Lear accepts sweetened bid from Icahn company
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn's American Real Estate Partners LP  raised its takeover offer for Lear Corp.  to about $3 billion after shareholders balked at a previous buyout proposal.
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Biomet Inc.  on Thursday accepted a sweetened takeover bid of $11.4 billion from a group of private equity firms after an influential proxy advisory service urged the orthopedic device maker's shareholders to reject a previous $10.9 billion offer.
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Swedish-Dutch chemicals and paints group Akzo Nobel's announced Wednesday that it had completed the purchase of British peer ICI.
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Auto parts supplier Lear Corp.  said on Monday that a company affiliated with activist investor Carl Icahn has made a $2.43 billion offer for the company.
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Influential advisory firm Institutional  Shareholder Services has recommended that shareholders vote  against billionaire Carl Icahn&#39;s sweetened $3 billion buyout  offer for Lear Corp.
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said on Tuesday that he would launch a tender offer for home builder WCI Communities Inc. , in which he already has about a 14.6 percent stake, at $22 per share.
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Brewer Scottish & Newcastle said Friday it had accepted a 7.8 billion pound takeover bid by Carlsberg of Denmark and Heineken of the Netherlands.
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Serono SA , one of the world's largest biotechnology companies, was bought yesterday by German chemical giant Merck KGaA in a deal worth more than $13 billion.
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A real estate company majority-owned by billionaire Carl Icahn offered on Monday to acquire Reckson Associates Realty Corp.  and an affiliate company for $49 per share, or a total of $4.3 billion in cash and stock.
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Lear Corp. , which is facing criticism of billionaire Carl Icahn's $36-per-share buyout offer, delayed a shareholder vote on the deal until July 12, the auto parts maker said on Friday.
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DETROIT -- Automotive equipment supplier Lear Corp. said Monday a group affiliated with billionaire investor activist Carl Icahn offered to buy the company for about $2.61 billion. But its share price climbed well above the offered price.
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Influential advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services has recommended that shareholders vote against billionaire Carl Icahn's sweetened $3 billion buyout offer for Lear Corp.
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The Lear Corporation, a supplier of automobile parts, said yesterday that it had a nonbinding agreement in principle to contribute its North American auto interiors business to a joint venture with the financier Wilbur L. Ross.
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Lear Corp.  said on Wednesday that India's Tata AutoComp Systems Ltd. explored a possible bid for the auto parts maker but will not submit a proposal to rival billionaire Carl Icahn's buyout offer.
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Biomet Inc.  on Thursday accepted a sweetened takeover bid of $11.4 billion from a group of private equity firms after an influential shareholder advisory firm urged the orthopedic device maker's shareholders to reject the previous $10.9 billion offer.
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Pharmaceutical stocks were in the spotlight Thursday with news that investor Carl Icahn&#39;s was given a green light to buy a sizable chunk of Mylan Laboratories Inc.
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Lear Corp.  shares rose as much  as 6.4 percent on Tuesday on expectations the U.S. auto parts  maker could command a higher price than the $36 per share  activist investor Carl Icahn has offered.