Parent of Washington State Utility Accepts $7.4 Billion Buyout Offer
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SEATTLE, Oct. 26  â Puget Energy, parent company of Puget Sound Energy, Washington Stateâs largest private utility, said Friday that it had agreed to be acquired and taken private by a consortium of investors for $30 a share in cash, a transaction that the company valued at $7.4 billion, including debt.
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Australia's Qantas Airways  has received a buyout offer from investment firms Macquarie Bank  and Texas Pacific Group that could be worth more than A$10 billion ($7.77 billion), sending its shares up 15 percent.
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A bidder on Thursday offered $4.71  billion for a key slice of wireless airwaves being sold by the  government, triggering a condition that the spectrum be  accessible to any device or software application.
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec. 12--Lawrence's largest private-sector employer is getting a new  owner as part of a $600 million deal designed to speed the company's existing  plans for growth.
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Triad Hospitals Inc.  has accepted a takeover bid from affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Capital Partners in a deal worth about $4.7 billion, the company said on Monday.
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A bid on the largest portion of public wireless airwaves, now being auctioned by the federal government, reached $4.7 billion on Thursday, triggering a provision to allow any device or software to work on that spectrum.
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The board of Dow Jones & Co. Inc. has endorsed a $5 billion buyout offer from Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., sending the deal to the controlling Bancroft family for final approval.
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A Canadian banking group has reached an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the parent of Evergreen Bank of Glens Falls.
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Exelon, which owns utility companies in Illinois and Pennsylvania, has said that it will buy Public Service Enterprise Group of New Jersey in a deal valued at about $12.8 billion that would create the largest power company in the United States.
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Triad Hospitals Inc.  has accepted a $4.7 billion takeover offer from affiliates of CCMP Capital Advisors and GS Capital Partners, the company said on Monday.
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General Electric Co.&#39;s  energy  unit will pay $603 million for a stake in Regency Energy  Partners LP , an owner of natural gas pipelines and  storage equipment, The Wall Street Journal Online reported on  Tuesday.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot  Inc said on Monday that under a tender offer that expired on  August 31, it agreed to buy 289.331 million shares of its  common stock for a total value of $10.7 billion.
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The Austrian state holding company that owns 14.7 percent of energy and water group VA Technologie said it will accept German engineering giant Siemens' offer of 55 euros (71 dollars) a share to take over VA Tech.
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By Tricia Duryee, Seattle Times  Mar. 8--In one of the most anticipated initial public offerings in years, Kirkland-based Clearwire raised $600 million Wednesday, making it the second-largest IPO in Washington state's history.
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Australian company trumps hostile bid from Alcoa with $43B friendly offer.
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The most satisfied new-home buyers in the Washington area last year were those who purchased a home from Pulte Homes Inc., the nation's largest builder, according to a survey released this week.
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Xstrata Plc., which has made a hostile A$7.4 billion ($5.7 billion) bid for WMC Resources Ltd., said it received the first acceptance of its offer for the world&#39;s fifth largest nickel producer.