Smiths in $925m takeover
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The management and employees of American healthcare company Medex will receive $105m (Â£54m) as a result of its acquisition by Smiths Group, the British engineering concern.
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AMSTERDAM/LONDON  - A consortium led by Royal Bank of Scotland  has launched a 71.1 billion euro ($95.7 billion) bid for Dutch group ABN AMRO, trumping Britain's Barclays in a battle for the world's biggest bank takeover.
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South Africa&#39;s largest domestic gold producer is poised to make a surprise takeover bid for Gold Fields. With the backing from Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel, Harmony will
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Smiths Group is to buy Medex, a US healthcare company, for $925m (Â£477m), including $300m of debt, in the biggest deal for the UK engineering conglomerate since the merger of Smiths and TI Group in 2000.
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Coles Myer, the countryâs second-largest retailer, put itself up for sale, four months after rejecting a buyout offer of 18.2 billion Australian dollars ($14.4 billion) led by the equity firm Kohlberg, Kravis Roberts & Company. The chief executive, John Fletcher, will oversee a review of the company after receiving a number of approaches, Coles said.
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English Premiership club Aston Villa have been the subject of a takeover bid estimated to be worth 64 million pounds (94 million euros).
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Europe's biggest medical device maker, Smith & Nephew Plc , is close to bidding about $11 billion for U.S. rival Biomet Inc. , sources familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Business & money: Deal could trigger takeover bid for seller Whitbread.
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Australia&#39;s largest retailer, Coles Myer, waded into a takeover battle for the pub operator Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group yesterday, offering 1.18 billion Australian dollars ($856 million) in a bid with a local bank.
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC sweetened its $98.1 billion offer for ABN Amro Holding NV by increasing the cash portion, seeking to beat Barclays PLC to the world's biggest banking takeover.
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News of Archstone-Smith Trust's buyout has given the entire industry a needed boost.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--The world&#39;s largest owner of shopping malls, Australia&#39;s Westfield Group (WDC.AU), bid GBP585 million for Chelsfield PLC (CLF.
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By Mary Ann Milbourn, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 14--Smith Micro Software Inc. announced today that it priced its  secondary offering of 4.5 million shares at $14.75 a share.
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The London-based brokerage Collins Stewart Tullett placed Â£55m of new shares yesterday to help fund the Â£69.5m purchase of the money and futures broker Prebon.
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WALTER SMITH is waiting for a call from the SFA to succeed the axed Berti Vogts as Scotland manager. Vogts, 57, finally decided to go âby mutual consentâ after thrashing out a compensation package worth an estimated Â£500,000.
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The world's leading sports management and marketing firm is to be bought by a New York  investment firm for an undisclosed fee.
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Privately-owned British fashion retailer New Look may be sold for 2 billion pounds ($3.91 billion) after private-equity firms Apax and Permira received at least three bid approaches for the firm, The Sunday Times said.