American Realty said it has decided to increase its bid offer for Cole Credit Property Trust III after the latter's rejection of the first offer.

Merlin Entertainments Group is aiming for IPO either in New York or London through share sale. Merlin Entertainments Group is in talks with potential investors for its plan to sell shares by going public in either London or New York, the company's chief executive Nick Varney disclosed to Reuters.

Tanghan Steel has signed a deal with Duferco International Trading Holding to buy 10% stake in the latter as China seeks more steel export.

Credit Suisse will be acquiring the wealth management of Morgan Stanley in Africa, Europe and the Middle East

The planned merger of UK's Pearson's Penguin and Germany's Bertelsmann's Random House unit is expected to receive approval from the European Union

UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Prudential 30 million pounds for hiding its attempt to buy Asian rival AIA three years ago.

EADS plans to prevent the planned buyback that is hampering its future growth and capital spending. European aerospace group EADS has made a pledge that it will prevent a supposed share buyback hurting capital spending, dividends and future growth as its shareholders planned to make a vote on proposals to purchase again up to 15% of the company stock.

Ericsson is making a deal to acquire the IPTV business of Microsoft in a bid to offer services to phone companies.

Petrobras is now setting up its plan for the auction of its shares in Nigerian oil fields Brazilian oil firm Petrobras has auctioned its interest in the oil fields in Nigeria that would draw up to $5 billion as the company aims to get cash and embarks on a capital spending plan, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Warren Buffet, an American businessman, will become one of the ten largest shareholders in Goldman following a deal he signed with the bank to exchange his profits on warrants for stock.

Deloitte is said to have discussed in advance its plan to buy Germany's Roland Berger Strategy Consultants

Australia's Sundance Resources says that Hanlong would not be able to meet the deadline to show credit approval for its takeover offer.

Great Britain's search and rescue helicopter services will be sold to United States-based Bristow Group for 1.6 billion pounds.

SBM Offshore, along with its partners, has signed a $3.5 billion contract from Brazilian oil firm Petrobras to construct two oil platforms.

Armada Hoffler Properties Inc. is planning to raise $201.3 million from IPO as it hopes to become an REIT.

Shell says China approves a product-sharing contract for the share gas block in Sichuan. Royal Dutch Shell has received approval from China for a production-sharing contract for the Fushun shale gas block in the southwestern province of Sichuan as it steps up drilling activities in the Asian country.

Energy company Total and Norwegian oil services firm Aker Solutions have signed an agreement in which the latter will deliver a subsea production for the Moho Nord Project in Congo Republic.

Fund manager Schroders has signed an agreement to buy Cazenove Capital for 424 million pounds, a deal that would merge the two oldest names in the city of London, England.

SEC chairman Elisse Walter urged during video conference at the annual forum of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission that foreign regulation should be applied for cross-border trades.

Construction firm Arabtec has hired Shohidul Ahad-Choudhury, former executive of Deutsche Bank as the new mergers and acquisitions head.

CMS is selling its bakery supplies business to Rhone Capital to focus on other profitable ingredients.

Apple Inc. has purchased WifiSlam, a developer of mapping applications for smart phones. Apple Inc. has acquired WifiSlam, a startup in Silicon Valley that creates mapping applications for smart phones.

A total of 528 million shares in Samsonite International were sold by Royal Bank of Scotland and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners as they exit in the Luxembourg-based company.

The planned merger of Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg-Sued has been cancelled when the two container shipping companies disagree on some terms.

Sinopec has concluded a deal to purchase oil and gas assets from its parent company. Sinopec Corp. has reached an agreement with its parent company China Petrochemical Corp.

Standard is considering to buy a bank in Egypt as it sees economic stability in the country. Standard Chartered plans to buy an Egyptian bank to benefit from the booming lending sector of the Middle East, regional head Christos Papadopoulos said.

Investors are pulling away from investing money in funds, instead they co-investment alongside private equity companies.

Leveraged buyouts backed by private equity involved big names since financial crises. Leveraged buyouts backed by private equity have now caught world's attention as they continue to emerge since the economic meltdown.

U.S. companies have become more confident in completing larger acquisitions as the country shows receovery.

Foreign language schools market in Brazil are seeing a number of takeover. A number of takeovers in the foreign language schools market in Brazil have hinted education companies that the sector is growing fast as the demand for English-speaking women continues to rise.