ThyssenKrupp Sells Units to Consortium
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Steel company ThyssenKrupp AG said Wednesday it has sold some 48,000 residential housing units in western Germany for euro2.1 billion (US$2.8 billion) to a consortium of real estate funds of US bank Morgan Stanley and Germany&#39;s Corpus-Immobiliengruppe.
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DETROIT -- Auto parts supplier Lear Corp. said Friday that it has agreed to be acquired by a group affiliated with billionaire investor activist Carl Icahn for about $2.8 billion.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs  sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck unveiled a  $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm Serono, and  Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of Altana.
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FRANKFURT  - Deustche Bank, Germany&#39;s biggest bank, said it finalised the sale of a portfolio of 109 business properties to British investment fund Eurocastle Investment for 300 million euros (405 million dollars).
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German drugs and chemicals group  Bayer  said it planned to sell unit H.C. Starck to a  consortium formed by Advent International and the Carlyle Group  for 700 million euros ($908 million) plus debt.
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German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp  is not holding merger or cooperation talks with either U.S. Steel  or Severstal , a ThyssenKrupp spokesman said on Monday, denying a media report to that effect.
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ThyssenKrupp, the German engineering group buoyed by soaring steel prices, sold off a core element of its philanthropic past yesterday by disposing of its entire stock of company homes for employees for â¬2.1bn (Â£1.45bn).
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Troubled German retail giant KarstadtQuelle said it had agreed to sell parts of its logistics operations to the semi-privatised German postal service Deutsche Post for 200 million euros (260 million dollars).
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Citigroup&#39;s European headquarters in London has been sold to a consortium led by an Irish private-equity company for 1.0 billion pounds (1.48 billion euros, 2.01 billion dollars), the buyers said Monday.
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The group, which claims to have acquired two-thirds of all German bad loans sold by banks last year, is negotiating to buy tiny Mitteleurop ische Handelsbank from NordLB, the Hanover-based regional bank, in ...
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A move is afoot to form an industry consortium to buy about 40 patents that are among the assets of bankrupt Commerce One.
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The unit was sold for $10.3 billion to a group of private equity firms that will take an equal stake in the company.
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Utility firm AWG says it has agreed a consortium takeover worth 2.213 billion pounds -- but has also received approaches from other bidders.
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German drug firm Schwarz Pharma is being bought in a 4.4bn euros deal, the third industry tie-up in recent days.
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German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said that it has agreed to sell its metals subsidiary HC Starck to private equity firms Advent and Carlyle for about 1.2 billion euros (1.6 billion dollars) in total.
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The Roechling family, the biggest shareholder in the German defence technology group Rheinmetall, said they had sold their stake in the maker of Puma and Leopard II tanks for an undisclosed sum.
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A consortium called TIS, which comprises German electronics giant Siemens, Deutsche Telekom's IT unit T-Systems and US computer giant IBM, is to make a bid to overhaul the German army's or Bundeswehr's IT infrastructures.