Basell to Buy Lyondell For About $12.14 Billion
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Chemical maker Basell said on Tuesday it would buy Lyondell Chemical Co.  for about $12.14 billion, giving it access to Lyondell's commodity assets and refining capacity.
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HOUSTON, May 30  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lyondell Chemical Company  today announced that it has sold $510 million of 6.875 percent senior unsecured notes in an offering announced earlier today. The notes will mature on June 15, 2017.
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By Allison Connolly, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 27--Three Millennium Chemicals properties here are being sold again, this time to a foreign owner. In all, more than 400 workers in the Baltimore area would be affected.   Lyondell Chemical Co.
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Luggage maker Samsonite Corp.  said on Thursday it agreed to be bought by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners  in an all-cash deal of about $1.7 billion, including assumption of debt.
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Dutch banking and insurance group Fortis said that its international insurance arm will acquire the Ukranian insurer Etalon Life, for 7.6 million euros (9.7 million dollars).
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U.S. chemical company Huntsman Corp.  said on Friday the $6 billion buyout offer from Apollo Management's Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc. was superior to the previously accepted deal offered by Basell .
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The maker of Bicycle playing cards said it will buy Boca Raton-based American Household for $745.6 million. The purchase by Rye, NY-based consumer products company Jarden Corp.
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ElectricInvest Acquisitions Ltd., a division of Bahrain-based Arcapita Bank BSC, said Friday it will buy Viridian Group PLC, Northern Ireland's main power supplier, for 1.62 billion pounds ($3 billion).
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French drinks group Moet Hennessy, majority owned by LVMH, says it has agreed to buy Scottish whisky maker Glenmorangie for around 300 million pounds.
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Power train products maker BorgWarner Inc. said Monday that it agreed to purchase a 63 percent stake in German diesel engine parts manufacturer Beru AG from private equity firm Carlyle Group and a group of
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European steelmaker Arcelor said it would buy Russian company Severstal in a 12-billion-euro (15.3-billion-dollar) deal aimed at thwarting a hostile raid by Mittal Steel.
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Carlyle Group Inc., the world&#39;s third- biggest buyout fund, agreed to pay $400 million for 24.9 percent of the life insurance subsidiary of China&#39;s third largest insurer, people familiar with the transaction said.
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Toronto (Dow Jones) -- Bank of Montreal on Wednesday said it agreed to acquire Mercantile Bancorp Inc. for $156.5 million as it moves to expand in the Midwest region of the United States.
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Luggage maker Samsonite Corp. , a company on the verge of bankruptcy only four years ago, agreed to be bought on Thursday by private equity firm CVC Capital Partners  for $1.1 billion in cash.
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Corel announced Monday it will buy multimedia software company InterVideoÂ for $196 million in cash.
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DETROIT -- Auto parts supplier Lear Corp. said Friday that it has agreed to be acquired by a group affiliated with billionaire investor activist Carl Icahn for about $2.8 billion.
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MADRID/LONDON  - Spain's Iberdrola  has agreed to buy Scottish Power  for 11.6 billion pounds ($22.5 billion) in cash and shares to create Europe's third-biggest utility and a world leader in renewable energy.