Deloitte is said to have discussed in advance its plan to buy Germany's Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
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Credit Suisse Agrees to Sell JO Hambro to Bermuda National for 50 Million Pounds
Credit Suisse, the second-largest banker in Switzerland, has signed an deal to sell British wealth manager JO Hambro Investment Mangement Ltd. to investment company Bermuda National,
ProMOs Agrees to Sell Wafer Fab to GlobalFoundries
ProMOS Technologies Inc. reached deal to sell 12-inch wafer fab to Silicon Valley-based contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries.
Liberty Global Buys 12.7% Stake in Ziggo
Liberty Global reaches deal with Barclays to purchase 12.7% stake in the latter's Ziggo. Liberty Gobal Inc. has acquired a stake worth 12. 7% in Dutch cable television operator Ziggo NV from Barclays Plc following the British bank's failure to seek buyers in a share sale last week.
DEMB in Talks on Buyout
Dutch coffee maker D.E. Master Blenders has been in talks on its buyout by a group led by Germany's Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH in an around 7.6 billion euro deal.
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Construction firm Arabtec has hired Shohidul Ahad-Choudhury, former executive of Deutsche Bank as the new mergers and acquisitions head.
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.
The planned merger of Hapag-Lloyd and Hamburg-Sued has been cancelled when the two container shipping companies disagree on some terms.
U.S. companies have become more confident in completing larger acquisitions as the country shows receovery.
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management or PSAM is now raising questions on the proposed merger of MetroPCS Communications Inc. and T-Mobile as it vetoes the deal.
Ketchup manufacturer H.J. Heinz is seeking fund for its acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital as it expands its high-yield bond sale and decides to tighten price guidance.
Telecom group Vimpelcom is tapping UBS to supervise the sale of its Canadian unit Wind Mobile, which is being valued between $500 million and $1 billion.
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. says it has enough support from its shareholders to buy rival Inmet Mining Corp. in a C$5.1 billion deal.
BP is set to return $8 billion to investors using a share buy-back programme after it promised last October to offset any dilution to earnings per share from TNK-BP Sale.
