M&A - News Headlines

Credit ratings agency Moody's is buying financial data company Bureau van Dijk for about $3.27B

Spain's Abertis transport infrastructure group says it is the target of a friendly takeover bid by Italian company Atlantia that values the Spanish firm at 16.4 billion euros ($18 billion)

A Delaware judge has refused Anthem Inc.'s request to extend a temporary ban blocking Cigna Corp. from pulling out of proposed $48 billion merger while Anthem tries to persuade federal officials to drop their objections to the deal

Verizon paying $3.1 billion for Straight Path to end bidding war and gain more wireless licenses

In the bag: Coach spends $2.4 billion for Kate Spade, with an eye on its younger customers

Dutch industrial paints and chemicals company AkzoNobel has rejected a third unsolicited takeover bid from American rival PPG Industries, saying it is not in the interests of shareholders

Sinclair Broadcast Group is close to an agreement to buy rival TV station operator Tribune Media

Health insurer Anthem will not quit on its $48-billlion bid to buy rival Cigna and now hopes to find a favorable audience in the U.S. Supreme Court

The sale of North Carolina's beloved Wicked Weed beer to the company that makes Budweiser is coming at a cost for the Asheville craft brewer

A South African company has completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of the only U.S. producer of platinum and palladium

Struggling Australian publishing giant Fairfax Media cutting around a quarter of its newsroom staff in Australia after New Zealand merger rejected

As Apple's stash of cash grows, so does the possibility that the world's most valuable company will use some of the money for a huge acquisition that would expand its empire beyond iPhones and other gadgets

A federal appeals court has left in place a decision blocking Anthem Inc.'s bid to buy rival health insurer Cigna Corp.

Michigan has approved amended tax incentives so Dow Chemical has more time to add jobs and AK Steel can qualify for tax credits following a merger

Britain has reclaimed its place as one of the top five countries that firms look to make deals in, just six months after dropping out in the wake of the country's surprise to leave the European Union, according to a survey released Monday

Britain has reclaimed its place as one of the top five countries that firms look to make deals in, just six months after dropping out in the wake of the country's surprise to leave the European Union, according to a survey released Monday

The Cherokee Nation is suing wholesalers and retailers of opioid medications, alleging the companies haven't done enough to prevent tribal members from acquiring illegally prescribed opioids

Kansas regulators has rejected the proposed sale of the state's largest electric company to a Missouri firm in a $12.2 billion deal that critics argued would financially hobble the combined utility

Online brokerage TD Ameritrade maintained its earnings forecast for the year despite cutting its trading commission, but profits might be higher if the company wasn't investing in future growth and planning to acquire rival Scottrade

Aspen Skiing Co.'s ski resort acquisition spree is expanding with a deal to buy Mammoth Mountain and three other southern California ski areas

A ski resort company that stretches from Quebec to Colorado has been acquired by the Aspen Skiing Co

Coach Inc. has tapped the president of Neiman Marcus's Bergdorf Goodman division to be president and CEO of its trademark brand

Panera is being acquired by Europe's JAB Holding Co. for more than $7 billion

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German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries and other officials have met with the head of automaker PSA Group and union representatives to go over details of the French company's acquisition of General Motors' European brand Adam Opel AG