On October 27, amid deteriorating financial markets and the escalating costs of capital, Borealis Infrastructure Management cut its CAD1.5bn (US$1.21bn) takeover bid for Teranet Income... 2008-10-29

As global demand destruction sends oil plummeting, possibly to as low as US$50/bbl according to our sister publication Emerging Markets Monitor, how will M&A in the energy sector... 2008-10-22