GLG Partners sells stake, sets up U.S. listing
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GLG Partners, a European hedge fund  with $20 billion under management, said on Monday it has agreed  to sell a stake to Freedom Acquisition Holdings Inc.  in  a deal that values GLG at about $3.4 billion and sets up GLG  for a U.S. stock listing.
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Blackstone Group of New York is planning to sell the Washington portfolio formerly owned by Chicago-based Equity Office Properties Trust, one of the nation's largest landlords, sources close to the deal said.
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General Electric Co. GE.N said on   Thursday it will sell its advanced materials business, which   includes silicones and quartz, to private equity firm Apollo   Management LP for about $3.8 billion in cash and securities.
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Swiss Re  said General Electric  would divest its stake worth around 3.5 billion Swiss francs ($2.9 billion), selling half to Swiss Re and placing the other half in the market.
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LONDON, October 5  - Diageo Plc (GUI.FSE) has raised $2.26 billion (â¬1.84 billion) from the sale of more than half of its stake in the US-based cereal maker, General Mills Inc.
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Australian diagnostics and pathology provider Gribbles Group Ltd. (GGL.AU) said Monday that it has received expressions of interest regarding ownership of the company.
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General Growth Properties Inc.  GGP.N, the No. 2 U.S. shopping mall owner, has agreed to buy  Rouse Co. RSE.N for $7.2 billion, expanding its holdings of  regional shopping centers and commercial property, the  companies said on Friday.
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Diageo, the world's biggest spirits company, is selling most of its 20% stake in US food company General Mills to ease its Â£4.5bn ($8bn) debt burden.
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WPP Group PLC, the London-based advertising giant, said Monday it was buying U.S.-based Grey Global Group in a &#36;1.52 billion cash and stock deal.
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Hollinger International, the US publishing group which this year ousted Conrad Black as its chairman, has declared a special dividend following the sale earlier this year of The Telegraph Group, its flagship newspaper asset.
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Legg Mason Inc. LM.N, one of the  fastest-growing U.S. asset management companies, on Wednesday  said it plans a public offering of 4 million shares, a sale  that could raise almost $300 million.
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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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NEW DELHI, NOV 8: The back office unit of General Electric Co, which sold a 60 per cent stake to two global equity firms, said on Monday it had no market listing plans.
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Investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is negotiating to buy GLG Partners, a leading British hedge fund, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing unnamed sources.
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GLG Partners will go public in the United States through a $3.4 billion merger with an investment company.
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Global Tower Partners, a U.S. wireless  tower operator, is to be bought by a consortium of  infrastructure funds managed by members of Australia&#39;s  Macquarie Group.
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The online game operator Giant Interactive Group said that it would buy back up to $200 million worth of American depositary shares. The company plans to fund the repurchases from available working capital, it said in a statement.