US: Rothschild Chalone takeover is go
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Chalone Wine Group has finally accepted the takeover offer from French winemaker Domaines Barons de Rothschild. The French company announced today (1 November) that it has entered into a merger agreement with
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Two big US brokers have agreed to pay fines of USD100m to the market&#39;s watchdog for hyping stock. They have agreed the fines with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for &quot;inappropriate analysis of stocks&quot;.
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Investment bank Merrill Lynch   has seized $400 million in assets of a troubled hedge fund at  Bear Stearns Cos. Inc.  and plans to sell them off, The  Wall Street Journal reported in its weekend edition.
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A US federal judge on Thursday gave Oracle Corp. a green light to proceed with its hostile bid to take over rival business software maker
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The Blackstone Group had also bid for  U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  in the weeks  before Archstone agreed to acquired by affiliates of Lehman  Brothers Holdings Inc.  and Tishman Speyer for more than  $15 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Thursday.
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Ahold NV (AHLN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) , the Dutch grocery operator, and three former top executives have agreed to settle US securities fraud charges related to massive overbooking of profits, the company and US regulators
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Dubai Ports World, the Arab-owned firm whose purchase of American port facilities caused a U.S. political uproar, will join a program aimed at stopping nuclear weapons being smuggled into the United States, sources familiar with the agreement said on Thursday.
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Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  are close to a deal to acquire real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith Trust , according to the online edition of The Wall Street Journal.
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The Blackstone Group had also bid for U.S. apartment owner Archstone-Smith Trust  in the weeks before Archstone agreed to acquired by affiliates of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.  and Tishman Speyer for more than $15 billion, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on Thursday.
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Allied Capital Corp.  last month completed one of the biggest buyouts in its history, taking control of the maker of Anacin and Sucrets in a deal Allied officials say is a prime example of where they want to take the old-line Washington business finance company.
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Real estate investment trust Archstone-Smith  will be acquired by real estate company Tishman Speyer and investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings  for $22.2 billion, including debt, the companies said on Tuesday.
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The Chalone Wine Group Ltd. CHLN.O a  U.S. winemaker, on Monday rejected an existing buyout offer  from French luxury wine maker Domaines Barons de Rothschild,  saying it was now entertaining a better offer.
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US high-tech market Nasdaq and the United Arab Emirates group Borse Dubai said Thursday they had reached an agreement to jointly take over Nordic market operator OMX, with Borse Dubai taking 19.99 percent of Nasdaq.
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State-linked investment funds in Qatar and Singapore are interested in buying almost one third of the London Stock Exchange from the US Nasdaq market, media reported on Monday.
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GLG Partners LP, Europe's third-largest hedge fund manager, will go public in the United States through a $3.4 billion combination with Freedom Acquisition Holdings Inc.
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Staff at Liberation began voting Thursday on a &#128;20 million (US&#36;26 million) deal that would give financier Edouard de Rothschild effective control of the left-wing newspaper.
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Archipelago Holdings, US owner of ArcaEx, the world's largest electronic stock market, is leading the race to buy Instinet, an electronic brokerage owned by the British news and information giant Reuters.