Serco eyes bid for UK nuclear firm BNG: report
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Support services firm Serco Group   is preparing a consortium to bid for state-owned  clean-up firm British Nuclear Group, the object of a takeover  offer from U.S. firm Fluor , the Mail on Sunday  newspaper said.
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Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is negotiating to buy GLG Partners, a large British hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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BNP Paribas confirmed on Thursday that it was studying a possible bid for Societe Generale, as its fellow French bank reeled from rogue trading losses and France warned off would-be foreign bidders.
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The head of French bank Societe Generale   has hired investment banks to advise on the  possibility of a merger with larger domestic rival BNP Paribas  , Les Echos newspaper reported on Friday.
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WestLB, the German public sector banking giant, is considering making an offer to buy its regional public sector bank, Landesbank Berlin.
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Billionaire Richard Branson, banker Luqman Arnold and an in-house management team are set to pitch formal offers for Britain's Northern Rock Plc  on Monday, the government's deadline for bids.
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Europe's biggest medical device maker,  Smith & Nephew Plc (S&N) , is close to making a formal  bid for U.S. rival Biomet Inc. , British newspapers  reported on Sunday.
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U.S.-based Fortress Investment Group Llc  has joined the pack of potential bidders for British music firm EMI Group Plc , The Sunday Telegraph reported, citing people familiar with the situation.
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Private equity firm Texas Pacific Group  is considering a bid for J. Sainsbury  and is working on building a consortium, the Financial Times reported.
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Private equity firm The Carlyle Group is mulling a bid for the generics business of Germany's Merck KGaA , a unit worth at least 4 billion euros ($5.3 billion), a source close to the process said.
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Six companies have been shortlisted to take part in a joint venture to build a 7.0-billion-euro (9.5-billion-dollar) nuclear power plant in Bulgaria, Italian press reports said on Tuesday.
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France's top bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its rival Societe Generale, rocked by multi-billion-euro rogue trade losses, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch  has approached British peer Scottish & Newcastle Plc  about helping it in any bid for full control of Baltic Beverages Holding, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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Billionaire Richard Branson, banker  Luqman Arnold and an in-house management team are set to pitch  formal offers for Britain's Northern Rock Plc  on  Monday, the government's deadline for bids.
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Virgin Group will try to win over shareholders with a sweetened bid for Northern Rock on the eve of a speech by the British Chancellor to Parliament about the struggling UK bank, an unsourced Sunday Times report said.
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French bank BNP Paribas is "thinking" about a possible takeover of its rival Societe Generale, rocked by muti-billion-euro rogue trade losses, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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HONG KONG (CBS.MW) -- The board of Big Food Group (UK:BFP) said it has recommended a 95 pence a share offer made by the Giant BidCo consortium to shareholders.